Is there anyone who isn't fascinated by astronomy? My kids admittedly have a hard time wrapping their heads around the enormity of space and will ask questions like, "What's bigger...Jupiter or California?" However, they love talking about planets and learning whatever I'm willing to teach them. ...
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United States Supreme Court Justice Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!***Update*** I've updated these Supreme Court Justice Cards to include Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett! -*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Never mind your kids for a minute...If you live in the United States, do you know all your Supreme Court justices? My kiddos are WAY too young ...
World Zoology Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!Little kids love animals. I've been wanting to make some cards like these since my first child was a toddler. He loved learning and reading about animals so much, I figured why NOT start teaching him about the different types of animals like mammals, birds, and reptiles? There's so much knowledge ...
Relative Sizes of Planets
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!I've always been fascinated by space. When I applied to college, I actually listed Astronomy as my intended major. Something about the vastness of the universe and the insignificance of our little planet on a cosmic scale brings me comfort. How can my problems possibly be worth stressing out over ...
Homemade Learning World Map
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!My 5 year old is currently very into maps which makes me happy seeing as how I have embarrassingly survived 3 and a half decades knowing little to no geography. He's learning all the names of the continents and oceans in his Montessori school and is in love with the 90's cartoon, Where on Earth is ...
Homemade Montessori Pink Tower
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!My first child started attending a Montessori preschool just before his 3rd birthday. One of the tools which his teacher said he had trouble understanding was the Montessori pink tower. After I looked up what a "pink tower" was, I just couldn't believe that my son was unable to stack blocks in order ...
Montessori Sound Jars
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!My 3 year old was not very good at doing these Montessori sound jars when I first made them, but I'm hoping that as he gets older, he'll learn to distinguish between the different sounds. The idea is that you have two sets of jars (blue and red, in my case), each filled with the same objects (like ...
Montessori Paper Seguin Boards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!This is another really clever concept from the book Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years (Affiliate Link) that teaches number sequencing. I love that it's a hands on way for a child to learn their "teens" and how to count by tens to one hundred. Ideally, this would be made out of wood, ...
Montessori Number Symbol Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!I read about this style of number cards in the book, Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years (Affiliate Link), and thought it was a really clever idea. Basically you just stack the cards on top of each other to make any number with each card representing either the thousands, hundreds, ...
Montessori Colored Bead Stair
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!I decided to make the Montessori colored bead stair after I had already made my own imitation "golden" (actually white) beads. So far, the colored beads representing each number between 1 and 9 are not actually necessary, since the child can just count out the appropriate number of single golden ...