Category Archives: Montessori

This school year marks a big shift for our family since I started working as a teaching intern to complete my Montessori credential requirements. My older daughter is in first grade and my younger daughter is in the toddler program at my school. We survived the first month and look forward to the rest ofContinue reading “Schoolyear 2023-2024 begins”

2020 started in Manila, then we flew back to NYC in time for school to start. J and I were both sick. It was post travel fatigue plus multiple kids in my classroom had runny noses for weeks too. That’s when I experienced how quickly germs spread in classrooms. In March covid shut schools down.Continue reading “2020 review and the start of 2021 ramblings”

I bought a sewing machine in April, one month into the pandemic, anticipating lots of free time at home for more creative pursuits. The last time I used one was in home economics class in high school, but I’ve always been curious, so I asked around for recommendations and ordered a sewing machine right whenContinue reading “Small win: My first self-sewn dress”

My first pass at setting up shelves after completing the academic portion of Montessori training. I don’t have enough shelving right now, but this is my initial setup for Sensorial and Math. Sensorial Pink cubes by bookshelf Knobbed Cylinders (4) Brown Prisms Brown Cubes Rough and Smooth Boards Rough Gradiation Tablets Fabric Box Baric TabletsContinue reading “Beginning of year homeschool setup- Sensorial and Math”

Where I’ll be compiling homeschool songs.

“Our new conception stresses the importance of movement as a help to the development of the brain, once it is placed in relation to the center. Mental development and even spiritual development can and must be helped by movement. Without movement, there is no progress and no health (mentally speaking). This is a fundamental factContinue reading “On Movement”

Today, after we sang the days of the week, months of the year and continents songs, I took the “Around the World from A to Z” book out, since that’s where we can see the continents map. I love how the Philippines is represented by the Banaue Rice Terraces. Joule can recognize the continents fromContinue reading “Homeschooling 8.11.2020”

My daughter turned three on the last day of my Montessori training classes at WSMS-TEP. We started in person during the fall of 2019. It’s a serendipitous coincidence that the first day of my training was on my birthday, and the end was on my daughter’s third birthday. She’s really the catalyst of this wholeContinue reading “The Montessori Birthday Celebration- The Earth and the Sun”

“In fact, in our schools, even older children, those three or four-years old, after finishing an exercise will put the things they have used back in place. It is one of the most pleasant and spontaneous tasks they perform. Order consists in recognizing the place for each object in relation to its environment and inContinue reading “Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces real happiness.”

The title quote is from Raffi Cavoukian’s Covenant for Honouring Children. I first learned about him through his children’s songs, then I followed him on Twitter and saw that he did a lot more work centered on championing children’s rights and climate change. The quote is also used in the book from the National AssociationContinue reading “All children are created whole, endowed with innate intelligence, with dignity and wonder, worthy of respect.”