Homeschooling

A Look Inside Our Homeschool- Funschooling with The Thinking Tree

We’ve been homeschooling for a little over six months now.  After over a decade working in schools, I am surprised at how totally different homeschooling is!  Especially homeschooling in 210 square feet.  The parent/child dynamics are so different than the dynamics between student and teacher.  I don’t think there’s anything *wrong* with most schools, but… Continue reading A Look Inside Our Homeschool- Funschooling with The Thinking Tree

Montessori, Uncategorized

Montessori Mondays: School Days

(note- if you want to see the practical ways of how we are doing a home preschool right now scroll on down, the following is my backstory) Sometimes I feel like a big hypocrite.  I have worked with kids- especially birth- 2nd grade-  since I was 12.  I worked in a Montessori preschool for 6… Continue reading Montessori Mondays: School Days

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Montessori Mondays: You’re Montessori and AP?!?!

Before I was a parent I heard about Attachment Parenting and thought it was crazy.  Then I got pregnant and started learning more about it and thought it still sounded a but too extreme for me.  And then I held my precious baby in my arms and 25 months later we are DEFINITELY an Attachment… Continue reading Montessori Mondays: You’re Montessori and AP?!?!