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My Montessori second plane child came up with a big project for herself this summer — starting a virtual book club! Back in the thick of COVID when everything was online, she attended a Harry Potter Book Club held via Google Meet through our local library. She had fond memories of that and wanted to [...]

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The number one most-asked question that I receive from readers goes something like this: “I have a mobile infant/toddler and a preschooler. The younger sibling is constantly wanting to touch/throw/eat all of the small pieces in the preschooler’s shelf work. How do I handle this?” It’s been asked so often that I have a go-to [...]

In true second plane child fashion, Lila is all about learning how things are made — and then making them herself. During the school year, she watched a video about making beads out of cereal boxes… and she quickly insisted that we save some so she could try it herself! Here is Lila’s method for [...]

Seashells scream “SUMMER!” to me, and yet I somehow have never made any summer printables featuring seashells… until today! I found 18 different seashell photos and made them into sets of cards for a few different uses: You can print the seashell cards twice to make matching pairs, then use them for picture to picture [...]

So we’ve gone over how to begin writing and reading phonetically with your child, but what about those words that your child will encounter early on that won’t fit with the phonetic rules she’s learned yet? Sight words can be tricky for some kids, or they can pick them up naturally. Once you get started, [...]

My small group coaching community has a lot of members whose kids enjoy seeing their local community helpers in action — so they requested some printables on that theme for their May printable. As usual, once I got started I just couldn’t stop and somehow it evolved into a whole bundle of printable materials. I [...]