MaMaws' Montessori

Does anybody else sometimes seem to feel paralyzed when considering all the fine details of the role of being your child's advocate? Please don't misunderstand me! Parenting is the greatest gift and joy I have experienced thus far in my three and a half decades of living! For most of us it's a goal that we decide upon in our earliest of years. I feel blessed and grateful, but also human. And the days pre L.O. I would observe or be around kids and have such critical thoughts... How I would do it differently? Why they were allowing this particular "thing" (eg behavior, language, etc.) to continue? For what reason were they not implementing <insert fill in the blank> strategy or structure for progress? Those earlier years of my life it was all so clear and simple. As I sit here, and my mother's home, watching my Little One play with...well, e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. I realized how unrealistic and illogical some of my expectations were.  This might se...

MAMAWS' MONTESSORI REVIEWS: INNO PAD  SMART FUN LESSONS https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07VM8YCMR?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title Thier interactive designs encourage use of language, motor, and cognitive skills; thus providing children with the right step to enhance the learning process. SKILLS LEARNED Alphabet Numbers Time Colors Fruits Shapes Animals Weathers Emotions Professions Music Transportation Problem solving 16 Interactive Fun Lessons: (01) Alphabet A-M  (02) Alphabet N-Z  (03) Numbers 1-10  (04) What time is it (05) Colorful Fruits  (06) Shapes Around Us  (07) How is the Weather  (08) How are you Feeling (09) Super Trucks  (10) Rescue Team  (11) On the Farm  (12) On the Street (13) Animals in the Savanna  (14) Animals in the Savanna  (15) Profession’s Headwear  (16) Music Party

 We finally caught up to the trend that seems to be floating around the sewing and sewist communities! Seamstresses far and wide have been building communities and collaborating sharing their love of sewing. This craft is truly an art form that can explore many contents, disciplines, and skills. If you feel brave enough, please check out the link and contact us directly (via text message, or FB messenger, Instagram chat, or Snapchat chat). Materials are on the way and we shall be starting the process June 1st. If there are people who would like to get started early, we can accommodate that. 🤔😀🧐 See 👀 this post; Slides for Intro I hesitate placing this "lesson" in the post. Keep in mind, they are from YouTube.  However, it's a great place to find: Spreadsheet for Measurements I have attached a copy of my current measurements, what I will be using for this project, and if you observe closely you will notice a couple of things. The main idea is this garment takes into co...

  Https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Do-and-Do-Not-MMM2021-6802191 May 2021 Promotion! Join us as we discover Montessori Moments with sign! Give us a call or SMS to help us and get it set it up? ~MaMaws' Montessori

MaMaw's Taco Broccoli Ingredients: 1 Microwave Safe Bowl 2 Tbsp water 1 pkg Frozen Broccoli* 1 pkt Taco Seasoning   2 tsp OR Tbsp Hot Sauce   To-Do: ❐ 1. Add water and hot sauce to bowl, ❐ 2. Open bag of frozen broccoli and dump into microwave safe bowl, ❐ 3. Toss with taco seasoning, ❐ 4. Cook frozen broccoli as per instructions listed on the bag, be sure to take out 1/2 way through to stir or toss around to mix it up, ❐ 5. Take it out of the microwave and Eat! :D *As you see above, we chose to go with the microwavable option.  If your frozen broccoli doesn't have that option, you may have to consider a stove-top alternative?  Comment or let us know and we will help figure it out?

Hey there Montessorians, And, thank you for checking back with us so quickly! If you have a little one, or help care for one, then you already know about the moments of laughter, silliness, stress, skepticism, sorrow, suspicion, and love that can fill your day; as well as how blissful it can be.  If you showed up to check up on Kellan, he is doing great; celebrating his 20th month has been bittersweet, to say the least.  Shutterfly and social media will be how we share pictures for now, do you have a better idea?  If so, please let us know? #tyvm  For those of you who are here to check up on us, we are doing great as well!  Everyday on this side of the earth is a success, so count it as a win!  As most of you know, we have been gearing up our lives to prepare for the next few years, who isn’t right?   Brian’s hunts are going well and together we have been cooking up some ideas for our LO and what he has to look forward to/expect.   Most recen...

 

 Welcome Learners, It is 2021!  Officially, for almost a month now, right?!  How do your learning journals look?  They must be filled with so much by now?  This quarter, we are making it one of our priority goals to keep you updated with the resources you need to support your learning.  Keeping up through the blog is a great place to keep up with ideas, this is how we will be posting our newsletters.  But we also do our best to keep up the social medias; you can help by keeping us updated with tips, on what you like AND how we can improve. This post is a quick read so we can all get back to getting things accomplished.  Get to learning in the real world! Educationally Always, MaMaws' Montessori

  Today's playtime was, in part, I inspired by some neat-o toys acquired at our local fast food store (see tags) and let us tell you, they are a hit with our LO! You'll notice, in the picture,  an arrangement of toys to structure the concept of exploration. A 1,000 cube, a couple of kid's meal toys, a gift from the holidays, and an old toy of mine were gathered to provide an opportunity to have some fun and learn at the same time? After playing with the rubrics puzzle for a while, he discovered that turning the xylophone upside down made a different set of sounds, than when it was turned the way I played it down. The picture is blurry due to the fact that he was using the mallet to push and pull the toys in the arrangement he felt was most optimal for play.  ☺ Pose for the camera! Possibly the cutest picture from today's play: "Rabbi with Son."

Hello there, Thanks for stopping by! I'm going to leave these pictures here for now, then I'll update with the details later? Of course, if you want our complete recipe (or to try some)  you'll need to contact us directly for pricing and scheduling ;) Obviously, we substituted ingredients and added some extras to make it to our liking. Ok, real quick, we had a little under 2 lbs of meat; this yielded 24 1oz meatballs and a small meal loaf.   

 Getting presents is always good fun, especially when you can make 'em educational!!! As you observe: What do you see... Shapes? Colors? Letters? If you participate at home: What do you feel... What sticks? What floats? Where is slippery? Here is an idea that literally popped in my head while in the tub. Foam alphabet letters from Amazon and Crayola toddler crayons can help parents and caregivers get that quick 10 minute lesson in before the fun begins. What you don't see is us tracing the letters in shaving cream. You don't hear the giggles as he explored how the shaving cream smears, sticks, and ultimately dissolves. You dont feel the elation as we discover that we can, then use them as stamps.  Finally, you  also don't see all the drawings on the tub walls, a perfecto opportunity to have a splish splash clean up party. (Hint, the foams letters work great as a mock sponge!) Yes, it takes time. Yes, it takes moneies. And, yes, it also takes a lot of effort. Butt,  i...

Welcome back! If you found this link, you are probably curious as to how meals look around the MaMaws' Montessori Compound?  Well, allow us to show you one example? We usually take inspiration from recipes tried by others; how else do you know they will work, right?!  This week, the inspo came from Pinterest: https://pinchofyum.com/instant-pot-wild-rice-soup Wild Rice & Mushroom Soup It'll stick to your ribs! I fell for this recipe when I first made it!  How can you not when you consider the following: 1. Wild Rice is low in calories, 2. Wild Rice is high in fiber and protein, 3.  It contains carrots, celery and onion, and garlic, 4. InstaPot and Pressure Cooker friendly, fellow readers, if you don't feel the same way as I, about the above list of items, feel free to close your browser window at this time.  Or, check out the links above and reference your favorite search engine to research how each of these ingredients can improve your current diet? If you a...

 The purpose of this post is to explain some things...      First, we want to thank those of you who have been following and supporting our journey through these past few years.  Since becoming certified in 2014 the education industry has been a turbulent one to become involved in, to say the least!      Now, this morning's maintenance of our Teachers Pay Teachers account has shown to have some glitchy elements.  To help diffuse some confusion, allow us to explain a few things about our site at the moment.     The products listed on the page were originally intended to support the classroom of Ms. R. Guidry (or by her other last name) when she was teaching in the public school setting; specifically through the 2014/2015 and 2017/2018 school years.  From the 2018/2019 school years and beyond, the products will be tailored toward homeschooling and smaller school settings.  We cannot control the intent behind your downloads. ...

 We recently shared with yall some fun times we had with our Pour and Explore activities.      Recently, K has been having so much fun we have switched up our schedule from just a few days a week to everyday!  This means much more research, prep, shopping, and clean up but IT iS WORTH IT! Here is a "generic" or "whole group" version of today's sensory bin experience:    First, we took a survey of what was around us.  Shopping is on the to-do list, so today we are working with whatever we have and can locate around the houses.  If you do what we do, you'll notice when your LO stays focused on a particular thing or activity; this can be used as evidence we use to help us communicate with them.  (If you LO is currently pre or non verbal that is.?) Today we had, at our disposal, whatever was in Mom's pantry as well as his snacks for the morning.  Take a look below to see what we found today.  A few things were grabbed and outsi...

  TO SEE RESULTS, CLICK HERE:   Pour and Explore: Day 2 What is it?         Pour and Explore  is how Montessori Maws' do sensory play.  What is sensory play? Lets do some research! *googles the question* "  Sensory exploration is a  child's way of examining, discovering, categorizing, and making sense of the world, and it's beneficial to provide them with opportunities for  sensory  play."   (Mar 5, 2020   www.verywellfamily.com  › why-sensory-play-is-importa... )        Ok, yes technically everything that you do can be considered sensory exploration, but we as Maws need some time for us to treat ourselves!  So, create a goal that is reasonable to your family (at least once a week) so the time spent can be 100% focused  on the activity.          In our home, with our LO, we try to theme these and spend at least 3 days before we 'exit' the activity.  Yes,...

TO SEE DAY ONE, CLICK HERE:  Pour and Explore: Day 1 The goal:  to create an edible play dough for Outdoor Sensory time.  Last week's rice based 'Pour and Explore' was a hit and I hoped this would have similar results.  After comparing the ingredient list to my pantry, I halved the recipe to mix the following: 1 cup Flour (extra to roll) 1/2 cup Salt 1/2 cup Water (extra to sight) I decided to go from basic to extra and add in a bit of food coloring and flavoring; seeing as how we only has yellow available, the lemon flavoring/scent was the only real choice. How to: Check our our page for full instructions: https://mamawsmontessori.blogspot.com/p/diy-play-dough.html The Results: So, we successfully created the dough and placed it in the activity we still had going from the day before; (Pour and Explore: Puff Rice Edition) and it seemed to fit in quite well!  I have "heard' you can create shapes with the dough and through it in the oven @ 200 until hard, but...

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     Have you been there?  We know we have; you finish giving your lesson (yes, glossing over all the effort and work done to create the lesson, gather the resources, etc - that'll be for another post?) the assignment has been given AND completed, and here you sit with your stack of papers to grade. Then you finish grading them.    Omg?!  What to do!?  If you use the grades, with no curve, your poor kiddos are going to get grounded this weekend for sure!!  But, you don't believe in curves; it is kind of your thing.  However, this is the first time you have given this assignment, or the whole class was just introduced to this concept, ie engagement  part of the 7E-Cycle.  Again, what to do? Use This Resource!!!

 What planning for LO looks like this morning: What planning for us looks like: Tag us with yours!! #mmm2020

   So, every time we have a visit to the pediatrician with the LO I feel inspired. This time it was the nutrition posters. You know, the one that encourages you to choose your plate with specific colors? #foodGroups #portionManagement    Next big milestones should be stepping-stones to rearing&math, right?! Phonemic awareness and numeracy here we COME!! Anybody have any suggestions before thy at post gets tackled.? We will be looking for your tags on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.    Hoping the resources we share have been helpful?? Be sure to let us know?! #mmm2020  #september2020