{Week 3 – Book Club} The Absorbent Mind Glad to have you back for this week’s The Absorbent Mind book club. Chapter three adds on to Chapter two‘s information wonderfully. Dr. Montessori moves her conversation into a high level thinking with the stages of development. In this chapter, we begin to see how important the first […]
Archives for November 2014
3 Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas for Your Kids
The secular Christmas ideas are all around us this time of year. And while many of those things are fun and magical, they do not point to the true meaning of Christmas – Jesus. Keeping Christ in Christmas for your kids can be difficult at times. It’s hard to keep the focus on others instead […]
A Montessori Space for Christmas
If you are considering doing Montessori to any degree in the home, you need to have a dedicated Montessori space. I know, that seems impossible and so easy for me to say, but trust me when I say, even if your family is living in a one-bedroom apartment and every square inch of your home […]
Montessori Inspired Worship Space at Home
Introduction: 12 Days to a Montessori Christmas I am excited to introduce the 12 Days to a Montessori Inspired Christmas. The main focus of our 12 day series is to help you incorporate a Montessori style worship space into your home on a daily basis and also to help you prepare for a Montessori Inspired […]
Creating Your Own DIY Godly Play Materials by Megan Cottrell
It has been a pleasure to have one of our wonderful Christian Montessori Network Facebook group members, Megan, with us for the past 5 weeks sharing her Godly Play knowledge with us. Today Megan helps us in creating DIY Godly Play materials. I feel empowered to use Godly Play with my own children after reading her posts […]
Absorbent Mind Book Club: Chapter Two
Chapter Two of Dr. Maria Montessori’s The Absorbent Mind is a completely fascinating chapter to read from a Christian homeschooling perspective. There are some terms which lack modern-day political sensitivities, but if you are able to read past them into what Dr. Montessori is really trying to get at, there are some really interesting concepts […]