About
Hi, I’m Jessica the resident Mommy and Montessorian.
Our Montessori Home is a place to chronicle my family’s Montessori homeschool journey. Along with that I hope to be able to help other parents wanting to homeschool their children based on the Montessori method and as an aid to those whose children attend a Montessori school.
I hope is to aid people in discovering the benefit of a Montessori education and its method in the home and also in the classroom and to share our journey with each other along the way.
My goal is to share what we’re doing in our home for school, materials we’ve found, and ideas for homemade materials as well as the history of Montessori and the method, because I believe understanding the history and theories behind Montessori enables me to be a better teacher to my children.
I’ve been involved with Montessori for about five years and loved my time working with the 3-6 age group, but now I have a son of my own (with another on the way!) and am treading new ground in Infant/Toddler Montessori. My son just turned 2 and I’m working to keep up with him!
My brain is programmed to think of activities for the 3-6 and now I’m switching gears to focus on infants and toddlers. So, I’d love to swap and share ideas with you, how you set-up your home, etc. Leave a comment and/or a link to your blog and I’ll stop on by!
If you’d like to learn how I got involved in Montessori, then click here.
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Hi Jessica, I’ve been looking for on-line informations about homeschooling the montessori way for my 7 month old baby and came across your blog. I am so glad to have found that your son is of the same age.
I really don’t know how to prepare a good home environment for our son. We live in a very small one bedroom apartment and there is no room to put away things. Our home looks cluttered all the time and like you I can’t function when things are not in order.
I hope you have a suggestion regarding this matter.
Hi Jessica,
I feel so fortunate to have stumbled across your blog. I am currently teaching my one year old daughter at home. It has been a slow learning process. I have subscribed to Lisa Nolan’s online curriculum.
Lisa Nolan’s online curriculum has been helpful. But, I was interested in doing further reading to grasp more of what Montessori is about. I was tempted to purchase a book by Maria Montessori, but I read customer reviews on Amazon explaining that her books were dry and boring. What books would you suggest? Other authors possibly?
Also, can I look up activities you guys have done by time period, your son being one year old?
Thank you for sharing…
Krista and Joanna
Marietta, GA
Hi Krista,
I’m glad you find my site! Montessori’s own writings can be very dry at times and very thorough making them tough to read. I’ve been reading The Montessori Method and hope to finish, but I also picked up Paula Polk Lillard’s book Montessori: A Modern Approach. It’s a condensed version of The Montessori Method. That’s one I’d suggest. If you’d like a more thorough reading on Montessori for infant and toddler’s Lillard has another book called Montessori from the Start which I found helpful. A bit long, but she explains the concepts of Montessori related to infant/toddlers in the home and school very well.
I hope that helps!
Jessica
Hi! I just discovered your blog and I find it very interesting!
I’m Infant montessori lead teacher for five year and found your blog very interesting.
We are in similar homes, we should chat! Lovely blog, you are giving great information to many.
I have just found your site and really enjoyed reading your infant posts. I have a seven week old child (in addition to my 3yr old). I hope you keep on sharing.
Hello-
I just visited your site through a link from Janice’s PinkhouseHandworks Facebook page. I am Montessori trained 0-3 and have the original blog http://www.mimaustin.blogspot.com and the site http://www.mimaustin.com for Montessori in Motion which started as a collaboration with Janice. There is also a facebook page here- http://www.facebook.com/montessoriinmotion as well as a youtube site where I have videos of the mobiles that I make – http://www.youtube.com/giopeterful (There are also videos of my husband’s stone sculptures there, as well as on his site http://www.peterontherocks.net.)
All the best -
Gio
I stumbbled on to you site and it reminded me of my home. I was wondering how the infant part has gone for you. I really enjoyed doing montessori and having an infant. My son is now 3 and it has been awesome to see how well hte montessori theory works.
Hi Jessica, I have a Guest Post Opportunity that you may be interested in. I can’t seem to find your email anywhere on your site. Will you email you so I can tell you a little bit more about it?
Thanks, Lori @ Montessori MOMents
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