Today’s Montessori practical life lesson features our last dressing frame: the lacing frame. You can find all the dressing frame presentations here on Sugar, Spice and Glitter by browsing our practical life lessons. Throughout our practical life posts, we have tried to provide a little insight into Montessori theory, as well as how one might…
We are almost done our Montessori Practical Life Lessons on the Montessori dressing frames. Today, Beth Holley shares with us how to present the buckles and straps dressing frame and some tips on effectively presenting any practical life skill. Recently, a friend of mine, who happens to be a scout master, asked me if I could…
Every Thursday we bring you a Montessori Practical Life Lesson from Beth Holley. We’ve been doing a series of Montessori dressing frames lesson posts which help your child learn how to dress themselves. After the buttoning frame, zipper frame, snap frame, and hook and eye frame, comes the bow-tying dressing frame (which we introduced during…
Have you been following along with Beth Holley’s fabulous collection of Montessori Practical Life Lessons, shared here on Thursdays? Check out any posts you may have missed here, or consider subscribing to our weekly (or daily) newsletters to not miss future posts! So far in our Montessori dressing frames series, we’ve introduced buttoning, zipping, snapping,…
It’s another Montessori dressing frame day! Today we’re highlighting the snap frame. In each of our Montessori practical life lessons, we try to point out a little bit about the technique and theory behind the Montessori practical life lessons. For me, the excitement in the Montessori method is not just that the child learns how…
How are you liking our Montessori Practical Life Lesson series? We’re about 20 posts in and not stopping anytime soon! Today, we’re continuing on the Montessori dressing frames to learn how to present the Montessori Zipper Dressing Frame. Today’s post is the second in our series on the Montessori dressing frames. Previously we presented the button…
It’s been a little while since we’ve shared a Montessori Practical Life lesson here, but they are a daily occurrence at our house. Today, I want to share with you a Montessori Practical Life Checklist to help you plan and choose practical life activities to suit your child. Now, I’m going to start by saying that you…
Today, I’m giving you a sneak peek into our Montessori Homeschool Set-up. In addition to having self-serve areas around the house, and a special kitchen cupboard just for Ella, we also have designated an entire room to our homeschool. Although it is less of a focus on Sugar, Spice and Glitter then it used to be,…
Another fabulous Montessori Practical Life Lesson from Beth Holley. Today, we are discussing the Montessori Button Dressing Frame lesson. Today we’re introducing the Montessori dressing frames. In general, the Montessori practical life lessons fall into two broad categories: care of oneself and care of the environment. The dressing frames are an important set of materials…
Cinderella is the perfect Disney movie to use as inspiration for a Montessori-inspired Disney unit study. Not only does it have a vibrant cultural aspect (with many cultures having their own version of the Cinderella tale), it also features Cinderella and her mice friends engaging in many practical life activities and offers many opportunities for building…
Welcome to our collection of Montessori Practical Life posts. Here you will find Practical Life lessons, ideas for how to involve children in everyday practical life experiences (in a developmentally appropriate way), and some background as to why and how Practical Life is used and emphasized in the Montessori Method. Practical life is more than…
Today we welcome back Meghan Sheffield from Milkweed Montessori for another guest post in our #30daystoMontessori challenge! Today Meghan is discussing respectfully diapering children and encouraging independent diapering, which are in line with my previous posts on Montessori approaches to toilet learning, here and here. For those of you who are not in the diapering stage…
