Month: December 2016

Month: December 2016

Why we have Seasons and Solstices
December 21, 2016 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

We were discussing that today is the shortest day and what that means.  This lead to us doing lots of experiments about the planet earth and how it goes round the sun.  How this creates the seasons and longer and shorter days. We started reading the book: Christmas a very Peculiar History. #affiliate link to

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Glitter Slime – Borax Free – 4 simple ingredients
December 4, 2016 Teaching Ideas montessorisoul

This has been an absolute hit this weekend with all ages!!  Freya and Seb loved making the slime – the glitter has been contained and not spread everywhere and they have played and explored for hours!  That’s a win-win-win for me!! This is an amazingly simple recipe without and borax and uses ingredients that can

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