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Every cold winter season I always find ways to keep my little one entertained at home, as we can't spend time outdoors, my little one is always restless, asking for something to do!  And honestly, most of the time, I'm not in the mood for experiments and doing something messy with the boys (coz its winter LOL).  So I try to come up with easy to prepare but engaging activities to feed his energy.  And just like the classic old CONNECT THE DOTS activities, here's another NO PREP printable that kept him "working" in the afternoon when he's all "I NEED TO DO SOMETHING MOMMY".

Classic Connect the Dots Activities for Kids

Are you trying to find ways to keep your kids entertained and busy? Try our CONNECT THE DOTS - HOLIDAY EDITION this Christmas and winter season! My kids love these connect the dots activity sheets I made for them, mostly for calming down and quiet time.  They're so easy to use and NO PREP AT ALL.  Simply print and you're ready to go!

The Story of Christmas - Sequencing Activity

Earlier today, Vito and I spent a delightful time creating our Nativity Sequencing Story to celebrate Advent. In the past few days, we have been reading various books on the Christmas story, and today, we worked on some extension activities to practice some skills that I will mention below.

FREE Christmas Themed Printable Materials

For the month of December and for celebrating Christmas, I am happy to share these printable learning materials for you to enjoy and use in your homes and schools this holiday season!  Be sure to subscribe and sign up for our newsletter to be able to get access to these files.  And if you are a subscriber already, be sure to check on your emails for the new member's access code!

Hands-on Less and More Counting Activities

I'm so happy to share our updated Holiday and Seasonal themed packs of our MORE OR LESS / COMPARING NUMBERS Activities in the shop.  I had a great time using these learning materials with Vito years ago when he was just beginning to learn about numbers and quantities.  To give you an idea on how we conducted the activity check it here, CHRISTMAS THEMED PACK with manipulatives.  The picture below is Vito's work.  He's still learning so he has a mistake in this one.

Coding Robot Toys Wishlist for 2019

I'm preparing to introduce Vito to programming this coming year. I was planning to start with visual based programming or block based programming such as Scratch which Mavi used in his CoderDojo classes in the past years. But based on my recent research there are already a lot of kids toys these days that can be programmed with visual blocks. One class of toys make use of the BBC Microbit Makecode programming blocks. So for a more hands-on method to introducing or experiencing programming we plan to use some of the toys listed below.

I hope this list may be useful to you so your students can have a fun way to learn and be introduced to programming. And yes, these Programmable Robot toys can be good Christmas presents as well!!!

Life Cycle Learning Activity Packs

I added some life cycle sets in the shop and today I want to present the activities included in each set to give you an idea on how to use them.  I hope you will find this guide helpful.  If you have any questions you can post them in the comment section of this post or message me a question in my printable shop.

Halloween Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers

Better late than never!  I am happy to present our Halloween Math and Literacy Centers designed for preschoolers and kindergartens.  Like the rest of our mega and mini packs, the bestsellers in our shop, this mega unit contains 30 fun and engaging hands-on activities that your kids and students will surely enjoy.  Below are some of my favorite activities at home; enjoy the preview!

FREE Apple Shape Matching Cards

We worked on our Apple Unit weeks ago and I'd like to share this beautiful apple-shape matching activity, designed for young learners.

Simple Food Preparation and Recipe Ideas for Kids

It's the 12 Months of Montessori and today I'm excited to share simple recipes that your kids (with your assistance) can try at home.  These are so easy to prepare and will help our little ones develop and improve fine motor and practical life skills.

FREE English-Filipino Weather 3 Part Cards

As promised, I'm sharing our ENGLISH-FILIPINO WEATHER 3 PART CARDS.  The boys are learning how to speak in Filipino and wanted to widen their vocabulary in Filipino language so we're integrating it in our afterschool activities.

Addition Worksheets and Activities - Apple Theme

Play pretend of apple picking to sort out addition equations!  There's nothing more enjoyable than learning math and playing at the same time.  This ADDITION WORKSHEETS AND ACTIVITIES PACKET is perfect for kindergartens up to grade 1 and requires minimal preparation! This was designed for learning and mastering addition facts from 1 to 10.

Collection of Weather Books for Kids

Sharing our book collection on weather.  These are so easy to read to a child, and less cartoonish... perfect for preschoolers and older kids as well.

FREE Properties of Water Sorting Cards

Part of our Weather Unit Study is learning about factors that affect weather, like water and temperature.  We discussed the 3 states of matter that water takes: solid, liquid and gas and that heat is needed in order for the change to happen.

Weather Activity Trays for Kindergarten and First Graders

In this 12 Months of Montessori, I want to feature our Weather Activity Trays for Autumn/Fall. Change of season is always exciting and it is just right that we do some weather studies before the new season arrives.


Kids are always fascinated with the weather as this is something that they have experienced. Just by going outside and observing the sky, you can talk to your child about the weather, is it sunny? rainy? cloudy? windy? Sometimes they also get to watch this on TV or on the weather forecast news. Thus they become familiar with some words. To expand your child's curiosity about the weather and advance his/her knowledge, here are some activities that you might want to try.

9 Best Insect Science Activities on Instagram

You all know that I love Instagram! Aside from Pinterest, this is one of the best places to look for inspirations for home and school educational activities.   Recently, I have the courage to ask my followers to join my occasional  roundup posts based on the themes that we have for "home" school.  I'm so happy that there tons who participated and with that, I'm happy to share 9 inspiration activities amazing accounts.  Be sure to check their websites and Instagram account for more inspirations!

Insect Themed Lesson Plans for Kindergarten to First Grade

We are about to conclude our INSECT UNIT which we have been working on for the past two weeks and I am so happy to finally share the lesson plan that I made for my Kindergarten.  Now, though this is designed for my almost 6 year old boy, this unit study is also appropriate for kids from 5 years and older.  We have done tons of identification and sensorial activities previously on this subject area and this year, we’re doing some advanced work.

Safari Toob Theme Teaching Resources

I am so excited to bring to you 16+ activity learning packs to go along with your favorite Safari Toob educational toys.  As you all know, we've been collecting these animal figure sets for a decade now and has been a helpful learning tool in our homeschool journey. With my experience in homeschooling and designing activities to go along with our toob sets, I decided to publish the printables I made for these toys.  With these printable packs, you and your kids can exhaust the use of these animal toobs and go beyond the typical matching activity.

For more details on some of the themed packs you can also check some of the posts below:

• Insect Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials
• Farm Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials
• Ocean Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials

Insect Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials

Here’s a comprehensive activity pack with your Safari Toob Insect set.  This INSECT TOOB LEARNING PACK learning material contains tons of extension activities that include science, language, math and fine motor skills.  And, of course, this learning material uses HIGH-QUALITY REAL IMAGES of the animals!

Food and Nutrition Themed Shelf

Vito is currently obsessed with our Let's Read and Find Out Series.  I've started reading the level 1 series to him since April and he's hooked into it.  There are tons of books in the level 1 series that he's currently obsessed with but one book stands out, What's for Lunch.  The book introduces the basic food groups to children.  I was totally surprised about his interest in this subject area.  He's becoming curious of what he eats lately and drinking more milk than usual.

Food Pyramid and Food Groups Activities for Kids

Vito loves the book, What's for Lunch?!  He loves learning all about the food groups, on what food will help him have stronger bones and teeth, food that will give him energy, and food that will keep him healthy.  I love that he developed this interest early on.  I think that it's important to educate little ones about healthy food because right now, he's super conscious on what he eats, and he's more eager to eat fruits, drink lots of milk and water!

Come take a look at some of the learning activities that we worked on to support his interest on food.

Summer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers

And it's finally here! Our Summer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers for all the summer-themed activities you will need for your summer learning camps.  The learning pack contains 30 exercises, and it includes activities for improving fine motor skills, color matching, learning numbers, letters, phonics, and much much more!

Below are some of the activities included in this amazing learning pack. 

Playing Flockmen in Five Fun Ways

By now, you have heard about Flockmen.  You've seen it everywhere, from Instagram, to Facebook and homeschool moms and Montessori/Waldorf schools and families.  Flockmen are wooden toys which take the form of little men and are used for open ended play.  By default, most people use them for building structures by stacking Flockmen together.  But in our home we use them in a lot of ways and I'm going to highlight five of these fun ways we use our Flockmen.

Family Travels with Montessori Friendly Tips

I'm participating in this month's 12 Months of Montessori and I'm featuring tried and tested family travel tips for a stress free and enjoyable holiday that you might be embarking this summer.

World History: Ancient Times Learning Materials

I'm so excited to share with you our Ancient History Learning Pack.  I made this product 4 years ago but I didn't really have the time to explain how to use this or how we are using this at home.  Let me say that I finally updated the product and there are now 2 sets available to cater to the needs of other Montessori families and schools.  This post is not a tutorial but it will explain each set in the learning pack, how we use each them and how you may benefit from them.

Introducing the 6 Kingdoms of Life

Months ago, after watching an episode of Brainchild on Netflix, the boys got super interested with knowing more about bacteria.  They have so many questions about the biodiversity of life such as, if  a bacteria is an animal or a plant? is it an alien species? The curiosity  and eagerness to learn led me to introduce the Six Kingdoms of Life.


I know, this is elementary work, but I managed to pull-out activities that worked perfectly for both boys (10 and 5 years old).

Montessori Inspired Europe Continent Study for Kids Part I

With our recent trip to Spain, I decided to do a brief Europe Unit for Vito while he still can't stop talking about his plane ride and how fun it was to go to places.  The activity trays I prepared for him are designed for kids 5 years and older.  This is the first part of our unit and most of these are introductory lessons to maps and flags.  I've never had a Europe Unit with him before so I kept this simple and we'll be doing more in-depth activities as he progresses.