I tried to make it as short as I could, but it really was SOOO much to film... it took me 2 hours! And I pared it down to the bare minimum... which ended up being 41 minutes. Haha!
Hi Ashley, I think I grow so much as a mom because you video in the past 1.5years. This is the most down-to-earth and budget friendly Montessori influencer ever. Sometimes people idolized Montessori and it makes it really exhausting. But thank you for all these practical tips and activities that kids really enjoy. ❤️
me, a junior in high school: ah yes, ✨content✨ (me and my mum love your channel and family haha. she raised me and my brother "accidentally Montessori" so its fun to see something and go "WE DID THAT!!")
Ashley I would like to thank you so much for all your Montessori videos, since the first time I've seen the first one (7m back) I have completely changed my mindset and the way I raise my child. Now I see the results and improvemets we have done, but mainly how much he thrives and is happy.. 😀😘
One of the things I'm loving is using this as a starting point to think about what activities would work well in different subject areas. There is some overlap and one of the biggest challenges I had when working as a preschool teacher was simply figuring out "Is this activity on my lesson plan going to fulfill requirement A or requirement B?" Seeing what you have in your boxes makes me think "Oh, I have access to this other activity and it seems like it would fit well into this subject area." I also love hearing ideas for how I can take one activity and reintroduce it in a new way to cover a new subject area. That way, even if the child has outgrown the activity for one purpose, the activity can still be used in a new way. Hmmm. In many of my preschool classes, gross motor/movement was often another subject area we had to use. I feel like the Yoga cards and even that Simon Says cube you have would work well in that. Perhaps, adding another bin for those activities would be a good idea- especially as winter comes and there's a chance there may be a bit more time spent indoors (even though I know you spend a lot of time outside even in winter). That way, you can easily rotate out different gross motor/movement activities like you do with the other activities. Oooh. Those little Real Brand minis that I've seen would be cute language tools- especially if you can find miniature versions of brands used around your house
I love how sincere you are, Ashley!! I'm always having this feeling of having to buy this or that material that's "montessori" but trying to remember that I may not need that just to have a beautiful play area, just like all those beautiful stacking materials. Containers work just fine! 😂 But I'm always putting stuff in my Amazon cart and then deleting them hahaha 🙈🙈 Pls, keep on doing this amazing job you do ❤️❤️ and thanks for that!!! warm hugs from Germany!!
That is for sharing! This made me realize I already have a lot of things that can be used for Montessori preschool. I will be doing it with my four year old this year and his 7 year old brother is going to go in person to a mo tesori elementary
I’ve been hoping for a video like this to help me get a better idea of how to classify my daughters activities! I often wonder if I have too many items out that are from the same category and this hopefully will help me offer her a better variety. Thank you!
Ashley! You are such a wonderful person and an absolute gift from TH-cam gods xD My brother's wife got pregnant and my family and I didn't really notice any enthusiasm about the news from both wife and brother so my maternal hormones kicked in and I started my research. I am only 20, was 19 when we found out so obviously I had no idea where to start and I started in my field - design and architecture cause that's my degree. After browsing Pinterest for days I've seen the same word pop up over and over again, Montessori. I was convinced it was a design style for kids room and then I finally found out what it was and headed to TH-cam. I've been watching you for the past 8-9 months, Theodor Is now 17 days old :D Thank you, you were the main source of a ton of information about Montessori. Based on this information I continued my research and now I'm preparing the information for my brother's new family to know We live in Ukraine where Montessori (or any other approach for that matter) isn't generally know about. So I translate all this info for my family to read. I work in an English preschool, teaching toddlers English in a country where no one speaks English, kinda. So I talked with a ton of parents and none of them even knew what Montessori could be and most were super sceptical about it, but it's not my duty to explain them all this it's their work It got long but I hope you read it, Ashley! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, your channel is amazing and I watch every single video you do, they are so interesting. All the love just for you from over here, Ukraine🥺❤️
@@evelinapushkash6827, hi, I'm from Ukraine 🇺🇦. Moved to USA almost 7 years ago. And now that we're implementing Montessori into our life, I know how our people and family are skeptical about it... so I feel you lol
@@evelinapushkash6827, it's a lot different. I'm happy, more opportunities, but less freedom.. you're tied down to your job, loans, and your house that you need to pay for. But overall, it's better (at least for my family).. I'm happy to see you researching about Montessori philosophy for your brother's family.
Yay!!!! I was so looking forward to seeing the tour of the closet and see what materials you use for Kiley and Mia - just for inspiration ❤️ not for making my self overwhelming 😊
Thank you so much for this video. It really helps to see what kind of things are in each category. I’m starting to homeschool with my 5 yo and soon to be 2yo and it’s pretty daunting. Thanks for these great in depth videos. ❤️
Hey there so I have been watching your videos and I noticed that you mentioned metal insets- we use those in our Montessori to teach the prewriting skills to build hand eye coordination strength with a writing utensil. I am not sure what other Montessori programs teach, but the moveable alphabet is used in my school to teach phonetic sounds and segmenting/decoding and encoding cvc/cvcc words. However, I personally like to use them with the lined mats to reinforce letter formation placement for the prewriting skill development as well.
Thank you! So much inspiration. I will watch this video over and over again...and make notes next time. This is such a great Montessori compilation. I love your channel and your e-course. Cheers from Germany 🇩🇪
Ashley thank you soooo much for this video. So many great ideas i will be doing with my 28 month old son ❤❤❤ When I saw that the video is long my intial thought was, yesssss now i'm gonna get cozy on the sofa and chill to this video 😁 I'm so thankful I bumped into your channel. You have truly been inspiring ❤
Thanks for this video!!! And of course all the others too. I always thought we have too much stuff, but I like the variety and I think my kids too. Minimalism is so in right now and I cannot relate at all. Now I see that you have way more stuff than us and so nice things for your kids.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video! I have a newborn, but my friends have babies who are older and have birthdays coming up! This video definitely gave me some ideas of worth while gifts!
Love, love, love this video and your channel! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us. Also appreciated your disclaimer. In the past I was one of those people who could get overwhelmed and discouraged. You also have some great DIY creations. ❤️
Awesome! Thank you so much! Will be watching again to get into the details more. But definitely got some new ideas already! Didn't get to watch quite until the end yet so might have missed this, but maybe in a future video: curious about storage of all the other kid stuff like books out of rotation, stuffed animals, other toys, giant LEGO's, blocks, stuff to play with outside, etc etc etc. I'm basically obsessed with figuring out how to organize it all. Maybe off topic for your channel, but I'm thinking with regards to the rotation aspect. I believe you have done a video covering some of that in the past. I'm keeping it all organized in the pantry and some in the garage. But constantly trying to figure out how to make adjustments and categorize. Your categories are helping me! Anyway great video!
OMG!!! I was browsing Amazon looking for Montessori learning tools and I saw Kylie using the Montessori and Me wood alphabet tracing board. I just added that to my list. Thank you for the inspiration! Ok, now back to the browsing board. My husband is gonna have a heart attack from my growing list of items. 🤯🤣😂
This was a really great video. I think I will use this as a database to collect toys for my now 9 mo! I also got this idea of making it more cost effective: like we can use the wooden chunky puzzle blocks of animals/ vehicles (mellisa and Doug) as language objects or the alphabet puzzles shapes (hape) as movable alphabet and the same puzzle board to trace letters..Thanks for sharing this. Love u❤️
Yes love these videos! I have fun with our toy storage rotation as well. Cool to see other mamas! Wish I had that much closet space haha. Been thinking about doing a video like this myself - just started my channel
Very helpful, thank you! Can you also go more into detail how you do your rotation? Is it while your children are watching? How frequently do you rotate? How much time does it take for you? Do you only rotate items that haven't been played/worked with much recently? TIA
Sorry I know this video was up a while ago but I’m starting some organizing now, just wondering where the storage bins are from? Thank you, I seriously am so inspired by you and how wonderfully you are raising your family!
My son is opposite has no real interest in science (like animals etc) but loves to learn about the continents and space He actually knows the seven continents by name and can point to them on a map
I did this storage closet for homeschool but I also still have a lot of toys and I would like to do toy rotation bins. I’m getting confused as to where some of the toys go for example, do I put the farm animals in a rotation or part of the science homeschool bin 🤔 Any tips!?
Love your videos. I am new to Montessori, and a bit confused about balance between independent play and activities. How much should I engage in activities? Should I sit with them during them or just do an initial presentation and let them play on?
I thought we did this the other day or was that just a preview of what you had started in order to accommodate homeschooling? Ashley, you are just so good at keeping people excited and interested and to a good extent rather nonchalant, so they do not get overwhelmed and quit on themselves and their children. Some do not have the money. There are those parents who have ADD or other learning challenges. Many probably feel they've retained almost nothing of their own schooling. My father, an academician, always used to say the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked. And that, when in doubt, to teach properly never assume anything and just start at the get-go and explain everything and allow the learner to tell you if they already know some segment of the learning. This is because you do not want anyone to miss one of the building blocks which are essential to language and mathematics learning and math is the language of science. So you are really stuck educationally if those are not learned in a way that builds you castles of wonderful, usable knowledge in your mind that will serve you well throughout life and often in figuring out solutions to problems on your own. I confess, I look at all the goodies in your boxes and I want to play with them. They are enticing to the human eye and tantalizing to the brain. I am not good at crafting, but I am good at language and design. So I have to find ways to use those skills and have others help the children where I'm wanting.
After lots of videos with kiwico boxes she mentioned the differences in the first video with lovevery and made clear that they can't really be compared cause one includes Montessori items and the other stem projects.
I love love love all your videos!!! May I ask where did you get those big storage bins? I need them like now!! My closet is full of materials and I’m going bananas 🤪
Wow, thank you for sharing and explaining all the different uses of your materials. Love the organization. I'd love to make the matching cards but 'office spaced' my color printer several years ago - curious what you are using to print and laminate?
Dear Ashley. I remember Kylie having Magna tiles but they werent in the storage. I was just wondering, are open ended toys a part of the shelf activities or are they something seperate ? My son has some open ended toys (magna tiles, legos, wooden blocks) which are always available. Because he uses them in so many ways, so i just keep them out at all times. But i was just wondering how you guys do..
Still watching but just want to share a thought- the other day I saw Grimms people and thought “oh! We have peg people, I guess we can colour them once the child is ready for crafts and have our own DIY Grimms people” .
The movable alphabet isn’t magnetic, they’re just wooden letter cutouts that they can lay on a work mat or table. :) There’s a link to it in my Amazon storefront under the “language & math” category if you’re interested in learning more!
I noticed your set of cylinder blocks are colored and have only 6 knobbed cylinders instead of 10. How do you like your set? I want to get a set for my 2.5 year old but wasn't sure if I should splurge on a full set. We plan to homeschool exclusively so whatever I get will likely be all she has access to.
Some are from the Montessori Print Shop, while others are from various Montessori blogs around the web. The big and small paintings matching activity was a free one from here: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Famous-Paintings-Art-Matching-Activity-big-and-small-2141544
I’d check out her playlist for the Montessori At Home series, especially the vids on DIY activities, IKEA Montessori finds, and Montessori basics. She also links to all of her resources in the description boxes of her vids, and a lot of the activities are printable! Montessori is definitely not about having big-ticket items. They just seem more expensive than your average “toy” because there’s usually craftsmanship in the materials, like wood (vs cheap and plentiful and breakable plastic) with high reusability value. I’ve found that because Montessori materials are so durable, you often find them in 👌🏽 condition second-hand. A lot of the activities Ashley started with for Kylie are quite often seen in Mia’s shelves and they look brand new. Even the girls’ dining chairs are second-hand and repainted. Once you understand the developmental purpose of an activity, finding examples around the house and making DIY versions will come much more second-nature. Also, seeing a collection of anything is daunting, but the truth is that it was built up over a long period of time. You don’t have to get most things all at once, or even immediately after each other, because the main tenet of Montessori education is to follow the child! You’ll find what they need and what you already have as time goes on :) So don’t be discouraged!
There are lot of diy ideas. For eg:- instead of buying a object permenance box, i make a hole in cardboard box and give to my baby. I made my own story books for my baby.(Videos put in my channel). And i am a new mom and got several ideas from hapa family videos.
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The first thing I said was: yes a 41min montessori video"
My husband's response was: "that is dedication".
Love your videos.
I tried to make it as short as I could, but it really was SOOO much to film... it took me 2 hours! And I pared it down to the bare minimum... which ended up being 41 minutes. Haha!
@@HapaFamily that is fine by me. Loved all the ideas. Montessori is becoming a real thing here in South Africa.
Haha I have the same thought about time!
Lol same
I just can't get enough of these videos. So easy. So light and breezy. And i wish the vlogs were longer. I
Wanted to letcha know, I'm doing a research paper on montessori style parenting for college. These videos sure do help!
Hi Ashley, I think I grow so much as a mom because you video in the past 1.5years. This is the most down-to-earth and budget friendly Montessori influencer ever. Sometimes people idolized Montessori and it makes it really exhausting. But thank you for all these practical tips and activities that kids really enjoy. ❤️
You’re too kind. 💕
me, a junior in high school: ah yes, ✨content✨
(me and my mum love your channel and family haha. she raised me and my brother "accidentally Montessori" so its fun to see something and go "WE DID THAT!!")
Ashley I would like to thank you so much for all your Montessori videos, since the first time I've seen the first one (7m back) I have completely changed my mindset and the way I raise my child. Now I see the results and improvemets we have done, but mainly how much he thrives and is happy.. 😀😘
I’m literally in the middle of a closet reorganization, hit a wall, and checked TH-cam, and you’ve posted this. Amazing. Thank you!
Me too!!😍
You are so thoughtful and considerate of your audience. Just one of the many reasons I love your channel!❤
One of the things I'm loving is using this as a starting point to think about what activities would work well in different subject areas. There is some overlap and one of the biggest challenges I had when working as a preschool teacher was simply figuring out "Is this activity on my lesson plan going to fulfill requirement A or requirement B?" Seeing what you have in your boxes makes me think "Oh, I have access to this other activity and it seems like it would fit well into this subject area." I also love hearing ideas for how I can take one activity and reintroduce it in a new way to cover a new subject area. That way, even if the child has outgrown the activity for one purpose, the activity can still be used in a new way.
Hmmm. In many of my preschool classes, gross motor/movement was often another subject area we had to use. I feel like the Yoga cards and even that Simon Says cube you have would work well in that. Perhaps, adding another bin for those activities would be a good idea- especially as winter comes and there's a chance there may be a bit more time spent indoors (even though I know you spend a lot of time outside even in winter). That way, you can easily rotate out different gross motor/movement activities like you do with the other activities.
Oooh. Those little Real Brand minis that I've seen would be cute language tools- especially if you can find miniature versions of brands used around your house
I love how sincere you are, Ashley!! I'm always having this feeling of having to buy this or that material that's "montessori" but trying to remember that I may not need that just to have a beautiful play area, just like all those beautiful stacking materials. Containers work just fine! 😂 But I'm always putting stuff in my Amazon cart and then deleting them hahaha 🙈🙈
Pls, keep on doing this amazing job you do ❤️❤️ and thanks for that!!! warm hugs from Germany!!
Totally relate!!💖
That is for sharing! This made me realize I already have a lot of things that can be used for Montessori preschool. I will be doing it with my four year old this year and his 7 year old brother is going to go in person to a mo tesori elementary
Glad it was helpful!
Wow this is impressive !!! Thank you for sharing your different activities . I'll definitely pick some ideas
Can you show how you set up your shelves? I honestly just don’t know where to start. I think I might be thinking about it too much 😬
0:47-1:21! Thank you!
I’ve been hoping for a video like this to help me get a better idea of how to classify my daughters activities! I often wonder if I have too many items out that are from the same category and this hopefully will help me offer her a better variety. Thank you!
Ashley! You are such a wonderful person and an absolute gift from TH-cam gods xD
My brother's wife got pregnant and my family and I didn't really notice any enthusiasm about the news from both wife and brother so my maternal hormones kicked in and I started my research. I am only 20, was 19 when we found out so obviously I had no idea where to start and I started in my field - design and architecture cause that's my degree. After browsing Pinterest for days I've seen the same word pop up over and over again, Montessori. I was convinced it was a design style for kids room and then I finally found out what it was and headed to TH-cam. I've been watching you for the past 8-9 months, Theodor Is now 17 days old :D
Thank you, you were the main source of a ton of information about Montessori. Based on this information I continued my research and now I'm preparing the information for my brother's new family to know
We live in Ukraine where Montessori (or any other approach for that matter) isn't generally know about. So I translate all this info for my family to read. I work in an English preschool, teaching toddlers English in a country where no one speaks English, kinda. So I talked with a ton of parents and none of them even knew what Montessori could be and most were super sceptical about it, but it's not my duty to explain them all this it's their work
It got long but I hope you read it, Ashley! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, your channel is amazing and I watch every single video you do, they are so interesting. All the love just for you from over here, Ukraine🥺❤️
Edit: my poor grammar🙄😂
@@evelinapushkash6827, hi, I'm from Ukraine 🇺🇦. Moved to USA almost 7 years ago. And now that we're implementing Montessori into our life, I know how our people and family are skeptical about it... so I feel you lol
@@nadikstrizheus5815 thanks for sharing your experience! How's life there? Are you happy?
@@evelinapushkash6827, it's a lot different. I'm happy, more opportunities, but less freedom.. you're tied down to your job, loans, and your house that you need to pay for. But overall, it's better (at least for my family).. I'm happy to see you researching about Montessori philosophy for your brother's family.
Thank you so much for the video. I'm Following ur videos since my lo was 1 month old. Now she is 15 months. I'm getting so much ideas from ur videos.
Oh god! You have so much with you...i am surprised to see how well you have organised these...👍
Yay!!!! I was so looking forward to seeing the tour of the closet and see what materials you use for Kiley and Mia - just for inspiration ❤️ not for making my self overwhelming 😊
Do you know something about bilingualism and montessori method?
Thanks for taking the time to show us ❤
Thank you so much for this!! I love all your videos they’re so well put together and I learn so much from them!
So happy you made this video! I’m loving all your videos and excited for more!!!
I’m so obsessed with this video and need to go back to rewatch often! Thanks!
Just super curious how and when you find the time to plan and craft activities for the next day?
Hey there! She said in a different video that she mostly does it the night before for the next day.
Im currently in school for ECE and I just love the whole Montessori practice, my goal is to work at a Montessori preschool when I gradute
Thank you so much for this video. It really helps to see what kind of things are in each category. I’m starting to homeschool with my 5 yo and soon to be 2yo and it’s pretty daunting. Thanks for these great in depth videos. ❤️
Hey there so I have been watching your videos and I noticed that you mentioned metal insets- we use those in our Montessori to teach the prewriting skills to build hand eye coordination strength with a writing utensil. I am not sure what other Montessori programs teach, but the moveable alphabet is used in my school to teach phonetic sounds and segmenting/decoding and encoding cvc/cvcc words. However, I personally like to use them with the lined mats to reinforce letter formation placement for the prewriting skill development as well.
Thank you! So much inspiration. I will watch this video over and over again...and make notes next time. This is such a great Montessori compilation. I love your channel and your e-course. Cheers from Germany 🇩🇪
Ashley thank you soooo much for this video. So many great ideas i will be doing with my 28 month old son ❤❤❤ When I saw that the video is long my intial thought was, yesssss now i'm gonna get cozy on the sofa and chill to this video 😁
I'm so thankful I bumped into your channel. You have truly been inspiring ❤
Loved it.. As always. Thank you for making a detailed video.
Thanks for this video!!! And of course all the others too. I always thought we have too much stuff, but I like the variety and I think my kids too. Minimalism is so in right now and I cannot relate at all. Now I see that you have way more stuff than us and so nice things for your kids.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video! I have a newborn, but my friends have babies who are older and have birthdays coming up! This video definitely gave me some ideas of worth while gifts!
It is one of your best videos for sure...loaded with ideas and knowledge..definitely gonna try alot of them..keep them coming❤
Love, love, love this video and your channel! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us. Also appreciated your disclaimer. In the past I was one of those people who could get overwhelmed and discouraged. You also have some great DIY creations. ❤️
Awesome! Thank you so much! Will be watching again to get into the details more. But definitely got some new ideas already! Didn't get to watch quite until the end yet so might have missed this, but maybe in a future video: curious about storage of all the other kid stuff like books out of rotation, stuffed animals, other toys, giant LEGO's, blocks, stuff to play with outside, etc etc etc. I'm basically obsessed with figuring out how to organize it all. Maybe off topic for your channel, but I'm thinking with regards to the rotation aspect. I believe you have done a video covering some of that in the past. I'm keeping it all organized in the pantry and some in the garage. But constantly trying to figure out how to make adjustments and categorize. Your categories are helping me! Anyway great video!
OMG!!! I was browsing Amazon looking for Montessori learning tools and I saw Kylie using the Montessori and Me wood alphabet tracing board. I just added that to my list. Thank you for the inspiration! Ok, now back to the browsing board. My husband is gonna have a heart attack from my growing list of items. 🤯🤣😂
Thank you Ashley, this has given me great inspiration and I love your diy activities!
This was a really great video. I think I will use this as a database to collect toys for my now 9 mo! I also got this idea of making it more cost effective: like we can use the wooden chunky puzzle blocks of animals/ vehicles (mellisa and Doug) as language objects or the alphabet puzzles shapes (hape) as movable alphabet and the same puzzle board to trace letters..Thanks for sharing this. Love u❤️
Yes love these videos! I have fun with our toy storage rotation as well. Cool to see other mamas! Wish I had that much closet space haha. Been thinking about doing a video like this myself - just started my channel
Pleaseeee also make a preschool curriculum... i want it badly next year
41min of video!!!!!! Wonderful!!!!
Very helpful, thank you! Can you also go more into detail how you do your rotation? Is it while your children are watching? How frequently do you rotate? How much time does it take for you? Do you only rotate items that haven't been played/worked with much recently? TIA
Really, thank you Ashley! You're doing a great job :)
We love your ideas!! Please keep sharing!!
Sorry I know this video was up a while ago but I’m starting some organizing now, just wondering where the storage bins are from? Thank you, I seriously am so inspired by you and how wonderfully you are raising your family!
My son is opposite has no real interest in science (like animals etc) but loves to learn about the continents and space
He actually knows the seven continents by name and can point to them on a map
Such a great video as always! Great ideas, love from London Uk 😘
Perfect video! Just what I needed to see.
Thank you the video, Ashley! I have learnt so much from you! You have given me more ideas about activities suitable for my 2 year- old :-)
Loved it, great ideas. Thank you!!!
I always excited to watch your video 💞
I did this storage closet for homeschool but I also still have a lot of toys and I would like to do toy rotation bins. I’m getting confused as to where some of the toys go for example, do I put the farm animals in a rotation or part of the science homeschool bin 🤔 Any tips!?
👀 Do the object permanence box and wooden letter tracing board have anything to do with Mikes secret project. I hope so because they look beautiful! 😍
YESSSS so excited for this video!
Loved this video! Where did you find the miniature flower ones?
Aspyn Ferris gave you a shout out in her last video!! Love that you’re getting recognized! 😭😭
I love knowing that we’re able to reach so many families! 🥰 Thank you!
Great video. Thank you very much!!!
I love all your videos
Love your videos. I am new to Montessori, and a bit confused about balance between independent play and activities. How much should I engage in activities? Should I sit with them during them or just do an initial presentation and let them play on?
I thought we did this the other day or was that just a preview of what you had started in order to accommodate homeschooling? Ashley, you are just so good at keeping people excited and interested and to a good extent rather nonchalant, so they do not get overwhelmed and quit on themselves and their children. Some do not have the money. There are those parents who have ADD or other learning challenges. Many probably feel they've retained almost nothing of their own schooling. My father, an academician, always used to say the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked. And that, when in doubt, to teach properly never assume anything and just start at the get-go and explain everything and allow the learner to tell you if they already know some segment of the learning. This is because you do not want anyone to miss one of the building blocks which are essential to language and mathematics learning and math is the language of science. So you are really stuck educationally if those are not learned in a way that builds you castles of wonderful, usable knowledge in your mind that will serve you well throughout life and often in figuring out solutions to problems on your own. I confess, I look at all the goodies in your boxes and I want to play with them. They are enticing to the human eye and tantalizing to the brain. I am not good at crafting, but I am good at language and design. So I have to find ways to use those skills and have others help the children where I'm wanting.
Have you ever done some sort of comparison between different children’s boxes like kiwi co and lovevery?
After lots of videos with kiwico boxes she mentioned the differences in the first video with lovevery and made clear that they can't really be compared cause one includes Montessori items and the other stem projects.
Gilraen Calaelen thank you! I will have to see if I can track down that video.
I love love love all your videos!!! May I ask where did you get those big storage bins? I need them like now!! My closet is full of materials and I’m going bananas 🤪
Love y'all!!
Thank you so much for this video it will help so much!
I am going to comment this on every video from now on, until you guys promise us. I request you to
Please do a Vlogmas for all of the december.
Care to share the size of storage box? Thank you
Oooo where is that baby toy baggie set from?? The black one with the wooden baby toys in it!!
Wow, thank you for sharing and explaining all the different uses of your materials. Love the organization. I'd love to make the matching cards but 'office spaced' my color printer several years ago - curious what you are using to print and laminate?
I use a Brother color laser printer and a Scotch thermal laminator! :)
Cool - that's the printer I was considering. Making the cards could even be a good project for my older boys!
Where did you get your montessori small language objects?
What size bins do you use?
Just curious, how many sounds (sandpaper letters) does Kylie have mastered
Hi can u give me some idea about books which toddlers might like to see
Thank you for this video.. Also, whenever you get time please make a video on all the diy classification cards that you have made..
Dear Ashley. I remember Kylie having Magna tiles but they werent in the storage. I was just wondering, are open ended toys a part of the shelf activities or are they something seperate ? My son has some open ended toys (magna tiles, legos, wooden blocks) which are always available. Because he uses them in so many ways, so i just keep them out at all times. But i was just wondering how you guys do..
Any idea of first birthday gift... Keeping montessori in mind... Help plz
Grimms stacker :)
What are the small objects you have in your language box? I couldn’t find them in your store or find a similar set online.
Thank u for sharing ur different activities..I am inspired by u Mam🙏🙏
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Thank you 🥳🥳🥳
Still watching but just want to share a thought- the other day I saw Grimms people and thought “oh! We have peg people, I guess we can colour them once the child is ready for crafts and have our own DIY Grimms people” .
Where did you get your shadow/silhouette matching cards? I've been looking all over google for a free printable set and have been unable to find any.
This is so helpful, thank you, where you do purchase the typical Montessori items from, such as the all the magnetic letters?
The movable alphabet isn’t magnetic, they’re just wooden letter cutouts that they can lay on a work mat or table. :) There’s a link to it in my Amazon storefront under the “language & math” category if you’re interested in learning more!
I didn’t know you had a store front thank you! Really helpful.
👏👏👏👏😍😍😍good ideas
I noticed your set of cylinder blocks are colored and have only 6 knobbed cylinders instead of 10. How do you like your set? I want to get a set for my 2.5 year old but wasn't sure if I should splurge on a full set. We plan to homeschool exclusively so whatever I get will likely be all she has access to.
We got the “mini” set since we are in a homeschool setting!
Do you like the mini set? Do you feel like it accomplishes the same as the full size set?
Yay!!!
where are the links?
Most of the things are in her Amazon storefront which she has linked in the description.
Do you have a link for the “metal inserts”. I couldn’t find it in your Amazon Storefront
Oh, I thought I added it! Sorry! It’s in there now. Language & math category. 👍🏻
Where did you find some of the free printables, like the art matching?
Teachers Pay Teachers probably have some for free or cheap!
Some are from the Montessori Print Shop, while others are from various Montessori blogs around the web. The big and small paintings matching activity was a free one from here: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Famous-Paintings-Art-Matching-Activity-big-and-small-2141544
Anyone have advice for parents who currently can't afford to invest in so many items but still want to do Montessori learning?
I’d check out her playlist for the Montessori At Home series, especially the vids on DIY activities, IKEA Montessori finds, and Montessori basics. She also links to all of her resources in the description boxes of her vids, and a lot of the activities are printable!
Montessori is definitely not about having big-ticket items. They just seem more expensive than your average “toy” because there’s usually craftsmanship in the materials, like wood (vs cheap and plentiful and breakable plastic) with high reusability value. I’ve found that because Montessori materials are so durable, you often find them in 👌🏽 condition second-hand. A lot of the activities Ashley started with for Kylie are quite often seen in Mia’s shelves and they look brand new. Even the girls’ dining chairs are second-hand and repainted.
Once you understand the developmental purpose of an activity, finding examples around the house and making DIY versions will come much more second-nature.
Also, seeing a collection of anything is daunting, but the truth is that it was built up over a long period of time. You don’t have to get most things all at once, or even immediately after each other, because the main tenet of Montessori education is to follow the child! You’ll find what they need and what you already have as time goes on :)
So don’t be discouraged!
@unicornitron I am unable to pin this response, or else I would! 💕💕💕💕
@@unicornitron thank you so much for the advice..
There are lot of diy ideas. For eg:- instead of buying a object permenance box, i make a hole in cardboard box and give to my baby. I made my own story books for my baby.(Videos put in my channel). And i am a new mom and got several ideas from hapa family videos.
Is there Montessori teaching once they are older like 5 or so.
Yes, Montessori elementary. It actually goes all the way up through middle school and high school (secondary)!
Hapa Family
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