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The Best Preschool Chapter Book Read Alouds
The Best Preschool Chapter Book Read Alouds

When my son turned 3, we started chapter book read-alouds. My daughter is now 3 as well, and she has started to join in for the read-alouds. I have found chapter books to be a wonderful way to expand a child’s vocabulary and encourage them to follow a longer story. Over the course of the 2 years we have been doing chapter book read-alouds with my preschooler, we have found some absolute gems (and a few I wish we hadn’t read!).

How I Prep All About Reading to Reuse
How I Prep All About Reading to Reuse

For anyone new here, we LOVE All About Reading. The biggest downside is it is also on the pricey side, no question. When we bought All About Reading, however, I went in with the hope/assumption/idea that we would only buy it once and reuse it for our family. Now, on our second child using All About Reading, I can confidently say you absolutely do not need to buy anything more than once.

Preschool and Pre-K Year in Review
Preschool and Pre-K Year in Review

I cannot believe it is nearly the end of another school year! This year seemed to fly by. For the first time, I really was teaching two kids (more than I expected, but more on that coming up!). My son just turned 5, and my daughter is 3. I also have a one-year-old who does a great job making school time interesting!

The Best Early Chapter Books
The Best Early Chapter Books

Do you have a reader ready for their first chapter books? This post covers our favorites! I created this post in particular for people who may have younger early readers and are looking for chapter books appropriate for a 3, 4, or 5-year-old, since I know that challenge. However, these books are not “babyish” in any way and are absolutely appropriate for (and written for!) an elementary-age audience.

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Toddler Visual Recipes (+ Toddler Cooking Mini Guide)
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Toddler Visual Recipes (+ Toddler Cooking Mini Guide)
$12.00 $15.00

This guide provides 15 visual recipes designed especially for toddlers (well tested by my toddler) and written recipes for the grown-up. Recipes include no added sugar cookies, smoothies, guacamole, playdough, waffles, and more. It also includes over 150 ingredients, materials, and actions involved in cooking, a blank recipe template, and a visual shopping list. The ingredients, materials, and actions are Montessori-aligned using real photos. These can be used for language work and matching as well. This is a digital download. No physical product will be sent and since it is a digital download refunds are not accepted.

The Independent Toddler Snack Guide
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The Independent Toddler Snack Guide
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Ready to transform snack time? The Independent Toddler Snack Guide includes 20 VISUAL snack recipes your toddler can make on their own! The recipes are set up for toddler success. They are Montessori-inspired and rigorously tested by my 2-year-old and 4-year-old. Tips are included to reduce the mess and stress, making it successful for the grown-up, too. As a bonus, there is information on how to incorporate more learning during snack time with tips on building fine motor, math, and prereading skills! This is a digital download. No physical product will be sent.

The Early Reader Recipes
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The Early Reader Recipes
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The Early Reader Recipes include 22 decodable recipes for early readers (roughly a Kindergarten to First Grade level, depending on the phonics program). These recipes are created to be decodable using phonics skills. They limit sight words and instead focus on developing decoding skills. They start with CVC words, then add blends, digraphs, CVCe words (magic E), and eventually 2-syllable words. When a word is not decodable, a picture is put in its place.

The ingredients page is designed to be worked through together and includes extra learning opportunities such as visual fractions.

Recipes are a fantastic way to practice reading comprehension naturally!

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Toddler Knife Progression and Favorite Toddler Knives
Toddler Knife Progression and Favorite Toddler Knives

This post has been a long time coming since I did my cooking with toddler series several months ago. Knives are an exciting tool for toddlers to use if introduced safely. Of course with all the tools I will discuss you should supervise your child closely. These tools are toddler-safe only when supervised. This post goes through how we introduced knives from 14 months through the knives he uses now at 2.5. It also discusses some of the progression of skills with the knives we introduced to our toddler.

The Best Montessori Floor Beds for Infants and Toddlers
The Best Montessori Floor Beds for Infants and Toddlers

Are you considering a Montessori floor bed? You’ve come to the right place! This post goes through why you should choose a Montessori floor bed and the best options on the market. Put simply, a Montessori floor bed refers to a low bed for a baby or toddler to use instead of a crib. They are lower than a toddler bed so that younger babies can safely use them.

Cooking with Toddlers: Best Learning Towers
Cooking with Toddlers: Best Learning Towers

My number one recommendation to purchase for cooking with toddlers is a learning tower or sous chef tower. These are a classic in the Montessori world because they allow toddlers to become more active participants in cooking. This item is, without question, our most loved baby item behind possibly the baby wrap.

Our Montessori Functional Kitchen [IKEA Hack]
Our Montessori Functional Kitchen [IKEA Hack]

How we hacked our Ikea play kitchen into a Montessori functional kitchen for our one-year-old! He loves the running water!

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My 2 babies (as Yitzchak would say) He loves to snuggle up when I’m holding her or nursing her and say “2 babies” or “one two babies” while counting himself and Maggie. He definitely got the memo I tried really hard to
We’ve got a big announcement over here… We’re leaving NYC. Many great writers have written about this same experience—of loving but ultimately leaving NYC. I don’t know that I have much more to contribute to that tha
 

I’m Ayelet. Montessori mother of 3 in NYC. I share our Montessori and respectful parenting journey at home and on the way.

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