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Birthday Traditions
I haven’t had a chance to revisit Henry’s birthday traditions until now!
We hung up his birthday bunting, as well as a ribbon with one photo from each year of his life (held up by mini-clothespins). At first I was going to take his picture in the same chair every year, but I realized it would be more fun to look at various kinds of pictures from each year.We also did his candle ceremony.We started the ritual last year when I stumbled upon this 9-candle holder on Etsy.… Read More
I realized it was the perfect complement to the ceremony: one tealight
candle for every year until -
Reflection & Rejuvenation: March
Ah, March. Welcome!This year is divided into chunks for me: Jan. and Feb. were all about finishing up the charter application. March-June are more about stasis (still working on the school, still doing my other part-time job, enjoying our family of three before it expands), July-September are about the new baby and adjusting to our new life, Oct.-Dec. will hopefully be about getting back into work as the superintendent/principal of a new charter school (fingers crossed), while parenting a young child.Our house is moving along slowly. They’ve still only built the foundation. I’m not letting myself get stressed about it in any way.I finally decided to make… Read More -
Supporting Pre-Readers
Henry’s birthday gifts were a huge success! He loves his new books, and I particularly love Big Machines from the DK Readers series. According to Montessori philosophy, young children are in a developmental phase where they are trying to understand the world. For this reason, the books we read to them should be non-fiction (or realistic fiction) and should contain real photographs whenever possible. While we don’t follow this philosophy 100% (I love Go Dog Go and Are You My Mother?), I do find that Henry is most attracted to books with real photographs.I’m going to use some of his birthday money (half of it is being… Read More
