Wouldn’t you love to walk into a kitchen all clean and sparkling? I just loved how this family came up with a practice that helps everyone clean up quickly, without fights and with whole family participating: Around the House After Dinner Jobs.
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I found some wonderful resources that I wanted to share.
First of all: this site has fantastic collection of free mazes for kids. Various mazes, various levels, easy to print out and fun to use. I also used the idea from my favorite Montessori Yahoo group to avoid using a pen, but to trace the way with a finger. Apparently, it develops a lighter touch (later on translated in not pressing the pen so hard on paper), and a good tracing ability, all improving writing later on. Enjoy: Crazy Dad’s Mazes.
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This song turned out to be so much fun, that we sing it even after we were done with our unit in Geography.
“I live on Planet Earth” song to the “He’s Got The Whole World in His Hands“. We tried singing it with props: I printed pictures of earth, USA map, our State, our state with it’s city on marked, picture of our house.
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On a TeachYourBabyToRead yahoo group, another terrific discussion of great books for the kids up to two years old. We LOVE reading, so couldn’t skip this opportunity to insert our five cents. Please jump on a wagon and add your favorites!
Every year we host a Halloween party. Every year kids gather at our house for some very special way to celebrate it… This is a list of things that we do with 3 to 6 year olds. 
Montessori Practical Life transferring activities seem redundant and boring to me… and absolutely irresistible to my kid. I think my older one, Sunshine, can spend hours just pouring water or spooning beans. Though it’s tongs and tweezers that are the dearest to his heart!
My little one is turning 10 months in a few days. These are his favorite Montessori activities:
So, here are the Montessori resources that I found useful! Enjoy and please share if you discovered something that I haven’t seen yet! 
Having a second baby didn’t change anything for us: we are still as eager to spend tons of time educating and having fun with our kids. Actually, it is the same thing – learning – is fun…