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If you want a great resource for your Montessori school, homeschool, co-op, or even just for your primary-school aged kids in general, then this is it.  Hundreds and hundreds of .pdf printables at your fingertips. Bought separately, you'd spend over $3000, but the CD-ROM is available for just under $600.  Once purchased, you can continue to purchase future files that she makes for 50% off. Visit the Montessori for Everyone website. I tended to use the 3-part cards.  These are brightly coloured pictures, words, and a third card with pictures and words together.  Once you print them out on card and laminate them, then your child can practice matching the pictures and the words together, and then check them with the "control" card to make sure the answers are correct. That makes these items self-correcting, which is great for a child's learning and independence. BTW, I've had to withdraw the offer to give my copy away free: it infringed Lori's T&C's.

To me, the run-up to a new school-year is one of the most fun times in the life of a homeschooling mom.  All the great, optimistic plans, the excuses to buy new notebooks and pens and books, the joy of clearing out last year's stuff to make way for the new. Yet, it can also be a stressful and difficult time.  For one thing, if you're anything like me, you've just had a fantastically relaxed summer vacation.  I've just returned from two months in my home state of Texas, where -- ok -- we were setting record temperatures over 105 and it never rained, but having lived twenty years in England, there's something glorious in having the sun on-tap whenever you want to brave the scorching weather for a half-hour or so. Soaking up the sun in the sand. Now it's back to dreary, chilly reality, an empty calendar looming in front of me, and lesson plans to arrange for four children who range in age from 11 to 4, and a house to de-clutter after the exodus at the end of last t...