Thank You’s for September 2011

From my Google Analytics report for September 2011

Thank you to all my referrers!

Top 10 Referring Sites (Not counting sites like Facebook, Networked Blogs, Pinterest, Google, Twitter, Blogger, and Stumble Upon)

 

1. No Time for Flash Cards

2. Montessori MOMents

3. Montessori Helper

4. One Hook Wonder

5. 1+1+1=1

6. Early Education with Antek and Kuba

7. The Adventures of Bear

8. Montessori Print Shop

9. Our Montessori Home

10. Hip Homeschool Moms

Thank you to all my readers!

Top 10 Visited Posts

1. Free Montessori Materials Online

2. Montessori Practical Life Activities

3. Free Preschool Printables for Activity Trays

4. How to Set Up a Montessori Preschool Classroom at Home

5. Montessori-Inspired Apple Unit

6. How to Set Up a Montessori Homeschool Classroom

7. $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway and MontessoriBuddy Sponsor Spotlight

8. How to Prepare a Montessori Toddler Environment at Home

9. Montessori Monday – Table Setting

10. Montessori-Inspired Autumn Leaf Unit

Thank you for photo permissions!

Thank you to the wonderful bloggers who have given me permission to use your photos in my posts (with credit to you, a link to your post, and a comment letting you know I’m using your photo, of course)! If you haven’t seen my request for permissions, here’s a link to my post: Request for Montessori Photo Permissions.

If I may have permission to use photos from your blog, please let me know! Although I use Montessori photos most often, I also link to posts with crafts, art projects, and educational activities (especially unit studies). If you have posts with similar activities, I’d really appreciate photo permissions for them. I love that the photos add to the post content and also bring attention to your link.

Thank you for e-book submissions!

Thank you to all the mom bloggers and Montessori teachers (“Moms to Many”) who submitted wonderful Montessori activities and ideas! John Bowman, author of  Montessori at Home, and I are putting together the free e-book we’ll be giving to our customers and to all the contributors to the e-book!

Thank you to link-up participants!

Thank you so much to Nicole at One Hook Wonder, founder and co-host of Montessori Monday! And thank you to everyone who links up and to everyone who reads and comments on the Montessori Monday posts!

 

Thank you to everyone who links up and/or visits the participants in my Family-Friendly Giveaway Linky (which you can link up with at any time but is refreshed and has outdated links removed each Sunday)!

 

Thank you to my sponsors!

My sponsors all have products I wish would have been around when I had a Montessori preschool and when I homeschooled my children!

Thank you to Montessori Print Shop, who has free printables (including a new free Montessori material released each month), beautiful yet inexpensive printables, a wonderful blog, and lots of great information and resources (see all the drop-down menus at the top of the page)! For more information, read my Sponsor Spotlight – Montessori Print Shop.

Thank you to MontessoriBuddy,  who sponsored an amazing giveaway in September. MontessoriBuddy is a software application to help Montessori teachers and schools (preschool-grade 5) keep records and communicate with parents easily and efficiently. It gives parents a personalized connection with the Montessori classroom. MontessoriBuddy is offering an extended free trial for my readers! 60 days is the standard free trial for MontessoriBuddy, but when you use the promo code LivingMontessoriNow, you will get an extra free month, bringing it up to 90 days! For more information about MontessoriBuddy, read the MontessoriBuddy Sponsor Spotlight.

Thank you to Montessori Workspace, an online record-keeping tool for Montessori teachers that allows you to organize, record, and review your students’ educational journey. It can track “‘works’ progress, areas for improvement, special accomplishments, social behavior and the essence of each student’s personal development.” With Montessori Workspace, online record-keeping for the first 5 students is free and only $0.50 per student per month above that!

Thank you to Total Yearbooks, who sponsored a wonderful giveaway in September and has competitive pricing (including bulk pricing) for yearbooks for homeschools, sports teams, preschools, and other schools as well as books for sports memories, graduations, weddings, baby memories, and more. The yearbooks can easily be put together online through templates ready to go. You also have the option to upload a PDF or jpgs created with digital scrapbooking software and print books through Total Yearbooks! For more information, read my Total Yearbooks Sponsor Spotlight.

Thank you to John Bowman and Montessori at Home, with the eBook Montessori at Home: The Complete Guide to Doing Montessori Early Learning Activities at Home, and the condensed version in paperback Help Your Preschooler Build a Better Brain: Early Learning Activities for 2-6 Year Old Children. For just $7.95 for the e-book, you get over 200 Montessori early-learning activities for use at home with 3-7 yr. olds. This is a great time to order the e-book! If you order the e-book now, you’ll receive a copy of the expanded and revised edition when it comes out for free! The new version will be out shortly!

Thank you to My Memories, who sponsored the giveaway in August of My Memories Suite 2.0 digital scrapbooking software and continues to offer a special My Memories coupon code for all my readers (and your friends and family). If you use the coupon code STMMMS48784 at My Memories upon checkout, you’ll receive a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store – a $20 value!

Thanks again, everyone! 🙂