Top 10s and Thank You’s for December 2014

From my Google Analytics report for December 2014

Thank you to all my referrers!

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

1. Kids Activities Blog

2. Montessori Nature

3. PreK + K Sharing

4. B-Inspired Mama

5. Fantastic Fun and Learning

6. Dirt and Boogers

7. Spielgaben

8. Buggy and Buddy

9. Gift of Curiosity

10. Imagine Our Life

Thank you to all my readers!

Top 10 Visited Posts

1. Free Educational Songs for Circle Time

2. Free LEGO Printables and 70+ LEGO Learning Activities

3. How to Start Using Montessori at Home

4. Free Mitten Printables and Montessori-Inspired Mitten Activities

5. Montessori-Inspired Winter Activities

6. 20+ Christmas Phonics Activities

7. Free Christmas Songs and Rhymes for Circle Time

8. Free Montessori Materials Online

9. How to Prepare a Montessori Toddler Environment at Home

10. Baby or Toddler Handprint or Footprint Keepsake Ornament

Thank you to all my followers!

Thank you to everyone following me through Bloglovin’ or my RSS feed (blog posts in a reader), Twitter (blog posts by me and others along with the Parent/Teacher Daily and other interesting information), Living Montessori Now Facebook page (links to my posts and lots of posts from around the blogosphere along with a featured Free Printable of the Day), Pinterest (lots of Montessori-, holiday-, and theme-related boards), and Google+ (post updates).

Don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter in the right-hand sidebar to receive Karen Tyler’s AMS Montessori geography album and the Mom Bloggers Talk Montessori: Favorite Ideas and Activities eBook FREE along with a weekly newsletter containing a note from me with any important reminders and links to my posts from the week! I truly appreciate all my followers!

Thank you for Montessori at Home or School: How to Teach Grace and Courtesy eBook purchases!

Thank you to everyone who has purchased my eBook Montessori at Home or School: How to Teach Grace and Courtesy! I’m thrilled that so many parents and teachers are interested in teaching manners to children ages 2-12! You made my eBook a best-seller and helped it spend a number of days as the #1 homeschooling book on Amazon! Learn more about Montessori at Home or School: How to Teach Grace and Courtesy!

Thank you for photo permissions!

Photo Request

Thank you to the wonderful bloggers who have given me permission to use your photos in my posts (with credit to you and a link to your post, 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 posts with family activities). If you have posts with similar activities, I’d really appreciate photo permissions for them. Being able to use a photo from your post adds to the roundup post content and also brings attention to your link.

Thank you to link-up participants!

Thank you to everyone who links up and to everyone who reads and comments on the Montessori Monday posts! I always enjoy seeing the ideas that are linked up each week, and I appreciate the encouragement you give to each other in using Montessori education at home or school.

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)!

Please link up regularly. I love to see what Montessori-inspired activities you’re doing (and Montessori Monday is typically one of my first sources for activities when I do a roundup post). I also love keeping up with family-friendly giveaways around the blogosphere and being able to help parents and teachers find great giveaways to enter.

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! Please support my sponsors. They’re all wonderful businesses with amazing products! You’ll find more information and featured specials from my sponsors and affiliate companies on my Products Page. 🙂

Note: post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you).

 

Thank you to Montessori Print Shop, who has free printables, beautiful inexpensive printables, a wonderful blog, and lots of great information and resources (see all the drop-down menus at the top of the Montessori Print Shop site)! For more information, read my Sponsor Spotlight – Montessori Print Shop. And be sure to check out the two Montessori at Home bundles! Also, check out my review of the Montessori Print Shop Teaching Manuals Bundle, my ideas for using Montessori Print Shop music materials, and my ideas for using Montessori Print Shop geography bundles.

 

 

Thank you to Montessori Compass, an incredibly user-friendly, web-based software application that provides online Montessori record keeping, school management, parent communication from any web-enabled device along with Free Online Access to Comprehensive Montessori Scope and Sequence. Read my Montessori Compass Sponsor Spotlight to learn more about Montessori Compass. Sign up for Montessori Compass using the promo code LivingMontessoriNow and get a 14-day free trial and 50% discount for the first 3 months!

Thank you to John Bowman and Montessori at Home, with the revised eBook Montessori at Home: The Complete Guide to Doing Montessori Early Learning Activities at Home, and the condensed version in paperback and Kindle (new!): Help Your Preschooler Build a Better Brain: Early Learning Activities for 2-6 Year Old Children. For just $10.95 for the e-book’s 3rd edition, you get 512 pages of Montessori early-learning activities and ideas for use at home with 3-7 yr. olds! I have a series of posts with excerpts and sample pages from Montessori at Home!

 

 

Thank you to Spielgaben for sponsoring my monthly series of Montessori-inspired Spielgaben activities (many with featured free printables). Spielgaben toys are exceptionally high-quality educational toys designed for ages 3-12. The Spielgaben complete set comes with over 1,000 pages of supplementary learning materials that help you as a parent or teacher easily use Spielgaben toys educationally with your child and/or students. The new Spielgaben Version 4 is available in time for the 2014 Christmas season!

Thank you to Trillium Montessori, who has a section of beautiful free printables for subscribers … definitely worth signing up! Trillium Montessori also has a Teachers Pay Teachers store (link at Trillium Montessori) with complete packs of Montessori-inspired printables available for purchase. You’ll find Montessori printables plus Montessori-inspired seasonal-, holiday-, and themed packs. Trillium Montessori has free printables at Teachers Pay Teachers, too! And you’ll find lots of ideas for using the themed packs in the blog posts at the Trillium Montessori site! You can learn more in my Trillium Montessori posts.

Thank you to Montessori By Mom, which has both a subscription service (parents subscribe to receive a box of themed Montessori materials and activities for 3-5 year olds each month) and a store with individual toolboxes and activities for sale. Montessori By Mom is an amazing service, which you can learn more about here: Shells and Starfish Activities + Free Printable from Montessori By Mom, Shoots and Sprouts Activities + Free Printable from Montessori By Mom, Practical Life Activities + Free Printable from Montessori By Mom, and Building and Blocks + Free Printable from Montessori By Mom.

 

Thank you to Alison’s Montessori, who has Montessori materials for infants and toddlers through upper elementary. You’ll find a Value-Line E-Catalog, Premium E-Catalog, and other resources such as PDF files, books, arts and crafts, and enrichment materials. There’s even a bargain basement! Read my review of Alison’s Montessori materials. On orders of $75 or more from the Alison’s Montessori online store, my readers can save $10 by using coupon code LMN at checkout!

Thank you to my affiliate companies!

Thanks to my affiliate companies for offering great products along with commissions for referring customers. Please check out my products page for my affiliate companies! I only become an affiliate for companies with products I believe in. I really appreciate if you go through my affiliate links when you’re ordering because I’ll receive a small commission. It won’t affect your order or prices in any way (unless you go through a discount link of mine and receive a better price than normal!) Living Montessori Now got too large for a shared server, so I appreciate your help in paying the dedicated server fees to keep Living Montessori Now running.

Thank you to Little Passports for inviting me to be a Little Passports Ambassador! You can find my introductory post here: Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Global Adventure. You’ll find my country posts here: Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – Brazil, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – Japan, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – France, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – Egypt, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – Australia, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – Mexico, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – South Africa, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – India, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – England, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – China, Montessori-Inspired Little Passport Activities – Argentina, Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – Russia, and Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Activities – Israel. Learn more about the new Early Explorers subscription here: Using Little Passports Early Explorers with a Montessori-Inspired Approach.

I’m also an affiliate for Montessori Services, For Small Hands, Montessori for the Earth, CurrClick, Educents, Montessori Helper, Magic Beans, Melissa & Doug, ProBlogger, Amazon, My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software, and Barnes and Noble.

Thanks again, everyone! Have a fabulous 2015!

Image at top of post by Karen Roach.