For homeschool families

Montessori at your kitchen table.

You are doing this without a staff, a building, or a built-in classroom community. These resources are built for that reality, not a school shrunk down to fit a house.

Free, no strings

The child is the one doing the building.

Everything here rests on one conviction. Your child is the one doing the building. A child constructs their own mind and their own body through their own effort, and the adult’s real work is to prepare the world and then protect that effort from being rushed, performed, or handed off to something else. That is the whole of Montessori, and it is the thread running under every guide below.

These are not tip sheets. Each one carries the same conviction into a different room of your child’s life. They are honest about the research, honest about money and access, and free of the shame that usually rides along with this conversation.

Start where you are. If you are choosing or questioning a school, begin with Is It Actually Montessori, so you can read real practice from good marketing on the tour. If screens are the fight in your house, begin with Screens, Honestly, a research grounded look at what technology does to a developing brain and what you can actually do about it. If you are deep in the early years of sleep, food, movement, and toileting, begin with Learning, Not Training, on your child’s first independence, the body. And if you are worried about AI and what it means to raise a thinker now, begin with Raising a Child Who Thinks.

Give us your name and email and we will send you the one you need first, and the rest whenever you want them. No cost, no spam, and no school or company pays to be recommended here.

What is Montessori actually doing?

The honest one-page answer you can hand to a grandparent, a neighbor, or a pediatrician when they ask what your child’s school is about.

What to expect, age by age

Why your three year old needs to pour their own water, why your nine year old is obsessed with fairness, and why your teenager pulling away is exactly right.

Screens, Honestly

A research honest take on raising a child who thinks. The one question to carry into every screen decision, at every age.

Learning, Not Training

How a child masters the body they are learning to call their own. Sleep, food, movement, and toileting, without the shame.

Raising a Child Who Thinks

A Montessori take on children, AI, and the work of the mind. The sharpened question to carry as AI shows up earlier in your child's life than you expect.

Free, by email

The Montessori home, set up age by age.

A printable, age-by-age checklist for setting up your home so your child can do more for themselves, from the first year through the teenage years. Tell us where to send it and it is yours.

One email, one checklist. We will only reach out with resources for Montessori families.

Decodable books

Books your child can actually read.

The same 96 books Montessori classrooms use to teach reading, ready for your shelf at home. Each one is built so your child sounds out real words and feels the win of reading a whole book on their own. Bead color-coded, and every family is reflected on the page. Buy a single set or bring home the full series.

Best value

The full series

All 96 books, every set, from first sounds to advanced phonics. The complete library Montessori classrooms use, on your shelf at home.

Get the full series · $899
The full series of 96 decodable books
Set 1, CVC Words decodable book cover

Set 1

CVC Words

10 books

Set 2, Digraphs decodable book cover

Set 2

Digraphs

10 books

Set 3, Blends decodable book cover

Set 3

Blends

30 books

Set 4, Endings decodable book cover

Set 4

Endings

5 books

Set 5, Long Vowel Patterns decodable book cover

Set 5

Long Vowel Patterns

6 books

Set 6, R-Controlled Vowels decodable book cover

Set 6

R-Controlled Vowels

5 books

Set 7, Multisyllabic Words decodable book cover

Set 7

Multisyllabic Words

15 books

Set 8, Advanced Phonics decodable book cover

Set 8

Advanced Phonics

15 books

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