About & Contact

I’m Marissa - an AMS Trained teacher entering my 15th year in the classroom - I am a sewer, a knitter, a wardrobe-maker, an art school grad, a city lover, a country lover, a wife and a mama. I have an incredible need to make things with my hands, to teach children how to do the same and make my classroom feel like home. I am forever integrating handmade materials into my traditional Montessori classroom and am always on the lookout for new ideas and people to collaborate with. I wanted an information venue, so I created this site so that it can be a time capsule of information for myself and others. Please enjoy!

All products, except “consultations” and “physical products” are PDF downloads. After purchase, you will receive an email with links to your downloads - they expire in 24 hours so download right away! If for some reason you miss the deadline - please email me at the address linked below. There are no refunds as all products are available immediately upon purchase. Please contact me and I will certainly work with you to solve a problem!


You can email me here.

You can listen to my guest appearance on The Montessori Education Podcast here.

You can find my teacher made materials here.

Happy Friday! This is from yesterday. Everyone was very busy. My assistant chose some work for “fun” to do with a few students (rainbow loom bracelets) and I took the opportunity to take some pictures and sit in the observation chair and
Look at this beautiful and simple shelf from Rachel at @homeschool.for.now. She is stocked with Missy Montessori goodies! ⁣ ⁣ From left to right, top to bottom:⁣ ⁣ Top Shelf: Trick Word Cards (find this as a single under Language), ABC Chart (find th
Just a PSA to everyone that we don’t always remember everything perfectly. Sometimes I get out my albums to fix-up and organize work on the shelves. Sometimes to make sure I’m giving a lesson I don’t get to often correctly. ⁣ ⁣ I kn
Here is kind of my first phase with The Grammar Farm. We start by labeling the animals, adding articles and then verbs. We love making books in our classroom so after the student assembled all her sentences, she drew each animal and copied her senten
Leave it to @montessoriprimaryguide to get my stuff photographed before me! Here is one of her students working with my Sentence Puzzles and Journal Paper from my Beginner Mini Reading Bundle. ⁣ ⁣ You can print words on cardstock, laminate and cut. C
Phonetic Command Cards from the Beginner Mini Reading Bundle in use today! ⁣ ⁣ The bundle is on sale until Saturday with the code READER (grab it all for $15!). ⁣ ⁣ Link is in my profile!
One of my favorites! This is under Earth Science in my shop. ⁣ ⁣ Find out how to play this Land and Water Mapping Game in my highlights!⁣
Wanting to spend some time in baby’s room today but... I’ve literally done everything with what I have! The only thing to do right now is hang up the monitor. ⁣ ⁣ Loving my @sprout_kids Alba Wardrobe, weaning chair and infant shelf! In my
I’m feeling pretty excited to use these Sentence Puzzles! It will be such a fun challenge to push my beginning readers to the next level. ⁣ ⁣ They’ll have to read all the words and decide which they want to use to make a sentence. All my
Here’s everything in the Beginner Mini Reading Bundle. It’s on sale for $15 just this week - use code READER at checkout (link in profile). ⁣ ⁣ Set of 3 Interactive Easy Readers: The Cat, The Pig and The Hen.⁣ ⁣ Print color & text cop
Reposting this from May 11th, 2020 since we’re all things reading this week!⁣ ⁣ I get asked a lot what beginning readers I like/use/recommend. Since I started teaching as an assistant, I have always used the BOB Book Series. I know that a lot o
Are you wondering how you even use the stuff in the Reading Bundle? Check out my four most recent highlights to get a walk through of everything!
Hey! If you haven’t heard, I’ve made a new Beginner Mini Reading Bundle! It’s available for one week for $15 (use code READER) at checkout for the discount. After next weekend, it’ll all be full price. ⁣ ⁣ Here’s what&rs
It’s UP!⁣ ⁣ I haven’t even photographed everything (will do that in the morning and share ASAP) but I was so excited to post that it’s now available. ⁣ ⁣ You can read in detail what’s inside this Mini Beginner Reader Bundle. U
Busy drawing, printing, laminating and photographing over here! ⁣ ⁣ I feel confident that at SOME point tomorrow my Mini Beginner Reading Bundle will be up for sale. Here is the Set of 3 Interactive Easy Readers & Objects. I’ll make some st
Working hard on getting that Mini Reading Bundle together!⁣ ⁣ In the meantime, I’m reposting this picture because while I LOVE my classroom, I’m pretty excited about the makeover it’s about to get!⁣ ⁣ This summer a major renovation
Here is the first little sneak peak of my upcoming Mini Reading Bundle (I hope to have it all ready to go by Sunday! Wish me luck!).⁣ ⁣ There are three ways I like to use these “Interactive Easy Readers & Objects.”⁣ ⁣ One: Print, la
Colorado is expecting a big snow storm over the next four days! While I love the opportunity to lounge... it’s been 65 and sunny for awhile now and it’s going to be sad saying goodbye to that!⁣ ⁣ BUT, it’ll give me time to finish up
Here is the Number Tower Template (the old version before I updated it) all completed. Check out my previous post for a bit more info!⁣ ⁣ Find the template in my shop (link in profile) under Math.