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Practical Life Exercises are the foundation of the Montessori environment, provide asane and wholesome range of activities which allow the children to develop control and coordination of movement, awareness of their environment, orderly thought patterns, independent work habits,responsibility, and many other characteristics which can only be attained through
Pouring Exercises Dry Pouring Wet Pouring
When presented to the children, they are shown how to do pouring without spilling the contents of the vessels. Mind-hand coordination is developed as the children exert their efforts to pour in the same manner presented by the teacher. Thus,all their focus and attention, their entire body concentrates to complete “pour without spilling”.
This procedure promotes what Montessori calls “integration of the mind and the body” which is the primary foundation for the child’s “development of will”. The child discovers that he can conduct his bodily movements through the direction of his will. When translated to a life skill, this gives the child confidence in facing challenging activities realizing that he can practically accomplish any task as long as he wills it.
Washing Hands Exercise The Washing Hands Exercise is only one of the many “Care of the Self” exercises of the Practical Life Area. In doing these exercises,children are able to integrate and practice a variety of skills while gaining a better understanding of the importance of sequence in completing a task. Since the completeion of this activity requires aseries of related steps, children learn to improve on their focus on the task and increase their attention span to see the task through its completion.
Sensorial Materials allow for individual
work and repetition, and allows children to clasify their sensorial impressions in an organized, orderly, and scientific manner. They have abuilt in control of error, which builds in the child the habit of working independently, without fear of making mistakes, becoming comfortable in the fact that errors are essential to the process of
Pink Tower This series of cubes develops visual discrimination of size in three dimensions. Exploration with this material prepares the child for mathematical concepts in the decimal system, geometry and
Thermic Tablets When touched, each of the Thermic Tablets has a different sense of temperature. The pairs of tablets are used to cultivate the ability to discriminate thermic qualities.
Geometric Solids The Geometric Solids introduce the child to solid geometry. The set contains one each of the following solids: Cylinder, cube, ellipsoid, cone, sphere, square-based pyramid, triangular-based pyramid, ovoid, rectangular prism and triangular prism.
Trinomial Cube The Trinomial Cube is aconcrete representation of the algebraic formula (a+b+c) 3 . The factors of the equation are represented by the cubes and prisms. The primary Montessori child explores the Trinomial cube as a sensorial activity of visual discrimination of color and form. This indirect preparation for algebra prepares the child for the elementary Montessori
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