When the infant enters the Prepared Environment of the Children’s House they do so with accomplishments in Communication, the Mathematical Mind, Sensorial Awareness and Co-ordination. They are able to walk, talk, carry objects and care for themselves, they have absorbed many daily activities which take place in the home. At two and a half the …
All Exercises of Practical Life
Elementary Movements Rolling a mat Putting down a chowki Sitting down and getting up from a chair Moving a large table Putting down and lifting a glass Carrying a sharp or pointed object Screwing and unscrewing bottles Folding napkins along the medial and the diagonal Putting down a rolled Working Mat Picking up …
Walking on the Line
Movement is an integral part of the Montessori classroom, during the child’s time at the Children’s House she experiences both the Sensitive Period for Conscious Co-ordination of Movement (two to four and a half years) and the Refinement of the Senses (two to four years). In this time the muscular and nervous development of the …
The Four Planes of Development
Montessori’s vision for development includes the whole human life, from conception to death, to account for the formation of man she divides the first 24 years of life into 4 planes, after 24 years an individual continues to develop. Once each plane ends the phase preceding it becomes hard to re-imagine and the learning, or …
The Prepared Environment
The Prepared Environment is both a physical space and the intangible properties necessary for an organism to thrive, reach and fulfil it’s physical, spiritual, emotional and psychical potentials. For the human, assuming it’s mother is healthy, the womb provides a perfect prepared environment, where it’s body and senses of movement and hearing can begin developing, …