Activities of Every Day Life
Montessori was a great believer in indirect preparation. By this, we mean that she found clever ways in which children can learn how to do things without even realising that that is what they are doing. For example, she created sets of metal insets that children use for drawing but that actually help form the fine motor skills for subsequent writing.
Many of the practical life and sensorial exercises were designed with this in mind. When the child is ready, we begin to teach the phonetic sounds of the letters; then we move on to word building and recognition, and then book reading. She found that writing comes as part of the child’s natural desire to express his or her new knowledge and nearly always precedes reading. One of the most wonderful times for children and teachers is when the children share the excitement of finding that they can put their thoughts down on paper and there is a subsequent explosion into emergent writing.
Activities to Develop Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Pouring
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Transferring
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Activities that Enable a Child to Look After Themself
These activities are designed to encourage and enable the child to be more self-sufficient and independent. They involve the use of fine and gross motor skills and are generally presented on a one to one basis.
Dressing Frames
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Care of Self
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Activities for Care of the Environment
These activities encourage children to develop skills, which help maintain the environment around them - for example at home or in the setting. They can be introduced as activities or through a spontaneous presentation when the need for any of them comes up.
Sweeping Using a Dustpan and Brush
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Setting the Table
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Grace and Courtesy
Grace and Courtesy within a Montessori environment and during meal times is generally introduced by teachers modelling the behaviours during the day/when the opportunity presents itself. Each setting will have its own policies and procedures when dealing with the following variants, however these are general methods that can be used as guidance.
Greeting
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Interrupting
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