Sustained, child-driven and directed work can occur in many areas; however, 🙌🏻Practical Life's real work affords the most stimulation both physically and mentally. Children ❤️love to do the work they see the adults do.…
We are continuing our Practical Life 🙌 Activities 101 🎥 Series 🎇 with 💦WET pouring, but this time it is pouring 1:2, where a child will pour from one spouted pitcher into two non-spouted…
This is a lesson on WET pouring 1 : 1, where a child will pour water from one spouted pitcher to the other and back. (Identical to our DRY Spout 1:1 pouring lesson- see…
This is the second lesson on DRY Pouring from our Practical Life 🙌 Activities 101 🎥 Series 🎇. The first lesson was 1:1 pouring: where a child pours from one spouted pitcher to the other, keeping…
Practical Life 🙌 activities provide the foundation for all other activities in Montessori education, fulfilling a child's plea: "Help me do it myself!" Through daily living exercises, such as pouring, a child gains confidence and…
Fundamental skills such as pouring, spooning, and tonging follow a sequential order where ideally each lesson builds upon the last one. Thus, spooning, while being one of the first Practical Life activities a toddler would do starting…
"Montessori Practical Life is more than the wonderful feeling of doing real work, of being helpful to others, this work also sharpens valuable mental skills including planning, organization, task initiation, working memory, self-regulation, flexibility, goal-directed persistence,…