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Exercises of Practical life | |
Children in a Montessori House of Children are given the opportunity to develop important life skills which will allow them greater freedom in the classroom. They learn to manage their own clothes using dressing frames to practice buttons, laces and bows. They are also shown how to care for their environment, using child-sized brushes and dusters. |
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Developing practical skills like pouring water from a jug into glasses, folding napkins, and social skills with others, help them feel capable, self-reliant members of the community. |
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Sensorial | |
the young child learns more through the senses than with the intelligence. A range of materials are made available and presented to the children to help them classify their sensorial impressions of dimensions, shapes, colours, touch, taste and sound. These early sensorial impressions boost children's powers of observation and discrimination, broaden their vocabulary and contribute to their later understanding of formal educational concepts. |
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Language | |
Language materials are based on a structured phonic approach to writing and reading. First, they are presented with activities for enrichment of vocabulary and sound recognition. Then, they are presented with sandpaper letters and the children learn sensorial by tracing sandpaper letters with their fingers while they say the sounds. Soon they are writing simple words with moveable letters, matching words with objects/pictures and with all the preparations done, they explode into writing. In a Montessori environment, children first explode into writing before they start reading. |
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Mathematics | |
Montessori materials, like the number rods, golden beads and spindle boxes, are simple and interesting and provide step-by-step learning. Which means that children can see at a glance if they have made a mistake and can put it right without an adult's help. |
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Others - Geography, History, Botany, Zoology, Art | |
Children use globes, puzzle maps and flags for activities which build their understanding of other regions, countries, cultures and people. Children also learn to match, classify and name the elements and species of the natural world using picture and name cards. |
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