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Exercise of Practical Life Activities
Exercise of Practical Life Activities
The Children’s House Practical Life Exercises recontextualise the social and manual knowledge of the home and the workshop into routinised activity sequences designed to develop conscious and voluntary control of attention and movement.
These exercises are also designed to be the foundation for the social and physical independence which underpins the liberty of a child.
Sensorial
Sensorial
Sensorial materials are designed for children of 2 ½ or 3 to 6 years to identify and classify information, which they receive from the environment by using and therefore sharpening their senses. With sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. They discover characteristics of these materials, learn to classify, and eventually name the characteristics in their environment. Being aware of and naming the basic dimensions of life is the child's key to environment they live in.
Language
Language
When the child arrives in the Montessori classroom finds great freedom to speak, by this time child has fully absorbed his culture's language. He has already constructed the spoken language and with his entry into the classroom, he will begin to consolidate the spoken language and begin to explore the written forms of language.
Arithmetic
Arithmetic
In Montessori environments grading activities in Sensorial offer opportunities for qualitative analysis of quantities, Shapes and dimensions is offered before arithmetic.
Mere Sensorial appreciation no longer satisfies the child at one point of time in life. Around 3 ½ years when he needs to know the exact accurate value and wants clarity, there is a change in behaviour of the child at the way he looks at things. Child becomes conscious and now starts working with knowledge and now want exact outputs. This is called “Awakening of the mathematical mind”. Which implies that something that is dormant is awakened and needs expression. At this point of time, child needs the tools to work with so that he can gain knowledge in the field of Arithmetic.
Culture
Culture
The Montessori environment gives the child sufficient Provision, Stimulation and Protection to allow the child to be in touch with nature.
The child comes to know about the subjects of Language, Mathematics, ‘The World of Plants’ ( Botany), ‘The World of Animals’ (Zoology), ‘The world of Man’ (Anthropology and History), The Visual Arts, Music and ‘The World Itself’ (Human and Physical Geography), ‘The Exercises of Practical Life and the Sensorial Activities are an introduction to Science, in that they show material properties such as the volume of water and the colour spectrum. These ‘subjects’ are not taught in isolation, but holistically, linked together, from the largest level to the smallest detail.
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