PRACTICAL LIFE

The first learning materials that the child is likely to encounter in the Montessori classroom are those that make up the Montessori practical life curriculum. The young child enters the Children’s House which reflects an extension of home with some of the same kinds of activities which are typically human.
Practical Life Activities strengthen and develop a characteristically human foundation to the personality, of co-ordination of movement (unity of thought, will, action). They are most important to the whole development of the child.
These are activities that involve pouring different materials, using utensils such as scissors, tongs and tweezers, cleaning and polishing, preparing snacks, laying the table and washing dishes, arranging flowers, gardening, doing up and undoing clothes fastenings, and so on.
Their aims, in addition to developing the child’s skills for independent living (“Help me to do it by myself”), are to build up the child’s gross and fine motor control and eye-hand co-ordination, to introduce them to the cycle of selecting, initiating, completing and tidying up an activity, and to introduce the rules for functioning in the social setting of the Montessori classroom.

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Watering Plants Activity

The set includes: small watering can, porcelain dish, natural sponge and basket.

Watering can measures 3" overall; 3" high.

SKU

1.20.06

Price

$23.40

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Match and Sort

The whole set contains 60 objects, 12 sturdy sorting cups, washable canvas mat, storage containers, organizing basket, and Teaching Notes. You have 3 different sets:

Set 1: Younger children (3+) will be absorbed by the task of matching the objects to the bold silhouettes on the sturdy canvas mat.

Set 2 and Set 3: Older children (4+) can sort, classify, and graph the objects using 12 sorting cups

SKU

1.23

Price

$55.80

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Category Sorting

Children build classification, language, and thinking skills as they sort these 50 realistic objects into 10 categories: animals, people, toys, food, things to wear, baby items, vehicles, tools, musical instruments, and eating utensils.

Includes sorting tubs, sturdy plastic basket, detailed Teaching Notes, and storage containers.

SKU

1.24

Price

$55.80

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Size Sort

Here is a wonderful collection of 30 charming objects, each in three sizes, with three felt sorting mats, plus labels that are the same width as each mat. Children sort the objects and place them on the appropriate mats to practice size discrimination, then match labels to the mats to associate printed words with size terminology. Extensive Teaching Notes focus on key sorting and language concepts, and help with different ability levels. Includes storage basket and laminated word cards.

SKU

1.25

Price

$55.80

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Super Sort

This outstanding assortment for counting and sorting contains:

150 different, colorful, highly detailed miniature animals, vehicles, and food items, many of them in two sizes.

19 illustrated classifying picture cards showing: big, little, fruit, vegetables, living, non-living, wild animals, domestic animals, animals, insects & bugs, sea life, food, cars, airplanes, vehicles, boats, land, air, and sea.

19 matching word cards to help introduce new vocabulary and create more advanced language and classifying activities.

10 vinyl sorting rings to create the venn diagrams.

4 sturdy, two-sided sorting mats with two, three, four or five columns on each side.

Vinyl numbers 1-10.

Storage containers with lids.

Teaching notes.

SKU

1.26

Price

$170.10