- Practical Life utilizes the child's need to care for self and for environment.
The activities cover basic skills such as washing, dressing, and pouring. The activities
help a child develop the concentration and work habits necessary for more complex activities.
Eye-hand coordination, fine motor skills, control of the body, and lengthened attention spans
are the indirect goals.
- Sensorial activities guide children to classify sensory impressions.
The sensorial material is didactic and self-correcting, allowing for independent, focused work.
Sensorial activities in the classroom include the broad stair of rectangular prisms, the
pink tower of cubes, the knobbed cylinders, fabric matching, sound boxes, tasting bottles,
smelling bottles, and the geometric solids. Each sensory exploration helps give indirect preparation for math.
- Language activities are used to enlarge child's vocabulary, develop sense of order, communicate
and acquire self-confidence. Specific language materials, such as sandpaper letters and metal insets, are preparation
for writing and reading. We provide a language- rich experience in each area. From teaching simple grace and courtesy
to learning the function of a noun in a sentence, children are surrounded by opportunities to experience language.
- Math materials satisfy the child's curiosity about the nature of numbers and numerical language.
Concepts are sequentially presented with use of concrete materials which become increasingly abstract after a firm
foundation is laid. The spindle boxes, cards and counters, numerical rods, and golden bead material give the early
introduction to numbers, counting, order, place value and decimal quantity.
- Culture includes geography, science, botany, and other studies. The geography materials introduce
continents, countries, and world cultures.
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