Montessori environment's areas

The areas of a Montessori environment

 

Practical life

The young child has a special interest in the area of ​​practical life because through their materials such as preparing juice, peeling and cutting banana, polishing shoes, sweeping, grace and courtesy, etc. he learns to self-care which helps him enormously with the development of a healthy self-esteem and self-worth. In addition, practical life materials help him to develop indirectly the physical and cognitive skills necessary for the entire teaching-learning process. For example, he develop the fine motor, hand eye coordination, pencil grip , order, concentration, coordination and independence, these last four being the pillars of all the materials of a Montessori environment, since they are cognitive abilities that are not only necessary in childhood but in the whole life of the human being since it will put them into practice both in the formal academic learning of school and university and in the learning of the skills of daily life.

Purposes of Practical Life exercises

• Provide a strong motivation of activities and habits to work.

• They give an opportunity to exercise the movements of the body developing the thin and thick muscles.

• Develops the control of the nervous and muscular systems (senso-motor development)

• Provides the child with work and a purpose according to their development.

• Develop systematic habits with security and without hesitation until achieving attention, concentration, coordination and independence.

• Teach the care of the environment.

• Develop independence.

• Helps to acquire hygiene habits.

• Provide therapy for psychic deviations.

• Provide the means to develop a social behavior, soft and docile.

• Provide means for socialization.

• Develop the ability to observe.

• Develop memory.

• Develop making decisions together.

• To Help to achieve self-control and discipline until obedience.