Primary School

Primary School
Whatever is presented to our children must be beautiful and clear.-Dr. Maria Montessori

Friday, December 27, 2013

Practical life exercises-2


I have few more practical life exercise  materials  which playgroup enjoy.  I rotate the exercise materials  and the place too because the playgroup  get easily bored and try hands on every exercise. Sometimes I see many  trays out from the self. They are learning  to use one exercise  at a time.  Playgroups are enrolled year round  so whenever there is a new child we  have the materials mixed up.
Most of the time they work separately but they sit and observe when I introduce a new exercise.

For rolling and unrolling
 I have two types of mat one thick and quite easy to roll and other thin for fine rolling. They  also use these  mats for different exercises. 

Thick mat
Thin mat
Basket for keeping mats
Opening and closing bottles.
Only four or five bottles were not enough to keep them busy so I made eight. They have many questions while doing this exercise like"Where did you get this bottle?" ,"What do you put in it?","Whose is it?", "Where is the lid?" One child who did not find the exact  lid said  its the ghost who took it. Listening to them is a great fun.


Dressing Frames
The dressing frame stand is a bit high for the playgroup and little inconvenient because frames fall while they try to take one out. The wooden pegs for holding the frames are not  strong so the stand is actually a show piece now.   I  keep only three frames on the shelf out of twelve. The stand is in the older children's room.

Lacing
I have extra materials for lacing,





Bead stringing
 I  have plastic and wooden  beads of  different shapes. Children prefer the plastic ones which are  easy to
string. The wooden beads are not smooth from inside so stringing requires little more force. Few trays  have  strings tied on each side so that two children can string together. Sometimes they tell us to make garland.



Wooden beads

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