Introductions to new and continuing students involves learning how to carry the various materials and child sized furniture in the learning environment.
Students use three finger grip to squeeze clothes pin onto an edge of a basket, metal cup, or string. This exercise helps develop concept of open/close, and also strengthens hand eye coordination. This activity indirectly helps prepare the child for holding a pencil, and writing exercises. An extension to this activity is connecting fabric leaves or pieces of cloth to a string or firm edge of basket.
The Color Tablets consists of three boxes, each focused on a progressively more complicated series of matching and gradation exercises designed to help students differentiate color.
The constructive triangles consists of 5 boxes which allow students to explore the early fundamentals of geometry. Each box explores the construction of geometric shapes composed of various triangles, which students are taught to identify and create to assist in the exploration of plan geometry.
Exercises that care for the environment like crumbing help to connect students to their classroom. This connection is essential as it creates a personal interest resembling responsibility for the care and maintenance of their surroundings. This leads to students cleaning up the spills of their lunch and food activities, as well as a general awareness of others and respect for their activities.
The Dressing Frames are a series of materials designed to teach children how to operate the various fasteners on their clothing. This set consists of 9 different exercises, each focusing on the practice of each fastener individually.
Language and vocabulary enrichment begin when the child first enters the classroom at the age of 2.5. From the beginning, the exact terminology is given for all objects in the environment.
Often it is difficult to put ourselves in the mind of our students since most of us are so familiar with the world and all of its intricacies. As the sense of touch develops, it almost becomes second nature for students to ignore the many fabrics that form a part of their daily activities. By taking this for granted, students miss out and often limit their descriptions of textiles by settling with soft or scratchy. This activity is an opportunity to connect with materials that the student encounters quite often, and can be a very effective way to demonstrate the concept of texture in a familiar way.
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