Montessori Mornings

The child becomes a person through work.
-Maria Montessori

Emmie is at such a fun age right now. For the past few days we've set aside some "work time" in the morning for Montessori activities. I put together some works and she has been having a ball! I'm amazed at the level of concentration such little ones have when they are given a task they can be successful with.

These are just some of the works Emmie's been doing:

Button Drop

Spoon Transfer

Pouring

Clothes Pinning

I love how pleased she is with herself at the end - it makes me smile.

Other quotes from Maria Montessori that I love:
“Whoever touches the life of the child, touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs towards the infinite future.”

“There is in a child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life” (Montessori, 1967, 62).


p.s. Before work time Emmie had spilled her breakfast all over herself...hence no shirt...and hey what the heck...If I were a toddler I think I would like to run around with only skivvies on! What freedom! I figure she should enjoy it while she can!