Setting up The Prepared Environment in a “pack-away” #Montessori nursery 😅🏃🏻♀️…
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One of the core principles of the Montessori ethos is The Prepared Environment, that is everything that children come to interact with is thought through and carefully placed to draw their attention and stimulate independent learning and exploration. Meticulous planning goes into dividing available space in different learning areas (Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics, and Cultural).
Learning materials are accesible to all children at all times, for ultimately they are the ones deciding which activities to engage with. Children also decide whether they want to work individually, with one another, or join an already formed group. This ability to chose freely encourages free flow between areas, which is another key Montessori principle.
Unity is a pack-away nursery, meaning The Prepared Environment must be set up and then packed away every day. We thought it would be helpful to record this activity so that parents gain a better understanding of the work that goes into it.
“When we say that the children are free in our schools, organization is necessary, an organization more detailed than in other schools, so that the children may be free to work. The child, by carrying out experiments in a prepared environment, perfects himself, but a certain amount of apparatus is then necessary and space is necessary. Once the child has achieved concentration, he continues to be concentrated through many activities, and as he becomes more and more active, the teacher becomes less and less so…” Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
