The Inclusive Atrium

This module offers the sequence of presentation to offer children the skills enter into the care of their environment and hand-based expressions like creating prayer card, sewing, and drawn reflections. The isolation of motion used in these skills is designed to help the child to both have dignity in their daily independence but also create inner organization, self-control, refinement of muscles, confidence, and problem-solving skills in small works before being asked to do multi-step, complex real-world applications.

The child has an inner drive to work because it is through work that the child builds his or her very self, while using and developing his or her primary instruments: hand and intelligence. The child works, not so much in order to learn as to become.
Gianna Gobbi in Nurturing the Whole Child page 93

We will discuss what exactly are gross and fine motor skills that the child needs to refine and the purpose behind such “basic” presentations.

The topics of line walking is so core to the Montessori understanding of the refinement of movement, we take two videos to cover this topic.

Videos include topics such as cleaning up a spill, opening and closing, the pouring sequence, the folding sequence, the spooning sequence, whisking works, transferring with tongs, the cutting sequence, washing small objects, hand broom and long broom sweeping (with adaptations), and dusting.

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