1. Largely unconscious, to meet an inner need for self-construction; SP for order & mvmt

2. Responsive to a perceived need outside the self, builds and results from social cohesion, with >skills & confidence, will directs child to act; conscious

analyzed movements of social life; give children the social skills to succeed in the Casa.  Orientation & adaptation provided.  Builds confidence, strengthens communication and social cohesion.  Grace takes the dignity and poise w/n oneself and extends to others. 

Supports Core Exec Functions: working memory (past <=>present); cognitive flexibility (adapting past response to current situation); inhibitory control (control of impulses)

3 types: Manners, Classroom Procedures, Conflicts

Highest priority first! Children practice feeling good when treating others well & incarnate it.

No explanation/reasoning

1. Identify behavior to address and when positive behavior does occur (under what circumstances)

2. What do I want children to do?

3. Practice with other adults/children.

4. Gather small group

5. "I'm going to show you what to do when..."

6. Act it out

7. All children practice different roles

8. "Now you know what to do when..."

Ownership of space

Children naturally want to be helpful

Becomes important for older ones as they near 2nd plane and want to care for community

social cohesion strengthened through mixed age group & diff. approaches to C of E; older can teach younger

expression; strengthens discipline/freedom b/c they choose what they make and how it appears

children follow universal dev. progression in visual expression

allow self-teaching, free dev. & dev. of imagination

Cultural extensions: history of art, art in diff. cultures, human experience of art, enrichment of vocab.

Supports normalization

use real objects (real clay vs. playdough)

sensorial exploration

connection to SL through True Stories, Conversations, ? Game

Functional independence

Concentration

Controlled Movement - gross & fine motor

Confidence

Integration

Self-construction

Will

Logical thinking

Memory

Repetition

• Comprehend relationships between things mentally (engage in spatial-temporal thinking)

• Follow rules, practice close observation and solve problems through an orderly process.

PL and Sensorial both help the child practice the skills.

1. Intro to Quantity in isolation- concrete/sensorial experience.

2. Intro to Symbol in isolation

3. Association of Quantity & Symbol

4. Repetition with variations

5. The test - child has ability to generalize concept?

1. New concepts taught sensorially with concrete materials

2. 1 new concept at a time.

3. 3PL for vocab

4. Whole, then the parts

5. scaffolding

6. exploration & discovery encouraged

7. child moves at their own pace, with plenty of time to make their own connections & discoveries

8. we emphasize the fun! games, discovery

1. innate subitizing (understanding 1, 2, 3 as concepts

2. subconscious adding/subtracting small numbers - basic number sense.

3. intuitive understanding of force, vertical orientation, etc. through sensorial exploration.

4. 1-1 correspondence

5. items/symbols to represent quantities

6. concept of zero --> place value system

6. patterns of # manipulation -->operations

1. Numbers 1-10

2. The Decimal System  ||

3. Continuation of Counting  ||

4. Exploration & Memorization of Essential Combinations  ||

5. Passage to Abstraction

6. Fractions

1. Practical Life: logical, orderly thinking, consequences teach cause & effect, concentration & self-discipline, grace & courtesy teaches rules of conduct, experiences of volume, force, equilibrium, etc; concrete experiences prepare for abstractions

2. Sensorial: Matching-->1-1 correspondence; Grading-->numbers in a sequence, something can be less than and greater than at the same time; items part of more than one set; logical & orderly thinking through classification of sensorial experiences & their abstractions; concentration & repetition developed

3. PL & Sensorial: comprehending relationships between things, following rules, practicing close observation, solving problems

4. Language: link between abstractions & symbols, words of conditionality, context changes meaning (4+5 not the same as 4x5); contingency

1. Mathematical exploration serves self-construction desires

2. Supports children's fascination with patterns (HT & SP for order)

3. sensory impressions + movement strengthen abstractions & organize information in the brain

4. relationships before details serve children's need to understand large picture, then dive deeper

5. HTs and SPs are supported in several ways with math activities

6. Peppering AM with positive associations with math build lifelong comfortability and love.

To help the child develop and refine the sensory impressions they have already taken into their Absorbent Minds.

Isolation of a quality allows them to examine from many angles, build a strong abstraction and then manipulate in their imaginations.

Abstraction: helps build strong abstractions through materialized abstractions that highlight a certain quality; the world of the mind must be built through sensory experiences.

Order: children's desire to find patterns is met through sensorial area. Strengthens the mathematical mind.  Sensorial encourages classifications, which allows knowledge to become better organized and ready for recall/manipulation.

Communication: language taught through 3PL after experiential learning; sensorial language teaches comparison & description, exactness in language through superlatives. Language attached to experience assists classification and strengthens abstractions.

 Self-perfection: COE and exactness of materials encourages it.

Visual: the eye (dimension, shape & color)

Auditory: the ear (pitch, volume & timbre)

Touch: skin (texture, temperature, weight); Stereognostic is combo of touch & movement through muscles

Olfactory: the nose (classifications like floral b/c more subjective)

Gustatory: taste buds (sweet, salty, bitter, sour)

Just enough

touchstones

Beautiful

Inviting

Motor activity & movement

Materialized Abstraction

Precise mathematically or otherwise

Isolation

control of error

keys to the world

3 part work cycle

Willingness to work

coordination of movement, especially in the hand-eye fine motor

Concentration

Logical sequence - ability

Abstractions - creation & strengthening

Sensory perception - development & refinement

Classification

Memory development

Exactness & precision - train the brain in this habit