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GOOD MANNERS AND RESPECTFUL COMMUNICATION

POSSIBILITIES FOR MODELLED “GRACE AND COURTESY” SKITS:• Greeting a friend, visitor, guest, teacher, someone

you don’t know• What to say when someone gives you something• How to ask for help and how to offer help• How to tell someone, “I like you”• Knowing when to say “Thank you”• What to say when someone says, “Thank you”• What to say when someone leaves or when you are

leaving• How to ask someone to move away from your

activity • What to do when you want to talk to someone• How to invite someone to have a conversation or to

end a conversation• What to do when you have to sneeze or cough• How to blow your nose • How to offer someone a tissue• How to ask for a hug or offer a hug

COMMON PROCEDURES• How to move in the room (walking peacefully)• How to walk around a rug (shelf, table, etc.)• How to walk around a person• What to do if someone is in your way• How to find an available rug space • How to indicate that you are coming back to a table • How to choose an activity• How to observe someone’s work• Demonstrating what it looks like when someone is

working, concentrating or not available• How to get someone’s attention• How to get the teacher’s attention• How to sit in a group• How to join a group

CONFLICT RESOLUTION• What to say if someone calls you a name that you don’t

like• What to say if someone hurts you (3 part message -2

versions)• How to agree to disagree• What to say/do if someone hurts your feelings

(you’re not my friend anymore; I’m not going to invite you to my birthday party, etc.)

• What to say/do if someone threatens you• How to resolve a conflict - peacefully ending in a

handshake

5 YEARS: Incorporate older children as leaders of skits

OUTCOME: The creation of inner discipline and adopt positive, pro-social behavior

COORDINATION OF THE WHOLE BODY• Carrying a tray (with 1,2,3 etc. objects on it)• Moving a chair (correctly into place, without

making a sound, across the room, etc.)• Rolling and unrolling a work rug• Carrying a pitcher of water across the room• Getting water away from the sink• Emptying a bucket of water• Incrementally challenging• Walking on the line » with natural steps » to a drumbeat, tambourine, etc. for signals » to various rhythms (marching, galloping, or

running on line to music)• Equilibrium / Balance » heel-to-toe (with arms at side, arms in various

positions). » heel-to-toe (with various objects)

PRACTICING THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN MOVEMENT AND STILLNESS

• Command Games: “Touch your nose”, “look at the door”, etc.)

• Distance Games: Rug to rug work (involving moving through the room)

REFINING CONTROL OF MOVEMENT FOR STILLNESSOffered through short periods of listening to...rain, sounds, etc., yoga, “shaking the sillies out”, etc.

• The Silence Game (creating perfect silence and stillness)

COORDINATION OF THE HANDExamples:

• Folding cloths• Cutting with scissors• Stringing beads• Sponging• Opening and closing containers• Pouring (grains, water)

FURTHER EXERCISES WITH PRECISE MOVEMENTS TO BUILD EYE-HAND COORDINATION

• Use of a dropper• Moving grains with tweezers

OUTCOME: Control and coordination of one’s body in space

PERSONAL CARE AND HYGIENE• Using the toilet• Hand-washing• Nose blowing• Face cleaning• Foot washing

PERSONAL POSSESSIONS• Taking shoes and socks off and on• Hanging up coat• Putting away lunch box/fetching lunchbox

PERSONAL FOOD / FOOD FOR SELF• Getting a glass of water in the classroom• Serving oneself a snack in the classroom• Using utensils at snack and lunch time• Cleaning plate, bowl, etc.

DRESSING FRAMES • Snap• Large Button• Velcro• Buckle• Zipper• Bow• Shoelace

SEWING• A button• Embroidery• Further projects such as weaving or knitting

OUTCOME: Functional independence.

CLEANING• Dusting (a table, shelf)• Washing a table• Cleaning the leaves of a plant• Washing a window• Cleaning a table mat• Washing a chalkboard• Sweeping• Mopping• Washing cloths• Further exercises specific to one’s indoor and outdoor

environment

ENHANCING ONE’S ENVIRONMENT AESTHETICALLY• Polishing: glass, wood, brass, etc. • Ironing• Arranging flowers• Straightening materials, objects in classroom

FOOD PREPARATION (intended to be served to others in the environment)

• Slicing a banana• Juicing oranges• Coring apples• Serving water• Baking (bread, kneading dough, etc.) • Grinding spices or grains, grating cheese

GARDENING• Watering• Planting• Harvesting• Composting• Fertilizing• Tilling• Weeding

OUTCOME: Social Harmony.

© 2010 Grand Lake Montessori, Oakland, CA www.grandlakemontessori.com

“ Without movement there is no progress and no mental health...scientific observation shows that intelligence is developed through movement; experiments in all parts of the world have confirmed that movement helps psychic development, and that development in turn expresses itself in further movement, so there is a cycle, which must be completed, because mind and movement belong to the same unity.”

“ Man’s legs are our natural means of transport. Our legs carry us to the places where we can do our work, but our work we do with our hands.”

- Maria Montessori

3-5 Years