NAME OF MONTESSORI ACTIVITY | The Montessori Token Posting Activity for Infants |
AREA | Sensorial |
AGE | 1 – 3 Years |
MATERIALS | Large Wooden Coin Box (The box needs to be one that can be opened to retrieve it’s contents)  Work Mat.  |
DIRECT AIM | Developing Motor Skills |
INDIRECT AIM | Gross motor co-ordination, control of movements, concentration, memory. |
PRESENTATION | - Assist the infant to fetch a work mat and place it on the floor.
- Assist the infant to fetch the activity tray from the Montessori Cabinet
- Sit on opposite side of the mat to the infant
- Remove all the wooden tokens from the coin box and place them on the mat next to it. [DAP hasAccessTo=”11,21,22,23″ errMsgTemplate=”LONG”]
- Hold up the coin box in the infant’s natural line of vision and pause momentarily when you have the child’s attention, then place (“post”) a single token into the coin box.
- Now hold the coin box in front of the infant and give them a token so that they can place it in the coin box
- As the infant improves in confidence place the coin box on the work mat in front of the infant so that he can do it unassisted.
- When the infant has ceased to be interested in the activity, assist the infant to place the activity tray back in the Montessori Cabinet
- As the infant progresses over time with this activity, you can assist less and less and [/DAP]eventually he will be able to perform all the tasks above unassisted.
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CONTROL OF ERROR | The tokens do not go into the coin box |
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