The Montessori Token Posting Lesson Activity for Infants Age 1 to 3 Years

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

1. Assist the infant to fetch a work mat and place it on the floor.
2. Assist the infant to fetch the activity tray from the Montessori Cabinet
3. Sit on opposite side of the mat to the infant
4. 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”]
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. When the infant has ceased to be interested in the activity, assist the infant to place the activity tray back in the Montessori Cabinet
9. 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.

CONTROL OF ERROR

The tokens do not go into the coin box

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