PRACTICAL LIFE

Care of the Environment

DRIED ROSE PETALS TWEEZING

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MATERIALS: 1. A tray to hold the work.

2. A glass pewter with inlaid decorated metal lid.

3. A small leaf-like shaped tray.

4. A pair of tweezers with looped handles.

5. Dried rose petals.

6. One dried violet.

PREPARATION: 1. Handling breakable objects.

2. Baric discrimination.

3. Using tweezers.

PRESENTATION: 1. Invite the child.

2. Take the work to the table.

3. Place your fingers on the metal lid of the pewter and feel it using a circular movement,

then a more ample movement to feel the inlaid metal decoration.

4. Carefully remove the lid with two hands and place it slowly aside.

5. Grasp the tweezers with your hand by slipping your thumb and middle finger through the looped

handles. Place your index on the upper arm of the tweezers.

6. Lift up in the air your hand holding the tweezers and open and close them watching

your movement.

7. Practice slowly the handling of the tweezers first in the air..

8. Tweeze one rose petal and gracefully deposit in the small tray.

9. Repeat the tweezing for each petal, one at a time.

10. When you find the violet pause in wonder. Language.

11. Continue the tweezing until the pewter is empty.

12. The dried rose petals are now forming a pile in the small tray.

13. Put the tweezers aside and stop to smell the dried rose petals. Language.

14. Invite the child to smell the rose petals.

15. Start tweezing the rose petals gracefully and place them one by one back in the pewter.

16. Now the small tray is empty. Place the tweezers on the tray.

17. Carefully lift the lid of the pewter with two hands and place slowly on the pewter.

18. Invite the child to do the work.

DIRECT AIM: 1. Concentration.

2. Coordination. (Small muscle movement)

3. Independence.

4. Order.

INDIRECT AIM: 1. Tweezing delicate real life objects( petals, cotton balls, stamps, insects)

POINTS OF INTEREST:

1. Pewter with inlaid decorated metal lid.

2. The dried flowers frangrance.

3. The violet.

4. The tweezers.

CONTROL OF ERROR: 1. The petals fallen on the tray, mat, table.

LANGUAGE: 1. Pewter.

2. Rose petals.

3. Dried rose petals.

4. Violet.

5. Metal.

6. Glass.

7. Gracefully.

8. They smell so good/ Such a nice scent.

AGE: 4 and up.

NOTE: This project has been presented by Elena Malec to a Montessori preschool class in California, in 1993.