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Posted: April 25 2008 at 12:27pm | IP Logged Quote hopalenik
OK, so what do I do when my 3 1/2 yo is using the cylinder blocks as choo trains the and cylinders as people. The please the materials for their intended purpose only isn't working. Of course, the older 3 joined in and then I had a choo, a car, a bus, and one plane....Do you ignore it or do you stop it?

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Posted: April 25 2008 at 2:31pm | IP Logged Quote happymama
Well, that's up to you. :)

But in a Montessori school, that "type" of activity would very quickly be stopped, and the child re-directed to a different type of activity. The cylinders would be re-presented at a later date.

Btw, can your child do them correctly yet? Has he been introduced to them one at a time? And if he can do them individually, have you shown him how to combine sets yet?

If he's "misusing" something, it's probably a sign that he's not ready yet, or way past them. Or insatiably curious about trains. :) Does he have other "train toys" somewhere else in the house to play with? In our house, we strictly forbid "toys for playing" from the classroom.

Good luck!
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Posted: April 25 2008 at 5:08pm | IP Logged Quote Mackfam
Holly,
When my kids start mis-using materials I remove them from the room. I have a closet under our stairs and I rotate materials off the shelves in the learning room and into the closet - out of the closet and onto the shelves. It keeps materials fresh. I know this isn't strict Montessori. In Montessori schools materials are left out all year after they are presented, but I'm not trying to duplicate a school in the home so we adapt to the reality that most materials at some point will end up being a bomb/torpedo/sword/train if my children become bored.

I do emphasize like you that these materials are for our work, not for play.

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