Pulpitos / little octopus (24 months to 35 months)

"Like the octopus in the sea... I learn to explore for myself!"

Toddlers Community serves children who walk comfortably . The environment adjusts to the physical needs of the children, both in the size of the furniture and in the opportunities for motor development. The toddler community is carefully prepared to help the toddler achieve independence and reach his or her full potential. The freedom experienced in this carefully prepared environment gives children the opportunity to discover and follow their own interests, and to be inspired by everything they touch, see and feel. Children in this age group have a strong drive and desire to do what they see adults doing. The sense of pride that children feel when they learn to take care of themselves and their environment is something truly beautiful. Hearing a child proclaim, "I did it!" is one of the best feelings a Montessori guide or parent can experience. 

The Montessori classroom for toddlers will be made up primarily of Practical Life materials and cultural lessons are usually included in the language portion of the classroom; this would include learning about the weather, calendar, and basic names of objects in the classroom and in nature.

The hands-on living area includes the materials needed to prepare and serve a snack, set and clean the table, sweep, care for plants and animals, wash dishes, do laundry, polish, wash hands, clean windows, flower arrangements, etc.......
The language area includes actual concrete objects, language nomenclature cards such as body parts, family members, pets, neighborhood, school, and home components, books that are fiction and poetry, spoken vocabulary enrichment exercises, and other activities that include art and music experiences.

We need to make the world accessible to the child "Montessori" embodied the world in the prepared environment of the Children's House and allowed freedom for the child's human tendencies to become operative within this environment. He realized that the world was color, size, dimension, and shape; it was the sound, the taste, the touch, the perfume; It was carpeted with grass, trees, and flowers; It was decorated with insects, butterflies and birds; It was walked by animals, large and small; it was watered by rain and snow, by rivers and lakes; It was the sun and the moon, night and day, and the stars. And this world was inhabited by beings like the child, who had made a life to be lived, as he had to live his life, from the first moment of his creation on earth."

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M. Stephenson