Practical Life activities are intended to help the child adapt to his environment. He learns to button, snap, and tie, to shine shoes, sweep, dust, organize, sort and more. He also learns the forms of good manners in our culture, such as shaking hands, closing doors quietly, and not interrupting. The activities within the classroom are designed in a sequence of steps through which the child comes to realize order and logic in activity. Attention, concentration, carefulness, and independence originate with this work.

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