## **Summary Chapter 02 - 1914 - Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook** ### **Short Summary** Motor education in Montessori philosophy aims to guide and order a child's movements, rather than suppress them. It focuses on developing coordination and purposeful actions through various activities such as everyday movements, personal care, household management, gardening, manual work, gymnastics, and rhythmic movements.  ### **Facts** * 🏃 Motor education aims to give "order" to a child's movements and direct them towards useful actions. * 🧒 The primary areas of motor education include everyday movements (walking, rising, sitting, handling objects), personal care, household management, gardening, manual work, gymnastic exercises, and rhythmic movements. * 👕 Dressing and undressing are initial steps in the care of the person. Frames with attached pieces of stuff are used to teach buttoning, hooking, and tying. * 🎥 Cinematograph films can demonstrate lessons in tying bows and other movements, but children often learn from each other through patient observation and imitation. * 🍽️ Children are taught various movements related to setting the table, such as sitting, rising, taking up and laying down objects, and offering them gracefully to others. * 🏠 Household duties like housework, serving at the table, and washing dishes are shared among the children, fostering a sense of responsibility and mutual aid. * 🌱 Gardening and manual work, such as clay work, allow children to engage with plants, animals, and construction, developing their care and skills. * 🤸‍♀️ Gymnastic exercises include walking on lines drawn on the floor to improve balance, with music accompanying the rhythmic movements. * 🎶 Music plays a role in enhancing rhythmic exercises, and children may eventually sing while engaging in their daily work with didactic materials. * 🪜 A practical piece of apparatus called the "fence" strengthens children's arms as they hang from it, and it can also be used as a divider in a garden. \#MotorEducation \#LearningThroughActivities \#ChildDevelopment \#PurposefulMovements \#SelfCare \#HouseholdManagement \#Gardening \#ManualWork \#GymnasticExercises \#RhythmicMovements > ##### **The license of this page:** > > This page is part of the “**Montessori Restoration and Translation Project**”. > > Please [support](https://ko-fi.com/montessori) our “**All-Inclusive Montessori Education for All 0-100+ Worldwide**” initiative. We create open, free, and affordable resources available for everybody interested in Montessori Education. We transform people and environments to be authentic Montessori worldwide. Thank You! > > [](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) > > **License:** This work with all its restoration edits and translations is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). > > Check out the **Page History** of each wiki page in the right column to learn more about all contributors and edits, restorations, and translations done on this page. > > [Contributions](https://mariamontessori.xyz/s/montessorix/wiki/page/view?title=Contribute+to+Montessori+X) and [Sponsors](https://mariamontessori.xyz/s/montessorix/wiki/page/view?title=Support+Montessori+X) are welcome and very appreciated! > > ### The book itself is protected under **The Project Gutenberg License** > > [https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html](https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html) > > To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase “Project Gutenberg”), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Gutenberg-tm License available with this file or online at [www.gutenberg.org/license](https://www.gutenberg.org/license) > > **This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away, or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at [www.gutenberg.org](http://www.gutenberg.org/). If you are not located in the United States, you’ll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.** > > Read this book on … > > **[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/)** > > * [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29635](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29635) > > **[Archive.org](http://archive.org/)** > > * [https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisow01montgoog/](https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisow01montgoog/) > * [https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisown01mont/](https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisown01mont/) > * [https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisown00mont](https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisown00mont) > * [https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisown29635gut](https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisown29635gut) > > **[Guides.co](https://guides.co/)** > > * [https://guides.co/g/montessori-handbook/31826](https://guides.co/g/montessori-handbook/31826) * [Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/English "Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook") - English Restoration - [Archive.Org](https://archive.org/details/drmontessorisown01mont/page/n5/mode/2up "Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook on Archive.Org") - [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29635 "Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook on Project Gutenberg") * [0 - Chapter Index - Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook - Restoration](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/0+-+Chapter+Index+-+Dr.+Montessori%27s+Own+Handbook+-+Restoration) * [Chapter 00 – Dedication, Acknowledgements, Preface](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+00+%E2%80%93+Dedication%2C+Acknowledgements%2C+Preface) * [Chapter 01 - Introduction - Children's House - The Method](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+01+-+Introduction+-+Children%27s+House+-+The+Method) * [Chapter 02 - Motor Education](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+02+-+Motor+Education) * [Chapter 03 - Sensory Education](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+03+-+Sensory+Education) * [Chapter 04 - Language and Knowledge of the World](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+04+-+Language+and+Knowledge+of+the+World) * [Chapter 05 - The Reading of Music](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+05+-+The+Reading+of+Music) * [Chapter 06 - Arithmetic](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+06+-+Arithmetic) * [Chapter 07 - Moral Factors](https://montessori-international.com/s/montessoris-own-handbook/wiki/Chapter+07+-+Moral+Factors)