The Work Period, or: How Can Cutting with Scissors Teach Counting?

Parents are often curious about our work period at Joyful Garden. What do the children do? And how do they learn anything from the materials in the environment? When grownups come to visit, the children often abandon their usual work to interact with the visitor, so it can be hard to get a true idea of how our time for working unfolds.

Here are some videos from recent work periods.

Changing shoes, cooperatively:

Working with materials:

And practicing counting, and naming family members, via cutting materials.

Have a wonderful Spring Break!