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21st Century Froebel

Welcome to the 21st Century Froebel blog!
I welcome your responses to these thoughts on art, math, learning, and Froebel. 

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"You may give them your love,
but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
Kahlil Gibran
On Children

Infinite Simplicity​

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I love working with 100% of an element. With the cubes and tablets, using 100% is original to Froebel.  It is a design constraint that feels so calming to me. Over time,  I've come to see a correlation between Froebel's rule of using all the available parts and the modern Montessori emotional-education tag-line, "including everyone in the community".

This is 100% of the 1" black sticks - just enough to fit in the palm of the hand.



Logical and mathematical thinking developed slowly in the human race. The Conservation Test is an assessment which demonstrates some of the steps children take in moving from perceptual judgement of quantity to mathematical thinking.

Do a Version, then an Analysis

5/19/2017

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Let preschool children create pictures with the blocks, and then make another version to be a "documentation". As soon as the child is old enough, it should draw or paint a version of what it built. Equally important, as the student collects pieces to put away, it is natural and inviting to count the blocks, and begin to consider them logically and mathematically.

April Showers, my piece below, could be tallied by different colors, and by different shapes of blocks, for a simple math activity.  Tallied amounts could also be added together to give the total number of blocks used.

Building on a grid, such as the gingham cloth I've used, helps with precision in building, and then in drawing a version. Don't insist that referring to the grid be part of the child's process of building. Let the student become interested in greater precision gradually and on their own. Truly, the blocks themselves direct the builder toward being more exact - you won't need to say much about this.

​To refer to the grid when drawing is a high-level skill - save it for (way) down the road. Some students (of all ages) can be very critical of their art: if necessary, be clear with the child that drawing isn't expected to be identical to the block construction. Different mediums produce different results.

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