Paradigm Educational Center

Puzzles offer so many developmental benefits such as independence, spatial awareness, confidence through self-correcting mechanisms, improving fine motor skills, increasing concentration, and helps develop problem solving skills.

Montessori classrooms have puzzles in them starting at the infant age. It’s a great social, emotional, and cognitive building piece of work and is essential for learning, in all areas of the classroom!

Water work has been very popular with the toddlers this week. There are so many benefits of scrubbing an elephant such as pouring (water from pitcher to bowl), handwriting (going in a circular motion), and completing a process of steps from start to finish. Scooping fish from a bowl of water helps the child with pouring, scooping, hand eye coordination and completing a process of steps as well.