{"id":359,"date":"2022-03-04T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childrentodaymontessori.com\/blog\/?page_id=359"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:44:22","slug":"work-rug-in-a-montessori-classroom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/childrentodaymontessori.com\/blog\/work-rug-in-a-montessori-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Rug in a Montessori Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>March 2022\n

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\u201cWhat the schools need is more liberty, not such a contraption as a desk.\u201d \u2013 The Discovery of the Child by Maria Montessori.<\/p>\n

Maria Montessori believed in children sitting on the floor while working with their materials. She strongly felt that children had more freedom of movement when they worked on the floor. But she did not want the children to place the materials on the floor, so she came up with the concept of a work rug.<\/p>\n

Work rugs are an integral part of a Montessori Classroom. The work rugs are usually either 24\u00d736 inches or 28\u00d742 inches in size. They are available in a tub at all times for the child to use. When a child starts his\/her work, they will unroll the rug on the floor and then get their materials. Unrolling the rug signifies the start of a lesson, and rolling the rug back means the official end of the activity. This process is also a big part of a child becoming Normalized.<\/p>\n

Rolling and unrolling a rug or even using a rug to work may seem very trivial to us, but according to Maria Montessori, the benefits are many.<\/p>\n