1st Plane of Development

First Plane (Birth to Age 6):

“What is That?”

“There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life. He does it in virtue of an unconscious power that exists in childhood… The first period of the child’s life is one of adaptation.”  

~ Dr. Maria Montessori (The Absorbent Mind, page 57)