- Mixed age classroom (3-6 year old)
- Three-hour uninterrupted work period,
- Materials and activities are designed to support self-directed activities and learning
- Absorbent mind phase — child learns almost reflexively through interactions with environment.
- Mixed age classroom ( 6- 12 year olds; sometimes split 6-9 and 9-12, sometimes 6 years in one classroom
- Three-hour uninterrupted work periods, Work primarily in small groups on projects
- Age of moral and social orientation,
- Studies are integrated across discipline
- Reasoning mind – learning now involves the child’s consciousness, developing imagination and abstraction.