Jennifer Rogers is emerging as a polished and prolific Montessori writer, and Sacred Second is a testimony to the pen. She explains the three-period lesson and the importance of the child doing the work of the second period that is enriched by experience and exploration. The article is included in this journal simply because practical life has a very short first period of presentation and third period of the demonstration of mastery, but the second period is the heart of doing a practical task, and that is the glorious interlude of independent work of the hand.