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sensorial
"How can any one paint who cannot grade colors?
How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?" ~Maria Montessori
The Pink Tower
Visual Discrimination
Visual Discrimination
A classic activity in a Montessori preschool classroom is the pink tower. The series of cubes develops visual discrimination of size in three dimensions. Exploration with this material prepares a child for mathematical concepts in the decimal system, geometry, and volume.
Visual Discrimination
Visual Discrimination
Visual Discrimination
Studies prove that the years from three to six are the most critical period for nurturing a child’s natural curiosity and for laying the foundation for all future development. The primary aged child possesses a remarkable ability to experience and absorb the world.
Trinomial Cube
Visual Discrimination
Tactile Discrimination
The trinomial cube is a concrete representation of the algebraic formula (a+b+c)3. The factors of the equation are represented by the cubes and prisms. The primary Montessori child explores the trinomial cube as a sensorial activity of visual discrimination of color and form. This indirect preparation for algebra prepares the child for the elementary Montessori class.
Tactile Discrimination
Auditory Discrimination
Tactile Discrimination
In the tactile sense exercises, the child learns through his sense of touch. “Although the sense of touch is spread throughout the surface of the body, the exercises given to the children are limited to the tips of the fingers, and particularly, to those of the dominant hand,” Maria Montessori. This allows the child to focus on what they
In the tactile sense exercises, the child learns through his sense of touch. “Although the sense of touch is spread throughout the surface of the body, the exercises given to the children are limited to the tips of the fingers, and particularly, to those of the dominant hand,” Maria Montessori. This allows the child to focus on what they feel, through a concentration of a small part of their body.
Sensorial materials offer individual work and repetition opportunities, and allows children to classify their sensorial impressions in an organized orderly, and scientific manner. They have a built in control of error, which is conducive to the habit of working independently, without fear of making mistakes, becoming comfortable in the fact that errors are essential to the process of learning and discovery.
Auditory Discrimination
Auditory Discrimination
Auditory Discrimination
The special importance of the sense of hearing comes from the fact that it is the sense organ connected with speech, therefore, to train the child’s attention to follow sounds and noises which are produced in the environment, to recognize them and to discriminate between them is to prepare their attention to follow more accurately the so
The special importance of the sense of hearing comes from the fact that it is the sense organ connected with speech, therefore, to train the child’s attention to follow sounds and noises which are produced in the environment, to recognize them and to discriminate between them is to prepare their attention to follow more accurately the sounds of articulate language,” M. Montessori.
In the auditory sense exercises, the child discriminates between sounds. In doing these different exercises, the child will refine and become more sensitive to sounds in the environment.