Sensorial
A KEY TO THE ENVIRONMENT
Sensorial materials qualify the exploration and knowledge of the environment through the child’s senses. It is a true cultural form that leads to perfectioning one’s personality, at the same level of language or mathematics. The sensorial materials connect the body and the mind thanks to their innate qualities: the isolation of quality, shade and error control which allows the child to correct itself. “With the sensorial materials we give a guide, a kind of impression classification you can get from each sense: colour, sound, noise, form and dimension, weight, tactile impression, smell and flavour… These qualities could be compared to the alphabet: a few sounds compared to countless words. Giving the qualities separately is like giving an exploration alphabet: that is to say, a key to open the doors of knowledge.” (Maria Montessori, The discovery of the child)
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This material can be used from 24-30 months onwards. It isolates weight quality and can be used blindfolded to refine the ability to recognise the weight of objects only by feeling and weighing, not searching distinctions through sight.
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This material refines the child’s ability to visually distinguish colours and figures. Like other Montessori materials for very small children, this material helps to develop concentration, will, intelligence. The cubes and parallelepipedons in relation between each other give a practical representation of algebraic formulae (a+b), the generic binomial...
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As from the age of three, this material introduces the child to studying plane geometry, showing how many plane figures can be made using only identical triangles. This material is also very useful in primary school, in particular when dyslexic children first start to study geometry. The blue triangles can be supported by nomenclatures, drawings or prints.
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The pink tower gives the child visual education of dimensions, sharpening the ability to distinguish different sizes even if they are very small. As with other Montessori materials for very small children, the pink tower helps to develop concentration, willpower and intelligence. It shapes the logical-mathematical mind and helps to develop a sharper...
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From the age of 24 months the colour tablets give the child a visual education and refines the ability to distinguish different colours. Like other Montessori materials for very small children, this material helps to develop concentration, will, intelligence and sharpens the observation of the environment. Moreover, it develops the esthetical and artistic...
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From the age of 24 months the colour tablets give the child a visual education and refines the ability to distinguish different colours. Like other Montessori materials for very small children, this material helps to develop concentration, will, intelligence and sharpens the observation of the environment. Moreover, it develops the esthetical and artistic...
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This box is used from the age of 3 years onwards.The colour tablets give the child a visual education and refines the ability to distinguish different colours. Like other Montessori materials for very small children, this material helps to develop concentration, will, intelligence and sharpens the observation of the environment. Moreover, it develops the...
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Placing the tokens in the bowls is a very gratifying activity which educates at recognising and distinguishing the colours and chromatic differences. Like for many other Montessori materials used by very small children it helps to develop concentration, willpower, intelligence and a sharper observation of the surrounding. It also gradually enrichens the...
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As from the age of 2 years this material refines the tactile and visual discriminatory ability, Like other Montessori materials for very small children, this material helps to develop concentration, will, intelligence and sharpens the observation of the environment. Working with definitions it gradually enriches the small child’s vocabulary.
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From the age of 4 years the working with this material the child will learn that all plane geometrical figures can be constructed from triangles. It allows to evaluate the length of the sides and the angles by simply putting more elements one on top of the other. This material is also very useful in primary school, in particular when dyslexic children...
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This material encourages the freedom of choice and concentration. It sharpens the visual perception by educating the sense of sight related to the length as well as the ability to distinguish differences. Moreover, it develops the ability of seriation and gives the child important keys to its environment, expressed on various levels, including the...
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This material can be used from three years onward and allows the child to gradually experiment the knowledge of the basic geometric figures through free composition. Further on it is used to discover the geometric relationship between different and similar figures.
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This material can be used from three years onwards and develops the sensorial knowledge of plane geometry which will be deepened in the following years. It develops the visual and tactile knowledge of the geometric figures that can be observed consciously in the surrounding area. The sensorial experimentation with straight lines and curves, together with...
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This material can be introduced when the child has become acquainted with the cylinder blocks and colour tablets, starting from the yellow cylinders and proceeding to the red,blue and at last green ones. As other sensorial materials the coloured cylinders sharpen many abilities: gross and fine motoric skills, eye-hand coordination, visual perception...
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The cubes are used to calculate and compare the volumes of the cubes of the pink tower.
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Working with this material refines the auditory capacity up to developing the ability to recognise the sound characteristics of objects even without looking at them (you can do this blindfolded). Like other Montessori materials for very small children, this material helps to develop concentration, will, intelligence and sharpens the observation of the...
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Block 1 can be used from the age of 18 months until at least 6 years. It facilitates freedom of choice and concentration. Moreover it is designed to sharpen various abilities: gross and fine motoric skills, eye-hand coordination, visual perception through the education of sight with reference to dimension (this block presents the idea of big/small and the...
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Block 2, to be used after block 1, facilitates freedom of choice and concentration, gross and fine motoric skills, eye-hand coordination, visual perception through the education of sight with reference to dimension (this block presents the idea of thin/thick and the related gradations). It also develops the seriation ability and offers the child important...
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Block 3, to be used from 24-26 months of age onwards, facilitates freedom of choice and concentration, gross and fine motoric skills, eye-hand coordination, visual perception through the education of sight with reference to dimension (this block presents the idea of short/tall and the related gradations). It also develops the seriation ability and offers...
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Block 4 is the last one to be used from 30 months of age onwards because it introduces more complex work with elements of inversely proportional dimensions. It, facilitates freedom of choice and concentration, gross and fine motoric skills, eye-hand coordination, visual perception through the education of sight with reference to dimension (this block...
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This material can be used from three years onwards and develops the sensorial knowledge of plane geometry which will be deepened in the following years. The cards show the outlines of the geometric figures in three levels of difficult. The cards are used once the child is confident with the insets. The work strengthens the visual knowledge of the...
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Working with this material refines the child's ability to visually discriminate between color and shape and, like other Montessori materials used by very young children, this work helps develop concentration, willpower, and intelligence. Cubes and parallelepipeds, placed in relation to each other, give a practical representation of the algebraic formula...
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The pink tower gives the child visual education of dimensions, sharpening the ability to distinguish different sizes even if they are very small. As with other Montessori materials for very small children, the pink tower help to develop concentration, willpower and intelligence. It shapes the logical-mathematical mind and helps to develop a sharper...
