Sensorial

Sensorial materials serve as an aid to refining the senses. Montessori called these materials, “the keys to the world.” They each represent a universal truth about the physical world - the idea of sweetness, brightness, roughness - giving the child a greater connection and understanding of their world. 

The materials in this area are particularly beautiful, inviting the children to look at them closely with their eyes, touch them with their fingers, wonder how they work, and discover what they can do with them. Materials respond to a child’s inclination to classify and the materials lead the child to finer distinctions, becoming very precise in orderly concepts. From these concrete materials, children are then aided in the process of abstracting.

Numerous beautiful materials such as the pink tower, binomial cube and color tables, and geometric solids guide children as they explore their:

• Visual Sense:
  

• • Discrimination of length, width, height, color,
  • Geometric figures and solids
  • Geometry and algebra concepts with triangles and cubes

• Tactile Sense: Weight, temperature, textures with various tablets and fabrics.
• Gustatory and Olfactory Senses: Matching activities through tasting and smelling jars.
• Auditory Sense: Matching, grading, and developing pitch with the bells.
• Stereognostic Sense: The work of identifying objects through touch alone using the geometric solids, and sorting activities.