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Sensorial

          Sensorial experiences begin at birth. We as adults have to evoke the senses in the child and help the child acquire clean, conscious information that can be used to make classifications in his environment. Through his senses, the child studies the environment. Through this study, the child then begins to understand his environment. The child, to Montessori, is a “sensorial explorer”. Training the senses is most important in education (Discover of the Child).

       

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 The sensorial materials aim to educate and refine the senses: visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, thermic, baric, stereognostic, and chromatic. It assists the child in developing his intelligence, which depends on organizing and categorizing his sense perceptions into a mental order (Montessori a Modern Approach by Paula Polk Lillard). Sensorial Materials were designed by Montessori to cover every quality that can be perceived by the senses, such as shape, size, composition, texture, loudness or softness, matching, weight, temperature, etc.