Sensorial
Sensorial education helps develop a child’s intellect. Various activities in our classes allow the students to focus and refine their sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch and improve their sensorial discrimination and judgment.
The sensorial activities run from basic to complex. The first lessons present contrasting sensory materials and subsequent lessons introduce graded materials. For example, a first lesson would include identifying and differentiating between the three very distinct primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. Later, the secondary colors, green, purple, and orange are introduced. Finally, the children are presented with various shades which they must learn to grade.
This is but one example of a Sensorial activity that teaches the children to compare and contrast and introduces new descriptive vocabulary, such light, lighter, lightest, and dark, darker, darkest.
Concentration is a by-product of a child working with his or her hands and this is especially evident in our Toddler class. The children are regularly engaged in hands-on experiences that require increasing levels of concentration. Sensorial activities in the Nursery class include learning to distinguish different heights, lengths, and weights, colors, sounds, smells, tastes, shapes, and textures.
In the Preschool level, the sensorial materials cross-over with early math skills and introduce the basis for geometry and the decimal system. All the sensorial materials in this class can be worked with on different levels, depending on a child’s readiness. There is room for both structure and creativity in this area of the class and the children often find joy in sharing their discoveries and accomplishments with their classmates.
