Montessori Sensorial Area | Ages 3 to 6

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Sensorial education is one of the axes of the Montessori method, which takes advantage of children’s interest in exploration and the ease of perceiving details, between three and six years of age.

“The education of the senses should be begun methodically in infancy and should continue during the entire period of instruction which is to prepare the individual for life in society.”

Maria Montessori

Beyond stimulating the different sensorial channels, the materials designed by Dr Montessori offer the possibility of organising information and favouring cognitive development through classification and serialisation.

The characteristics of these materials that stand out are the self-correction and the introduction of the child to abstract concepts through concrete experiences.

The work in this area prepares children for further learning related to Mathematics and Geometry and develops some necessary skills for reading and writing, in the words of Dr Montessori:

“Sensorial development precedes that of a higher intellectual activity”.

The education of the senses in Montessori pedagogy

• The importance of sensorial education.
• The 3- to 6-year-old child characteristics and the sensorial material.
• The senses and the Mathematical Mind bases.

Sensorial material fundamentals.

• General purposes of the area.
• Characteristics of the materials.
• The Three Period Lesson.
• Work levels.

Groups of exercises

• Sense of sight.
  • Discrimination of dimensions.
  • Color discrimination.
  • Discrimination of forms.
• Stereognostic sense.
• Sense of touch.
• Sense of hearing.
• Sense of taste.
• Sense of smell

Examples of representative materials for each group.