Stereognostic Bag Material Description: A box or bag with twenty-four small prisms of two types; twelve identical cubes and twelve identical rectangular prisms. A blindfold. Presentation: Introduction Bring the bag to the table or chowki and take out one of either prism. Inspect it closely; it’s faces, vertices and vertices with …
Sound Boxes
Material Description: Two boxes each containing six cylinders: one set red, one set blue. Each cylinder has a small quantity of beads (or other materials) inside. The typeof the material inside the boxes varies with each pair; when they are shaken a different sound is created. The sounds must be graded from loud to …
Smelling Bottles or Boxes
Material Description: Pairs of bottles containing various substances with distinct odours, such as spices, herbs and essential oils. There are four sets with three pairs of bottles in each, the first pair contain contrasting smells – one each from the fields of cooking (e.g. herbs and spices), medicine (e.g. tiger balm, Salon, Vics, Dettol, eucalyptus …
Small Insets
Material Description: Ten square green frames each containing red squares or triangles formed by dividing a square vertically, horizontally and diagonally. Each shape has a central knob to hold the inset by. On the first shelf are the horizontally and vertically divided insets; The first is a ‘whole’ square The second a …
History
World of Man (History) Like Geography, this is a point of departure for language and to add variety and further Sensorial experience. History shows how life was lived at different times, while Geography shows life in different regions. We present facts through artefacts and language. The transformation from Geography to History is accomplished through the …
Art and Handicraft – making and appreicating
Art and Handicraft In the Children’s House creating is a preparation, as the child develops her understanding and language she seeks to express herself if given the necessary freedom. Mental and manual abilities prepare the child for art and craft alongside language, giving her the ability to create. “Art” is understood to be the human …
Knobless Cylinders
This is one of the last sensorial materials to be presented since it is not specifically to discriminate dimensions but a way to discover the relationships between cylinders of the four series Material Description: Four boxes each containing a set of cylinders with the dimensions of the four cylinder blocks. Each set is a specific …
Graded Geometrical Figures
Material Description: Three boxes each with three compartments; Three sets of equilateral triangles in red, blue and orange, graded with sides measuring from one to ten centimetres Three sets of squares in red, blue and orange, graded with sides measuring from one to ten centimetres Three sets of circles in red, blue and orange, graded …
Using Sensorial Materials to develop language
What are the File Drawings? We compile set of Botany file drawings as a reference for ourselves, to help produce Materials Leaf Folder Classifying Cards Folders Booklets Teacher trainees have a reference book with pictures, terms and the type of numbering to use. Nomenclature Cards enlarge the child’s Scientific vocabulary which is attractive to …
Notes on using Geometry materials
Geometry The experiences with Geometry are similar to other Sensorial Extensions, aiming to introduce children to different areas of the classroom. The purpose of Geometry in the Children’s House is to allow the Absorbent Mind to gain Experiential and Sensorial exposure to each element and for this to be retained in the Mneme before …