Material Description: Eight small receptacles, preferably thermos flasks or bottles in jackets, containing water at various temperatures: Two should be at body temperature, marked with a pink dot Two should be ten degrees Celsius warmer Two should be ten degrees Celsius cooler Two should be twenty degrees Celsius cooler Note: The bottles should …
The Colour Tablets
Material Description: Box 1: A box containing six tablets made of lightweight wood, one pair of each of the primary colours, red, blue and yellow Box 2: A box containing twenty-two tablets, one of each pair of the primary colours (red, blue and yellow) the secondary colours (orange, purple and green) the tertiary colours (pink, …
Tasting Bottles
Material Description: Eight little jars with droppers, with pairs of bottles containing various substances with distinct tastes; two contain saline solution, two sweetened lemon juice, two plain lemon juice and two a solution of bitter aloes. Each set is distinguished from the other by a colour coded top. Four small glasses and two spoons, a …
Stereognostic Materials
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 …