Montessori Sensorial Materials
Materials designed to develop and refine the child's senses through isolation of specific sensory qualities
Purpose & Overview
Sensorial materials help children develop their senses by isolating specific qualities such as size, weight, texture, color, sound, and shape. These materials lay the foundation for future learning in mathematics, language, and cultural subjects.
Key Benefits
Developmental Areas
- •Visual perception
- •Auditory discrimination
- •Tactile awareness
- •Spatial relationships
Cognitive Skills
- •Classification
- •Comparison
- •Order and sequence
- •Problem-solving
Core Materials
Visual Sense
Dimension Materials
- • Pink Tower
- • Brown Stairs
- • Red Rods
- • Knobbed Cylinders
Color & Form
- • Color Tablets
- • Geometric Cabinet
- • Constructive Triangles
- • Geometric Solids
Other Senses
Auditory
- • Sound Cylinders
- • Bells
- • Tone Bars
Tactile
- • Touch Boards
- • Touch Tablets
- • Fabric Box
Other
- • Thermic Tablets
- • Baric Tablets
- • Smelling Bottles
Presentation Guidelines
Basic Principles
- • Three-period lesson
- • Isolation of difficulty
- • Control of error
- • Individual presentation
Sequence
- • Simple to complex
- • Concrete to abstract
- • Known to unknown
- • Progressive challenge
Extensions & Activities
Material Extensions
- • Combined exercises
- • Group activities
- • Memory games
- • Creative applications
Integration
- • Language development
- • Mathematical concepts
- • Art activities
- • Cultural connections