Excercise Groups

Sensorial exercise were designed by Montessori to cover every quality that can be perceived by the sensessuch as size ,shape,composition texture,loudness or softness ,matching ,weight ,temperature,etc. Because the exercises cover such a wide range of senses ,Montessori categorized the Exercise  into nine different groups ,visual,Chromatic Tactile , Baric Thermic Auditory Olfactory Gustatory and Stereognostic.

Visual Sense

         In the Visual Senses Exercise the child learns how to visually discriminate differences between similar objects and differing objects.

The visual senses is interpreted by the eyes .it is what you can see .Exercises develop this sense by  requining the eye to perceive difference in size ,form and color

Size materials include the

.Pink tower

.Brown Prisms

.Red rods

.Knobbed and Knobless Cylinders which are graded by size.

.Materials teaching from include the geometric solids and the geometric cabinet.

Chromatic Sense

     Montessori isolated the chromatic sense with her colour tablet activities .children first distinguish between primary colour then secondary and finally the various gradations of each.

The Stereognostic or Tactile-Muscular sense

   In the stereognostic sense exercise the child learns to feel objects and make recognitions based on what he feels.Montessori recognized that while the eye can preceive differences in size and form .the understanding is heightened when the hand is also engaged.

Tactile Sense

Thermic Sense

Baric Sense

Auditory Sense

Olfactory Sense

Gustatory Sense