Exercise of visual sense

Montessori sensorial activities are those which refine the five senses – tactile, visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory senses. … Whether purchased or handmade, they follow basic Montessori principles. They isolate the quality (for example, the geometric shapes introduced are the same color and only vary in shape).

She is sharing some information about the Montessori Baric Tablets. … The senses are the child’s window to the world; it is through them that he gathers information about his environment. The sensorial materials and presentations help the child make sense of the sensory impressions he is taking.

Stereognostic Sense: The stereognostic sense exercises enable the child to develop concepts by feeling objects and making recognition based. In Montessori education, the stereognostic sense is defined as an ability to identify an object by distinguishing its shape, texture.

The Pink Tower, iconic to the Montessori classroom, embodies the direct and indirect purpose of most Montessori materials. Stacking the cubes calls for visual discrimination, coordination, and precision. Indirectly, a child is preparing himself or herself for understanding cubed roots in later math.

The stereognostic sense is our ability to identify objects based on touch alone (without seeing them). The ones I have seen have typically worked on geometric shapes, having pairs of shapes in a bag. When the activity is presented to the child all the materials are taken out of the bag and examined.

It may be caused by disease of the sensory cortex or posterior columns. People suffering from Alzheimer’s disease show a reduction in stereognosis. Astereognosis can be caused by damage to the posterior association areas of the parietal, temporal, or occipital lobes, or the postcentral gyrus of either hemisphere.

Invite the child by telling him you have something to show him.

bring him over to the cylinder blocks and tell him;”These are cylinder blocks .”

show the chiild how to carry one of the blocks by gripping the blocks on both sides with both hands and carrying it at waist level and parallel to the ground.

Ask the child to carry the block over to the table and show the child where to place it near the median line to the table.

Allow the child sit down to your lft and then u sit down.