Sensorial
The Sensorial curriculum refines the child’s ability to observe and discriminate using each of the senses: hearing, touch, taste, smell, and vision. Each activity isolates a single dimension. One material has gradations of rough and smooth. Another material challenges the child to find the matching sounds. Children enjoy the opportunity to observe, compare, and notice similarities and differences.
The Sensorial materials also introduce a variety of geometric shapes and solids. Children learn the accurate vocabulary: trapezoid, hexagon, ellipsoid, etc. They learn to name and recognize various shapes, and identify items in the environment that have that shape. There are many materials that introduce triangles, and the nomenclature of obtuse, acute, scalene, equilateral, etc. Using the well-designed materials, the child can explore each of these geometric shapes, providing a foundation for later work in geometry.
