SENSORIAL

The Sensorial area in Montessori allows children to explore the world through their senses, engaging with materials that help them understand size, texture, color, weight, sound, and smell. These activities encourage individual work and repetition, as children refine their sensory perceptions and build a deeper understanding of the world around them. Sensorial experiences not only foster curiosity and attention to detail but also lay the foundation for later math and language skills, as children begin to categorize, compare, and describe their observations. This hands-on exploration promotes both cognitive and sensory development, preparing children for more abstract learning. Sensorial activities are the developmental activities that we provide in the House of Children, performing which the child will become conscious of the physical properties of matter in isolation. The means of development are called sensorial materials.

The senses are the part of our central nervous system. They help in establishing relationship with the environment. They are receiving centres of information.Each senses has its own memory. On this sensorial memory depends the child's intellectual memory. Intelligence cannot go out and gather information for planning any work.The information is brought by  child's sense.The senses act as an agent for exploring and collecting information from the environment. In “The Journey” we are focusing alot on sensory experiences for the children.

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1) Visual sense - This is the sense of sight. The sense organ is eyes.

2) Acoustic sense - This is the sense of hearing. The sense organ is ears.

3) Tactile sense - This is the sense of touch. The sense organ is the skin all over the body.

4) Olfactory sense - This is the sense of smell. The sense organ is nose.

5) Gustatory sense - This is the sense of taste. The sense organ is tongue.

6) Thermic sense - This is the sense of temperature(hot or cold). The sense organ is nose.

7) Kinesthetic sense - This sense is also called the muscle sense. This registers the movements of the body.

8) Baric sense - This is the sense of weight. Generally we take things in our hands and move them up and down to feel the weight.

9) Stereognostic sense - This sense has a combination of tactile and muscular sense.