The Senses
What sense don't we highlight in the casa?
Pain
Name two aims of the sensorial materials
Become conscious of the physical properties of the world
Classify and categorize their sensorial perceptions
Refine the child’s power of discrimination
Develop the child’s capacity for intelligence
Assisting in the child’s journey to abstraction
Assist in accurate recall
To help the child develop operational understanding of the world
To support the mathematical mind
Name the four general principles of the sensorial area
Name the ten senses
olfactory, gustatory, tactile, visual, baric, thermic, auditory, stereognostic, pain, kinesthetic
touch boards, sound cylinders, stereognostic bags
Name a limitation to the materials
Only one set of materials and, we only give the keys
What activities highlight the tactile sense
touch tablets, touch boards, fabrics
Name a material that supports the mathematical mind.
binomial and trinomial cubes, cylinder blocks, red rods, decanomial square
What three things do sensorial materials isolate
They isolate a property, quality, or sense
What are the the four areas of the visual sense
dimension, shape, color, and mixed impressions
How do the sensorial materials help the child become conscious of the physical properties of the world
Wherever you go in the world, the properties are the same – things may differ from culture to culture, but they all have smells, sizes, and shapes. The sensorial materials give the children context to what they’ll experience and see in the world.
Give an example of a sequence of materials that go from whole to parts in the sensorial area
First we present the sandpaper globe, then the painted globe, then the world puzzle map, then the continent puzzle map and eventually the country puzzle map, and control maps.
Why are the sensorial aspects of the world materials in the sensorial area of the casa?
We experience culture through our senses, and they materials take an abstract idea and make it concrete for the child.
With sensorial materials we are enlarging the child's field of perception and they put an abstract idea into a concrete material
Give an example of how a sensorial material offers a materialized abstraction and why is this important for the child in the first plane?
The binomial and trinomial cubes give a materialized abstraction of an algebraic equation
The sandpaper globe helps the child realize the relationship between areas of land and water
This is important because children are in a sensory motor period of development and need to use their senses to gain understanding and knowledge of abstract concepts