Math
This material is concrete and teaches the numbers 1-9 in quantity. It is visual. It features two colors in a pattern. It is a gross motor material
Number Rods
These are underlying skills learned in many practical life activities. The multi-step tasks of handwashing is an example of this.
Hidden Curriculum
The purpose of the materials in the Sensorial area
Refinement of senses through isolation
These early language activities include opportunities to listen, match, and develop vocabulary.
pre- language activities
Spiral curriculum
This material introduces the concept of zero. It includes 1-1 correspondence.
Spindle Boxes
The direction of transferring materials in vessels that prepares the child's mind and hands for reading and writing
left to right
This material allows the child to match through the sense of weight
Baric tablets
This material prepares the child for reading and writing. It is a tactile material
Sandpaper Letters
Study of plants including leaf shapes, parts of the plant, 3 part cards, leaves-roots-fruits, life cycles of plants, and gardening
Botany
This material introduces the next place category after 9. It is part of the golden bead material
Tray of Nines
This material prepares the child for self-care
Dressing Frames
OR
Any other rationale for spooning, handwashing etc
This material invites the child to visually explore and connect to polygons.
Geometry Cabinet
The first language material used for "writing"
Movable Alphabet
Animal Classification, Vertebrates-Invertebrates, parts of puzzles, parts of booklets, definition cards, life cycles, research studies
This material prepares the child for multiplication, skip counting, rote/ linear counting and is a sensorial introduction to polygons.
Short Bead Chains
This is part of any activity that draws the child's attention or interest.
point of interest
This material allows children to experience angles and the triangle as the constructor.
Constructive Triangle Boxes
These consonants and vowels combinations are for advanced reading
phonograms/blends/diagraphs
Globes, puzzle maps, map making, continent folders, flags, land air water, land and water forms and research
Continent Studies
This material place values up to tens of thousands. It is more abstract than the bank game.
Dot Game
The materials in practical life prepare the child in these 4 ways
Concentration
Coordination
Order
Independence
This material is a visual puzzle that prepares for the child for algebraic equations
Trinomial Cube
This language sequence includes the following:
Labeling the environment
Action words
Parts of Speech
grammar such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns
Experiments, study of planets, simple machines, and geology
Physical Science