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Importance of Sensorial Exercises:
The importance and aim of Sensorial exercises are for the child to acquire clear, Montessori Life Montessori Life
conscious, information and to be able to then make classifications in his environment. It Style Style
is believed that sensorial experiences began at birth. Through his senses, the child . Search
studies his environment. Through this study, the child then begins to understand his
environment. The child is a “sensorial explorer”. Through work with the sensorial
materials, the child is given the keys to classifying the things around him, which leads to
the child making his own experiences in his environment. Through the classification, the
child is also offered the first steps in organizing his intelligence, which then leads to his
adapting to his environment.
Different Grouping in Senses:
Sensorial Exercises were planned to cover every quality that can be apparent by the
senses such as size, shape, composition, texture, loudness or softness, matching, weight,
temperature, etc. Because the Exercises cover such a wide range of senses, Montessori
categorized the Exercises into eight different groups:
1. Visual Sense 2. Tactile Sense 3. Baric Sense 4. Thermic Sense
Visual Sense: In this exercise child learns how to visually discriminate differences
between similar objects and differing objects.
Tactile Sense: In this exercise child learns through his sense of touch. “Although the
sense of touch is spread throughout the surface of the body, the Exercises given to the
children are limited to the tips of the fingers, and particularly, to those of the right hand.”
This allows the child to really concentrate on what he is feeling, through a concentration
of a small part of his body.
Baric Sense: In this exercise child learns to feel the difference of pressure or weight of
different objects. This sense is sharp through the use of a blindfold or of closing your
eyes
Thermic Sense: In this exercise child works to enhance his sense of temperature.
Auditory Sense: In this exercise child differentiate between different sounds. In doing
these different exercises, the child will enhance and make him more sensitive to the
sounds in his environment.
Olfactory Sense: In this exercise child is given a basic to his smelling sense. Although
not all smells given to the child in these exercises, the child does work to differentiate
one smell from another.
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Gustatory Sense: In this exercise child is given a basic to his tasting sense. Although
not all tastes are given to the child in these exercises, the child does work to differentiate
one taste from another. He can then take these senses, and apply them to other tastes in
his environment.
Stereognostic Sense: In this exercise child learns to feel objects and make recognitions
based on what he feels. “When the hand and arm are moved about an object, an
impression of movement is added to that touch. Such an impression is attributed to a
special, sixth sense, which is called a muscular sense, and which permits many
impressions to be stored in a “muscular memory”, which recalls movements that have
been made”.
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