The unity of the material of the senses is the bridge that helps the child to get to know the world around him with his senses. It is the child’s way of learning. Along with the unity of culture is the heart of order.
It consists of :
- activities related to the sense of sight, in terms of size (cylinders with slots, pink tower, brown ladder,…), in terms of color (color plates) and in terms of shape (geometric cabinet, construction triangles, binomial cube,…)
- activities related to the sense of touch (rough and smooth plates, boxes with fabrics, weight plates, heat plates,…)
- activities related to the sense of smell (bottles and olfactory bags)
- activities related to the sense of taste (the taste bottles)
- activities related to the sense of hearing (sound boxes, musical bells) and
- activities related to the stereocognitive sense (the mystery bag, the stereocognitive bags,…)
The material of the senses creates the child’s chest of experiences. Having acquired the clear separation of the properties of each thing and the vocabulary to describe it, the child quickly turns to the environment in search of these properties.
Characterized :
- from the isolation of the property, (only one characteristic is presented at a time, e.g. similar bottles, which differ only in terms of their taste content)
- from error checking
- from accuracy to vocabulary and
- from extensions to the use of the material
The child through the activities of the material of the senses, learns :
- to discover
- to explain
- to match
- to compose
It is the reflection of the world through concrete and limited material, the first language of the child’s environment. It is together with the material of culture the beginning of imagination.
Grows :