Tag: Sensorial

Toddlers Love Exploring Outdoors—Especially With Their Senses

Posted: April 19, 2019

“The training and sharpening of the senses has the obvious advantage of enlarging the field of perception and of offering an over more solid foundation for intellectual growth. The intellect builds up its store of practical ideas through contact with, and exploration of its environment. Without such concepts the intellect would lack precision and inspiration

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Sweet and Sensorial Treasures Are Found Peeling a Clementine

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: October 29, 2018

“The sensory education which prepares for the accurate perception of all the differential details in the qualities of things, is therefore the foundation of the observation of things and of phenomena which present themselves to our sense;” ~ Maria Montessori, The Advanced Montessori Method Simple as it may seem, peeling a clementine is a rewarding

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The Child’s First and Greatest Teacher: The Hand

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: April 23, 2017

“He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence. “ — Maria Montessori As parents, milestone expectations are common concerns as children grow and develop. Within a relatively short time, helpless newborns gain control of their bodies and movements. Before long,

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