During the summer holiday Defne (5.5 year old) had a great time working with the brown stairs and pink tower extensions.
If you are not familiar with them, the pink tower and the brown stairs are sensorial materials. The pink tower is used to teach the child the concepts of big and small through senses. The brown stairs are used to teach the concepts of thick and thin. These two materials can be used together. I downloaded a few from the web and printed them for Defne but the child can also use the materials to create his/her own extensions. In fact Defne started doing just that once she was inspired by the printed versions.
These activities
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If you are not familiar with them, the pink tower and the brown stairs are sensorial materials. The pink tower is used to teach the child the concepts of big and small through senses. The brown stairs are used to teach the concepts of thick and thin. These two materials can be used together. I downloaded a few from the web and printed them for Defne but the child can also use the materials to create his/her own extensions. In fact Defne started doing just that once she was inspired by the printed versions.
These activities
- help the child's visual perception in judging sizes.
- develop coordination and fine motor skills.
- prepare the child for mathematics and geometry indrectly by teaching them sequencing,patterning and comparison
- develop language.
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Love the colour choice for your building blocks :-)
ReplyDeleteI so love the Sensorial extensions! Great photos! I pinned it to our Montessori Moms Pinterest board, feel free to post your own Montessori blog posts to the board each week to keep the board fresh and to keep traffic going to your blog!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful way to work with patterns and sequencing.
ReplyDeleteWonderful extensions, Isil! I added your post link to my Sensorial Size Extensions post at http://livingmontessorinow.com/2011/09/05/montessori-monday-sensorial-size-extensions/.
ReplyDeleteThese sound like such a great way to learn these concepts.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find the downloads for these extensions? I am always on the look out for great extensions to keep my students interested in the brown stairs and pink tower.
ReplyDeleteThey are great too, thanks again for linking up. x
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