Montessori Academy

" The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises...The sense exercises constitute a species of auto-education, which, if these exercises be many times repeated, leads to a perfecting of the child's psycho sensory processes."

-Maria Montessori

The Sensorial Area of the classroom is designed to heighten the child's senses by isolating each sense and exploring it to the fullest. This helps the child with observation, comparison, judgement, reasoning, and decision-making skills needed for later academic areas. The Practical Life Area is the foundation of the Montessori experience and the Sensorial Area is the heart. The Sensorial Area helps a student to order his sensory impressions and the senses are the keys to knowledge.

The Sensorial Lessons consist of:

Auditory Learning sound Visual Learning color size shape gradation Tactile Learning texture weight temperature

Learning Through Smell (Olfactory) ability to distinguish between and match scents Learning Through Taste (Gustatory) ability to distinguish between salty, sweet, sour