Montessori Materials – Sound Games – Medial Vowel Identification
We play many different sound games to help students hear and identify sounds in words, a necessary first step in learning to read. Typically children will first identify the first consonant in a word, then the final, then the medial vowel. As Maria Montessori observed that young children love to play with small items, we […]
Montessori Materials – Sensorial Area – Cylinder Blocks
One of the first items introduced in the Sensorial Area are the four cylinder blocks, each containing ten knobbed cylinders of various dimensions. The purpose of the cylinder blocks is to develop visual discrimination of height and diameter. The students are first introduced to cylinder block 1, which decreases in both height and diameter. After […]