Sensorial

On the Sensorial shelves at The Pelican
Nursery we have specially designed materials
to encourage development of the senses,
such as a tower of pink blocks; sets of
cylinders gradiated in size; cylinders with
knobs which have to be fitted into the right
holes in a block; rough and smooth tablets in
boxes; smelling bottles; fabrics to sort by
touch. Each of these is used to stimulate and
refine one of the ten sensory areas and each
will be presented to the child to be used in an
exact way to aid his development.

Some materials, like the cylinders of the
geometric insets which are held by little knobs
between finger and thumb, prepare the
muscles of the hand for writing, others
prepare the ear for hearing fine differences in
sound (to prepare for, among other things,
distinguishing between letter sounds) by
listening both to silence and to sounds which
are presented as 'noise' with the sound boxes.