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The Geography Materials
The child, coming into the children's house (also known as Casa de
Babini), is interested in language, facts, sensorial exploration, and profoundly so,
his universe. With the geography materials, the child is given the facts of his physical world - that it is a sphere, that this sphere is composed of land masses and bodies of water, that these have different forms and that these forms have names. |
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| Then the facts that the land masses are called continents, and that the bodies of water are called oceans. And, again, that the oceans and continents have names. |
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| The child at this age is also in a sensitive period for order, and the geography
materials provide him with the opportunity for exploring the many levels of order
established as we perceived and classified our earth over the ages, organizing it into
countries, provinces, states, each with their own particular shapes, their intriguing names, their capitals and their flags. |
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the Time |
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The
Botany Materials
Again, the child is given names and the
opportunity for sensorial exploration, which acquires meaning by becoming organized through the Montessori botany materials. |
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| Nature
Studies |
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| These provide basic leaf shapes. parts of the leaves, parts of the plant, parts of the
flowers, and so help to classify and refine the child's
perception. |
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Parts
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Biology
It
enriches the purely sensorial experience thereby creating the foundation for scientific knowledge to be acquired in the years to come. |
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Human Body |
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