What are The five basic senses?
• Visual: most of adults primarily are visual learners. They need to see things demonstrated. Montessori categorized even further. She broke the visual sense down into separate sections. They are dimension (size of the object), color/chromatic (awareness of color), and form (awareness of shapes). • Auditory: as adults we are bombarded by sound. We tune out many sounds to function. Therefore, there are some sounds that we do not even hear. For example, body sound, slosh, pop, and limited frequencies. The young child is a set of gigantic ears. He hears everything. He is not organized enough to tune our sounds, therefore, we need to use limited language with him. We need to cut out excessive verbiage. Children in early age are very sensitive to tones, therefore, it is a good time for them to learn music. • Tactile: children learn from touching the objective. Children’s skin is so sensitive that the blind can even feel subtle air currents. According to Dr. Montessori, tactile was broken in
