What is learning through the senses?
Montessori put great emphasis on the connection between the brain and movement, believing that, the senses and the muscles must all cooperate for learning to take place. This is why our children trace letters of sandpaper with their fingers in order to fix the path of the letter in the child’s muscular memory; count colorful beads to understand how many; build a tower of cubes in varying sizes to understand numbers, ratios and later, factions; sweep, pour, and scrub with child-sized tools, experience music through singing and instruments; create art with paint, chalk, and clay; plant a garden to watch with wonder and pride as it grows. Montessori believed that one should never give more to the brain than to the hand.
