Sensor 19. Color Box No. 3

Shu-Chen Yen's On-Line Montessori Albums

SENSORIAL-MOTOR ALBUM

19. COLOR BOX NO. 3

MATERIAL:

A box with nine divisions, each containing a different color in tablets of seven different shades of that color. The colors are: red, blue, yellow, purple, orange, green, gray, dusty rose, brown.

PRESENTATION:

1. Bring the color box to the rug.

2. Choose one set of tablets and put them on the rug.

3. Tell the child that what you are going to do.

4. Find the darkest one and put it on the top right of the rug.

5. Find the darker one and put it next to the previous one.

6. Continue doing the same action to the rest of tablets.

7. Hold the lightest one and trace from the darkest to the second lightest tablet, then put it on the bottom of the line.

8. Ask the child which color he like to do and take them out from the box.

9. Ask the child which one is the darkest one and find it, then set it on the top right of the rug.

10. You leave and let the child do it.

POINT OF INTEREST:

The moment at which the last tablet is placed and the gradation of color is seen.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

Visual disharmony.

DIRECT AIM:

Visual discrimination of color; gradation of shades.

INDIRECT AIM:

Preparation for art.

AGE:

4 years.

LANGUAGE:

Dark, light, darker, lighter, darkest, lightest; names of the colors.