Sensory Sorting

Providing rich sensory experiences is important for scientific inquiry, differentiating materials and developing verbal reasoning. Sensory sorting helps children to organise their world using all senses while also working on careful discrimination. Sorting is a beginning maths skill; children understand what is alike and different and that things can be organised into certain groups. By sorting using Gator Grabber tweezers, we are developing your child’s pincer grasp (the grasp between their forefinger and thumb) and fine motor skills.

Verbalising & Visualising

Visualising and verbalising is a strategy created by Nanci Bell, an expert in the treatment of language and literacy disorders. It teaches children comprehension and language processing to build pictures in their minds as they listen, and later, as they read. Creating mental images when reading can greatly assist comprehension. Proficient readers create visual images while they read.

Visualisation also helps with remembering things. Once children have seen an image, it makes it a lot easier for them to recall it later. Further, when they draw it, it becomes ingrained in their minds.

There are three steps to visualising:

1. Imagining. Close your eyes and think about what I am saying. Think about colours, shapes, sizes, characters, where it is happening, and what the characters are doing.
2. Visualising. Draw what you saw in your head when you imagined the words.
3. Verbalising. Explain (or answer questions about) what you imagined and visualised from the words I said.

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