Nienhuis Montessori Heutink USA

Biology In the first three years of life, children have absorbed a limitless wealth of impressions, taking in all the elements of the world around them. Among these are a multitude of animals, plants, trees, and flowers – an infinite variety of growing things… It is tremendously important to provide a mass of information to stimulate the children’s interest in nature. A few simple keys will suffice to animate their inherent love of the natural world around them. With this information, this inherent love is transformed into their innate ‘need to know’ and ‘understand it all’. Once again, the child is given the names and the opportunity for sensorial exploration, which is ultimately organized through the Montessori Biology Materials. These materials provide them with the names of the animals and their parts, the basic leaf shapes, parts of the leaves, parts of the plants, parts of the flower and so on to help classify and refine the child’s perception, and in turn, this creates the foundation for scientific knowledge to be acquired in the years to come.

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