Adena Montessori Knobbed Cylinders Blocks for Preschoolers 2-3 Years Old (Primary Color Knobbed Cylinders)

The Montessori Knobbed Cylinders are the very first sensorial material a child works with, designed to support visual discrimination skills. Additionally, these cylinders include work with language development, tactile sense, and even pre-writing skills.

The Montessori Knobbed Cylinders consist of four separate blocks, within each of which a specific set of cylinders fit. Each cylinder has a handle on its top (a knob) with which the child can grasp and transport it. Working with one block at a time to begin, young learners work to place the cylinders into their correct spots, which vary in height, width, or both.

In Montessori, the process begins without language, to isolate the variable of visual discrimination. Teachers will model silently running their fingers along the circumference of each block's base and comparing that with the puzzle hole. After the child can visually sort and arrange by height and width, they are given language to describe the process. In this way, they fully understand the concepts and integrate them into their daily vocabulary going forth.

The Knobbed Cylinder Blocks can help a child develop their visual sense as they recognize different sizes. The toy allows for many uses, as it can be played with one, two, three blocks or all together at the same time, making it more challenging as the cylinders get mixed. The child has fun searching for the right hole that fits the cylinders and discovers the progression that each block unfolds.

Similarly, like other Montessori materials, the Knobbed Cylinders include some hidden benefits. The grasp required to manipulate the cylinders is the same that children will use to hold a pencil. The more children are able to develop this fine motor control before they begin writing, the less frustration they'll experience when they try to form letters.

The Montessori cylinder blocks are amazing materials for developing visual size discrimination. Designed to isolate the relationship between dimension and volume, each cylinder block offers the child ten different cylinders, differing in their relative heights and weights. Some are tall and narrow, some are tall and wide, some are short and narrow, some are short and wide, and most are varying degrees in between.

The child removes each cylinder from its block by grasping its handle with just three fingers, feeling the full weight of each cylinder on the delicate muscles of the hand. Exploring the blocks, using either one, two, three or all four blocks simultaneously, the child is able to internalize the differences in weight caused by different proportions.

These Montessori toys are good for developing children's visual discrimination of size, volume, thickness, and height, improving eye and hand coordination, and enhancing fine motor skills.

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