Hello everyone,
I am curious as what age you began using sensory tubs and also which expert recommends this method?
any more information you want to offer please do.
ps. I am soon to be mother so I am trying to prepare a learning plan.
In case anyone was wondering, I think the sensory tubs comes from the Montessori philosophy. I will try to introduce this with my new born but we’ll have to see.
Thanks everyone
Hi,
If you are looking for detailed Montessori activities you can find them in this highly recommended book “Montessori from the start”
There is also Michael Olaf’s free downloadable catalogue : " The Joyful Child"
You can also check out my blog posts about Montessori and other activities for every month here;
http://babyalbab.blogspot.com/search/label/Activities%20by%20age
HTH!
It does especially the blog you posted. Thanks
Glad it’s useful. Posts detailing activities for the following months will be published very soon isA.
In that case, I will save it to my favorites. I have one question, if I am not mistaken I think I read on there that you plan to teach your baby Italian, chinese and a third language that I am forgetting at the moment; my question is how fluent or proficent are you in those other languages or do you only plan to teach these languages as enrichment or further stimulation? I only ask because I know some basic arabic and spanish but I not fluent or proficent in any of them and we really don’t speak those languages in my home. So, I don’t know how this will help my child if I am not speaking the other languages daily or even often.
I have tried variations of ‘sensory tubs’ with my son from about 12m but found it difficult to prepare things that were safe for a baby to put in their mouth. I gave his first ‘proper’ tub this summer and he loved it and seemed to ‘get’ the idea so much better. Before he would look at the things but not spend any time really playing with them, now he will spend ages sifting through the exciting bits and bobs in his tub.
Thanks. yeah, I 'll keep that in mind. I haven’t actually figure out how to really introduce the sensory tubs with him but I 'll keep what you said in mind. Thanks again.
I gave my child his first sensory tub when he was about 10 months. I should preface by saying that my son did NOT put things in his mouth the way most babies do. It had very large items: a cool, smooth, shiny scoop (like you’d find at a bulk store), a crinkly piece of paper (like between chocolate layers), a long, thick, satiny rope, a little woven bowl made of ??? something organic, a shiny red spatula (which became his “take with me everywhere - even to the formal Christmas gatherings toy”), a whisk, a large cork…pretty much anything that I could find while I walked around my kitchen. I also had some things that he could bang together to make sounds.
I really wish I would have stuck with it though. I only did a few of them and then peetered out. Now he’s 3.5 and I’ve reintroduced them preschool style - they’re on the themes we’re studying and have teeny tiny things in them.
I think sensory bins are wonderful! Especially if you use them as a treat and take them away from your child before they’re done playing - you’ll get more mileage out of the work it takes to make them! Carissa at http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/ and Mari-Ann at http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com/ have some wonderful sensory bins to get ideas from.
Thanks Kizudo for the advice. I am going check out the those blogs you posted. Yeah, I was thinking of doing the sensory bins concide with the words I’ll be teaching for that week but I still in the rough draft phase.
@ Studentfirst2: To answer to your question concerning languages, there is a detaiiled description in this thread:
Thanks for posting the link A_BC