All five senses are utilized as the child learns to make finer distinction in quality and gradation. Blindfolding or closing the eyes games help to form mental images on concrete objects, paving the way to abstract thinking. The sensorial materials assists the child in learning to differentiate between sizes, colors, weights, forms, textures, musical sounds, odors and tastes. They help the child organize, classify and give a language to the sensory experiences they have received since birth. Basic reading and writing skills are emphasized at this level.
Foreign language is available in some classes.
The child works from the concrete toward abstraction through repeated sensorial impressions of geometry, relationships of quantity, and the processes of addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division. These muscular impressions are continued in a more abstract form at the elementary level. The primary level child is a fact-seeker . Consequently, this is the time for the foundation of memorization of math facts. Tables are memorized with joy and enthusiasm.