The technique of my method as it follows the guidance of the natural
physiological and psychical development of the child, may be divided
into three parts:
Motor education.
Sensory education.
Language.
The care and management of the environment itself afford the principal
means of motor education, while sensory education and the education of
language are provided for by my didactic material.
The didactic material for the _education of the senses_ consists of:
(_a_) Three sets of solid insets.
(_b_) Three sets of solids in graduated sizes, comprising:
(1) Pink cubes.
(2) Brown prisms.
(3) Rods: (_a_) colored green; (_b_) colored alternately
red and blue.
(_c_) Various geometric solids (prism, pyramid, sphere, cylinder,
cone, etc.).
(_d_) Rectangular tablets with rough and smooth surfaces.
(_e_) A collection of various stuffs.
(_f_) Small wooden tablets of different weights.
(_g_) Two boxes, each containing sixty-four colored tablets.
(_h_) A chest of drawers containing plane insets.
(_i_) Three series of cards on which are pasted geometrical forms
in paper.
(_k_) A collection of cylindrical closed boxes (sounds).
(_l_) A double series of musical bells, wooden boards on which are
painted the lines used in music, small wooden discs for
the notes.
_Didactic Material for the Preparation for Writing and Arithmetic_
(_m_) Two sloping desks and various iron insets.
(_n_) Cards on which are pasted sandpaper letters.
(_o_) Two alphabets of colored cardboard and
of different sizes.
(_p_) A series of cards on which are pasted sandpaper
figures (1, 2, 3, etc.).
(_q_) A series of large cards bearing the same
figures in smooth paper for the enumeration
of numbers above ten.
(_r_) Two boxes with small sticks for counting.
(_s_) The volume of drawings belonging specially
to the method, and colored pencils.
(_t_) The frames for lacing, buttoning, etc., which
are used for the education of the movements
of the hand.