Educators have been exploring the benefits of sensory play for the children and using Piagets four stages of development.
Our varying sensory trays have provided the children with different ways to learn about the world around them through their senses: touch, smell, taste, hear and sight.
Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stages
Birth to 2 Years
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this stage:
1. Know the world through movements and sensations.
2. Learn about the world through basic actions such as sucking, grasping, looking, and listening.
3. Learn that things continue to exist even when they cannot be seen (object permanence).
4. Realise that they are separate beings from the people and objects around them.
5. Realise that their actions can cause things to happen in the world around them.
