We worked with some sensorial materials [donated by West Side Montessori School, New York City].
The participants, for the first time in their lives, worked with puzzles and a lotto activity, created a collage using nature, and seriated the sensorial materials. At first they struggled with these materials... But soon they got into them ... and our workshops, which were due to end at 3pm, often continued to 4:30pm.
These adults were using these materials for the first time. They had never done puzzles, or built with blocks, or made patterns with materials. The workshops gave them opportunities to use these materials.
Discussion of theory was not relevant.
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