knobbed cylinder

introduced knobbed cylinder to kj at about 3 years old.

matty is lucky.
he gets to start sooner.

Develops:
Visual perception of depth and dimension
Helps observe surroundings with a greater knowledge of height, length, width, and depth.
Helps with fine motor skills
Writing readiness-the fingers and thumb form the pencil grip

Control of Error

• Seeing those that are too wide not fit
• Those that are too thin will not fit snugly
• Those that are too short or too tall will not be level
• At the least, the child will be left with one that does not fit in the end.

Language

All Blocks: knob, cylinder 

Block 1
- Establishment of Quality: large, small
- Comparatives: larger, smaller
- Superlatives: largest, smallest 

Block 2
- Establishment of Quality: thick, thin
- Comparatives: thicker, thinner
- Superlatives: thickest, thinnest 

Block 3
- No language 

Block 4
- Establishment of Quality: tall, short
- Comparatives: taller, shorter
- Superlatives: tallest, shortest

a boy here is still playing with this cylinders at 4.5 years old.

so i should not regret buying this.

bought from bambini montessori USD 155

watch this video on how you present this to a child.