In the first three years of life children have absorbed a limitless wealth of impressions, taking in all the elements of the world around them. Among these are a multitude of animals, plants, trees, flowers, and shrubs - an infinite variety of growing things.

It is necessary to provide a mass of information to whet the children’s interest in the appealing decor provided by nature. A few simple keys will suffice to animate their inherent love of the natural world around them, transforming this love into the need to know and understand it with their very being. Again, the child is given the names and the opportunity for sensorial exploration, which acquires meaning by becoming organized through the Montessori biology materials. These provide animals and their parts, basic leaf shapes, parts of the leaves, parts of the plant, parts of the flower, and so on help to classify and refine the child’s perception, enriching the purely sensorial experience thereby creating the foundation for scientific knowledge to be acquired in the years to come.