PRACTICAL LIFE
In the Practical life area, children carry out familiar home activities such as sweeping, polishing, pouring, preparing foods, etc. These activities are designed to help the child achieve independence and confidence through meaningful activities with real life objects. These activities help develop co – ordination, concentration, independence, hand dexterity, patience, grace, courtesy, care of the person and his/her environment.

SENSORIAL
The sensorial apparatus encourages the child to understand his environment while learning through his senses. Each piece of didactic material isolates one quality, such as colour, weight, shape, size, texture, sound, smell, taste, etc., which enables the child to take in impressions with true understanding and gives purpose, order and structure to the child’s learning. Montessori materials all have a control of error, which allows the child freedom to correct his mistakes unaided. This auto correction technique develops perseverance and a positive self – image and attitude towards mistakes.

LANGUAGE
The Montessori method has many activities designed to help the child progress naturally towards the development of skills necessary for reading and writing. The child learns to control wrist movements and perfect the pincer grip necessary for writing. The child is introduced to reading slowly by first learning the phonetic sounds of the alphabet, which leads to building short phonetic words. The child progresses at his own pace to reading longer phonetic words. Children in the Montessori environment are introduced to the different parts of speech and grammar by participating in fun games with the directress and other children.

MATHEMATICS
The Montessori child is introduced to mathematics in the same way as all the other subjects, simple to complex and concrete to abstract. By working with specially designed materials the child is able work with concrete quantities and then match abstract symbols. The child is introduced to the various operations in mathematics in a simple and fun manner. By working with the concrete materials a solid foundation is formed for later algebraic and geometric work.

CULTURALS
In the Montessori environment the child is exposed to various cultural subjects (geography, history, biology, science, music and art) to feed his/her imagination and understanding of the world around him/her. By being introduced to different cultures and life styles, the children’s moral and intellectual nature is elevated resulting in enlightenment and enjoyment of each other’s cultures. The cultural activities also help the child to understand his role in the world and that he is in fact, a very important part of the whole system.