This program designed for the age of 3 to 5 years, in this program the children grow to have an incredible sense of self-confidence, enthusiasm for learning. They feel closely bonded to their teachers and classmates. We want much more than competency in the basic skills; we want to them to be inspired by learning and feel good about themselves as students.

Practical Life

The exercises in Practical Life are the very heart of Montessori Cycle 1 education. As young children wash tables, pour liquids, polish silver, sweep and dust, they are developing the inner aptitudes of calmness, order, concentration, coordination, and fine motor skills. At the same time, through the process of learning to meet their own needs, learning to take care of the classroom environment, and through the experience of helping others, children in Montessori programs begin to develop independence, self-confidence, and self-respect.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs: “Help me to do it myself.”
-Maria Montessori

Sensorial

In working with the sensorial materials, the children take things apart, put them back together, and think about what they do. This gives them practice in the highest thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. It leads to mature questioning, research and true creativity. The youngest children in the environment catch the enthusiasm of the older ones as they make their discoveries and reach toward the more sophisticated materials, all the while enjoying their own pursuits.

“The special importance of the sense of hearing comes from the fact that it is the sense organ connected with speech, therefore, to train the child’s attention to follow sounds and noises which are produced in the environment, to recognize them and to discriminate between them is to prepare his attention to follow more accurately the sounds of articulate language.” – M. Montessori

Language

The Montessori Language Arts curriculum is designed to enhance the students’ skills in reading, comprehension, writing and speaking, and to provide connections with history, literature, science, math, and geography.

Written language can be acquired more easily by children of four years than by those of six. While children of six usually need at least two years to learn how to write children of four years learn this within a few months. – M. Montessori

Mathematics

The Montessori Mathematics program consists of sequential exercises that start with more concrete lessons, and move forward into the highly abstract. The fundamental goal of Montessori education is to stimulate the child’s reasoning ability by developing the mathematical mind. The math presentations require the use of concrete materials to be manipulated and explored until the child’s mind spontaneously reaches the point of consciousness where the concrete becomes the abstract and the child fully understands.

Culture

The area of Culture in Montessori education is broad. It encompasses exercises in the areas of botany, zoology, earth sciences, history and geography and the arts. Through an interrelated, interactive experience with the materials in this area of the classroom, the children gain a deep understanding of the world in which they live.

…education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment. -M. Montessori

No one can be free unless he is independent. Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.” – M. Montessori

Art and Craft

Montessori mainly supports the idea of independence, “I can do it for myself, I can think for myself. I can create.”
In Montessori classrooms by providing the child with art materials that are appropriate for them. Materials that do not frustrate them by being too difficult for them to use, but materials that they can confidently use themselves for the activities like drawing, colouring, painting, cutting, pasting and collage work.