Practical Life:
Learn everyday skills that build independence, social abilities, and care for the environment.
Sensorial:
Discover a world of colors, shapes, textures, weights, sizes, smells, tastes, and sounds through hands-on exploration.
Mathematics:
Work with numbers and build skills in counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and understanding the decimal system.
Language:
Develop strong speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, along with phonics and letter formation.
Culture:
Explore topics like geography, plants and animals, science, history, music, and art to understand the world better.
Each area is designed to help children learn by doing, building their skills and confidence step by step.
The Montessori Curriculum covers five key areas: Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, Language, and Cultural Studies. Each area has special learning materials that get more complex over time. Children move through the curriculum at their own pace, based on their interests and development.
Teachers introduce each material through a short lesson. After that, children explore and practice on their own, making connections to important concepts. Educators observe quietly, stepping in only when needed to support independence. This approach builds confidence and strengthens learning.
When a child is ready, they move on to new lessons. By repeating activities, they master skills and gain a deep understanding of each subject.
The Montessori Practical Life Curriculum incorporates exercises and activities that children observe in daily life. These activities develop children’s independence, concentration, and fine motor skills. Typical practical life activities involve transferring, food preparation, lessons in grace and courtesy, and cleaning.
Sensorial activities teach children to refine their senses of sight, touch, sound, smell and taste so that they are able to organise sensory impressions and their understanding of the world. Through sensorial materials, children learn about similarity and difference, dimensions, colours and shapes, and distinguish between smells, taste and sound. Sensorial work also prepares children for mathematics, language and geometry by teaching children how to classify and sort.
The Mathematics Curriculum teaches children to understand abstract mathematical concepts and relationships through hands-on learning experiences. Children learn to count, identify and match numerals to their quantity, relate decimal quantities and symbols, and become aware of the functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division by using the Montessori materials.
The Montessori Language Curriculum provides children with the knowledge and skills to build their vocabulary and understanding of language. The skills required for reading, writing and oral language are developed through hands-on experience using the Montessori language materials. Children learn letter sounds (phonics), letter identification and formation, how to combine sounds to make words, how to build simple sentences, and how to properly hold a pencil. Oral language skills are developed through daily social interactions, group time experiences, and lessons in grace and courtesy.
The Culture Curriculum incorporates a wide range of subjects, including: Geography, Botany, Zoology, Science, History, Music and Art. Through explorations of culture, children develop an understanding of their community, their world, and their social responsibilities. Children learn to respond to diversity with respect, appreciate music and art, and develop awareness of sustainability.