What are the different areas of Montessori primary program?
1. Practical Life Practical Life activities are tasks of daily living. These include lessons in grace and courtesy, care of oneself (grooming, dressing, polishing shoes, etc.) and care of both the indoor and outdoor environment (washing, sweeping, care of plants, etc.). Such activities done via the child’s own efforts are excellent preparation for success in language and mathematics in that children develop their own ability to concentrate, and establish neat, orderly work habits and logical sequential thinking. Furthermore, activities of practical life encourage growth of independence, sense of responsibility, while at the same time allowing children to develop control and co-ordination of their own movements. 2. Sensorial All activities undertaken by the child are directed by their instinctual urge to know or understand what is going on around them. We are all familiar with the child’s constant questions of “why?” or “what is this?”. In the Montessori classroom, we present to childre
