This programme, which is for children between the ages of three and five, develop a remarkable sense of self-confidence and excitement for learning. They feel a strong connection to their classmates and teachers. More than just being proficient in the fundamental abilities, we want them to be inspired by studying and proud of their status as students.
Practical Life
The core of Montessori Cycle 1 education is the Practical Life exercises. Young children are honing their inner aptitudes of tranquillity, order, attention, coordination, and fine motor abilities as they sweep and dust, wash tables, pour liquids, polish silver, and pour liquids. At the same time, children in Montessori schools start to develop independence, self-confidence, and self-respect via the process of learning to fulfil their own needs, learning to take care of the classroom environment, and through the experience of helping others.
These words reveal the child’s inner needs: “Help me to do it myself.” -Maria Montessori
Sensorial
The kids disassemble objects, reassemble them, and consider their actions as they work with the sensory materials. This helps kids develop their greatest level of thinking abilities, such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. It encourages thoughtful enquiry, study, and genuine innovation. The younger kids in the group pick up on the bigger kids' enthusiasm as they make their discoveries and reach for the more difficult materials while still having fun with their own activities.
“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 goal of the Montessori Language Arts curriculum is to improve kids' reading, comprehension, writing, and speaking abilities while also establishing links with geography, science, arithmetic, history, and literature.
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 curriculum comprises of exercises that progress from more concrete to extremely abstract in a logical order. The core objective of a Montessori education is to encourage a child's capacity for thinking by cultivating their mathematical mind. The tangible elements used in the arithmetic presentations must be handled and investigated until the kid's mind reaches a level of consciousness when the concrete transforms into the abstract and the child completely comprehends.
Culture
In Montessori education, culture covers a wide range of topics. It includes activities from the fields of art, botany, zoology, earth sciences, history, and geography. Children get a profound grasp of their world through an interconnected, interactive experience with the items in this area of the classroom.
…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
The independence principle—"I can do it for myself, I can think for myself"—is what Montessori emphasises the most. I am creative."
Providing the kid with age-appropriate art supplies in Montessori classes. Materials that they can confidently use themselves for activities like drawing, colouring, painting, cutting, pasting, and collage work rather than frustrating them by being too tough for them to use.