In this section below are photographs of some of the specific Montessori activities that we have in the classroom, grouped by the Montessori areas of learning.
Through the Tapestry learning journal and feedback from your child's keyworker, you will have heard about some of these activities.
Cultural
On the cultural shelves are resources that promote the learning of geography, history, science, technology and art.
Practical life
Experiences of everyday living activities help children to develop their fine motor skills and coordination. These activities enable a child to become independent.
This area of learning is introduced by first learning to roll and unroll a mat and carry activities safely. The child then works through a range of spooning, pouring, and tonging activities, as well as dressing frames, snack preparation and care of the environment activities.
Sensorial
There is a wide range of activities that use the senses as a learning tool.
They are arranged into 8 categories: Visual, Tactile, Baric, Thermic, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory, and Stereognostic.
Through their experiences, a child learns to differentiate between similar and differing objects.
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Language
Maths
Language is vital to a child's development. From the time they enter a nursery, a child is exposed to language and communication through various methods such as conversation, books, rhymes and singing.
When they are ready, a child will begin to work through exercises to recognise their name and learn these letters before going on to learn the other letter sounds phonetically. They will use their sense of touch to learn letter formation before moving on to writing with a pencil. Further materials will teach them to blend sounds and construct words.
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With the sensorial and practical life activities, a child has already begun to order materials. In the nursery, children will be taking part in number songs and counting activities as an introduction to maths. Sandpaper numbers are used to teach number recognition, and used when associating quantities.
When a child is able to recognise and place values for first numbers 0-10, they may go onto learning numbers of higher value and methods of representing them, and learning simple addition and fractions.
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