Montessori focused on child- led learning, believing that children should learn through hands on experience.  Children learn by role playing real life experiences to help prepare them for future situations. 

These real life activities include:

- Dressing frames ( buttons, zipping and tying laces)

-Gardening  ( identifying plants and tending a garden)

- Puzzle maps 

-Cooking 

- Preparing snacks 

-Cleaning dishes and tables

- Building blocks 

-Natural materials 

We follow Montessori's belief that play is process. Activities are fun with no goal to accomplish. 

Froebel believed nature is an ideal learning environment.

To support this idea we provide open ended, natural materials that the children can interact with:

-Planks            - Tyres                      - Water

-Trees.             - Gardening           -Seasons

- Stones          -Mud                         - Weather 

-Sticks             - Grass                      - Seasonal changes 

He Believed that children learn best when they interact with natural materials.

We therefore incorporate these materials in our daily routines to help foster children's learning and development.  

Singing 

We incorporate singing at both the beginning and at the end of the day to foster rhythm, routine and continuity and stability. This aids with social, communication and listening skills. 

We also use songs as a tool to reinforce children's knowledge of topics, nursery rhymes and seasonal changes. 

Arts and crafts 

Montessori believe that art is a child's way of self expression and that they learn best through hands on experience. 

Activities and materials we use are:

-Clay and modelling 

-Painting and drawing

- Cutting weaving and threading 

- Sewing 

-Pattern making 

Practitioners often observe and support the children on how to use the materials rather than directing them. Our activities are child-led based, meaning all children can use the materials to create anything that they desire.