The Montessori classroom aims to provide children with opportunities to learn to care for themselves and their environment, helping them develop discriminatory powers in all five senses while acquiring skills in writing, reading, and mathematics. At every stage, from learning to tie shoelaces to understanding the cube of ten, children discover principles for themselves through learning materials and the interactive guidance present in the classroom.

During the first plane of development (0–6 years), children must first build themselves as individuals. They are sensorial explorers, seeking facts to support their discoveries.

In the Nido room, they engage in exercises that are an extension to the home environment. These exercises and activities have within themselves the invitation to perform them more and more exactly and thus, eventually bring about a more self-controlled and integrated person.

The Montessori Method recognizes and nurtures a child’s innate love of learning. It values and promotes the development of independence, initiative, and responsibility by following the Cosmic or Natural Laws of Life in the child's maturing process.

These activities coordinate movement, self-control and lead to independence within the child’s environment:

• Care of Each Other – e.g Watching children work, waiting respectfully

• Care of Self – e.g. blowing nose, washing hands and face, toileting

• Care of the Environment – e.g. washing up, watering plants, sweeping

• Control of Movements – e.g. pouring without spilling, walking on the line, closing and opening doors, moving quietly, speaking softly, etc.

• Grace and Courtesy – e.g. how to pass each other, how to listen in group time, how to wait and consider each other, etc.

Practical, Sensorial, Language, Mathematical, and Cultural materials are the key elements used in Stage 1. These learning focuses help children adapt to their environment and develop independence. They also support the understanding of concepts, encourage attention to detail, and enhance vocabulary skills through a hands-on approach.

In Stage 1, this means that according to the laws of development, the senses take up a most important part, each sense going through a period of intense development. The great variety of Sensorial apparatus, specially designed as a key to ‘sense development’ in the classroom, will include all muscle movement and development and each piece of apparatus has its specific purpose. Your child is encouraged to select their own task independently, which they can work on it without interruption for as long as they wish in order to develop their mind through the work of the senses.

In Montessori school's, children have three hours of uninterrupted time to choose independent work to become deeply engaged and repeat work at their own satisfaction. This work cycle is from 9am – pm. Children have morning tea during this period when they are hungry.

Language development is stimulated in all areas of the classroom, not only in writing and reading exercises. A child’s consciousness is awakened through participating in activities involving him/her totally, which means the hand plays a role.

Mathematics materials here are designed to take the child from a physical concept of numbers to an abstract level of understanding of maths.

Outdoor scheduled and spontaneous interaction and play form an important part of the daily program. Outdoor play fosters physical activity and social interaction. Gardening, digging, climbing, hanging, ball games, sandpit and water play, and general movement is encouraged.