The Montessori curriculum focuses on five areas:
- Practical life - Children learn how to tie their shoes and put on their coats, prepare their own snacks and drinks, go to the bathroom without help, and clean up after themselves if they spill something.
- Sensory awareness education - Exercises make sure children use all five senses to learn. For example, a child studying about fall gathers leaves and feels how brittle they are.
- Language arts - Children are encouraged to express themselves verbally and are taught to trace and recognize letters as a precursor to learning reading, spelling, grammar, and handwriting skills.
- Mathematics and geometry - Children learn about numbers through hands-on learning using concrete materials, such as the golden beads that represent the hierarchy of the decimal system, for example.
- Cultural subjects - Children learn about other countries (geography), animals (zoology), time, history, music, movement, science, and art.
All the disciplines are tied together in a complementary ways. Toys and other developmentally appropriate learning materials are laid out in the classroom so a child can see what her choices are and then pick a task - called "work" - according to her interests. Work options include books, puzzle games, art projects, toys that test spatial relations, and more. When they're done, children put their work back on the shelves and move on to something else. The daily schedule allows time for children to play alone or in groups.
Teachers work with children as a group and one on one, but most of the interaction is among the children. In a Montessori school, teachers aren't the only instructors. Older kids often help younger ones learn how to master new skills. That's why each class usually includes children from a two- to three-year age span. Eazy Day Montessori & Day Care is a place where Kids learn to explore and explore to learn.