First Step Montessori

The Montessori method involves a curriculum of learning that comes from the child’s own natural inner guidance and expresses itself in outward behavior as the child’s various individual interests are at work. Supporting this inner plan of nature, the method provides a range of materials to stimulate the child’s interest through self-directed activity. In the first plane of development (0–6), these materials are generally organized into five basic categories: practical life, sensorial, math, language, and culture. Other categories include geography ( a child’s perception of herself in space), history (a child’s perception of herself in time), and science (interactions with the natural world).