Practical life activities help children learn how to care for themselves and their environment. These activities help the child become more independent, leading to greater confidence, and the ability to face new challenges.

Practical life exercises include lessons in grace and courtesy, self-care, and care for the environment. The purpose of these activities is to enhance coordination, concentration, independence, and indirectly prepare children for writing and reading.

Activities often include cleaning, food preparation with child-appropriate cutlery, polishing, and watering plants.

Sensorial materials were designed by Dr Maria Montessori to help children express and classify their sensory experiences. The purpose of sensorial activities is to aid in the development of the intellectual senses of the child, which develops the ability to observe and compare with precision.

There are sensorial materials that focus on visual perception, tactile impressions, auditory sense, and olfactory and taste perceptions.

Activities often include matching and grading materials that isolate the senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell

Language materials are designed to enhance vocabulary and explore both written and spoken language. Through language-based activities, such as sandpaper letters and moveable alphabets, children learn phonetic sounds and how to compose words phonetically.

They progress using concrete materials to compose their own written work, read the work of others, and learn to communicate their unique thoughts and feelings.

Mathematical concepts are introduced to the child using concrete sensorial materials. Initial explorations with sensorial materials encourage children to understand basic maths concepts such as learning about number recognition, counting, and sequencing of numbers.

Sensorial work prepares the child for a more formal introduction to mathematics and the introduction of abstract mathematical concepts such as the decimal system and mathematical operations.