Practical Life
The Practical Life component of the Montessori approach is the link between the child's home environment and the classroom. The practical life materials involve the children in precise movements which challenge them to concentrate, to work at their own pace uninterrupted and to complete a cycle of work which typically results in the feeling of independence, satisfaction and confidence.

At Vruksha we concentrate on the four main areas: Control of Movement, Care of Person, Care of Environment and Grace and Courtesy. Practical life activities such as pouring and spooning, cutting vegetables, rolling chapattis, folding clothes completely absorb their attention. We at Vruksha recognizes this process as the beginning of control and coordination of the mind and the body.

Sensorial
From an early age children develop a sense of order and they actively seek to sort, arrange and classify their experiences. The sensorial component provides a key to the world, a means for growth in perception and understanding that forms the basis for abstract thought.

Vruksha provides sensorial materials that give the child an experience initially in perceiving distinctions between similar and different things. Later the child learns to grade a set of similar objects that differ in a regular and measurable way, from most to least. Each piece of equipment is generally a set of objects which isolates a fundamental quality perceived through the senses such as colour, form, dimension, texture, temperature, volume, pitch, weight and taste.

Vruksha attaches importance to precise use of terms (such as loud/soft, long/short, rough/smooth, circle, square, cube) to describe sensorial experiences so that the world becomes more meaningful to the child.

Language
Pre-primary children are immersed in the dynamics of their language development and Vruksha provides a carefully thought-out program to facilitate this process. The language acquired by the child in its infancy is further elaborated and refined through a variety of activities such as singing, playing, games, reciting poems and classified nomenclature cards.

Indirect preparation for writing begins with the practical life exercises and sensorial training. Muscular movement and fine motor skills are sought to be developed along with the ability of the child to distinguish the sounds which make up language.

With this spoken language background the teachers at Vruksha begins to present the Alphabet symbols with the phonetic sounds of the letters. They listen to the sounds while tracing them with the help of the Sandpaper Letters.

Creativity is encouraged and the child grows through appreciation of the mystery and power of language. Other materials follow which present the intricacies of non-phonetic spelling and understanding of grammar. As children know what they write, they soon discover they can read back their stories. Reading books both to themselves and to others soon follows.

Mathematics
Mathematics is a way of looking at the world, a language for understanding and expressing measurable relationships inherent in our experience. A child is led to abstract ideas and relationships by dealing with the concrete. The child's mind has already been awakened to mathematical ideas through the sensorial experiences. The child has seen the distinctions of distance, dimension, graduation, identity, similarity and sequence and will now be introduced to the functions and operations of numbers.

Geometry and arithmetic are treated as only interconnected expressions connected in the Montessori method, as they are in life. Like the golden bead material highlights the numerical, geometrical and dimensional relationships within the decimal system. Through concrete material, the child learns to add, subtract, multiply and divide and gradually comes to understand many abstract mathematical concepts with ease and joy.