The Montessori learning materials provide reasons for children to touch, manipulate and learn as their interest and curiousity directs their activity. The Montessori program has a focus on learning practical self help  skills; practise discriminating sizes, shapes, colours; learn phonetic sounds of the alphabet, print begin to write stories and read, count, learn number symbols, explore arithmetic; discover botany, zoology and geography with hands-on materials. All this is done under the guidance on a trained Montessori Directress, who creates a joy of learning. Through their own efforts they develop self discipline and an ability to concentrate.