Areas in Montessori Classroom

EPL Area

EPL area stands for Exercise Practical Life which is daily activities to develop independence, confidence, concentration, coordination, motoric, patience, accuracy and social gesture skills.

Sensorial Area

Sensorial area is activities to refine the senses such as visual, auditory, smelling, touching, and tasting senses.

Children learn new things by seeing with their eyes by separating them into dimension (size, length, width, and breath of objects), color and form (shapes).

Children also explore things through their hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting skills.

So, if they have sensitive senses, it would help them to explore the world and environment.

Math Area

Math area is activities to strengthen mathematical mind to estimate, to quantify, to see similarity or difference, to find pattern, to make order and sequence from concrete to abstract.

Culture Area

Culture area is the activities that provide children the opportunity to explore the whole world including the continents, countries, people, cultures, science, animals, plants, universe, and arts. Culture area covers zoology, botany, geography, science, and history.

Language Area

Language area is activities to support the children’s ability to use language as media to communicate ideas and feelings and to build the foundation for comprehending reading and writing skills.

Music, Dance and Arts & Craft

Music, Dance and Arts & Crafts are the activities to promote children’s creativity so they can improve confidence.

Religion (Islamic Studies)

Religion (Islamic Studies) is the activities that introduce the knowledge of islamic and also do the islamic daily routine such as praying before activities, wudhu and dzuhur prayer.