• Activities help the child notice an important feature such as color, weight, size, shape, texture, sound, smell or other.

• Activities include sorting by a particular attribute.

• Fine motor development takes place through sensorial activities.

• Self care, movement control, environment care, and courtesy are areas of instruction.

• Children use familiar, everyday objects to increase confidence and concentration span as well as enhance fine motor control.

• Literacy is developed through phonics, vocabulary, listening skills, and object/picture differentiation.

• Language activities include learning sight words, writing, parts of speech, and silent reading.

• Concrete materials are used for the basis of number and quantity recognition. 

• Activities are divided into: counting, the decimal system, memory work, arithmetic, geometry and concrete abstraction.

• Subjects include geography, zoology, botany and science.

• Students learn through observation, hands-on experience and experiments

(Five Areas information cited with thanks to Danville Montessori.)