Our Montessori Way Programs
Developmentally prepared environments for every plane of childhood: from Toddlers and Casa dei Bambini to Lower/Upper Elementary, NIOS Open Schooling, Extended Care, and our hands-on Skill Forge maker studios in Arasankazhani, Sithalapakkam, Chennai.
Seven Distinct Learning Programs
Each program provides specialized prepared environments, certified guides, and age-adapted materials fostering spontaneous concentration, practical independence, and creative joy.
Toddler Community
Gentle separation support, toilet learning, expressive speech enrichment, fine-motor coordination, and practical independence in a calm, home-like room.
- Practical self-care & dressing
- Sensory peg boxes & puzzles
- Language naming explosion
Primary Program
Casa dei Bambini (Pre-KG, LKG & UKG). Multi-age peer mentoring with the 5 Montessori pillars: EPL, Sensorial, Language, Math, and Cultural studies.
- Golden beads decimal system
- Sandpaper letters & movable alphabet
- 3-year mixed-age cycle
Elementary Program
Lower Elementary (Grades 1 to 3). Awakening the reasoning mind, boundless imagination, and cosmic interdependency through collaborative research.
- Cosmic Education & 5 Great Lessons
- Collaborative group research
- "Going Out" community expeditions
Upper Elementary Program
Grades 4 to 6. Developing deep intellectual rigor, abstract mathematical reasoning, scientific laboratory experiments, and executive leadership.
- Fractions, decimals, and algebra
- Microscope & biology lab write-ups
- Literature circles & Socratic debates
NIOS
National Institute of Open Schooling. An accredited, flexible, and student-centric academic framework empowered by Montessori pedagogy.
- Open Basic Education (OBE A, B, C)
- 10th & 12th Board Equivalence
- Individualized exam & study pacing
Extended Care
A warm home-away-from-home for working parents. Fresh nutritious hot evening snacks, supervised homework completion, reading club, and outdoor lawn play.
- Wholesome hot snacks & nutrition
- Guided homework & remedial practice
- Gated & CCTV-secured campus
Centre for Learning — Skill Forge Program
Learning by Making, Creating and Doing
Skill Forge is a hands-on learning programme at Kalpavrikshalaya that gives children opportunities to explore skills beyond the regular classroom environment. The programme is rooted in the belief that children learn deeply when they are given the opportunity to work with their hands, engage with real materials, solve problems and create something of their own.
Learning by Making, Creating and Doing
Skill Forge is a hands-on learning programme at Kalpavrikshalaya that gives children opportunities to explore skills beyond the regular classroom environment.
The programme is rooted in the belief that children learn deeply when they are given the opportunity to work with their hands, engage with real materials, solve problems and create something of their own.
💡 From Ideas to Making
Skill Forge provides experiences that take children from an idea to a tangible outcome. They may explore different materials, tools, techniques and processes while learning to plan, experiment, modify and complete a piece of work.
The emphasis is not simply on producing a finished product. The process itself becomes the learning—understanding how something works, making choices, encountering challenges and finding ways to work through them.
🔨 Developing Practical Skills
Through hands-on experiences, children develop skills such as:
- ✓ working with different materials and tools
- ✓ measuring, cutting, joining and assembling
- ✓ planning and sequencing a task
- ✓ developing hand-eye coordination and precision
- ✓ experimenting with different methods
- ✓ identifying and solving problems
- ✓ caring for and using tools responsibly
- ✓ working independently as well as collaboratively
🎯 Creativity with Purpose
Skill Forge creates space for children to explore their own ideas rather than follow a predetermined model each time.
Children are encouraged to experiment, make mistakes, rethink their approach and discover that there can be more than one way to arrive at a solution. Creativity is therefore connected with purpose, process and problem-solving.
🎨 Craft, Design and Everyday Skills
The programme may draw from a range of practical and creative areas such as craft, making, basic design, construction, working with natural and recycled materials, simple tool work, food-related skills and other age-appropriate practical experiences.
The experiences evolve with the age and readiness of the children, allowing younger children to explore basic processes while older children take on more complex projects and greater responsibility.
Learning Through the Process
Skill Forge encourages children to slow down, observe, attempt, refine and complete.
A piece of work that does not turn out as expected becomes an opportunity to ask:
In this way, Skill Forge nurtures not only practical skills, but also patience, persistence, resourcefulness and confidence in one's ability to work things out.
5 Areas of the Prepared Montessori Environment
Meticulously organized zones where physical materials bridge concrete action into abstract conceptual brilliance.
1. Practical Life
Pouring, polishing, spooning, and dressing frames that refine hand-eye coordination, executive focus, and self-sufficiency.
2. Sensorial
Cylinder blocks, color tablets, sound cylinders, and tactile fabrics that order and categorize sensory impressions.
3. Language
Phonetic awareness, sandpaper letters, large movable alphabet, reading classification cards, and joyful creative storytelling.
4. Mathematics
Number rods, spindle boxes, golden decimal beads, and stamp games providing tangible arithmetic foundations.
5. Cultural Studies
Geography puzzle maps, botany leaf cabinets, zoology classification, solar system, and cosmic interdependency.