Materials
Below are the details of certain Montessori Materials available at Tharakans Montessori House of Children
Sensorial education helps develop a child's intellect. Whether you believe intelligence is genetic or produced by environment, you can further it by education. Intelligence is built upon experiences and thought processes. The Montessori materials for ages 18 months to 6 are designed to help a child's mind develop the necessary skills for later intellectual learning.
Sensorial Materials are materials used in the Montessori classroom that help the child to develop his 5 senses. The materials are designed to help the child refine tactile, visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory senses.
Sensorial Materials, like many other materials in the Montessori classroom, have what is called a "control of error." This means that the child will work with the material, but will have a way for them to check their own work rather than seeking out the teacher. This is done to help promote independence on the part of the child.
A set of 4 blocks made of wood. Each of the blocks is a rectangular prism with concave faces to facilitate holding firmly.
Objective:
Cylinder block helps the child in pairing and grading activity. This will help in pre-hensile coordination and holding the writing instruments with necessary and sufficient firmness.
This is a set of 10 cubes to introduce the child to volumetric variations. The wooden cubes are painted in pink colour.
This is a set of 10 brown cuboids that demonstrates changes in 2 dimensions, i.e., width and height, while the length remains constant. Each stair represents a number in the progression.
The first colour pairing activity with 3 pairs of rectangular tablets painted in red, blue and yellow colours.
A colour pairing activity with 11 pairs of rectangular tablets painted in red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, brown, pink, grey, white and black colours. 
This set of 4 boards comes in a pretty box. Each of the boards has a slightly sloping edge. It introduces the child to the tactile differences. The boards differ in roughness / smoothness.
A teak ply wooden polished cabinet with 6 drawers introduces planar geometry. Each drawer contains geometrical shapes as blue insets with knobs in yellow frames. The 6 drawers contain the following 32 shapes:
These are ten rectangular geometrical shapes. They are Cube, Rectangular Prism, Sphere, Triangular Prism, Cylinder, Cone, Triangular Pyramid, Square Pyramid, Ovaloid and Ellipsoid.
This material is used to develop the stereognostic sense and consists of 8 different pairs of small geometrical solids, which are wrapped in a bag. The child would have to match the solids by touching and feeling the objects within the bag.
This material includes 6 pairs of cylinders that produce different intensities of sound when shaken. 6 of them painted red on the cap and 6 of them painted blue for differentiation during pairing and gradation. The cylinders are stored in two high quality teak wood boxesPractical life exercises help the child to learn how to do living activities in a purposeful way. The purpose and aim of Practical Life is to help the child gain control in the coordination of his movement, and help the child to gain independence and adapt to his society. Practical Life Exercises also aid the growth and development of the child’s intellect and concentration and will in turn also help the child develop an orderly way of thinking.
Few activities of practical life exercises
- How to roll a mat (Work mat)
- How to put down a chowki (small table for children)
- How to carry a tray
- How to carry a sharp object
- How to use a pair of scissors
- How to greet others
and lots of puzzles and activities that helps the child to improve general knowledge.
Arithmetic is a very precise science, which is born out of the intellect of man, and thus also known as intellectual science. Study and experiments show that the child becomes interested in the quantitative aspect of this knowledge and tries to know about the quantity and this is the human tendency for precision.
The material consists of ten wooden rods, divided into units by alternating colours of red and blue, progressing in ten equal steps.
Objective:
The Number Rods introduce the child to quantity 1-10 and their corresponding number names. Through exploration with the material, the child also develops concepts in sequence of number, combinations of 10 and basic arithmetic.
Ten rough sand paper numbers are pasted on smooth grey boards with yellow lines underlining the numbers.
A set of 2 partitioned trays with decreasing height. The 10 compartments have the numerals 0 to 9 printed on them. Each compartment contains as many spindles as the numeral printed on it. Totally it contains 45 spindles.
A set of 2 rectangular boards each of which is divided by wooden strips to form 2 vertical sections and five horizontal sections. The boards have the numbers 10, 20, 30 to 90 printed on them. The material includes number cards from 1 to 9, which can be inserted into slots in the boards to enable the child to form the numbers from 11 to 99.
A board 12 squares by 18 squares with the numerals 1-18 printed across the top. A wooden box contains 9 red wooden strips and 9 blue wooden strips of varying lengths both printed with the numerals 1 to 9. 
A board 12 squares by 18 squares with the numerals 1-18 printed across the top. A wooden box contains 9 red wooden strips and 9 blue wooden strips both printed with the numerals 1 to 9 and 18 Grey colour wooden strips of varying lengths. 
A square board with 100 cavities in 10 symmetrical rows of 10 above which is a row of figures 1-10 are screen printed at the top over the rows of cavities. A small red space on the left marks the multiplier (cards), 10 small cards with numbers from 1 to 10 & 100 loose red beads and 2 red skittles.Language is not only meant for communication but also a means to serve in enriching the human culture further. The child starts absorbing this cultural element since it is spoken in the environment. To become conscious of any of his conquests the child needs educational help rendered consciously and deliberately.
The child when he starts coming regularly to Montessori House of Children, finds a great freedom to speak. The consciousness of sounds and a reasonable familiarity with shapes, geometric or otherwise, which form the letters of the alphabet and a good knowledge of the structure of sentences becomes a preparation for reading also.
Each sandpaper letter is in the lower case (Cursive) with the sandpaper consonants pasted on pink boards and vowels on blue boards. Each board has a space on the left for the child to keep it steady it with one hand while tracing with the other.
Objective:
To introduce the child to Print letters and familiarize the same through sandpaper tracing activity
This set of alphabet cutouts includes 5 each of the consonants in pink colour and 10 each of the vowels in blue colour in English Cursive font. The letters are stored in an attractive partitioned wooden box with the letter shapes printed on the bottom