I went to a Montessori school from about age 3-5. The classroom was organized into stations. It was a bit like doing a workout circuit going from machine to machine, but the stations were educational.

Some of the activities I remember are:

- Pouring water from a pitcher into cups.

- Learning to tie shoes. There was a frame with laces, where you would tie the knots 5 times.

- Learning modular division - The teacher would ask what is 25/7, and you would have a bead board and a sack of beads and discover the answer is 3 R4

- Ordering tuning forks by pitch

- Reading station