Our playgroup curriculum is a regular and relaxed meeting for group of young children who havn’t yet started school. In the playgroup, children do organised play activities together. Children at play group start exploring and interacting socially. This is the time they need to be given exposure to sensory materials and activities for their holistic development.
A peek a boo in our class
Morning Greeting and Circle Time
During this teacher say small good morning rhyme using puppets. Every morning routine may look a little different according to your playgroup curriculum requirements. This starts with reading the calendar (date, day and year) and weather of the day. introduce a letter, shape, colour, number or theme; and have Show& Tell. A small gist about different things that will be done in the class. This help to have social interaction, learn new vocabularies and helps them to settle in the school environment.
Jiggy Wiggy Time
During jiggy wiggy time, learners learn about music, musical instruments, and rhymes. Rhymes are a child’s first experience with words. When actions are linked to words in the rhyme, it helps boost motor skills and improves rhythm and movement. Improves memory, concentration, spatial intelligence, and thinking skills.
Learning Stations
During the learning station, time learners work independently in small groups. Different activities are planned by the teacher accordingly to their plan of the day. Learners explore different centers as they move around the classroom.
Snack Time
Snack time is a great opportunity to interact with peers and try new food. Learners try to discover their food through careful tasting, smelling, and touching.
Gross motor / Sensory Play
Gross Motor (physical) skills are those which require whole-body movement, and which involve the large muscles of the body to perform everyday functions, such as standing and walking, running and jumping, and sitting upright at the table.
Sensory Play
Leaners and even adults learn best and retain the most information when they engage their senses. Sensory activities facilitate exploration and naturally encourage learners to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore.
Special Inclusions
Designed specifically for your child to foster creativity, emotional, physical and social development with knowledge and understanding of themselves and the world around them. Learners will get a hands-on experience on STEM, Robotics, Around the world, Montessori, Zumba & Yoga.
Refection and Closing Circle
Closing circle is an effective strategy for bringing closure to the school day in a fun and meaningful way. By ending the day on a refreshing, reflective note, the closing circle reinforces the sense of reflection and safety that teachers strive to develop.
Blocks help children learn to take turns and share materials, develop new friendships, become self-reliant, increase attention span, cooperate with others, and develop self-esteem. Development in all areas. Block play requires fine and gross motor skills.
Engaging your child in sensory play helps prepare them for life ahead. Our favourite sensory activities for toddlers to preschoolers include sensory bins, Play dough, water play, messy play and more. As said by Maria Montessori “The senses being, the explorer of the world, open the way to knowledge.”
- EARLY LEARNING SENSORY BINS
- LEARNING LETTERS WITH SENSORY PLAY.
- FINE MOTOR SENSORY BIN.
- BOOK THEME SENSORY PLAY.
- ALPHABET PUZZLE SENSORY BIN.
- MATH SENSORY BIN.
A dramatic play learning center is an essential part of the preschool classroom. Dramatic play helps children explore different roles and situations as children play with items and tools adults use in everyday life. Dramatic play encourages children to put themselves in someone else’s shoes. Such role-playing helps them to improve their ability to do this in real life. They learn important social skills, such as empathy and language development
Value based curriculum is an approach to teaching that works with values. It creates a strong learning environment that enhances academic achievement and develops students social and relationship skills that last throughout their lives.
It gives your child a chance to embrace his artistic side. Through arts and craft, children learn to value and appreciate artifacts and images across cultures and times. Experience in design, art, and crafts enable them to reflect critically on their own work and those by others. They learn to act and think like designers and artists, working intelligently and creatively.
Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese type of exercise program with its roots coming from martial arts. It emphasize a mind body connection using slow, gentle movements, meditation and deep breathing. Tai chi has been shown to improve balance, strength, flexibility, stamina, muscle tone, and coordination. The mediation component of tai chi can help to calm the mind, improve concentration in children.