International Yoga Day

On International Yoga Day, young minds embrace serenity and wellness as children joyfully practice yoga, fostering a harmonious blend of physical and mental strength. Through peaceful movements, they discover the transformative power of yoga, fostering a future of well-being and mindfulness.

Sand Play and Water Play

Sand play and Water play promotes physical development. Large muscle skills develop as children dig, pour, sift, scoop, and clean up spills with brush and dustpan. Eye-hand coordination and small muscle control improve as children learn to manipulate sand accessories. Sand play also promotes social skills.

Importance of Sand and Water Play

Social & Emotional Domains
Cognitive Domain
Creativity/Imagination skills
Language skills
Hand-eye coordination
Science skills
Math skills

Block Play

Imagination : Children can follow their own plan, or they can share a friend’s vision and work together to create something new.
Mathematics : Important concepts and skills are practiced and strengthened through block play, including length, measurement, comparison, number, estimation, symmetry, balance.
Development in all areas : Block play requires fine and gross motor skills. Blocks enhance children’s problem-solving abilities, mathematics skills, and language and literacy abilities. And constructing “creations” builds self-esteem and feelings of success.

Learning Numerical Skills

Math skills are introduced to understand:

Understanding size, shape, and patterns
Ability to count verbally (first forward, then backward)
Recognizing numerals
Identifying more and less of a quantity
Hand-eye coordination
Understanding one-to-one correspondence (i.e., matching sets, or knowing which group has four and which has five)

Developing Language through Stories and Reading

Importance of Developing Language through Stories and Reading

It supports the child’s ability to communicate, and express and understand feelings.
It also supports thinking and problem-solving, and developing and maintaining relationships.
Learning to understand, use and enjoy language is the critical first step in literacy, and the basis for learning to read and write.
Reading and sharing stories can help the child get to know sounds, words and language and develop early literacy skills.
Children learn to value books and stories.

Art and Craft Session

Importance of Art and Craft session.

As kids manipulate a paint brush, their fine motor skills improve.
By counting pieces and colours, they learn the basics of math.
Most important perhaps, when kids feel good while they are creating, art helps boost self-confidence.
Art and crafts are also a great time to help your child learn things like how to hold a pencil correctly. The sooner they learn, the easier grade school will be.
When a young child makes something new, they enjoy sharing it with others and discuss what they have made and how they made it, this will help improve their language skills.

Puzzles

Puzzles are also an important educational learning tool for toddlers and young children as they provide many skills and mental learning benefits and opportunities.

It develops :