Learning through play to increase their confidence, in that magical period of life when everything is an adventure.
Play School is a play based early learning program, focused on enabling children to learn through play and having a blast at the same time.
Our early learning program activities are designed to include the following :
Sensory Play
Which helps build nerve connections in the brain
Encourages the development of motor skills
Aids in developing and enhancing memory
Encourages your child to explore and investigate
and simply plot, sensory experiences are FUN
Arts and Crafts
Enhances children’s hand eye coordination
Builds levels of manual dexterity
Inspires your child’s creativity and imagination
Helps children to express themselves in their own unique way encouraging self-expression
Enhances your child’s decision making skills
Storytelling
Increases your child’s willingness to communicate thoughts and feelings
Storytelling increases verbal skills
Encourages your child’s use of their imagination and creativity
Improves listening skills
Increases your child’s attention span
Science
Encourages exploring new ideas and possibilities
Science enables children to test their ideas
Science encourages question asking
Science introduces the theory of cause and effect
IT’S FUN
Outdoor Learning
Outdoor learning enhances the love and beauty of nature itself
Helps to build your child’s connection to nature
Being in nature is proven to elevate ones mood
Nature helps to diffuse stress and boosts concentration
Outdoor environments naturally inspire children to be more physically active
Gardening Time
Reminds us of our connection to nature
Teaches the cycle of nature
Enhances sensory development as they feel new textures and use their hands
Helps teach your child responsibility and patience
Ignites excitement when their flower or vegetable sprouts!
Motor Skills
Motor development is a process that is carried out in a child from birth up to approximately six or seven years of age.
We focus on activities that :
Helps to develop hand – eye coordination
Increases self-esteem as they learn to increase their independence
Increases your child’s handwriting and drawing skills
Works on gross motor skills helping your child gain strength and confidence in his/her body
Helps children to develop their own self-care and abilities with everyday tasks
Simple Math and Phonics
Number sense refers to a group of key math abilities. It includes the ability to understand quantities and concepts like more and less.
Phonics instruction teaches children how to decode letters into their respective sounds, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.
Introducing the alphabet through sound and sight
Introducing numbers through games and activities as well as arts and crafts
Using numbers and letters in storytelling and songs
an emphasis on understanding, not only remembering the sequence
FREE PLAY!!
Free play is unstructured, voluntary child-initiated activity with many many benefits!
Free play presents the potential for conflict and children need to experience conflict to learn how to manage it in a healthy way