How to Develop Healthy Eating Habits in Children?
A healthy mind and body are essential to living a healthy life. Develop a healthy Earing Habit in Preschool kid
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Importance of Being a Mentor to the LIttle Ones
Being a Mentor In today’s world, where most parents are bogged down by their daily routine and technological bombardment and tired from their jobs, most onus for everyday learning comes on the teachers. In a high quality teaching environment it is crucially important to build relationships with children and pay a lot of attention to their thinking process developing and opening channels of communication with the young individual. It’s the teachers’ responsibility to open all their senses to the child’s needs before expecting them to follow instructions. High Quality Teaching A high quality teacher would spend adequate time for curriculum planning and reflection. They attend carefully to the child’s language and find ways to make them thing about or find answers to everday problems. Guidance in such cases is minimal, offering just enough assistance to be helpful but not so much or so little that we end up completing the task for the child. Concepts and ideas and understanding need to be built into the curriculum before wordsheets and guided help are given. Any preschool is proud of its curriculum, that incorporates complex cognitive and interpersonal skills like self-regulation, self-direction, developing individual perspective, forming connections, critical thinking and willingness to try new challenges. Such high quality teachers provide ample opportunities to hear and use complex and interactive language. Their planning supports learning processes and a wide range of socio-emotional skills and active everyday practical learning. These teachers would also involve parents in the child’s learning to take it the required distance. Having observed a lot of teachers’ enthusiasm for class decoration and there is growing evidence that material clutter negatively affects learning. As visual distraction increases, the child’s ability to focus, stay on task and learn new information decreases. So, do look out for a clean clutter free hygienic environment in the school you choose. All in all I would like to end with the best of teachers is a failure if she fails to ignite the flame of inborn curiosity. As Maria Montessori said in a note sent home to the parents, that if we parents failed to recognize evidence of learning in a child who spent the whole day immersed in stories and blocks or trying to make a Styrofoam boat stay afloat, well, that was going to be our problem, not our child’s Being a perfect mentor Here are some tips for being a perfect mentor. Create a Safe and Nurturing Environment Build a positive Relationship Encourage Exploration and Curiosity Promote Social Skills Encourage Independence Provide Structured Routine Support Language Development Be Patient and Flexible Celebrate Achievements
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Importance of Language Development in Early Childhood
Language Development is very important part of early childhood development because it give tools to express their wants and needs. During the first fice years stimulation of language development is very essential as the brain develops new nerve cells as well as multiple connections between these cells to serve the function of expressive and receptive language. The develoment of language skills help children improve their memory, curiosity, concentration, thinking and reasoning skills. These skills help children to use new vocabulary, improves grammatical skills and gives opportunities for symbolic thoughts. It allow children to express themselves and communicate with siblings, parents and other family members. Children can express themselves while playing with friends and while participating in class at school. When children express themselves through language, social interactions and everday life becomes easier for them. The best way to encourage child’s language development is to talk a lot together about things, different objects by using many different words. This help children in learning what words mean and how words work. Parents can motivate children to learn new words. The active participation of parents can improve child’s vocabulary and language development. Preschool plays an important role in the language development of children in early childhood classrooms. Direct interation sessions and standard teaching methods help children to enhance vocabulary and language at the school level. Language is a powerful tool for little ones that can open many doors in their life and allows to communicate with others. By understanding the importance of language development parents can help their children and set up for success. Here are some ways to enhance Language Development skills in kids. These activities will help children become more proficient in language development and give them a strong foundation for future success.
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Typical Day at UC KINDIES
A typical day at UC Kindies begins with outside with Freeplay in the garden. It gives a good oppoutunity for kids to socialize and exercise their vocal cords and their muscles. They then collect for a quick Zumba/Yoga sessions, followed by a prayer and the National Anthem. Line up to the class and bathroom time follows Classes typically start with Centre Time- for discussions and interaction. Learning time is always experiential or based on pictorial activities, with interactive games and Audio Visual sessions. Alternate inside-outside time is scheduled so that the child gets sufficient sunlight. Most Art, Rhyme and Story sessions on sunny days are conducted outside. Lunch time can also be a picnic time and is held outside once a week. Typically every class would have a library session every week, where they can choose their own book and read it. At the recess you would find a lot of children in the library area, picking out books of their choice or playing in the Role play areas or Garden. At UC Kindies, every learning session is interspersed with a fun session to make learning interesting. The activities like EPL and Sensory and Fine Motor and Gross motor activities are spread out through the week. Because the topics are spread across subjects, the child has a feeling of continuation. So, if aquatic animals are discussed in Science, looking after your pet fish in social science, math would require counting or patterns of the same. Rhymes would be fishy-fishy in the brook, Story would rotate around a fish/ mermaid, Art would be based around the same topic helping the child think radially and aid cognitive development. View more blogs
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