Pre Primary

Our playgroup class is divided into 4  learning centers. Here we engage children in the play way  method to learn the basic skills.

Those are called

1. Cozy learning center
2. Creativity learning center
3. Building learning center
4. Discovery learning center.

These learning centers are  actual classrooms.

Every classroom has only 20 children which is easily  manageable

Rotation:After every half an hour students will move into the next learning center.

The details of the 4 learning centers are as follows.

Cozy Room: in this room students have circle times and learn the skills according to the themes, listen to the stories and retell them,sing songs, act out according to the theme, learn phonics with actions, learn new vocabularies and sentences. In this center the language ability gets developed. Also there are reading corners where they have the opportunity to  look at the pictures and talk about it with their friends and teachers.

During the free play time, the children will be playing with kitchen sets, toy cars and other playful equipments.Through this free play children learn social skills and confidence to communicate with each other and also to wait for their turns.

Creativity Room: This is the room where children have hands-on activities. Here they have so much fun with paints like, free paintings, earbud paintings, finger printings, tearing and pasting, modeling with play dough, drawing and colouring pictures and various crafts. Here children learn their fine motor skills.

Building Room:This is the room where our little engineers have a lot of fun playing with the blocks, building towers, houses, bridges and so on. They also learn the engineering skills of logic and reason.

The children have many activities like solving puzzles, sorting out  beads and forming the numbers with pebbles and shells. They love to sing numerical songs.

Also  they learn numbers with the ones and tens method.

They learn the pre writing skills by learning  about all kinds of patterns , numbers, shapes : They learn about the shapes circle, traiangle, square and rectangles. Bring in real things that are in those shapes and explore them. Formation of the shapes with little objects.

Sizes: Comparing the sizes Big and small.

Talk and short, heavy and light, in and out With activities.

Finding the sizes in the nature like tall and short tree.

Discovery Room: The name only tells about this room. Here children have a lot of fun with sand and water as free and imaginative play time . They enjoy pouring water on the sand and changing it from one container to the other etc. They learn how to write numbers and sounds as a sensory play.

Games: Large motor skills are developed by playing with Hula hoops, basket balls, bubbles, slides, balloons, see-saw and  jungle gyms and Number games.

Puppet shows:This is the show children can’t wait to see. Their faces light up like stars while they watch puppet shows. They learn about all the moral values through the stories