Kindergarten

By age 4, our kindergarteners start reading and by the end of age 5 they are able to read three to four letter words and sentences.

• Language: The language programme at the Kindergarten is an exciting blend of phonics and the whole language approach. Children work and play with words and objects to develop and improve speaking and language skills. The success of this unique programme reflects in the Kindergarteners’ confident communication skills and their ability to read fluently and write with confidence.
• Math: Children explore numbers through concrete hands-on activities, which enable them to understand quantities and operations. Through counting games, number rhymes, puzzles, challenges, and other interesting activities, children acquire a firm understanding and a love for math.
• Science, Discovery and Explorations: Children at this age demonstrate a keen interest in exploring and discovering the world around them. The curriculum provides loaded stimuli from the immediate environment to allow observation, investigation, exploration, questioning and documentation of the children’s unique discoveries in many ways.
• Sand and Water: Soothing play materials that improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, these also kick start the imagination and facilitate group activity. Sand play is a catalyst for developing concepts, constructing language, and promoting social skills. It gives children a chance to observe science concepts like wet and dry, volume, pouring and sifting, and other cause and effect phenomena in a hands-on way.
• Cooking and Baking: These and other work skills help children experience the satisfaction of everyday tasks, and also absorb a multitude of math, science and language skills.
• Gardening and Working with Nature: To develop sensitivity to the environment, observational skills and taking responsibility through acts of caring and nurturing.
• Clay Work and Pottery: To develop fine motor skills and creative expression.
• Block Play: To nurture creative thinking and enable articulation of ideas.
• Dramatic / Symbolic Play: Giving the child a chance to enter a world of fantasy, as well as express a view of the world as she sees it.
• Art and Craft: Integral to the way children learn, and how they document their inner worlds and outer experiences, and a great way to connect to the child.
• Music and Movement: Children engage in creative dance movements, learn to play simple musical instruments and to sing.
• Theatre, Storytelling and Puppetry: Used to develop the child’s social, emotional and communication skills. A useful tool during thematic teaching.
• Community Connections: The curriculum facilitates regular interactions with the community. Parent and grandparent volunteers accompany children on field trips and help many a theme or project come alive with their visits, inputs and experiences.
• Physical Education, Games, and Movement: Includes swings, slides, balancing beams, rope ladders, obstacles etc. Children are guided by trained professionals to develop coordination, teamwork, independence and confidence.
• Excursions and Field Trips: Children visit surrounding farms, interact with local communities and glimpse their culture and lifestyles. These excursions also help widen knowledge of the environment, besides expanding observational skills.