Importance of Leadership in Early Childhood Education
Importance of Leadership in Early Childhood Education
The impact of nurturing leadership skills in early childhood is monumental. Children with leadership skills are more likely to grow into confident, responsible, and resilient adults. These children are better equipped to face challenges and adapt to change. They also stand up for their beliefs.
Moreover, leadership skills are instrumental in developing emotional intelligence. These skills help our little ones understand and manage their emotions and empathise with others. They would also be able to build strong, positive relationships.
Parental Roles in Inculcating Leadership Skills Beyond the Classroom
The development of leadership skills is not limited to the boundaries of the classroom. Parents play a critical role in fostering these skills outside of school hours. How you communicate with your child, how you model social interactions, and how you guide your child in resolving conflicts can significantly influence their leadership capabilities.
Begin by encouraging self-expression at home. Let your child voice their thoughts, ideas, and feelings. This not only develops their communication skills but also builds self-confidence. Additionally, providing your child with age-appropriate responsibilities helps instil a sense of accountability and independence, vital traits of a good leader.
Promote activities that involve team collaboration. This could be a simple family project, where your child can learn the dynamics of teamwork and understand the importance of each member’s role.
Lastly, remember to model empathy, active listening, and sound decision-making. Children learn a lot by observing adult behaviour, making it essential to exhibit positive leadership traits.
In this Horticulture session Nursery learners saw various aquatic plants, some were real plants and some were images. They observed the money plant, it's leaves, colour, texture etc. Few learners were telling that "We have this same plant at home". Some remembered the fish tank in their homes on listening the word 'aquatic'. After observing, they cut the money plant using a pair of scissors with the help of teacher and then kept the same cuttings in the container filled with water.
Nursery learners learnt and practiced Left and Right concept by showing the objects in their hands. Then they did the Palm Printing activity on a white sheet by using poster color.
While doing the activity some of the learners started saying left hand and right hand.
All the learners enthusiastically participated in the activity and completed the task.
Our Nursery learners learnt about the importance of traffic signals. They played a traffic signal game and started sticking the cut-out of Red, Yellow and Green color circle on black sheet and then they arranged in the scrapbook.
Prehistoric art...
Learning of art history is study of art from across the world and from the ancient. In this Art session our super excited K1 learners enjoyed the shadow art story regarding art in history. After story time they made wonderful stone tools using clay. And last but not the least learners enjoyed games of finding tools in sand.
Learners of K1 enhanced their understanding of vowels by writing the vowels a,e,i,o,u on the ice cream sticks and then they assembled it on the scrapbook making a vowels bouquet on letter 'V' shaped vase.
Learning Tens concept in Math with different patterns enhances the knowledge of preschoolers.
K1 learners learnt and practice Tens Frame for numbers up to 20. They made dots for the number in the sheet where they made 10 dots in the first frame and remaining number in the second frame.
Circle time is the fun time of the day when all the learners come together and celebrate the moment. Usually circle time is being conducted before starting the regular class so that all the learners get energized and ready for the day.
K2 learners engaged in circle time fun moment to start their day where Uno learners played Colour Station game and divided the class in four coloured stations, as the music stopped they were supposed to go to any station.
Ekam learners played chinese whisper where all the learners formed a circle and they had to pass a message given by teacher by whispering to their friend's ears and the pattern followed thereafter.
Ena learners were engaged in book balancing where each child was asked to balance their book along with some body formation.
" The most important thing in communication is to hear what is being said"- Peter Drucker.
K2 learners were explained ancient and modern communication with pictures and a PPT presentation. To demonstrate the concept they were asked to get cutouts of few ancient and modern communication picture and then they pasted those in the scrap book .
K2 learners are now done with many 2 dimensional shapes and approaching towards 3 dimensional shapes. Recently they have come across Pyramid and its properties. To get a hands on experience learners were asked to construct a Pyramid with the help of straws and connector. Each learner got straws and connectors to build the shape. All the learners participated in the activity and completed the task.
Learners of Kanakia Kids are always excited and eager to have their snack during the school hours. Last week learners were served pumpkin poori with chole and kachumber. All the learners were delighted after looking at the delicious food and ate it well.
All the learners rejoiced the day filled with healthy as well as mouth watering food.