Pretend Play
Pretend play and dramatization is the centre of existence because it is a valuable form of communication. Pretend play promotes communication skills, teamwork, dialogue, negotiation, socialization and so much more. It stimulates the imagination and creativity, develops a better understanding of human behaviour and empathy with situations that might seem distant. It allows the development of critical thinking and allows us to make better and more conscious decisions, encourages us to use our bodies and our voices, encourages and inspires us to say “no”, to stand for, to speak up. Few useful gains for using pretend play in education are achieving expression of feelings in a healthy way, developing creative imagination in children, giving a chance to children to think and express themselves independently and developing children's social awareness and cooperative consciousness.
Even introverted children can take just a few weeks to gently build up their self-esteem and before long they are confident to take a full and active part in sessions. Learning new songs, playing new games, and participating in pretend play, all can contribute to a child's developing vocabulary. They are encouraged to express themselves verbally, through facial expressions and body language, which can act as a key to making them better communicators. By encouraging children to 'act out' a range of emotions, children are better able to understand their feelings and develop empathy for others.
The children can enact the characters so that they get better insights into the ancient characters, events, episodes etc. The children are actively involved as they can feel the emotions of the characters which they play. All senses are actively involved so learning is better. It includes development of skills like listening, speaking and reading and even writing. There is a deviation from the regular teaching so it is innovative and creates interest among children. We can get involved with our children in helping them enact. This can not only help in developing a bond with them but also make it easy for them to express their emotions to people around.
Thank you,
Raminder Kaur
Coordinator- Early Years
Kanakia Kids Global
Learning Engagements @ Nursery
The letter U acts as a consonant when it comes right after the letter Q, as in quit or mosquito.
Letter 'Uu'
Nursery learners were acquainted with letter 'Uu' through flash cards, phonic song and interesting images like umbrella, utensils, unicycle, unicorn any many more.
Our tiny tots enthusiastically participated in making letter u by using clay.
Then they started sticking the cutout of an umbrella and coloured the same. For the handle they used ice cream stick.
Rectangles are quadrilateral, ‘quad’ meaning ‘4’ and ‘lateral’ meaning ‘sides’.
Rectangle
Nursery learners were engaged in creating a rectangle shape by folding the origami paper and made rectangle shape then they applied glue and started sticking the rectangle shape in an scrap book. Learners gained a great understanding of rectangle shape.
Singing dissolves stress excellently.
Follow the leader!
Music! This universal language makes learning easier for our learners. Beats, rhythm and tempo stimulate young minds, encouraging pattern recognition and auditory discrimination. In this session, learners grooved to the beats and maintained tempo. They took a 2 minute pause to rest by doing some breathing exercises. Later, each learner got a chance to lead the rest of the class to the beats they played on the instrument jingles, with beat patterns of 2, 3 and 4 counts.
Learning Engagements @K1
Letter L:
Pronounced just the same whether alone, as in lamp, or in a pair, as in full. And then completely silent, as in walk.
English- Letter 'Ll'
Learners explored the nature by feeling the texture of the leaves in their hands. They explored more by dipping the leaf in the poster color of their choice and taking the print on letter 'Ll'. They found that all leaves print are different. Some were saying the sound of letter 'Ll' while doing the activity and some were also busy in differentiating the size of the leaves while taking the print.
Free play
The rain can fall
The sun can go away
But I don't stop
I love to play all day.
Learners had a fun time in their Play lab. They were very excited to explore such colourful child friendly learning equipments. Some were busy in fitting nut bolts of various colours. Some were busy stacking the rings and arranging according to their sizes. Learners had fun with straw connector by making different shapes. The light table with sand table top was very fascinating. Some used the magnifying glass to explore the beam light passing through the colourful coins. The learners were also attracted towards the pretend play corner where they played with kitchen sets and pretended to be different community helpers by wearing their uniform and using their tools. Learners also showed their numeracy skill by counting the beads and making different shapes out of bottle caps. They even used the wooden writing tools, music instrumental puzzle and much more. Some explored the sensory touch on the sensory wall. A tower, bridge, building, pyramid were made up using the building blocks. It was an amazing freeplay and they had lots and lots of fun in the play lab.
Dynamic play!
Music helps increase a child's sensory development. In music, dynamics are the volume level. Dynamics add excitement and emotion to songs. In this session, learners learnt about dynamics; loud and soft, and to identify it. They also went on to demonstrate loud and soft dynamics on the percussion instrument 'djembe'.
Learning Engagements @ K2
Let's go hunting
A supermarket is a place where we get many things; we have to rush from one corner to another to get them. To make this topic more interesting one game called scavenger hunt was played in the class. This game was played in a group. The learners had to search for items that the teacher had hidden in the class. The learners had to search for those items and gather them in one place. The learners enjoyed this game, they also learned to work in a team.
The largest one-digit number that we can make using ones is 9 and the largest two-digit number is 99.
Tens and Ones
This is a simple tens and ones activity. All you need is a small cutout of a cloud shape, a pipe cleaner, and a few big and small straw pieces. In this activity, the learners were given a cloud-shaped cutout with a two-digit number written on it. The learners had to attach the pipe cleaner to the cloud and they had to put big straw pieces in ten places and small pieces in ones place according to the number written on the cloud. The learners understood the concept of tens and ones and also enjoyed the game.
Ena.mp4Rhythm Claps
Listening to and creating music helps children learn numeracy, literacy and emotional skills. Incorporating music into routines and play in the early years has a positive influence on children. In this session, learners learnt to clap to various rhythm patterns, where all of them had to groove to the rhythm displayed on the board as well as to the rhythm played on the music on loop. The rhythm played on music had a lot of variations, which made the learners think and respond quickly to the rhythm patterns.