subject: Preschool Learning: How It Affects Your Little One? [print this page] High-quality pre-school learning has significant long-term benefits for your kids well being and successes as they progress in life. Aside from developing skills required for school readiness, preschool learning empowers children by encouraging them to initiate their own learning activities like build a tower with blocks, cut out different shapes or sometime initiate a play.
The concept of young children initiating their own learning activities rather than acting as mere passive recipients of grasping information from teachers is central to physical, social, cognitive, and artistic development of children.
There will be times when your kid will take part in activities together as a group with his/her friends. Your children will sometimes participate in activities led by the teacher such as learning a new song or listening to a story. In some preschools teachers read to your kid and ask him/her to come up with an ending to a story. They can also play rhyming games with kids. Such activities make learning an interactive process. Another way to make learning fun and interactive is by telling stories that arent in books. At times in preschool your kid will be asked to sit quietly and draw and solve puzzles.
An apt preschool curriculum focuses on:
a)Social- Emotional development of your child. He/she can:
a.Understand feelings and communicate them
b.Develop more self-discipline, responsibility and confidence
c.Show love and respect to peers, teachers, neighbors, parents and family members.
d.Show compassion towards pets
e.Learning to be more independent
f.Be more curious and imaginative
g.Show desire to learn new things
h.Learn to communicate and play with peers and adults
b)Physical Development. Your child learns to :
a)Develop healthy eating habits
b)Learn to take care of their physical health
c)Learn about safety precautions
d)Use fine motor skills with confidence, control and proper coordination
e)Learn new gross motor skills
c)Cognitive Development. Your child can:
a)Acquire problem solving skills
b)Understand Size and sort out object according to size
c)Identify colors
d)Differentiate between shapes
e)Follows simple instructions
f)Demonstrate writing in different ways
g)Learn to understand language and to effectively communicate
