The Importance of Early Childhood Development
Childhood!!!! A stage that is free of all inhibitions and absorbs maximum learning.
A child’s early years can have lifelong physical, social, and emotional impact on an individual. Early childhood offers a critical window of opportunity to pave the journey of a child’s holistic development and build a foundation for their future. For children to achieve their full potential, they need proper hygiene ,health and well balanced nutrition, protection and opportunities for early learning, and responsive caregiving – like talking, singing and playing – with parents ,caregivers and educators.
All of this is to be done as a holistic growth and childhood development, hence early childhood development is of prime importance, following are the main checkpoints that we at Birla Open Minds Pre Schools follow to carve a child’s holistic development.
1. Hands-on activities:
These activities involve sensory play, art play, science experiments, and construction using building blocks. Such activities encourage exploration, creativity, and an understanding of basic scientific concepts.
2. Storytelling, reading, music, and dance:
Reading and storytelling foster language skills, comprehension, and a love for literature. They also enhance imagination and listening abilities, while activities like singing, dancing, and playing simple musical instruments help young students to develop motor skills, rhythm, and self-expression.
3. Group projects and collaborative activities:
Working together on projects teaches children skills such as cooperation, problem-solving, critical thinking and teamwork.
4. Exploration of new cultures and languages:
Activities that introduce children to different cultures, languages, and customs broaden their understanding of the world and promote inclusion. Hence we ask preschools to celebrate all festivals, appreciate the cultures and speak about the same during the classroom activities.
Pre Schools are crucial as it helps in varied skill development of the Toddlers in the following manner.
1. Creativity and Curiosity:
Young children ask questions and are curious for many simple happenings around her/ him, at this age they are at an exploratory stage hence activities of beading, tying the lace, art and craft and field trip fosters the creativity cells in early years of any child.
2. Social Skills:
Till the age of 3 a child spends most of the time with the parents, post age 3 the child learns to collaborate, share and play with peers, develop listening ,speaking and conversational skills with strangers, children mainly understand the social skills by learning and doing with the peers and educators.
3. Language Skills :
At pre schools the LSRW of the students get honed to a large extent , this is learnt through many play way activities such as rhymes, word games, Pictionary and letter games. At pre school the child learns to explore books, skim , read and attempts to decipher the same.
4. Motor Skills :
At pre schools through games , the child develop its motor skills These skills stay with them for life and help them in various life activities , the activities such as lacing, reading, beading, cutting ,sticking , buttoning , painting and outdoor play develops fine and gross motor development.
5. Cognitive Skills :
Pre School curricular and co-curricular activities enhance the child with the their cognitive habits and skills, hence Birla Open Minds Pre Schools give a suite of activities that hones the cognitive domain of the toddlers thereby contributing to the whole some holistic approach.
