Kindergarten is a school or class for young children between the ages of two and seven years to prepare them for primary education. It is of German origin that means children’s garden. Kindergarten is believed to be the transition period from informal to formal literacy considering that age five is within the critical years where positive experiences must be nurtured to determine school readiness. Several researches support that this is the period of highest growth and development, when the brain develops most rapidly and almost at its fullest. It is also the phase when self- esteem, vision of the world and moral foundations are established. At Kindergarten your child will grow socially and emotionally. Through play, art, dance, music, movement and interacting with others, their ability to think, use and comprehend language and their fine motor skills will be developed.
Most importantly, your child will be learning to become an efficient learner as they develop and expand their communication skills, build their self-confidence, learn to be creative, and develop skills that assist them with reading, writing and mathematics. A first-class kindergarten Capalaba program will offer your child a selection of learning experiences and activities that are both stimulating and fun. Your child’s knowledge and curiosity will be encouraged through experiences and activities, such as discovering the natural world, being exposed to new ideas and solving problems. In Kindergarten, instructional time should concentrate on two critical areas: (1) representing and comparing whole numbers, at first with sets of objects; and (2) describing shapes and space. Kindergarten students use numbers, including written numerals, to represent quantities and to solve quantitative problems, such as counting objects in a set; counting out a given number of objects; comparing sets or numerals; and demonstrating simple joining and separating situations with sets of objects.
Students select, combine, and use effective strategies for solving quantitative questions, including briefly recognizing the cardinalities of small sets of objects, counting and creating sets of given sizes, counting the number of objects in combined sets, or counting the number of objects that remain in a set after some are taken away. Kindergarten Capalaba students describe their physical world by means of geometric ideas such as shape, orientation, spatial relations and vocabulary. They identify, mention, and describe basic two-dimensional shapes, such as squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, and hexagons, presented in a variety of ways, as well as three-dimensional shapes such as cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. They use basic shapes and spatial reasoning to show objects in their environment and to build more complex shapes.
Parents can enroll their child in a financed kindergarten program in a variety of settings, including children’s centers, long day care centers, community kindergartens, independent schools and a small number of government schools. Most four-year-old kindergarten programs are proposed for 15 hours a week. They are able to understand the world by studying their environment as they are inspired to create and discover, that eventually leads them to becoming eager risk takers and ready to engage in formal school works.
