At kindergarten care Capalaba, you will not see children sitting
at tables doing formal classroom instruction, but there are lots of opportunities
for children to engage in meaningful, planned-for play. At kindergarten care Capalaba you
will see children playing together, sharing toys and ideas, cooperating on how
to build projects, playing games, remembering community rules and building confidence
to talk to a group and with adults. All the play-based learning activities are
designed to be appropriate for young children and do not stifle the children’s
creativity and thinking. Kindergarten care avoids formal education to enable
the children to develop cooperative and coping skills on their own time. The
kindergarten care learning model incorporates and gives importance to what
children are interested in. Literacy, life skills, social skills, and
creativity are all included and taught, and the children are constantly
assessed against the framework of kindergarten care learning and appropriate
developmental maturity of the children, to ensure that all learning is within
the developmental level for their age group. During kindergarten care, play-based
learning is intentionally planned to actively create opportunities for children
to engage in play-based learning activities that will lead them to discoveries,
new skills, and new ways of thinking. At kindergarten care, children learn in a
more organic and natural way.
Kindergarten care identifies all children learn in many
and very different ways. Through a combination of different play-based learning
styles. Kindergarten care educators facilitate each child’s learning style to
get the best learning outcome for every child. Kindergarten care practices
play-based learning activities and recognize the essential need to support and
enhance young children’s learning from birth to five years of age, as well as
assist and encourage the children on their transition to formal schooling. Kindergarten care play-based learning may
vary between play settings and children’s attitudes toward learning, but
kindergarten care places children in a learning environment where learning is strongly
based on the interests of children.
Kindergarten care places a strong emphasis on play-based
learning activities as play is considered the best activity for young children
to learn, and play-based learning provides the best stimulus for children’s brain
development. Kindergarten care devotes most of its learning time to children’s
play, allowing children to fully explore and experience the activities that they
are doing. At kindergarten care, children develop an identity, connectedness to
others, active learning and communication. These learning outcomes are
recognized by kindergarten care as essential for a child to succeed through
life and enhance their success as they start formal school. Kindergarten care
focuses on play and how the children learn through engagement with their peers,
with trained adults supervising all their interactions. Kindergarten care also
recognizes the importance of communication and language, proper social
interactions and emotional development.
Kindergarten care
also operates as a multi-aged group of children, as it has been found as one of
the most effective ways for children to learn and engage with their peers and
others. Kindergarten care mixes children of all ages and developmental stages.
This builds on the children’s self-confidence, encourages their empathy towards
others, and develops their coping skills. It has been recognized by
kindergarten care that younger children learn from older children and is one of
the best ways to gain new skills while preventing frustrations. The varying age
grouping also reflects the broader environment that children live in which gives
children the adaptiveness and understanding in interacting with children older
and younger than them.
