Our Motto
During their early years, children go through crucial stages of development, and sequential, high-quality early childhood education can have long-lasting, valuable effects on the general development of children. Kinderpillar Junior Kindergarten curriculum was developed for 4+ year old children. A stimulating, nurturing environment is provided to foster child`s creativity, critical thinking and self-confidence. The curriculum specially designed to support child`s social, emotional, and academic skills. Skills are taught through a theme based approach incorporated in daily activities. Various concepts are introduced every day, what makes learning diverse and meaningful.
The curriculum is delivered through combination of group and individual activities, allowing each child to blend in among the peers as well as to enhance his/her personal traits, and discover interests.
Language And Literacy Program
During the preschool years, children`s experiences with communication and literacy begin to form the basis for their later school success. The Language and Literacy program implemented in language and print-rich environments, young children develop vocabulary, extended language skills, and knowledge of the world around them. The program includes learning of the concept of alphabets A-Z (capital, small), phoneme, and activities as pattern writing, word building, sight words, and two letter/three letter words. Reading activities build vocabulary and promote individual reading skills in a small group setting.
Mathematics Program
the environments that are rich in language encourage children to explore the things around them, hence children obtain ideas about basic mathematical concepts. These concepts are number pattern, time, shape, color, quantity etc. The Mathematics program fosters their learning through such activities as sorting/classifying, counting, pairing, patterning, measurements, writing number names - 1 to 100.
Science Program
according to our philosophy young children are natural scientists. They are keen to discover all they can about the world in which they live. Science program allows children participate in simple investigations that help them begin to develop the skills of asking questions, collecting information, conveying findings, and making decisions. Our Science program for Junior Kindergarten includes hands-on experiences, like planting, care for and observation of a plant, exploration of five human senses, basic properties of air, light, and water; discovering the effect when different substances are combined, and many other exciting experiments.
Social Studies Program
Social studies focus on the nature of people and their world, the heritage of the past, and contemporary living and culture. Social Studies Program at our preschool helps children to develop the self-understanding that will facilitate further learning about others and the world around them. Contributing to skills such as problem-solving, decision-making, and working independently and with others in a classroom the program serves as a great foundation for child`s role as a future citizen.
Music And Movement Program
Three- and four-year-old children express themselves through singing and movement, and by playing simple instruments. Like art, music is a form of experiencing, learning, and communicating with others. Music and Movement Program comprises various activities: clapping rhythm patterns and follow the leader, high and low sounds, loud and soft, fast and slow, following rhythm with instruments, singing by themselves and many other. All of them give children opportunity to experiment with music concepts, volume, tempo, and sound.
Physical Development Program
Children explore their physical space and understand how their bodies function in space through active movement experiences. They become more skillful and expressive in their movement from one point in space to another through running, jumping, hopping, and skipping movements. Physical Development program meets these needs of a child and offers climb, roll, jump, slide, crawl, obstacle and circuit courses, group games, catch using a large ball, balancing bar, foam gym, and many other equipments and activities on daily basis.
Personal and Social Development Program – Preschool children develop personal and social skills that enable them to function well within the social setting of the classroom. In the span of Personal and Social Development program children get to know how identify and label emotions, use acceptable methods to express anger and frustration, practice independence with self-care, practice listening behaviours, taking turns, sharing, cooperating, working in small groups.
Fine Arts Program
Young children need to express their ideas, thoughts, and feelings using a variety of symbols.
Junior Kindergarten Fine Arts Program enhances children`s ability to interpret symbols making impact in all areas of development,
including academic learning. Fine Arts Program provides such learning environment where children explore a wide variety of materials
and make discoveries about color, shape, and texture through art experiences. Junior Kindergarten program also offers
various drama activities, through which children learn to express what they know and begin to recognize how others express themselves
through art.
They also begin to gain control of fine-motor muscles and practice hand-eye coordination.