The Importance Of The Playgroup
Introduction
A Playgroup School, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school, or creche, is a learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education. Playgroup is an organized
group providing care and socialization for children under five. Pre-schooling helps your child think of school as a fun place and reduces anxiety on day one.
Importance:
It’s hard to send your child off to school for the first time, especially when they’re 3 or 4 years old. But giving your child a quality preschool education will set them up for greater success in every area of life. At preschool, children build a strong base in pre-academic and social life skills that will give them a leg up in school and beyond.
The Importance of pre-schooling is as follows:
The importance of preschooling cannot be overstated, as it plays a crucial and transformative role in a child’s early development, setting the stage for lifelong learning and success. During the formative years, children undergo rapid cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth.
Increases Growth and Development:
Playgroups provide children with experiences such as art, craft and construction activities, sand and water play which helps in the increment growth and development of a child.
Communication Skills:
By playing with others, children learn the art of communication. Teachers in playschool teach the child the right use of language and introduce new vocabulary through fun activities.
Building Motor Skills:
Through play and learning with a large number of children, children practice perfect control and coordination of large body movements, as well as small movements of hands and fingers.
Develops Social Skills and Confidence:
In a playgroup, they can do this while still by the support of their parent or main caregiver which gives them a much-needed safety net to develop at their own pace.
Encourages Physical Activity:
Playgroups help children to be active by reaching and grasping, pulling and pushing, moving their head, body, and limbs during daily routines, and during supervised floor play.
Boosts Pre-literacy Skills:
Children sing alphabet songs, learn rhymes that help them distinguish between sounds, listen to read-aloud stories, and play with magnetic alphabets’ to learn these skills, children often develop a sense of excitement and motivation to continue learning. Preschool pre-literacy learning takes place during activities that are interesting to children, which builds positive associations with reading.
Enhancing Decision-Making Skills:
Giving children choices helps them feel like they have some power and control over what they do and is a step in
growing up.
A good way to start giving children choices is to select two or three things and let the child choose from them.
These choices are easy to allow children to make:
“Which book would you like to look at?”
“Would you like to use crayons or paint today?”
“Would you like a bread and butter or a cheese sandwich?”
“Would you like to study or play?
Sharing is Caring:
Sharing is a fundamental skill in life, and it’s one that most children need to learn. Many small children are not fond of letting others play with their toys or giving up other things they see as their own.
Creating and nurturing an environment that promotes a sense of sharing and caring is essential.
Conclusion
Playgroup is the most exciting yet important phase of your child. For the first time, the children come out of their
parent’s shadow and start interacting with the environment. During the playgroup, we ensure that a child develops
affection towards the school, makes new friends, understands the student-teacher relationship, and, primarily, knows there is a world outside their home. No formal learning process starts in the playgroup, while the learning happens through play activities. We focus on improving gross muscle development during this age through Montessori mode.
