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>KindergarTen
Children
attend Kindergarten from around the age of 4½ years and continue
for two years, by which time they are 6. The kindergarten provides
a balanced, comprehensive program that weaves activity and free creative
play through a daily rhythm that nurtures inner vitality. The demands
of formal teaching do not enter here.
- A variety of practical and artistic activities - baking, painting, drawing, modeling and handcrafts - create a rhythm to the week that are coloured by seasonal moods and festival celebrations.
- Songs, nursery rhymes, stories, puppet plays and the children’s own dramatic play nourish their feeling life, cultivate language skills and strengthen the power of imagination.
- Counting games, finger plays, rhythmic movement games and active physical play help build a strong foundation for arithmetic and number skills and develop co-ordination and the ability to concentrate.
- Natural, beautiful materials, shells, seeds, stones, simple dolls and wooden toys, coloured cloths and play frames encourage a rich fantasy life and creative thinking and provide an opportunity for constructive, co-operative play.
- Building, swinging, climbing and balancing, digging, water play, gardening and caring for animals encourage children to feel at home in their body and in the environment.