Thursday 29 September 2016

NEW ENROLLMENT FOR YEAR 2017


Learn through play; Play through learn. At our kindergarten, we expose young children to “divergent thinking” through educating toys and activities. It is known as the backbone of creativity. It consists of a two-step thought process. Example, through building blocks, a child will learn that he or she needs to use the biggest block at the bottom as foundation if he or she doesn’t want the ‘tower’ to fall apart. First, his or her mind will run through the existing knowledge stored. Then, it will create new ideas on how to use his or her on-hand tools efficiently.

A research on kindergartners’ creativity was carried out by Kyung Hee Kim, Ph.D., an educational psychologist at the College of William & Mary shows that creativity scores have significantly decreased since 1990. To make things worse, parents nowadays are demanding increasingly on academic achievement and put less emphasis on creative, child-driven learning. Hence, kindergartens have no choice, but to revise their educating syllabus towards this direction. According to Jennifer Keys Adair, Ph.D., an early-education expert at the University of Texas, this focus on rote memorization is not positive at all to cultivating strong creative thinkers. She continues, “Children aren't given the opportunity to express their own ideas or come up with their own way of doing things. Instead, the answer is A or B or C. There is only one right answer.”

      Again, our kindergarten focus on a balance of activities to ensure your child's thorough growth. Your child at our kindergarten, is not just to learn about letters and numbers but also other creative activities like painting, performing and pretending (drama activities).


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