Playgroup

Research has shown that your baby's first three years are really important for brain development, future health and well being. Playgroup is an environment to provide support, fun and learning for parents, who meet together each week with their children from 0 month to age 4. Your children are small for such a short time and changes happen quickly as they grow and develop. I have chosen to make the most of this special time in my children's life. I would like to invite you and your children to be part of our precious moments.

What is Playgroup?

Playgroup is an informal and consistent (1 1/2 hours) play session for parents, caregivers and children to meet once a week. It is different from child care, kindergarten and pre-school, because adults are attending with their children (from age 0 to age 4). No child is too young for playgroup, including babies.

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All children love to play, and they learn the best during their play time.
All children love to move, and they move to learn.
All children love to be loved, and they count love as TIME.

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Activities and benefits of playgroup

• music & movement: appreciate and love music, establish steady beat, enjoy travelling and stationery movement.
• story book time: encourage imagination, focusing and listening skills.
• play dough: explore texture, create shapes, strengthen muscles, fine motor skills and creativity
• drawing & painting: develop creativity, imagination and coordination, communicate ideas
• cutting & pasting: create ideas, shapes
• calendar chart: recognise days, weeks, months and weather
• cooking: inspire with the art of cooking
• puzzles: encourage coordination, shape and picture recognition.
• apparatus: discover colours, sorting shapes, size, texture, weight, measurement.

(Montessori apparatus: dressing frames, long rods, number rods, broad stairs, natural tower, nature puzzles, sound box, smell box, weight box, touch box, threading, etc.)

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Children will have an opportunity to:

• have fun
• make new friends
• interact with other adults and children
• participate in new experiences
• learn in sharing
• build self-confidence
• gain independence
• develop verbal and non verbal communication skills through contact with other children and adults
• develop fine and gross motor skills, better body control, hand to eye coordination, when they play with balls, sand bags, puzzles

Parents or caregivers will have an opportunity to:

• spend quality time with their children
• establish parent-child bonding
• encourage, help or simply play with their children
• meet other parents or caregivers and develop new friendships
• relax and talk in a friendly, healthy and nurturing environment
• share ideas, experiences, problems and learn from other parents while their children are playing