Author Archives: Arvinder Kaur

January 30,2013

Early Childhood Environments – Art Area

Preschool classroom is a special place for little learners and is also called early childhood environment. Children and teacher spend most of their waking hours in there. The classroom set up plays a vital role in overall success of the child’s education. Children come to the classroom for learnin

January 11,2013

How to Read to Your Child- Part 1

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / parenting / school readiness
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein Reading to a child in her early years influences the most in achieving the primary grades learning goals. This could be perhaps the best

December 22,2012

Preschool Classroom – Early Childhood Environment

December 11,2012

Make the Most of Your Child’s Playtime

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” Leo F. Buscaglia Parents are the child’s first and favorite playmates. Child is close to you from the beginning and he/she i

November 30,2012

Tips for a Preschool Teacher

We have been talking about different types of children in our blog recently, and were referring more to the parents rather than teacher. However every teacher dealing with preschoolers need support and advises as well. So what shall a Top Preschool in India teacher do to successfully run a class

November 21,2012

Transitions and emotional development in young children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / Kinderpillar / parenting / school readiness
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When a young child moves from one stage to another many changes take place in regards to his emotional and physical development. These changes are called as Transitions. These transitions are very individual and are an essential part of growing up. It is very important to understand a child on socio

November 05,2012

Science in Preschools

By Arvinder Kaur
exploration time / Kinderpillar / school readiness / science / Thinking
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science

“Teacher, why the bubbles are not square?” “How come leaves turn yellow?” “Why do we water the seeds?” Preschool children are naturally very curious. The desire to know everything, explore, question and to investigate is a vital part of their existence. This sense of query lays the found

November 01,2012

Establishing Healthy Food Choices for Young Children

By Arvinder Kaur
Child's wellbeing / Healthy Eating / Kinderpillar / parenting
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eating habits, healthy eating, parenting

The early years of childhood are the critical ones for developing life long eating habits and food preferences. During the age group 2 to 6 years, Children become very responsive to the external exposures like media advertisements of food items, fancy displays of candies and junk food in the markets

October 31,2012

Tattletale – Child’s Behaviour

The child obtains certain skills during the first years of his/her life. When grown up to a preschooler, your kid becomes more and more independent in daily routine activities like eating, going to washroom, doing basic cleaning up. The child is able to make a choice of the things he/she plays

October 26,2012

Learning Readiness

By Arvinder Kaur
Classroom Management / exploration time / Kinderpillar / school readiness / Thinking
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learning

According to the traditional system of education, the aim is to instruct and strengthen the commonly used abilities which are known as three R’s – read, write and arithmetic. A reading task could be a complex process altogether wherein the child needs to memorize the given information combin