The students playing with the 保育士 and building up their communication skills.
During the sticker book time they are asked questions like, how do you spell Monday, or when is your birthday.
Practicing a bit of site reading and thinking skills.
After Lunch clean up yr 4 and 5 will practice their graded reading.
Little Lorikeets is about verbal output and communication skills. So we don't spend much time on writing skills. That is a skill they will pick up from primary school onwards anyway (3rd grade onwards) so it gives them something to look forward to instead of be bored with when it comes.
12 yrs of experience and following the 保育所保育指針 as a guide we have developed a system that works.
Little Lorikeets where results are gained.
From the school principal:
According to the 保育所保育指針 we over the different age groups slowly introduce them to symbols, numbers, signs etc. Foster an interest in others and in nature etc and the other aspects that the guidelines propose.
But it's not about forcing it all on to the students which is what traditional "Education" is about it is about letting them come to an understanding themselves via educing it.
But yet the students in an "International" have an expectation put on them from the parents and teachers expect hours of writing practice etc. All for perceived add value. At regular daycare heck even Kindergarten those expectations are not put on the students.
We at Little Lorikeets find that the ideas from the 保育所保育指針 are more appropriate to developing individuals in to well rounded individuals.
Spending hours a week, silently writing lines and lines of letters and sentences takes away from output and the ability to develop verbal communication skills and interpersonal abilities.
At Little Lorikeets we do focus on graded reading but at a pace that is in line with each individual students level and ability.
This is the key difference