Little Ducklings School partnered with spring smart to bring your little ones a well-balanced Scholastic and co-scholastic international standards program catering to each child’s functional learning ability. Our early childhood education provides a stimulating play environment for the physical, intellectual, linguistic, social and emotional development of the child encouraging and nurturing the child’s unique unlimited potential.
The theme-based curriculum along with time-proven teaching methods ensure that kids learn by doing and exploring. Concept-based weekly thematic learning reinforces opportunities for children to work in their areas of interest which helps them to make choices based on their natural desires and become more self-reliant. The themes are weekly, so there are 26 themes per academic year. Each theme is taught using innovative play, role-play activities, story-telling, creative writing, arts and crafts and much more.
From an academics perspective
- Our environmental science classwork includes learning about school, family, environment, seasons, weather, nature, plants and trees, animals, colors and shapes
- We teach alphabets as well as oral and written skills in our language classes
- In our mathematics class, children learn numbers, pre-math concepts, size concepts, basic multiplications and utilizing place value concepts
- Our literature classes help improve listening, cognitive and visual abilities by focusing on stories and rhymes
In addition to academics, we focus on the following skills –
- Cognitive development – Children are inquisitive by nature. This natural instinct is encouraged to boost confidence levels and understand the complexities of the world around them. Through enhanced cognitive development, children gain the ability to question and reason the order of things in their life & surroundings.
- Gross motor skills – Gross motor skills involve the larger muscles in the arms, legs, and torso. Gross motor activities include walking, running, throwing, lifting, kicking, etc.
- Fine motor skills – Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscle of the hands, commonly in activities like using pencils, scissors, construction with Lego or Duplo, doing up buttons and opening lunch boxes. The skills can be Academics skills like Pencil skills (scribbling, coloring, drawing, writing), Scissors skills (cutting), etc, Playtime skills like building Lego, Duplo, puzzles, train tracks or Doll dressing and manipulation, etc. and Self-care like dressing ( tying shoelaces, doling up sandals, zips, buttons, belts) or eating (using cutlery, opening lunch boxes and food bags) or hygiene ( cleaning teeth, brushing hair, toileting.)
- Social and personality development – Positive social behavior is the key to maintaining a healthy peer group. Whether it is expressing wants & needs, building conversations or sharing a toy or discussing ideas in a group, these skills promote being sensitive to the emotions of peers and being a team player.
