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Early Readers & Writers – Kindergarten Programme
Our Kindergarten programme is very unique in the Early childhood arena. Our goal is ‘by the end of this programme, all learners will be able to READ level 1 books, WRITE a small paragraph their own thoughts about anything under the sun.
PP1 – Learning sessions in the forenoon. Children bring lunch from home, encouraged to eat on their own in school. Post lunch- short nap till 3pm. Towards III Term, children show readiness for full-day learning, dropping their noon naps.
BMIS believes that when children ‘feel independent’ in their daily routines (eating, dressing up, nap), it has a HUGE positive impact in their Kindergarten goals – to become Independent Readers & writers
Literacy Programme
Literacy – Our literacy program at Budding Minds is designed to caters to multiple intelligences, our differentiated special-needs children too are able to catch up letter sounds with multi-sensory approach, clubbed with sensory activities in-class.
The program aims to make our children become confident readers and writers before they are graduated to Primary.
Makes our four year olds,
- To spell with ease. The words that they used to listen is easy to read with sounds.
- Blend letter sounds together to read those words escalating to reading sentences
- Enjoy whole books, independently.
- Write funny stories by the time they are five to five-and-a-half.
- A whole world has opened up to them at an early age, they can occupy themselves with books to refer. Makes an excellent smooth transition in OUR PRIMARY PROGRAMME.
- Our Principal Sarasa Ashok is one of the Early trainers in India. She has a very unique way of training adults & teachers of various schools across India.
E-Blocks
BMIS Integrates technology into the Early childhood classrooms! ‘E-blocks’ – a multisensory tool – a unique programme in Budding Minds to strengthen Phonics, Numeracy concepts and to develop skills like problem-solving, critical thinking to kindergarten children. This programme is very successful since ___ and we are first school in INDIA/SOUTH INDIA to bring in this exposure…Enquiry – Thematic approach
Here at BMIS we have been committed to a theme based curriculum since we began in 2004.
A theme based curriculum means that each skill area of the curriculum is connected to a topic which we refer to as a theme. This could be a month long theme, or few weeks-long theme. Sometimes themes are very specific, for example in the PP1 class the three year olds might be learning about Seasons as a four week theme. All of their classroom activities would be tied into the theme during the unit.
We know that research shows that learning is an integrated process, and that theme-based education is beneficial in several ways. Rather than teaching each skill or topic in isolation, students are encouraged to see that at different times of the day or through different subjects we can learn about different aspects of a larger topic. In turn this helps students see connections and start to make their own connections from one experience to another. It also helps students become creative in their thinking.
Numeracy
The Numeracy curriculum is beautifully encapsulated with the thematic approach of the Kindergarten. Skill building is our major goal in kindergarten Numeracy classes.
Numeracy is the ability to apply maths concepts in all areas of life.
Numeracy skills involve understanding numbers, counting, solving number problems, measuring, sorting, noticing patterns, adding and subtracting numbers and so on. At BMIS, child’s everyday experiences are full of learning opportunities that lay the foundations for numeracy. Math Games are an integral Numeracy learning tool at BMIS.
During their thematic activities, the child learns maths concepts, it helps his/her understand how and why maths is useful. For example, this happens when the teacher facilitates a discussion on the below through various hands-on experiential activities
- big and small (size)
- high and low (height)
- heavy and light (weight)
- fast and slow (speed)
- close and far (distance)
- first, second and last (order)
- fill a water bottle (capacity)
- divide snack into equal shares (early fractions)
- use words to describe where things are – ‘over’, ‘under’ and ‘next to’ (spatial intelligence)
- help with the shopping and use money to buy things (Add, subtract)
Holistic approach – Kindergarten curriculum
Here at BMIS we have been committed to a theme based curriculum since we began in 2004.
A theme based curriculum means that each skill area of the curriculum is connected to a topic which we refer to as a theme. This could be a month long theme, or few weeks-long theme. Sometimes themes are very specific, for example in the PP1 class the three year olds might be learning about Seasons as a four week theme. All of their classroom activities would be tied into the theme during the unit.
We know that research shows that learning is an integrated process, and that theme-based education is beneficial in several ways. Rather than teaching each skill or topic in isolation, students are encouraged to see that at different times of the day or through different subjects we can learn about different aspects of a larger topic. In turn this helps students see connections and start to make their own connections from one experience to another. It also helps students become creative in their thinking.
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