For an outsider, a preschool classroom could be a noisy place with tired educators, screaming toddlers, and toys scattered across the room. However, this classroom is where flames of knowledge are lit via activities to mold the little ones’ future. Though harnessing a toddler’s educational potential may appear an impossible task, it isn’t so in reality. Surprisingly, parents participate in kid-centric activities more than they may recognize.

Play Therapy

This lets students use activity to express their feelings when words fail, or they are incapable of expressing such feelings. Play therapy can be an effective stress buster for kids and let them showcase their knowledge. Such therapy also helps manifest patterns as active students can place themselves in real or imaginary situations. Parents and teachers can find meaning in events and use these experiences to learn more about the children by playing along with them.

Read-Alouds

These are stories teachers or adults read out aloud to kids. This form of active learning helps students decipher words, link meaning to those words, visualize story scenes (with the aid of the book’s graphics), and hear varying sounds of different letters. Read-alouds help preschoolers interact with stories, ask questions, talk about the book, learn things like expressing emotions and handling different situations, and take care of themselves. Thus, this activity teaches preschoolers to self-evaluate their comprehension of the story and the information they’re learning.

Praise the Effort, Not Ability

Praising preschoolers for their efforts is far more vital than praising them for their capacity. Praising them for their natural capacity will make them rely on their inherent talents rather than working to overcome their weaknesses. A crucial thing adults need to remember is that kids develop at diverse rates, and mastering skills for some is easy while others need more time and practice. Children can also learn to identify their mistakes and learn from them.

Feed Ambition

This helps in the development of different areas of the kid’s brain. By encouraging kids to play pretend where they use their imagination to act as if they’re teachers, doctors, chefs, etc., you can build a foundation for their future aspirations and careers. When children visualize themselves as teachers, doctors, or musicians, they develop essential skills faster.

Fingerplay

It’s an old technique, which was used to teach kids numbers, new words, and rhymes. Fingerplay is still used to teach the kids basic skills by engaging multiple senses. Such multisensory learning makes the lessons more meaningful and integrates various learning styles into a single activity. With fingerplay, kids develop skills, such as coordination, visual perception, language development, and musical skills. The rhymes linked to fingerplay are sometimes used for kids with dyslexia later on to facilitate their understanding of sounds, words, and reading to conquer their disability.

Conclusion

When in preschool, kids interact with the outside world to understand their surroundings and learn fast through creative methods. By showing them different ways to understand the stimuli they come across, you can teach them lifelong skills and create a robust foundation they can revisit at any point in their lives.