Programs

PlayGroup in Bopal, Ahmedabad

AGE: 2-4 YEARS

Toddlers develop their identities as autonomous learners and rapidly build their physical, social, cognitive, and language abilities in an enriching environment. They need many opportunities to engage in rich and rewarding experiences with people, places, and things. The program is designed to encourage the growth of independence, social awareness, sensory skills, and language acquisition in children. The group meets for 2 hours every day from Monday to Friday.

Key Areas in Play Group Curriculum :

1. Learning by exploration.
2. Building communication skills.
3. Encouraging positive peer interaction.
4. Theme based Concept Time.
5. Math Readiness.
6. Language Readiness.
7. Opportunities for fine and gross motor development.
8. Promoting cognitive development.

Key Activities:

1. Sensory Time
2. Story Time
3. Water Play
4. Sand Play
5. Creative Time
6. Library Time
7. Celebration of festivals and special days
8. Field Trips
9. Puppet shows and skits
10. Free Play with Technology Corner

A Day at the Play Group

Start of the day

- Welcome and Free Play - 10 minutes

Children are welcomed into a warm, beautifully set-up classroom filled with energizing music. Through play and social interactions, children channelize their energies and settle into the environment.

- Quality Circle - 30 minutes

Quality Circle time is a daily routine that energises children and fosters a sense of community. As part of the circle time, children engage in yoga/ exercises, puzzles, storytelling, and discussions on specific things, besides delving in colours, art and design explorations. Thus tuning their fine motor skills.

- Music Station time: 30 minutes

Music station time is planned by educators to provide children with opportunities to express and build a sense of rhythm in different areas. Different musical instruments give them hands on experience of sound and melodies. Dances and sing along activities let the little kids express freely and enjoy it too!

- Snack time: 15 minutes

Snack time is an opportunity for educators to model healthy food habits, table manners and discuss different types of foods being eaten in the class and their benefits.

- Sensory Play: 20 minutes

Play group children spend 20 minutes everyday in the indoor gym or the outdoor play area participating in activities focused on strengthening their physical skills - activities include running, climbing, swinging, sand play, cycling, ball play, bubble play, splash pool and more. Sensory station is specially designed by educators with activities designed around sensory exploration.

- Reflection Time: 10 minutes

After an exhausting and eventful day, children and educators gather to recollect their energy and experiences. Reflection time is an opportunity to discuss the activities of the day, participate in storytelling, or sing along rhymes.

The Bell Goes Off

Playgroup Learning Spaces

Outdoor Play Spaces

Apples & Bananas Preschool is equipped with outdoor spaces - active, social, and experimental. In the active play area, children have access to open-ended play equipment where they develop their gross-motor skills through cycling, crawling, and climbing on mounds. The outdoor social area is an interactive and collaborative space. In the experimental outdoor area, children experiment with materials that evoke their multiple senses.

Art and Design Station:

The art and design station, allows children to engage with a range of tools and materials to explore textures and create expressive arts and crafts. Children explore a range of paints such as powder, poster, acrylic, dye, tablet, and oil paints and tools such as stamps, sponges, chalks and earth.

Sensory Station

Interesting wall and interactive installations as well as natural, synthetic, and Montessori materials are a part of this station. These sensory experiences are an opportunity for children to express their emotions and interests. Designed to deepen a child’s conceptual understanding of the world, this station allows children to immerse in smelling and tasting experiences, listening activities, and touch and feel games.

Story Station

The Story Station is a reef of imagination and calm in the classroom or under the tree in nature. Here, children have access to books that need little to no adult supervision such as texture books and picture books. Read-alouds are a central part of this station and help children build their vocabulary and their understanding of the world.

Music Station

At this station, children have access to a wide variety of musical instruments, including keyboards, string instruments, wind and brass instruments, and percussion instruments. They experiment with making sounds by shaking, banging, and plucking materials. They slowly understand loudness, tempo, and basic rhythm which further cognitive development. It also involves dance and singing.

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