Nursery Activities to get your Child Ready for School

Going to school is an important milestone in your child’s life. As a parent, you can help your child get physically and mentally ready for this milestone.

Here are some successful ways to get your child ready the way he/she understands the best – by way of play and fun.

Teach Kids to Categorise

Grocery shopping is a wonderful way to teach your kid to categorise. Sit with your child and identify each item in your grocery bag – vegetables, fruits, packaged products and so on.

Categorisation helps kids with item identification, sorting and broader thinking. When they enter the classroom, it will be easier for them to group systems such as numbers, alphabets and characters correctly.

They can even think of newer categories on their own and assign them accordingly.

Efficient categorisation helps with clear thinking, problem-solving and sound decision making as your child grows up.

Teach them to Identify Emotions

Use a set of magnets with different emotions written on them. Enact each emotion and get your child to identify the magnet that best describes the emotion.

Identifying emotions is an important skill for understanding oneself and reacting in an appropriate manner in the classroom. As your child grows up, this skill will give her the right confidence to manage unpleasant situations in classrooms.

Teach them to Use their Senses

Use different objects for this game. Allow some time for your child to observe all the objects.

Then pick an object at random and cover it with a cloth. Now, have the kids touch it and identify the object. This is a great way to teach about touch.

Get different age-appropriate objects to teach them about taste, sight, smell and sound.

One of the best ways to teach kids about senses is through educational messy play. This is an innovative teaching method where children get to use their senses while using different materials such as chalks, pencils and paintbrushes.

Try Little Learners

At Little Learners, we specialise in educational messy play. We are an award-winning preschool that enjoys a 5-star rating from parents for our innovative messy play classes. We prepare your child for school by teaching them multiple valuable skills including writing, connecting socially, communication, exploration and self-thinking.

Our fully qualified and well-trained teachers use messy play classes to train kids in the ways they learn best – through fun and play!

Children are encouraged to dance, scribble, draw, paint, and do anything and everything they can, using their bodies. Different play materials are provided to the children for the purpose.

Educational messy play develops multiple skills like exploration, experimentation, self-expression and pattern recognition. Children learn to play and use their senses and bodies to grasp new things in messy play classes.

These classes encourage the use of hands, legs, fingers and toes, which strengthens the core muscles. Your child learns to have a better grip on objects, which makes writing easier as they move to school.

Why not try this method by booking a messy play class?