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Sneha's Imagination Station

Date : 2024-10-10

We are early childhood educators and authentic play is our virtue.

Sneha’s Imagination Station is a center for Early Childhood Education and we provide an environment for children to explore the world through their own eyes, hands, ears and all senses.

Our proficient educators are dedicated to providing the best early childhood education, ensuring your child reaches important developmental milestones.

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A Castle can not be built on a first day

Date : 2024-10-30

PLAY – Where learning starts

Play and learning is not a different thing. It is a false interpretation of an adult but not for a child. Child is a natural learner; an inquirer and they are doing it every single moment every day.

If you observe children, they are continuously doing something and they are deriving something out of it. As an adult, we just see that they are doing something which does not make sense for you but for them it is the only thing they want to do right now on this planet earth.

You just say they are PLAYING. They are JUST PLAYING. Because of this way of looking at it, the word PLAY has become non-worthy and PLAY as well.

Play while Learn, learn while play

I always give open-ended materials to children. And sometimes not even any specific materials rather I just give any natural thing and I wonder how much they learn while they are just playing.

Let me give you an example of what they learn why they are playing with water – JUST water.

When pouring a water from 1 jar to another jar, and repeatedly emptying and filling the jar. Firstly it enhances their fine and gross motor skills, and good physical exercise while they carry, splash and run with water. Secondly, children learn the weight, heaviness of the jar while there is water and lightness when the jar is empty.

Then they mix colors in water and observe how colorless water becomes colorful. It is nothing short of magic for them. It is full of surprises for them. They keep on adding color and try to see it again and again how the color of water is changing.

Now they drop the water in sand and suddenly the water disappears. Now they started puzzling where the water is gone and why the color of sand becomes a little darker. They start digging up the sand to check where the water is gone. While digging up the sand with their hands, now they start feeling a different sensation of wet and dry sand. Now their focus moves on how the wet sand feels between their fingers. They start using the same scopper used for water to dig out the wet sand. Now they start understanding the difference of weight while carrying water and sand.

And let me tell you this is just the beginning of the Play. Then after it is a long process and journey of different experiences while playing with water and sand. Journey of experiencing different senses like dryness, wetness, coolness, heaviness etc. and journey of different emotions like surprises, struggles, frustration, magic and happiness.

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Learning happens when instruction stops

Date : 2024-11-06

Every child is born with curiosity

Nature has built us with a basic instinct called ‘curiosity’. Curiosity to see, touch, smell, taste, feel and that is the basis of learning anything. Humans are hardwired to do all these things in a way to experience and understand this world. We need to be curious about things that we want to know, and curiosity comes naturally to children.

Misconception about learning

It is a big misconception of many people that we can learn only when someone teaches us or instructs us otherwise, we cannot learn. In reality the scenario is exactly opposite, we only learn when we really want to explore/experience it.

Today, everyone focuses on learning without understanding the basic nature of learning. Every parent likes their children to learn things faster from an earlier age and that’s why they start putting their child into different activity centers and institutes from early ages.

Some parents are not even aware about whether their child is really interested in learning it or not. Parents are totally unaware that their child is an independent learner and does not require any specific methodology to learn something.

Understand basic nature of Learning

Try to understand this way, how can you teach a child a drawing/painting? Drawing can not be taught and it is not a question of learning. Drawing/Painting is an art and art can not be taught, it can only be experienced, isn’t it so? Try to name any painter who goes to school to learn painting and then become a painter. And this applies to all of us.

Try to remember our earlier years when we hated mathematics but our parents still forced us to attend the classes for it. And it becomes even worse when we score less marks and now parents push us for extra classes for it. Wasn’t it worse? We got less marks because we are not at all interested in it or we hated the way it was taught by our teacher or maybe for any other reason. The question here is whether we really want to learn it or not? Basically, by forcing we have already crushed the interest of learning also. Learning can not happen in this way.

Let children be an inquirer

Learning can only happen when you allow your child to be curious about it. Provide an environment for children where they can stay with their curiosity, which gives them opportunities for going into the process of inquiring. Let them ask questions, let them inquire about the smallest details and let them be their own explorer.

All children learn differently in their time and space. So don’t judge or stop their process of learning. And also do not give any answer to their question if you really do not know the subject matter. Let children answer their question and at the end you will see the joy of learning on their face.

Learning is a process and not the end result

Whenever you find that your child is asking something, consider that they are already in the process of learning. Learning is a process, not an outcome. Now, it is your responsibility to know how you respond to your child. If you respond with the same enthusiasm and interest then it will be a beautiful journey of learning. Otherwise, they will lose interest and drop the inquiry.

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