At Petals, we have meticulously designed our STEM program (Upper Kindergarten) for children aged five years and above. Our readiness class prepares children to take the next step before Grade 1. Every child grows best when care, creativity, and structure come together. That is the foundation of our innovative program. We nurture their individual needs while focusing on building emotional strength, developing social understanding, and promoting teamwork.
Here, curiosity leads the way. Young minds explore early reading, writing, and mathematics through stories, experiential activities, and regular group time. It sparks ideas, makes sense of patterns, gives language a purpose, and helps them understand basic concepts, including time, sequence, and groups. They begin to connect the dots: what comes first? What sounds go together? How do we explain something clearly? It all begins softly by emphasising communication and problem-solving.
Our STEM curriculum has science, technology, arts, mathematics, and environmental exploration to provide unique, engaging, hands-on experiences in meaningful ways. STEM is for everyone, giving an inclusive platform for kids to use their imaginative skills. It provides fine motor skill-building activities coupled with meaningful connections to the world around them. Some ways to provide these experiences are engaging children through their senses. When a child is engaged by an experience, they are curious, knowledgeable, and confident in themselves to pursue new opportunities.
A Day at Petals Upper Kindergarten
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Morning Basket
Arrival
At the entry gate, teachers welcome the Petalians with a puppet and a smile. They chat with their parents. And on their way to class, children high-five, hug and shake hands, leading to a happier and more social morning.
Circle Time
During Circle time, kids interact with each other to build strong social and cognitive connections. This is a time to build friendships and communication skills through interactive group sessions.
Life Skills
Students participate in periods of meditation, chanting the Gayatri mantra and Geeta Saar. In the process, other life skills like respecting elders, saving energy and water and so on are taught.
Concept Time
Through this thematic approach, children get to make connections and build understanding of their local environment. Regular interaction, comparison, and exploration of concepts enhance their critical thinking capabilities and create a sense of creativity.
Rhyme Time
Unstructured learning opportunities such as rhyming and singing, even during rest, help develop cognitive abilities, focus, spatial awareness, and memory.
Engaging and Inquiry-Based Learning
Reading Time
Petalians go to the library to pick up some books they are interested in. The challenging questions asked by facilitators invite students to deeper learning and help develop language and communication skills.
Montessori Time
With the Montessori materials in the classroom, children use experiential exercises that fully support each child's learning style to become confident, eager learners in the future. Within this time frame, they are also allowed to inquire into, apply, and play with the tools to facilitate exploration.
Fine & Gross Motor Skill Development
Children develop fine and gross motor skills with coordination and new control. They use the same hand each time when performing tasks and can do much on their own, can cut around a shape, draw recognizable pictures, tie laces, skip with alternate feet, stand on one foot for an extended time, ride a bike with training wheels, climb without falling, able to catch and throw a ball, jump with both feet. These activities help to develop their fine and gross motor muscles.
Meal Time
We offer a nutritious four-course meal designed with the guidance of an AIIMS nutritionist, which includes:
Freshly Cooked
Nutritious & Healthy
Seasonal & Regional Cuisines
Fruit Breaks
Language & Literacy Development
In inquiry learning, we will promote receptive and expressive language in Hindi and English. We will ask the Petalians to listen, comprehend, and use these language skills to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas. They explore various concepts such as communication modes, transport (ancient and modern), the universe, and classifications of animals and birds. These discussions help enhance their communication skills. In literacy, they engage with three-letter and four-letter words, digraphs, action words, spatial terms, and pointing out words through stories and flashcards. They begin reading and writing words and sentences, which enhances their language development, comprehension, and confidence in their early reading skills. These activities contribute to both their cognitive and motor skill development.
Logical Development
Students learn numbers 1-200 through a hands-on approach, including addition and subtraction, forward and backward counting, number order, and counting by 2s and 5s. They learn number names (1-50), picture-based math, comparison signs, word problems, fractions, time, and money. Additionally, they recognize 2D shapes and 3D shapes. These activities enhance their logical reasoning, memory retention, and mathematical connections.
Expressive Arts & Designs
Activity Time
Students explore the arts and design through work that engages in wonder and imagination, self-discovery, fine motor skills and self-expression. With drawing, painting, crafts, and picture collages, students are using tools of different types with different mediums. Students who have followed this work into textiles and modelling clay enable exploration of texture through threading, modelling, and form shaping. Block building and recycling encourage problem-solving skills. These activities promote creativity, confidence, and communication, with individual ways of expressing ideas.
Creative Reflection Time
Worksheet time is a fun expression time, a quiet moment where children get to slow down and think about what they have been learning. Whether it's letters, numbers, or simple drawings, these tasks help them make sense of things in their own way.
Recapitulation Time
Recapitulation Time provides opportunities for children to review their day, relate lessons, and reinforce the information learned during the day, strengthening their learning.
Dispersal
At the end of the day, Petalians receive encouragement and support, with smiles and stars. They pack up, hang their bags, and say goodbye to friends and facilitators, eagerly awaiting to come back the next day.
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