Child development

Child development

Child development is based on multiple components which allow a child to progress and to acquire considerable capacities in relation to its environment.

We promote the overall development of the child by stimulating his or her learning in terms of:

We encourage children to listen, observe and participate. This allows them to improve their vocabulary and develop their memories.

We put emphasis on: verbal expression, speaking, songs, nursery rhymes, pictorial vocabulary, the alphabet, digital games, and the reading of the stories.

We also prioritize awakening to reading, by reading or telling stories using pictures, teaching the children to recognize the letters of the alphabet, and by putting books at the children’s disposal.

The educator encourages children to: imitate the sounds of animals, sing, and play games of recognition, listening games, exploration games (noise / silence), and to do puppetry and theater, recite nursery rhymes, and listen to and invent stories.

Our daycare offers a stimulating living environment that allows the child to develop his or her senses, acquire new knowledge and skills, and to understand more and more of the world around him or her. Children build the ability to think creatively and abstractly, to be attentive, to solve problems, to exercise judgment, to memorize and to learn.

• For understanding: We build the child’s ability to listen and understand instruction;
• For attention: Help the child be more focused and attentive for an extended period of time;
• For observation: We build the child’s ability to be more observant about his surroundings;
• For reflection: We help the child develop strategies to solve the problems facing him or her;
• For reasoning: We help the child structure his or her thinking;
• For creativity: We let the child express themselves and explore without constraints.

The observation of nature and scientific experiments are also prioritized to help the child awaken curiosity about the world. .
To develop this dimension, we begin to elucidate the meaning of mathematics, primary colors, geometric shapes, calendar, numbers, measurements and weights.

We invite children to classify, assemble, and demonstrate. Children engage in activities such as fillingand emptying objects in order to develop their sense of observation, and to understand the notion of quantity and recognize differences and similarities.

• We encourage the child to connect with adults and other children, to express themselves and to manage their emotions. Sociability helps to develop a sense of belonging and self-confidence.
• To develop the moral sense: we inculcate in them respect for others and respect for rules and instructions. We use intervention techniques to shift a child’s mood, and to reorient (divert attention). We encourage dialogue through active listening and involve the child in the implementation and development of instructions. The child also learns to respect rules of communication: to speak, to listen, to wait his turn.
We present visual aids in books and educational material to help the child acquire these lessons: posters of instructions and tasks with images, images of emotions, etc.