Play and SmartMoves
Smart Moves program consist of the following set of activities:
- Physical exercises to activate both left, right brain,
- Gross motor activities to improve larger muscles and stamina,
- Fine motor activities to improve smaller muscles
- Play (free play, imaginative play, pretend play, constructive play, etc.).
Reading
In many schools, children are taught first to memorize the alphabet and the sounds, and then piece together phonics into words and finally sentences. But, the iPlay program focuses on Comprehension first approach. Reading is encouraged through whole language approaches. The child is led from the whole to the parts and they inwardly connected with the content. This approach enables the children to read with ease by the time they come to Grade 1.
Writing
Generally, schools teach and drill children with copywriting. For example, most of the writing done by the child will be either copied from a book or copied from the teacher's board. The idea of asking them to write their sentences from Grade 1 onwards is to teach the children that written text is for connecting their thoughts in their mind to express in printed form.
Mathematics
In iPlay, the mathematics curriculum is to impart four major skills. We give equal importance to all four skills, unlike standard practices of teaching only the calculation and computing skills. The curriculum is designed with activities and learning materials, and books.
- Calculation & Counting
- Applying Mathematics
- Measurements
- Data handling
Science
In iPlay, we teach scientific thinking skills besides introducing science concepts.
- Observing, Measuring, Recording
- Classifying - Inferring-Analyzing- Interpreting the observed fact, data
- Inquiring- Experimenting-Evaluating
- Synthesizing- Creating- Applying learnt concept to new context
- Defining-Modeling – Communicating the concepts
The concepts under science are organized and taught under the above skills. For each of the skills, activities and learning material are provided for the various concepts.
Extra Curriculars
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In the iPlay Program, all children from LKG are exposed to Keyboard in music classes. They learn freestyle dance in the early years and slowly move to semi-classical or contemporary format.
All children from age 2 are encouraged to play SportyBeans program and in that, we help children learn to play 9 different ball games. (1. Football, 2. Basketball, 3. Volleyball, 4. Golf, 5. Tennis, 6. Cricket, 7. Rugby, 8. Hockey, 9. Baseball). This is India's only research backed sports curriculum for the early years and it teaches children to play in a social, non-competitive, team-based environment.
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