What do Kids Learn in Kindergarten? An overview of skills to develop further in the Kindergarten year
What do Kids Learn in Kindergarten? An overview of skills to develop further in the Kindergarten year
Preschool is crucial to a child’s development and ultimate success at school, laying the foundation for all the learning this is to come.
So while we teach the foundational skills necessary to succeed in school, once they get there the elements for success become ever more clearly defined.
There are seven main areas that will dictate a child’s success at the big school.
The 7 key elements for success at school are:
- Confidence
- Curiosity
- Intentionality
- Self-control
- Relatedness
- Capacity to communicate
- Cooperativeness
- Extend group involvement and language, including engaging with longer, more involved stories.
- Boost self-confidence through activities and social interactions with both other children and adults.
- Enhance the clarity of self-expression through practice, practice and more practice.
- Finish tasks that they start.
- Follow increasingly complex instructions.
- Complete increasingly complicated puzzles.
- Learn about science and the environment.
- Develop higher-level problem-solving skills.
- Gain a stronger sense of independence.
- Learn to play more complicated games and follow rules.
- Refine skills including color, cutting, drawing and shape recognition.
- Strengthened resilience; learning to accept outcomes and handle setbacks and frustrations without getting upset.
- Make informed, responsible decisions and accept the consequences of those decisions.
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