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BABY&MOTHER PLAYGROUPS

At weekends, we have baby&mother play groups, which are accompanied by our trainers to help mothers and babies have entertaining and high quality time through games,art and various activities.

The Program:

10.00:   Arriving Joyfull House and greeting

Recovering from the moing sleepiness and saying good morning to classmates

10.00-10.15 Free play

Play freely in any play corner they choose

10.15-10.45 Handcrafts

Our teacher  teaches  how to make ceramics with clay and how to use the paints.  They paint and create brand new artworks combining different materials. They  join group works together with friends. Handcrafts support the fine motor development of children as well as improving their skills in art.

10.45-11.00 Physical activities

Climbing, Balance platform, tunnel games, passing through hoops, trampoline

Physical activities support psycho-motor development as well as entertaining them

11.00-11.15 Eating  fruit  with their mothers  within the group

Eating together with the group enables them to learn of the social rules

11.15-11.30 Circle Time

They learn the colors, numbers, professions, basic concepts. The teacher  introduces them a new subject every week through puppet shows, songs, poems, rhymes and finger plays

The  activity, proceeding with q&a, aims getting the child  used to talk in front of a group and improve his skills for continuing a dialogue,as well as  helping him to utilize the mother tongue efficiently,  enriching the vocabulary and enhancing the pronunciation.

Puppet and finger play supports the development of self confidence, language and imagination improvement

11.30-11.45 Group plays

The  teacher explains the rules of a  game and I they  try to comply with the rules

Group play has an important effect on  complying with rules in the group, sharing, helping, adapting and problem solving skills

11.45-12.00 Preparation time

Changing clothes etc. before leaving.

 

 

PLAY GROUP

Joyfull House  offers 1.5-3 years old(18-36 months) children a wide variety of options in the playgroup , either in line with the preferences of the mother and the child or for ensuring a soft adaptation period: 5 half days, 3 half days, 2 half days, or 5 full days, 3 full days, 2 full days. We have two separate classes, each maximum of 15 people, for 18-27 and 28-36 months old children. Child development experts attend  our groups

We service for long hours, from 08.00-18.30, bearing in mind the working parents. Our routine day starts at 9.00 and ends at 13.00 or 16.30. Weekday program starts with yoga class every moing right after free play time and beakfast

What is the difference of play group?

Play group  is the first step that toddlers (children of 18-36 month) leave their mothers to spend time in a classroom together with a teacher.  According to the adaptation process of the child mothers/babysitters spend some time differing between a couple of weeks  with the child in the play group. After the adaptation process, children can stay in the group with their teachers and friends. During this period the linguistic and cognitive development of the child is being supported. Children improve in the areas of vocabulary development, articulation, toilet training, playing, eating and communicating with the group.

The most pleasing situation for the play group teacher is too see the children growing up rapidly.

Our activities:

Yoga: Everyday they start the day with mini yoga accompanied  with various games.

Free play: Free play is done with the mother in the corner of interest inside the classroom or with the teacher in the garden.

Play time is a precious time period when all the development areas of our children are supported. In the playground areas, that have been organized accordingly, children play in a corner of interest with the teache rguiding them

Language activities: Activities such as finger play, rhymes, story and tale telling, reading on certain subjects, watching visual aids are performed

Art activities: Activities  supporting the subjects scheduled in the yearly program, playing with play dough which supports the motor muscle development, tearing and pasting,  coloring,  and activities that require scissor using are performed. Activities performed with the scissors are done towards the end of the year, in accordance with the muscle development of childre

English: Everyday studies are done for 20 minutes  with the English teacher and their class teacher, in order to get acquainted with the language.

Drama-dance-music: Listening and singing songs that reinforce  the topics they learn, musical dramatizations and games are performed

Culinary activities: Small hands are in the kitchen…Through the kitchen activities various concepts are introduced, children have fun, learn and taste different flavors, spend entertaining time

Games : Active and peaceful games appropriate for their ages  are played together with their group teachers

 

Meal

For the children attending full-day program breakfast-fruit time-lunch-afternoon snack,for those attending half-day breakfast-snack time-lunch are served. While eating the delicious food, children also learn how to sit at a table with the group, table manners and  to wait in line.

His/her mother, father or someone that he trusts can be present at  school together with the child during the adaptation period. Within time a relation based on love and trust is set up between the child and the teacher. When this relation is established the child is ready to stay alone in the school. If this period is extended more and more, efficient solutions will be developed together with our teachers

To understand the play group better:

Two separate groups for 18-26 months old and 27-36 months old children

Separate groups for those in adaptation period and for those already are used to school

15 minutes long activity programs in accordance with their attention span

To aid the parents about toilet training

Training support for the parents

Seminars every 45 days-Psychologist&parent meetings

Child observation forms that are shared with the parents

Gradual adaptation period(with the help of the psychologist)

Mother&baby programs at weekends

 

 

3-6 YEARS TALENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Our aim is to identify, improve and support the skills and talents of our kids with the help of expert teachers. The kids don’t spend their whole da in one class. On the contrary they rotate among the classes full equipped for each subject area.

 YOGA : we start the day with yoga. Mini Yoga Project is especially designed for kindergartens, child care centers and clubs having students of 5-12 year olds.  

HANDCRAFTS:In our special class an expert teacher gives the lesson. She helps kids to discover their own skills and improve them through art, models, ceramics, wood painting, puppets, fabric painting, marbled painting,etc.

MUSIC: We try to bring   feeling of  rythm into picture, support it, enable the kids to identfy different sounds, and work on orff technique

DRAMA : We try to bring the kids’ creativity into Picture, encourage them more, do activities to improve their mimics,gestures, and tonation

BALLET / DANCE:  With the help and guidance of our teacher students have  healthy and well-built bodies, they learn to lead their energy into proper activities, such as rythm, ballet, streching and dance. 

MOVEMENT AND COORDINATION : With this education kids learn how important sport is for a healthy life, and they start to think of a sport to do. 

STEM: Various education programs such as High Scope (active learning) which consists of experiments, field trips, grouping, matching, concepts and working with numbers, Gems (Science-Math), Scamper (Thinking from different points of views),and Reggio Emilia (Learning through experience) guide us in these lessons.
 

GAMES: planned and free games such as repairing, doing puzzles,climbing,etc are part of Active learning System. These games are very effective in learning. 


GARDEN TIME: We believe that all weather conditions are ok to go out if you wear appropriate clothes. That’s why we play enjoyable games in the garden everyday. 

ENGLISH CLASS:Native-Speakers teach our kids through effective methods that help kids to keep the info in their long-term memories. Music, orff,drama, dance and art lessons are also given in both languages.Native-speaker English teachers help in those classes.(Simultaneous Bilingual Teaching)

CULINARY ACTIVITIES:  this activity gives  opportunity for introducing various concepts. Our children work in small groups and initially get acquainted with the kitchen  materials; then the activity continues with  combining different ingredients to achieve different flavours. Attention is paid to  the presentation of the food.

Education programs

In our school, we take the developmental issues of the children into consideration and use a combination of several techniques suitable for that age level.

High-scope(active learning)

Active learning is defined as experiencing ; it is the children interpreting their own experiences to develop new ideas and concepts.

Scramper(different thinking methods)

It is different thinking methods; it helps to improve  the skills to think differently, to use  imagination and intuition.

Gems(Math-science&nature)

It is a high quality, flexible program that brings effective science and math activities to the classroom.

Reggio Emilia(Project based learning)

Reggio Emilia approach is an educational practice that enables the child to be active and use his present knowledge  with the new information and gain a new perspective.

 

PREPARATORY CLASS

REGGIO EMILIA  BASED

PREP CLASS PROGRAM

Rapid growth takes place at all development areas in early childhood period.

 

Keeping this in mind the suitable equipment and necessary infrastructure, for the preparatory  program,  is established in our school. 

 

In each class, education is given by a native speaker, rotating in line with the skills development program. 

 

Preparation for basic education:

Turkish and math studies

Problem solving skills

Line drawing studies

Preparatory studies for reading and writing

Preparatory studies for primary school


Preparatory studies for reading and writing

.   Book studies intended for  development of hand muscles

.   Book studies intended for unique thinking

.   Line drawing studies

           -joining the lines

           -merging the dots

           -italic,straight,zigzag lines

.   Vocal studies

.   Attention and comprehension studies
  

Language/STEM studies

Information gathering studies to improve the memory

Studies of discussion with others on meaningful experiences.

Rhymes, finger plays,poems,riddles, listening-repeating and leaing

Using the language with fun

Listening to stories and tales

Reading in various forms: story books, signs and symbols, their own writing

Post-story activities: Dramatization-pantomime-discussion on the story

Science and Math activities

-To compare a group of objects and decide on the following: 'more', 'less' or 'the same number '

-To match objects one to one

-To count the objects

-To recognize the numbers visually

-To explore and define the similarities and differences between the objects

-To define and differentiate the shapes

-To divide into groups and pair them

-To define and utilize objects for alteative use 

 

-To compare their qualities (longer/shorter)

To sequence objects to make a meaningful patte and define their status (big/bigger than/ the biggest)

-To match a group of designed objects with another one, to place objects into or on top of each other by trial and error method (small cup/small plate/mid-size cup/mid-size plate)

 

Experiments

Observation on sightseeing tours

Graphic studies    


Activities

.    Yoga

.    Free play

.    Activities in the garden

.    Preparatory studies for reading and writing

.    Language activities(Scamper)

.    Science and Math activities(Gems)

.    Cooking Activities

.    Field trips

.    Games with rules

.    Planning-studying-remembering exercises

.    Skills development activities

-Handcrafts

-Drama

-Dance&Ballet

-Music