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TCI Week of the Young Child 2015 Celebration

TCI Week of the Young Child 2015 Celebration

The Department of Education allocated this week to highlight the importance of Early Childhood Education and has called it 'The Week of the Young Child'. We organised so many fun activities for this week! The children had a great time, just look at those faces! Also as part of the National Heritage Month, the International School of the TCI celebrated National Heritage Day 2015 with an array of activities! Read the full blog on TCI National Heritage Day 2015. Week-of-the-Child-JK-4-300x199DSC_3898-300x217 Here at the International School of the Turks and Caicos Islands, we are fully committed to providing high quality education for the early years, maintaining our belief that is essential for children to have firm foundations on which to build their education. Week-of-the-Child-SK-1-e1444424134421 An education which begins in our Early Years will instil in children a curiosity about the world and inspire in them a love of learning through highly structured and well planned play situations in which a child can develop in the 3 prime areas of Physical development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Communication and Language. Week-of-the-Child-SK-27-e1444424114312 We will then build up their knowledge and understanding and help them to grow across 4 specific curriculum areas of Literacy, Mathematics, Art and Design and Understanding the World. To highlight the outstanding work being done in our Early Years Foundation Stage we have had a wonderful week, as usual, celebrating the importance we put on this crucial stage in children’s learning and development.

Celebrating the Week of the Young Child

Week-of-the-Child-SK-5-e1444422461354Today we hosted a 'Messy Morning', where the children from Preschool, Junior Kindergarten and Senior Kindergarten learned in a practical and hands on way in our beautiful and well-appointed outdoor playground. Parents were invited to join us, to get involved in the children’s learning. Also our fabulously caring Grade 6 popped in to have fun with the preschool children.         Many times our young children come out of school each day and parents are eager to hear what they have learnt, children often respond with comments that they “just played all day.” Often people undervalue the importance of these early years. DSC_3885-209x300 It is important for us, as adults, to understand that for the young child, their way of discovering the world is through play and play when it is well planned by experienced professionals, it provides powerful learning experiences. Consider, if you will, how you learn to use something new (a new smart phone/technical gadget) I bet you sit down and have a good ‘play’ with it, until you are fully conversant in all of its features and you understand it: the same is true of young children! Helping children’s learning and development Consider the learning which can come out of play because, with careful intervention and planning, it is limitless! The children are having fun whilst: * Their social and emotional development, including interpersonal skills is supported and developed * Their communication and language skills are being strengthened through interaction and negotiations * Their knowledge and understanding of the world is growing through exploration and discovery * Their understanding of mathematical concepts such as colour, shape, number, sequencing and matching is becoming more concrete * They are experimenting with different media and materials and fine tuning their motor control; both fine motor and gross motor

The Week of the Young Child in Preschool

The children enjoyed spray painting a canvas, shaving cream fun, rolling paints all the way across the playground, bubbles, water table play, play dough, musical instruments, hunting for letters in rice and the ever popular parachute! Also our fabulously caring Grade 6 popped in to have fun with the preschool children. Look at these beautiful photographs of their learning fun! thumbs_DSC_3860thumbs_DSC_3861thumbs_DSC_3862thumbs_DSC_3864thumbs_DSC_3866thumbs_DSC_3867thumbs_DSC_3869thumbs_DSC_3870thumbs_DSC_3871thumbs_DSC_3872thumbs_DSC_3873thumbs_DSC_3876thumbs_DSC_3878thumbs_DSC_3879thumbs_DSC_3880thumbs_DSC_3883thumbs_DSC_3885thumbs_DSC_3886thumbs_DSC_3887thumbs_DSC_3890thumbs_DSC_3894thumbs_DSC_3896thumbs_DSC_3898thumbs_DSC_3902thumbs_DSC_3906thumbs_DSC_3907thumbs_DSC_3910thumbs_DSC_3911thumbs_DSC_3912thumbs_DSC_3917thumbs_DSC_3919thumbs_DSC_3920thumbs_DSC_3921thumbs_DSC_3922thumbs_DSC_3923thumbs_DSC_3926thumbs_DSC_3928thumbs_DSC_3929thumbs_DSC_3930thumbs_DSC_3932thumbs_DSC_3933thumbs_DSC_3937thumbs_DSC_3941thumbs_DSC_3944

The Week of the Young Child in Junior Kindergarten

The children especially enjoyed the water tables and foam party. The apple dunking was so much fun. Look at these beautiful photographs of their learning fun! thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-1thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-2thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-3thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-4thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-5thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-6thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-7thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-8thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-9thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-10thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-11thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-12thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-13thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-14thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-15thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-16thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-17thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-19thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-20thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-21thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-22thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-23thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-24thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-25thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-26thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-27thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-28thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-29thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-30thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-31thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-32thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-33thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-34thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-35thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-36thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-37thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-38thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-39thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-40thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-41thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-42thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-43thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-44thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-45thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-47thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-48thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-49thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-50thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-52thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-54thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-55thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-56thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-57thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-58thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-59thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-60thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-62thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-63thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-64thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-JK-65

The Week of the Young Child in Senior Kindergarten

The children enjoyed working together to create a masterpiece on the canvas and the photographer! The shaving cream fun allowed them to form letters and shapes. Look at these beautiful photographs of their learning fun during the Week of the Young Child 2015! thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-1thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-2thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-3thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-4thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-5thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-7thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-9thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-10thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-11thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-12thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-13thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-14thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-15thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-16thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-17thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-19thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-20thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-21thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-22thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-23thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-24thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-25thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-26thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-27thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-28thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-29thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-30thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-31thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-32thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-33thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-34thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-35thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-36thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-37thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-38thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-39thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-40thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-41thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-43thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-44thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-45thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-46thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-47thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-48thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-49thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-50thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-51thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-53thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-54thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-55thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-56thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-57thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-58thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-59thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-60thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-61thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-62thumbs_Week-of-the-Child-SK-63
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