Narrative Play
The connection between play and learning is exceptionally important for child development. Play-based learning strengthens cognitive and emotional growth, helping children stay happy while also unlocking their creative potential.
“Karlsonas Cradle - Kindergarten” Preschool Education Program “Grow Together”
For children aged 1–5
Our original early childhood and preschool education program, along with consistently applied teaching methods, helps children grow, develop, and work toward achievable goals at our kindergarten.
We believe that preschool education is an extremely important stage in a child’s and family’s life, which is why we guide children according to the ideas of humanistic pedagogy.
Ongoing dialogue with the child and the family is the foundation of our work. During the learning process, educators follow the principles of mutual understanding, trust, creativity, free choice, and the joy of discovery.
Applied education methods
Discussion
Through fairy tales and stories, children are encouraged to look for answers to their own questions. During learning activities, children are taught to express their thoughts clearly, listen to others, reveal their feelings, reflect, and summarize.
Experimentation
Through exploration and experimentation, children develop key skills: sight, touch, hearing, body movement and control. They also build attention, resourcefulness, reaction speed, practical experience, and strengthen critical thinking by discussing and reasoning, which helps them solve problems and better understand the world around them.
Observation
Children are constantly provided with different environments where they can discover and understand nature and surroundings, and recognize connections and unity between people, objects, and phenomena.
Reading
Books nurture empathy in children and help them better understand people’s thoughts, behavior, and the events around them. With teacher encouragement, books expand spoken vocabulary, develop memory, and improve learning and discovery abilities.
Critical Thinking
Developing critical thinking is an essential part of every day. Children learn to evaluate processes, meanings, and environments, analyze perspectives, and base conclusions on facts and experience. They build the ability to think clearly and rationally, identify essential ideas, and connect them.
Preschool education content
Emotional intelligence development
In everyday activities, we develop five areas of emotional intelligence: self-awareness (understanding one’s own feelings); self-regulation (the ability to manage emotions); motivation (using one’s own interests); empathy (identifying with other people’s emotions); and social skills (appropriate communication).
Social skills
We strengthen children’s abilities to communicate kindly and constructively, and to collaborate with peers and teachers. We create a supportive social environment in the nursery, and our teaching methods encourage children to learn effectively through expressing emotions, self-reflection, and safe behavior. We also teach respect for themselves and others.
Cognitive competence
We organize all activities at the nursery to keep children motivated and engaged. We use experiential learning methods: experiments, exploration, creative tasks, searching for and selecting information, and studying the environment through their senses.
Communication skills
These include understanding language, expressing ideas clearly, and speaking fluently. We help children build the ability to focus, listen, and pay attention to a friend or a teacher, while strengthening their skills in self-expression.
Child development assessment
Assessing each child's progress in our kindergarten is a consistent and ongoing process. Following the preschool education competency framework, long-term observation, and collected evidence based on the child's engagement and activity outcomes, teachers prepare an individual assessment profile. This helps both teachers and parents steadily track the child's growth and progress, while planning the next steps for continuity.
Developed competencies
- Collaboration
- Social
- Cognitive
- Science literacy
- Technology literacy
- Citizenship
- Health and wellbeing
- Communication
- Creative expression
