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Kindergarten

Kindergarten is certainly a milestone in the life of a child and his family. It’s the first time he sets foot in a school, the first time he boards a bus – in short, it’s a lot of firsts. As a parent or teacher, you certainly want to develop the 6 basic kindergarten skills in your youngster. It’s in these skills that your learner will develop essential knowledge and carry out his or her learning. This kindergarten review page provides you with valuable resources. Everything is in line with the Quebec Education Program, available on the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur website[1].

The young person, his world of play and his life experiences

To learn with a child of this age, it’s essential to integrate play into every learning experience. Children learn through play, and it is from this that they build their experiences. The following six components should be developed in kindergarten.

1- Act effectively in different sensory and motor contexts

To begin with, in this skill your kindergarten child should be able to :

Adapt actions to environment
Comply with safety rules (knows what actions promote safety)
Perform various fine-motor and gross-motor actions

2- Asserting your personality

In fact, this skill helps build children’s self-esteem and contributes to their emotional development.

The essential skills are as follows:

Express needs and find ways to meet them
Sharing tastes, interests, feelings and emotions with others
Develop self-confidence: become aware of strengths and limitations, express ideas and assertiveness
Demonstrate autonomy: select materials, make choices for oneself, set goals and take initiative

3- Interact harmoniously with others

This skill is linked to children’s social development. Their interactions with others help them develop their understanding of the world, their interests and their tastes.

The young person learns to :

Taking an interest in others: noticing similarities and differences with others, showing openness to others and making contact with a variety of people.
Participates in group life: expresses ideas, listens to others, helps set group rules and assumes responsibility.
Applies a conflict-resolution approach: recognizes a conflict situation, recounts the facts, seeks solutions and evaluates his or her solutions.

What to watch : Tips for conflict resolution

4- Communicate using language resources

Language development is a key component of this skill. Language is an essential tool for your child’s cognitive development.

Here’s what you can learn with him:

Demonstrates interest in communication:
Engages in conversation, respects the topic of conversation.
Gets the meaning of a message: pays attention to the message, expresses understanding of the information received, makes oral and written connections
Produces a message: organizes ideas, uses appropriate vocabulary, explores language by playing with words

Listen to: songs for kindergarteners!

5- Building your understanding of the world

To continue, it is closely linked to the child’s cognitive development. Through their interactions, children develop strategies and acquire knowledge. Games are a great help in developing this skill. They observe, anticipate and experiment in a pleasant context.

Schoolchildren must :

Demonstrate interest and curiosity in the arts, history, geography, mathematics, science and technology: they can make connections with their daily lives, and are curious, interested and eager to learn.
Test their thinking in different contexts: they observe, manipulate objects and ask questions. Anticipates and verifies predictions
Organize information: express what they know. Seeks, selects and exchanges information.
Telling about what he/she has learned: able to describe his/her process

6- Completing an activity or project

Commits to the project or activity using his/her own resources: shows interest, talks about what he/she knows and seeks information to carry out the project.
Demonstrates tenacity in carrying out the project or activity.
Demonstrates curiosity and takes time and space into account.
Demonstrates satisfaction with the project or activity: presents his or her presentation and is able to describe his or her approach
Communicate the results of your project: express your difficulties, your appreciation and what you’ve learned.

Here is a list of strategies for developing essential kindergarten skills

Motor and psychomotor strategies

Find your place in space and time
Practice activities to strengthen muscle tone, make movement more flexible, build endurance
Use gesture and rhythm to communicate
Use relaxation to reduce stress
Adapt appropriate use of objects, tools and materials

Affective and social strategies