PLAYGROUP

• Have fun, make new friends and build relationship through social interactions with friends and teachers in Singapore.
• Discover new experiences &  learning  opportunities for your toddler, 2 years old or courses for 3 years old
• Find out about the world around them in our playgroup sessions.
• Gain self-confidence, develop self-expression; develop verbal and non-verbal communication skills through observation and their contact with other children and adults
• Learn how to get along and cooperate with other people and develop their skills of sharing through music, group singing and free play in Singapore.
• Be given opportunities to enhance all areas of their physical, social, emotional and intellectual development, and foster a lifelong love for learning in a safe and supportive environment.
• No children would be forced to join any activity if he/she refuses to

1. English Phonics a creative and fun approach to teach letter recognition and letter sounds.
2. Multiple Intelligences Approach which is a way of providing activities and experience that address all of the ways that children are Smart. Start Tots Playgroup based in Singapore believes in developing the potential of every child. The brain has at least eight ‘intelligences’. Many people fully develop only one or two. They may be brilliant at mathematics or language but weak in music and art. Yet everyone can develop all these intelligence if he or she is exposed to the right sort of activities. Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard University has identified the eight intelligences as:

• • Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence: The ability to use words effectively, whether in verbal or writing
  • Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: The ability to use numbers effectively and to reason well with logic.
  • Visual-Spatial Intelligence: The ability to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately and to perform transformations upon those perceptions
  • Bodily-Kinaesthetic Intelligence: The ability to use one’s whole body to skilfully express ideas and feelings and facility in using one’s hands to produce or transform things.
  • Musical Intelligence: The capacity to perceive, discriminate, transform and express musical forms.
  • Naturalist Intelligence: The ability to discriminate and see connections or patterns among living things as well as sensitivity to other features of the natural world.
  • Interpersonal Intelligence: The ability to perceive and make distinctions in the moods, intentions, motivations and feelings of other people to relate and interact with people effectively. The ability to process information both verbally and non-verbally and through interpretations of all forms of dance, hand gestures, body movements and music.
  • Intrapersonal Intelligence: The ability to act adaptively on the basis of the knowledge of one’s moods and motivations.

Through playgroup, mothers, fathers, grandparents and other caring adults find the opportunity for:

• Meeting new friends in Singapore.
• Reducing isolation or loneliness as one gets to meet people who’ve got children in the same age range as yours and share experiences in taking care of children and how they solve problems with their children
• It opens up the community to you. Parents can share resources like where the best places to go for a good children’s doctor or shop that sells a great variety of toys and children’s clothes
• Developing a new self-confidence
• Discovering new ideas for extra fun at home through talking to other parents and caregivers
• Developing a greater understanding of children and what being a parent and career is all about through interaction with other parents and caregivers
• Building a support network and social contacts in Singapore.

The playgroup is a suitable course for toddlers aged 18 months old to the year that they turn 3 years old residing in Singapore.