Importance of a Pre-School Interior Design

Exploring Children

A child starts learning very early on in his/her life. Most of it begins very much at home and as a child has a very absorbent mind (as quoted by Maria Montessori for age 0 to 3) they learn a great deal by purely observing things and activities surrounding them.  Most of their time is spent for sleep, food, bath, etc but most essential part of their awake time is spent into observing and communicating. A home is a comfortable & protected environment for a child where they initiate relating to people, space and things on there own. From the time they are born they start with observation as there is so much to see, but after a point of time they are keen to have varied experiences which enriches there quest to know more. This is when a place like Pre-School comes into play which is a safe environment for them to be in and also provides them with enough opportunity for stimulating there interests. So a pre-school has to be well thought off and designed as

1. It provided the initial ground for social interaction for toddlers who are otherwise used a very protected environment at home. Regular interactions and activities make them more open to the idea of exploring the world of new things.

2. In our widely distracting environment with gadgets and toys, a child is usually distracted and is self centred. So a good Pre-school emphasises on learning with interaction and practice in a supervised environment.

3. Playing with clay, colours, crayon's etc helps them to develop gross motor skills which are one of the essential early learning experiences.

4. A Pre-School is more of a free play and activity space, but within a scheduled time and space which enables a child to experience a broadly structured environment other than there own home. Eventually this helps them in transitioning from a Pre-School to a more structured school premises which are bigger in scale and also much more no of kids.

5. A Pre-School is usually operational for 2 hrs to 3 hrs and also meant for 3 to 5 days in a week, so this eventually prepares the child to get ready for transitioning to a bigger school at a later date.

6. Other than playing & interacting with blocks and art material there are also opportunities for them to have musical events puppet show, story telling sessions, poem recitation, etc. All of this contributes to an overall development of the child's temperament.

7. One of the main issues with young toddlers, is about making them more independent and the first two things that are about eating and toilet training. Both these things are dealt well in a Pre-School as the child watches other kids in the school with whom they have one meal of the day and the help at school starts training them to use the toilet rather than being dependant on a diaper (which they are used to from birth).