Preschool activities include interactive lessons by alphabet and fun games associated with themes

A child brought up in an atmosphere of love and fun and feeling safe and secure. This is the greatest gift you can give your child.

By cuddling your child and making her feel safe and secure, you are teaching the skills required to form strong relationships in the future.

By encouraging your child to try new things, you are allowing him to develop essential self-confidence; a skill for life.

By praising your child you are building his delight in achievement as well as reinforcing a sense of belonging; making him feel secure when with other people.

By spending time talking and listening to your child - about where they sleep, where they live, the noises they hear, the things they see – you are also developing confidence and abilities in communicating with others.

Babies and young children love to chat. By letting them talk on the phone extends their conversational skills, as they listen and respond.

Taking the time to stop and look gives your child the opportunity to show you things he's noticed.

Talking about what your child has done that day builds on his ability to have a two-way conversation; to listen and respond appropriately.

Reading a bedtime story to your child will help her to become a good learner.

Repeating and imitating are important ways of learning for a baby or toddler

If you put objects like corks, bottle tops, shells or strings of beads into a net bag so that your baby can shake and feel them, you'll pretty soon see them start to make choices about which ones they prefer.

Babies and toddlers love playing with empty boxes.

Talking to your child about which foods are healthy and letting them make their own healthy choices, will help her become independent and healthy.

By letting your child appropriately express frustration or anger, whilst explaining to them and offering suggestions will encourage him to develop his own solutions.

If you explain why toys need to be put away, your child will begin to understand the concept of safety.

Kara divided your child's learning into six domains:

Personally and socially

Communication and language

Mathematically

Knowledge and understanding of the world

Physical abilities

Creativity

It is important to make sure you child’s day has a routine. This gives a strong sense of security.

If you give your child small responsibilities at home – such as tidying toys with you, putting small things away – you will make her feel valued and teach the importance of give and take.

If you are consistent in the way you talk to your child and handle situations, you will teach your child that he can depend on you and feel safe.

By demonstrating understanding and compassion for your child when things are not going his way and talking it through, will help him understand other people’s emotions as well as his own.

Children learn best when activities use several senses at once like touch, taste and hearing. Try to talk about what things feel like (soft, hard, slippery), how they taste (bitter, sweet, salty) and how they sound (loud, soft, crackly).

Talking together about everyday actions like getting dressed and cooking and reading words such as labels and road sings, will help your child improve her language skills as she repeats what you say.

You can add to your child’s development if you look at maps or books before you go on a trip, or visit a friend, or go shopping.

As children draw, paint and start to write words and tell you about their day, they are also making sense of their experiences.

By encouraging your child to talk about what she's doing whilst filling or emptying bags or fitting shapes into spaces, will help her develop language skills.

If you spend time with your child noticing shapes of everyday objects such as windows, plates or oranges, you will be teaching them about shapes.

By counting footsteps, jumps, stairs you are reinforcing number skills as well as helping child's physical development.

Using words like 'more' or 'less', 'heavier' or 'lighter', 'bigger' or 'smaller' will help your child learn to compare numbers and how to estimate.

By investigating living things in the world around you like insects and earthworms, trees and leaves, you will help your child develop observational skills.

When your child is constantly asking 'why?', she is in fact gathering useful information and developing her knowledge; making sense of the world around her.

By encouraging your child to make decisions like choosing which food to buy or how to make something, you are developing his cognitive abilities and problem solving skills.

If you talk to children about their own culture as well as others, you are helping them to develop a strong sense of belonging as well as an understanding of differences.

By playing games like 'Simon Says' where you give your children physical instructions - 'Simon says stand on one leg. Simon says hop . . .' - you are helping her develop physical coordination.

If you suggest ways to move freely to music - shuffling, slithering, rolling, crawling, jumping and dancing - you are helping your child develop imagination, vocabulary and language skills as well as physical skills.

By making a 'den' outside or in using chairs, sheets or a climbing frame, will give your child a chance to balance and climb; around, under, over and though.

If your child enjoys using play dough, making sandcastles, baking cakes and icing them, you are helping her develop manipulation skills.

Moving to music gives children a chance to see how we can 'think' with our bodies, expressing emotions like joy or sorrow, or 'being' objects or creatures such as a 'tree', 'a mouse' or a 'monster'.

A child needs to feel safe enough to take risks when he's expressing himself creatively. It is therefore essential you, the adult, enter into the spirit of it by laughing 'with' and not 'at' your child

Always hang onto a few old clothes; hats, beads, shoes, dopatta's and more; dressing up and acting out scenes is a great way to encourage your child to develop creativity as well as understanding people and situations.

When children direct their own activities, they become more confident in their individual creating abilities, more skilled with language and better at working things out for themselves.

Kara faculty receive a minimum of 86 hours Professional Development each academic year, to ensure the highest standards of teaching and learning are maintained.