LTSM Nursery
LTSM Nursery
Together with our specialists, the children enrolled in Grădinița Mea are the beneficiaries of a safe and flexible academic environment, focused on respecting the individuality of each preschooler.
The early education programmes developed by Grădinița Mea integrate themes from the British curriculum (Early Years Foundation Stage) in the national curricular structure for preschool education.
Numerical teacher / child ratio:
ages 2-3: 2 teachers + support person / 6 children;
ages 3-4: 1 teacher + support person/ 6 children;
ages 4-5: 1 teacher + support person / 8 children;
ages 5-6: 1 teacher + support person / 9 children.
Preparing children aged 2 to 5 for school, by developing the following skills:
Individual autonomy determines children’s sense of confidence, shapes self-esteem and develops skills meant for finding solutions.
Grădinița Mea supports children in gaining their autonomy by applying the following principles:
- We give the child time to try;
- We allow the child to choose and decide for himself;
- We highlight even the smallest victories and provide measured support for overcoming an obstacle;
- The child must be able to find solutions to the problems he / she faces, but with a discreet guide for mobilization from the adult;
- Inducing the child the feeling of utility, by involving him in the fulfillment of daily routines: collecting toys, preparing for the activity, personal hygiene skills etc.
- The expression of personal points of view and the initiative to decide on a personal level are encouraged.
- Any failure can be turned into a victory, because we appreciate the effort, not the performance.
Early education provides the fundamental pillars on which a child’s educational path will be further built:
- Extending the experience of the family environment to the social environment and awareness of belonging to a social group.
- Educating the rules of coexistence within the group from the perspective of rights and responsibilities.
- Encouraging a collaborative attitude and fair competition.
- Drawing individual identity and holistic development of the child’s personality.
Grădinița Mea proposes stimulating creativity through investigation, raising questions, experimenting, observing, recording, describing and issuing conclusions, while shaping the expressiveness of the preschooler through the use of expressive language.
Achieving a level of cognitive skills (attention, memory, language, planning, problem solving) that allows easy adaptation to the higher level of training, that of primary education.
- Developing empathy by understanding the emotions of others.
- Expressing one’s emotions.
- Developing the capacity for emotional self-regulation.
Within the programs offered by Grădinița Mea, preschoolers benefit from various learning environments. The integration of nature in the experience of early learning involves learning through investigation and discovery and the program becomes emerging, based on the interests of children and actively coordinated by our specialists.
- Educating an expressive and correct verbal communication in Romanian and English;
- Conscious use of the meanings of the verbal structures of English and learning this modern language at a conversational level through the Jolly Phonics method;
- Triggering interest in books through auditions, conversation, guided reading and practicing pre-literate graphic elements;
- Development of thinking mechanisms and skills to use pre-mathematical intellectual operations: correspondence, sorting, numbering, problem solving;
- Stimulating curiosity for investigating the environment by asking questions, experimenting, observing, recording, describing and drawing conclusions;
- Educating the expressiveness and creativity of the preschool child through the use of plastic language (FuntasTricks crafting activities, painting with conventional or unconventional tools, activities in nature to observe colors, light, shapes, textures etc.);
- Training the ability to receive and understand the world of sound and music under the guidance of a specialist teacher;
- Education for respect and acceptance of cultural diversity.
- Education of food and sports routines.
Along with the academic framework Grădinița Mea offers unique and challenging learning experiences through thematic days and weeks and afternoon clubs.
- The program “My first step in biology” – lessons at the Museum of Natural History;
- The “Art Lesson” program – artistic education program in museum spaces;
- Science Week;
- Different School Week;
- Green Week;
- Pajama Day;
- Crazy Hair Day;
- Ice Cream Day;
- Math Club;
- Science Club;
- Story Club;
- Gym Club;
- Cooking Club;
Grădinița Mea offers speech therapy sessions meant to correct and develop oral and written communication, making it clear and vivid.
Frequency of speech therapy sessions: one session per week.
Objectives of personal development sessions:
- Manifestation of interest in self-knowledge and positive attitude towards oneself and towards others.
- Adequate expression of emotions in interaction with other members of the social group.
- Use of skills and attitudes specific to learning in a school context.
- Frequency of personal development sessions: one session per week.