The importance of nursery school education

Many people mix up day care centre with nursery school. A day care centre or a child care centre is an option for working parents to leave their children and the children are taken care of while they are away. These centres accept babies as well as 3-4 year olds and are run full time and throughout the year. Preschool on the other hand refers to a school for 3-4 year olds where children spend a few hours and learn various subjects like art, the alphabet and basic math. Very often many people interchange between a day care centre and a preschool. Occasionally a childcare centre with experienced and well trained teachers and stimulating activities offers a similar environment of a preschool to children. Similarly some preschools function like day care centres as well. Increased evidence has been found to the fact that children benefit a lot from going to a good preschool. At a preschool children not just become exposed to numbers, letters and shapes they also learn to socialize. They learn to mix up with other children and learn to get along with other children. Statistics has proved that sending children to a preschool is very important as children who attended a preschool at the age of 3 years or 4 years for one year or two years attend kindergarten with better vocabulary, math skills and better pre-reading skills than those who did not attend preschool. Experts state that every child should have some kind of group experience before they begin attending kindergarten.

At preschool children learn how to be students. They learn to participate in group activities, take turns, raise hands and most important they learn how to share. Another important thing that your child will learn is how to separate from you and exist independently. All these features will make it easy for your child to move to kindergarten. Most educators emphasize the value of some kind of early education for children. One of the benefits of children being exposed to early education is they are prepared to learn at kindergarten.

Children learn several skills at school like socializing, how to compromise, be respectful of others, problem solving and they also develop a sense of self. They learn to explore their personality when they are exposed to their peers. When playing with peers children learn to explore their world and it builds their confidence. Children who attend preschool become more independent and they discover that they can do things for themselves. They learn to do several activities independently and attending a preschool fosters independence in a child. Children learn to taken their own decisions when they are at a preschool this develops their personality. They also ask questions about the world around them like, do birds play? This shows that they are not just preoccupied with themselves but also with the world around them. At preschool children also learn the alphabet and math skills but they do so differently. They learn this through story-telling, asking questions to their teachers and discussing the stars. This is a better way of learning then making children sit and learn the alphabet or the numbers. Attending preschool will develop the personality of your child and make him a better and more independent person.