28th April 2018

Education of a child is a partnership between home and school. Keeping this in mind an event was organized to provide an insight into the child’s learning process.

The program started with and an Ice breaking session that was conducted where parents spread out according to colored lollypops of green, red, blue and yellow and spoke about the different ways in which they could work as partners with the school to enhance the learning of a child. 

What followed this was truly unprecedented. Parents were shown a Day in the life of a GIIS student.

All parents spread out into different learning centers according to their colored lollypops. These comprised of Investigation area, Construction area, Literacy, Creative Arts, Montessori Lab, STEAM center and Robotics. Kids have their own way of investigating, experimenting, and exploring nature.

The investigation area showed the parent the wonderful discoveries that the child is exposed too. Parents built towers and experienced problem solving, imagination, self-expression and confidence building in the construction area. How the child develops the fine motor skills, enhances sensory development, creativity through creative arts. Three activities Making of Play Dough, raised salt painting and marble painting was enjoyed by all.

In the Literacy section Parents played Alliteration using interconnecting links. This game helped them children associate pictures to the corresponding letter for e.g. s for snake, spider, socks, and sun etc. using interconnecting links. It also helps in enhancing hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.

Montessori activity showed parents the true strength of GIIS – the early year program - Global Montessori Plus – how the well displayed material in the Mont Lab are grounds for life skill training for the little ones. Numeracy zone showed parents the counting, sorting, identifying number and hand-eye co-ordination through various game like Spider Hunt, etc.

The STEAM activity allowed parents to participate in experiments and view the skills developed in the children by these activities.  Parent involvement was very good and they tried few experiments too. They were very happy to inculcate STEAM in the kindergarten curriculum as it provides a good learning experience through hands on experiments with lots of fun. At the Global Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (GCIE) lab parents were introduced to the three major streams of GCIE being STEM, Robotics and Coding. The Immersion centre and the 3D Science content were explored by the parents, understanding the long term impact of the same and its basic necessity in Education system.

All parents pledged good and consistent communication with school by signing a Parent School Partnership form.