Toys

We're introducing a new slogan for the pre-school classes at the MMF school. In English, it translates roughly: Learning is play; play is learning.

Pre-school education doesn't need to be sitting on a stool, saying the alphabet by rote, copying letters from the board and writing them ten times each (at least save this fun for Grade 1!!). Pre-school schould encourage kids to want to learn, engage their natural curiosity, develop social skills, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills etc etc.

To do this, they need toys and their teachers need to know how to use them! Over the past few weeks, it has been great to introduce the toys I bought in Bangkok at Christmas. Some short-term teams came and spent time using these toys to play with the kids. It was fun to see!