NURSERY 1 (born in 2017)

How early should a preschooler start training visual-spatial skills? As early as possible!

Spatial awareness is a skill used by children to understand their position in the world and how other objects relate to each other. With this skill, they will be able to have an improved sense of balance, dexterity and locate objects easily!

Following our method of experiential learning, in this lesson we focused on playing and moving around. The use of grids to create mazes and matching positions trains their visual perceptual skill as they move around in the maze and remember the route they are supposed to take. It also requires problem solving skill to avoid the obstacles and find a new solution to move their way out of the maze.

In all, these activities encourage the use of visualisation skills which come hand in hand together with logical problem solving methods.

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NURSERY 2 (born in 2016)

Spatial skills are important in solving many tasks in our daily lives such as

• Map-reading (To determine directions)
• Packing (To decide which specific box is able to fit the objects you want to put in it)
  
• Mirror images (When you are brushing your teeth while looking at the mirror)
  
  

Having good spatial skills helps in reading as well. Some examples are alphabets “W” and “M” and the numbers “6” and “9”. They mean differently depending on how they are rotated. 

In this lesson, our children worked on boards with various patterning where colours, positions and directions were involved.

These activities reinforce understanding of positions on the grid and making patterns which helps preschoolers to effectively use reasoning skills and make logical connections in their daily life activities. 

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KINDERGARTEN 1 (born in 2015)

Did you know that board games are actually important for a child’s mental and social development?

Besides learning strategies, board games teach children important social skills, such as communicating verbally, sharing, waiting, taking turns, and enjoying interaction with others. It also fosters the ability to focus and lengthen attention span through the completion of an exciting and enjoyable game.

In this lesson, we let our Kindergarten 1 children work on a mini board game to understand moving forward, backward and according to instructions. This involves teaching them the concept of counting on as they tend to make the incorrect movement from the starting point.

By having a strong understanding of how to move on a game board, they can easily succeed in understanding more complex algebraic and logical mathematical concepts such as skip counting, substitution, number line and word problems.

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KINDERGARTEN 2 (born in 2014)

Having great spatial ability helps children to move on maps easily. However, having just spatial ability is not enough as it requires way-finding skills as well.


Way-finding is a spatial ability that is used by most people every day and refers to the ability to learn and remember a route through an environment. Children need to understand left-right relationships and perspective taking so that they will know how to move and turn at a junction on a map.

In this lesson, our Kindergarten 2 children practice changing viewpoints and visualising spatial relationships through several map routes. Children will also be required to focus and calculate the number of right/left turns based on the given destination.

Holding up to these visual-spatial skills, they will be able to visualise and be more adept at finding their way around in the real world.




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THINKING WITH numbers