Kindergarten

Age 3

Considering the attention span of the young age group, 3 years is a very sensitive period.CND Schools Kindergarten education program is a program that enables 3-year-old children to develop their curiosity constructively, as well as to reinforce their communication, concentration, self-confidence, and social skills. It encourages them to love to ask questions and teaches self-sufficiency and independence.

When a child is born, its whole world is its mother and father. Parents are the ones who make up most of the child's world and they are the ones who can shape their world and make it colorful. The more they bring activities and stimulation the more the child will develop and become a good learner. Although the parent is the leading role in the child's first years, it soon becomes inadequate for the child's development. At this stage, your child should now open up to the outside world. The most important part of opening up to the outside world is that the child starts preschool education. Right at this moment Canada Schools Kindergarten comes into play.

Your child should have a regular school life starting from age 3!

With the education system and needs of the century, we are in, it has become important for a child who is 3 years old to start the school process. The fact that your child has school responsibilities such as mother and father's responsibilities outside the home is a very important factor for your child's cognitive and social development as well as his-her personality development.

Life limited to home is limiting your child's development!

A baby's life begins with home and learning takes place through its home and its immediate surroundings. With your baby walking, developing speaking skills, toilet training, the autonomy period begins.

When the child who acquired these basic skills at home, when they start CND Kindergarten they will get;

* different conceptual educational skills,

* motor skills,

* Growth continues through the development of social and communication skills.

CND Schools Kindergarten education program at this stage in a child's development

* has constantly changed teaching methods to keep the child's attention,

* different communication methods are learned,

* unlimited games,

* An environment that has a variety of stimuli.

He or she gains as many different and colorful experiences as his-her peers around the world in CND Schools Kindergarten.

It is a scientific fact that 50% of mental development in humans is established in the first 4 years and 30% is completed until the age of 8. Therefore, it is very important to start preschool education at the right time and age.

Age 4

The CND Schools Kindergarten curriculum is a program that enables 4-year-olds to develop their curiosity constructively, as well as to reinforce their communication, concentration, self-confidence, and social skills. It encourages them to love to ask questions and teaches self-sufficiency and independence.

Your child becomes more and more individual by exploring the outside world most comprehensively and colorfully at CND Kindergarten. Our rich curriculum, which allows your child to gain different experiences and experience different environments while becoming more and more individual. CND creates positive environments for identity and personality development. It also allows him or her to develop skills to cope with negative experiences.

Each person is a different world because of his environment, education, lifestyle, experiences, and beliefs. The fact that a certain number of children from the same age group, who are raised with different attitudes from many different cultures and who have different experiences, are together in our school, ensures that our children get as much different experience as possible.

For our 4-year olds education, we try to identify the interests and talents of the child. Considering the individual differences of our students, which we observe from the beginning of the first day of school, we provide easier and more accurate support to their physical and mental development. This process brings spot-on solutions.

It is a scientific fact that 50% of mental development in humans is established in the first 4 years and 30% is completed until the age of 8. Therefore, it is very important to start preschool education at the right time and age.

Seven learning and development points shape our educational programs in our school. These learning and development points are all important and interrelated. Three of them are extremely important to trigger the child's curiosity and willingness to learn and to develop their capacity to learn, build relationships, and succeed.

• Communication and language

• Physical development

• Personal, social and emotional development

In CND Schools Kindergarten, children are supported by these four points that strengthen and enforce the three main points that were mentioned above.

* preparation for reading -writing * mathematics * understanding the world * expressive art and design

Age 5

CND Schools Kindergarten encourages the love of learning that exists in children, takes into account individual differences and development levels, helps develop self-care skills and abilities, enables them to think creatively and critically. We also help them solve problems, develop self-esteem, and self-confidence. We try to make them have strong communication skills and be aware of their responsibilities, environment, and society. We maintain a program that gives importance to raising conscious, happy, and loving individuals.

The child, who is number 1 in the family during its first couple of years, as a 5-year-old and starting school, he-she begins to experience being second or even third among other classmates. Considering all the factors in the development of a child these changes will be supported positively in our education, we help him-her realize that he-she is strong and is a self-learning individual. As a result, preschool education is a phenomenon that nourishes your child spiritually with every positive or negative experience gained while supporting their cognitive, social, and language development.

Students who receive preschool education:

- He-she realizes his-her talents early, uses his-her intelligence potential effectively.

- Self-confidence will be high.

- School education eliminates fear or hesitation towards learning, the student's reluctance rate will below.

- Communication skills are improved

- Learns to share.

- Learns to read and write more easily.

- Problem-solving skills are developed.

- Learns to take responsibility.

- Learns the rules and requirements of collective life

- Hand skills are developed.

- Math skills such as matching and grouping are improved.

- Attention time is improved and concentration ability is high.

Seven learning and development points shape our educational programs in our school. These learning and development points are all important and interrelated. Three of them are extremely important to trigger the child's curiosity and willingness to learn and to develop their capacity to learn, build relationships, and succeed.

• Communication and language

• Physical development

• Personal, social and emotional development

In CND Schools Kindergarten, children are supported by these four points that strengthen and enforce the three main points that were mentioned above.

* preparation for reading -writing

* mathematics

* understanding the world

* expressive art and design

A Day at School

*We welcome our students between 08.00-08.30 in their classes with their KG and native English teachers.

*We have Morning Dance at 8.30 to wake up and have more active energy for the startup.

*We have breakfast at 8.45 with healthy and fresh food at our school cafeteria.

*We start the Daily Routines with Circle Time where we talk about the weather conditions, our feelings and basic terms daily life. We have theme talk or some times storytime at the first session.

*We have weekly education routines like Question of the week, Show & Tell, Book Day, Toy Day, Play of the week, or Parents as Partners. We continue the Day with one of these according to the schedule.

*We have Center plays like; Math center, Science and Discovery Center, Block building center, Art Center. We use them according to the theme that we are learning.

*We have lunch at 11.45 and after that have little nap time for age 3, a little rest time for age 4.

*We have English Language Arts and integrated curriculum learning in the afternoon like; Social studies, Math, You & Your World, Literacy, Science, French, and some Creative learning activities.

*We have a garden hour every day that the students can play in the playground or the sports hall (at the very windy or rainy days)

*We have a snack at 15.00 with full vitamins cooked in our school cafeteria fresh every day.

*At 15.30 we start tidying up for going home.

School-Parent Communication

The understanding that children, families, and educators share about themselves and each other, and about the roles they play in children’s learning, has a profound impact on what happens in the Kindergarten classroom.

All children are competent, capable of complex thinking, curious, and rich in potential and experience. They grow up in families with diverse social, cultural, and linguistic perspectives. Every child should feel that he or she belongs, is a valuable contributor to his or her surroundings, and deserves the opportunity to succeed. When we recognize children as competent, capable, and curious, we are more likely to deliver programs that value and build on their strengths and abilities.

Families are composed of individuals who are competent and capable, curious, and rich inexperience. Families love their children and want the best for them. Families are experts on their children. They are the first and most powerful influence on children's learning, development, health, and well-being. Families bring diverse social, cultural, and linguistic perspectives. Families should feel that they belong, are valuable contributors to their children's learning, and deserve to be engaged in a meaningful way

Educators are competent and capable, curious, and rich inexperience. They are knowledgeable, caring, reflective, and resourceful professionals. They bring diverse social, cultural, and linguistic perspectives. They collaborate with others to create engaging environments and experiences to foster children's learning and development. Educators are lifelong learners. They take responsibility for their learning and make decisions about ways to integrate knowledge from theory, research, their own experience, and their understanding of the individual children and families they work with. Every educator should feel he or she belongs, is a valuable contributor and deserves the opportunity to engage in meaningful work.

Parent Orientation Meetings

We have orientation meetings for the Parents a week before the education year starts

● Student Orientation Week

We have an orientation week for the new students before the education year starts

● Daily Information (automation program)

We send messages about the academic and social announcements of the school via the school automation program. You can also access the weekly plan, lunch list or activity calendar from the same program

● Monthly Parent Meeting - Face to face

Every month the homeroom teachers invite the parents for a 30-minute appointment to give feedback about the students academic improvement

● Termly Branch Teacher Meeting

We have branch teacher meetings twice in a term where parents can have one to one feedback about the students

● Termly Counseling Sessions

Parents visit the Psychological Counselor twice in a term on a schedule with specific content. They can have consultation whenever they need it during the year.

● Termly Student Presentation

Students have presentations once at the end of each on a schedule with specific content. Parents are invited to school at the hour of presentation.

● Use of Social Media

We announce and share the challenges, theme-based activities, celebrations, and routines of the activity calendar via web / Instagram / Twitter

Clubs and Activities

CREATIVE DRAMA

Creative drama studies are carried out to enable children to use their creative powers, to improve concentration, group coordination, to discover the high potential of the body and voice, and to increase their critical power.

YOGA

Our students learn while having fun in the child yoga activity. Child yoga, which has a rhythm in itself, is flexible, tells children to recognize their bodies, respect their relationships with each other and respect everything in nature, teaches them not to compare themselves with anyone while encouraging them to live a more sensitive life, meditation, breathing exercises, stories, and games. is an approach.

MUSIC (Orff instruments and rhythm group)

Orff instruments are used as a starting instrument in all developed countries of the world and help the development of hand-body coordination in children. It consists of Orff instruments (such as xylophone, metallophone) and rhythm instruments (steel triangle, darbuka, drum, etc.).

SWIMMING

It is aimed to make our students love swimming in the first stage. Secondly basic rules and techniques are taught. In the first level they can stand on the water; learn to use their hands and feet in a coordinated manner in the water. Style learning and lane training start according to the developmental periods.

CAPOEIRA

Capoeira Dance is a unique sport and art branch that offers a combination of Music, Acrobatics, and Philosophical elements. It is a very good physical activity in child development. It encourages children to be active and interactive and allows them to have fun while doing so. The benefits of physical and mental development are evident in children who regularly take Capoeira.

GYMNASTICS

Gymnastics is the main branch of sports for children, and it is the only branch that can be recommended for young children not to lose their existing flexibility and strength. Our goal is to introduce children to the sport, to provide an environment where they can have fun and develop their attention and coordination skills. It should not be forgotten that sports are essential for a healthy life.

COOKING HOUR

At the Cooking Hour, children use their English language skills and learning in a realistic and interactive environment. This activity aims to develop a child's English skills in a very entertaining environment and teach them the healthy way of living and eating. For example, they discover the most enjoyable aspects of cooking with an English speaking teacher with healthy and delicious recipes.

CHESS

The rules chess is taught at this activity hour. It is aimed to contribute to the development of reasoning, concentration, and auto control characteristics of the student through chess education.

ART

In the works carried out in the art activity hour, there are goals such as looking at the environment with an aesthetic eye and completing the spiritual and mental serenity. In this age group, students recognize colors and reinforce blends. They try to define two and three dimensions in nature with projects.

MODERN DANCE

In this activity, it is aimed to give education to our students by combining music, rhythm, and aesthetics. The process that starts with basic training in areas such as flexibility, teamwork, and choreography is completed with professional shows. Prepared choreographies are presented in various shows during the school year.

Psychological Counseling and Guidance

As CND Schools Kindergarten, we have known that each of our students has different emotions, thoughts, and behaviors; we are applying an education approach towards individual differences. Our students' goal is to reach the highest level in line with their potential and "realize themselves". As the Psychological Counseling and Guidance Department, we are working diligently to reach this goal. With our developmental and preventive guidance activities that we can reach all our students, we also support our students' development processes and fulfill our preventive role regarding possible problems.

While guiding our students to become individuals who are equipped with 21st-century skills, ready for the future, with strong human values, we also follow the most effective methods and developments in our field by adhering to the Guiding principles. We know the importance of the communication we will carry with you, our parents, for the healthy development of our students, and we believe that we will continue our close dialogue with you throughout the education process of our students.

OUR OBJECTIVES

Our children;

• Develop positive self-perception,

• Be able to recognize and control their emotions,

• Can raise awareness about their interests, wishes, and abilities,

• Can increase their motivation for learning and be successful,

• Be able to develop their creativity,

• Be able to gain effective communication skills,

• Be able to develop skills to deal with the difficulties and crises of life,

• Can improve problem-solving skills,

OUR PRINCIPLES

Reaching all students is essential. For this reason, the positive studies that will affect the

development of all our students is planned meticulously.

Our work is based on the principle of confidentiality.

The Corporation of CND Schools Kindergarten and the families is so important. This

cooperation gives confidence to the child and facilitates the solutions to possible problems.

• Respect and volunteering are very important. Every individual is respected and the voluntary

participation in the processes that will be carried out, is targeted.

• The individual is accepted as it is, not judged or criticized.

• Every individual is valuable and important.

• The development of each individual is evaluated within itself, not compared with others.

• Guidance period is a helpful process that varies according to individual solutions and results.

Basic functions The Psychological Counseling service is;

*to follow the student's development,

*to follow the student's individual needs,

*to inform the family in this direction,

*to provide group guidance,

* to provide school-family cooperation.

It should be noted that the duties and responsibilities of the school counselor have some ethical

limitations. When the student needs support (special education, therapy, etc.), guides the needs to an

expert.

FOR OUR STUDENTS - We have;

• Recognition activities

• Orientation / Adaptation processes

• Development observation, evaluation, and follow-up

• In-class studies for the group

• Individual student interviews

• Evaluation of learning profiles

FOR OUR PARENTS - We have;

• Orientation / Adaptation processes

• Working groups for parents

• Individual Interviews

• Parent Bulletins

• Parent Seminars