Chetas Centre for Child Development

🌟 Free Parenting Webinar Invitation 🌟

🎯 Topic: How to Identify Your Child’s True Potential and Support Their Learning Journey

Every child is unique, with hidden strengths and abilities waiting to be discovered. This session will help parents understand how to identify their child’s true potential and nurture it effectively.

🔹 Recognize your child’s strengths and interests
🔹 Understand different learning styles
🔹 Support your child’s growth with the right approach
🔹 Build confidence and motivation in your child

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We encourage all parents to attend and empower their child’s learning journey.

Play-Based Learning: Free Play Activities
Both of these activities provide a wonderful insight into the creative and imaginative thought processes of young children.

In the first activity, a little girl chose the kitchen set and carefully arranged all the pots and pans. She then discovered some colorful rings, which she placed neatly on the table. With a big smile, she pointed out each utensil and explained its use. What caught my attention, however, was how she assigned food items to the colored rings. According to her, the three orange rings were carrots, the green one was capsicum, and the yellow ring was corn. She then declared that she would cook these in the pan. This simple yet imaginative play demonstrated how children make connections between objects, colors, and concepts during dramatic play.In the second activity, a child explored a set of simple glasses and colorful Zenga game pieces. He began by arranging five glasses, and then, with focus, he counted on his fingers before placing the Zenga pieces in each glass, in a neat sequence of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This hands-on activity using block materials was not only a fun challenge, but it also showcased the child’s understanding of numbers, order, and spatial awareness.

The first activity involved dramatic play, where the child’s imagination took center stage, while the second focused on hands-on learning through block materials. Both activities illustrate how children are actively involved in their learning process—whether through role-play or manipulation of physical objects—and how they explore the world around them in creative and meaningful ways. (Facilitator)

Many autistic children face challenges with writing due to difficulties with fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive processing. Activity of colouring with help of stencils -develops eye hand coordination , pincer grip , graphomotor skills like direction of lines ,recognizing basic shapes ,practising different color strokes like horizontal , vertical , circular . Also helps in practising self regulation.

International yoga day 🧘‍♀️with SIx bricks . Through fun stories and with six bricks children did simple asanas / poses 🤩 .

Working hands 🙌 imagining connecting and building during Summer camp -Tap into your Multiple intelligences with Lego Six bricks . Our young toddlers enjoyed the Sixbricks based -movement activities, listening and building ones . Amazing was the response of older differently abled children to the various activities which focused on building different intelligences . . . Facilitator@neelakshi_naolekar

Today we celebrate World Autism Awareness Day . Children at the centre …dressed in blue did an activity of tracing their palm and sharing about what they like . United Nations autism awareness message was also shared on this drawing which children presented to their parents . The idea behind this was making every child feel that they are ‘heard‘ ,empowering them emotionally .
Facilitator@neelakshi_naolekar
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This simple fun play based activity is loved by all children may it be the preschoolers or the differently abled at my centre . Easy to assemble and carry out. Here assorted everyday objects like a crayon , small ball , comb , socks are wrapped in newspaper and kept in a basket . A child is encouraged to pick up 1 object , next step is discussion with them about what could be inside ,can they feel and guess by shape ? Child is then made to unwrap , some children may be in a hurry and paper may tear , so this is a good opportunity to teach them about being slow and patient . After child unwraps encourage child to talk about the object . Activity is beneficial in retaining attention and concentration of children , promotes curiosity and a feeling of wonder provides sensory tactile learning , As mentioned earlier children learn to be careful while on wrapping helping them to learn self control . Helps to aid in language - talking about the object , describing it, how it is used . Older children can also write a few sentences on it. .
Facilitator@neelakshi_naolekar

The importance of learning through playtime is kind of the backbone of our educational philosophy. Benefits of play
Devlops Fine and Gross motor skills .
Language development
Social skills
Cognitive development
Emotional development
Life skills learning
Play activities also promote literacy and numeracy skills .
Today it was fun and learning as we celebrated
Lego -World Play day .
It gave smiles on our faces watching children enjoying the activities with eagerness .

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Happy Independence day! (India)
Different activities to reinforce colors of Flag-Tricolour. Formation of flag with blocks ,flowers and leaves, Lego, Painting frame .
Such activities with different materials not only gives sensory -Textural experience but also devlops visual spatial skills.Learning of concept occurs in multidimensional way. . . . .