Little Explorers' Studio

Quick Overview

The first step away from home is a big one. Little Explorers is where children take it gently, in a space that is warm, unhurried, and designed to help them grow.

• Ages: 2 to 5 years
• Schedule: Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

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What the Little Explorers' Studio is

This is an experiential, play-based space, intentionally designed for children to explore the world around them. They flow with the rhythm of their surroundings, discovering changes in weather, seasons, and everyday life through stories, art, hands-on exploration, and sensory play.

We also do activities that build interest in language and literacy, introduce children to numbers, shapes, and essential pre-numeracy skills, and develop the grip strength needed for pencil holding and writing.

At this early stage, children also have opportunities to build socio-emotional skills. They learn to share resources and space, sit through activities and build their attention span, take on small challenges, and develop perseverance. During connection time, they make friends and begin to understand the peers around them.

We follow a preschool curriculum in alignment with the National Education Policy, and we meet each child where they are.

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What Activities Can You Expect

Children are welcomed by the educators and settle into activities of their choice. Each day begins with open play, building with blocks, making with playdough and other materials, and scribbling freely.

Then children come together for connection time, where we greet each other, recognise our peers, sing songs and rhymes, and get a sense of what the day will bring.

After this, children take a snack break, sitting together to eat. This a great opportunity to learn about sharing and respect for each other, sometimes children like to share, and when they don't, that this is completely fine.

The rest of the session moves through stories, sensory exploration, art, and structured time for language and early math. All of these different areas of learning are woven together rather than kept separate. While some of this may sound timetabled, children always have space to show us their way, and we always look to incorporate their guidance.

Children do:

• Sensory play: scooping and pouring beans, rice, mud, and water
• Process art: open-ended art with no prescriptive outcome, painting with a range of materials
• Language: story read-alouds, songs and rhymes, letter recognition, writing readiness
• Math: counting, puzzles, sorting and classification, naming shapes
• Socio-emotional learning: pretend play, building and constructing with blocks and play-dough

And Over Time They Learn:

• Independence. The ability to communicate their feelings and negotiate with other children.
• Emergent literacy and pre-numeracy skills.
• A longer attention span.

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What Makes This Different

We design the environment with intention, rooted in pedagogy and research, to provoke children's thinking and invite them into learning. We believe children are capable and are not blank slates. This is why we trust in what they are doing, whether that is picking up heavy chairs to build a metro or expressing when they do not want to do something.

Children move freely between stations in an open space. We also follow their patterns, which are shaped by changing weather, different days, and where each child is at. We believe every day is a new day, and that children grow at their own pace. Learning happens in authentic environments, outdoors, through trying, failing, and trying again.

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For Parents

Your child will always be in small groups with trained educators, which allows us to attend to each of their needs.

You will receive weekly progress updates so you know what your child is exploring and learning.

When a child joins us for the first time, we take time to build the relationship and may begin with shorter sessions to help them feel settled rather than stretched

Children engage with safe materials, mostly taste-safe.

We do not rush through the process.

A Typical Session may Include

• Choice play
• Connection time
• Snack break
• Exploration of the world around us
• Emergent literacy and math
• Fine motor skills
• Goodbye time

Is This Right For Your Child?

This works well for families who believe in unhurried learning, and who understand that reading, writing, and numbers develop in their own time, in their own way.