Teaching children to care for their personal health and safety is one way to instill responsible behavior and independence. The aim is to enable the children to consciously care for their personal hygiene by doing things like washing their hands, blowing their nose and brushing teeth. The children should be able to manage their personal chores such as storing bags, shoes and jackets in designated places. The ability to feed and dress themselves goes a long way to strengthening children’s self confidence. Safety skills also ensure that a child can seek help and respond appropriately to adults.
The aims of developing emotional and social skills are to build a child’s self-esteem and interaction capabilities. They develop the ability to express feelings and emotions both to peers and adults and to develop self-worth and awareness. The child will be able to recognize specific preferences, abilities and characteristics and express satisfaction with achievements. The child will learn to follow rules and routines, take turns during group activities and calmly sit and work with other children. He will also learn to focus on and complete independent tasks. Through participation in music, games and performance activities, the children learn to sense their own feelings and express them creatively.
The major objective of preschool education is to develop both receptive and expressive communication skills. Children are enabled to understand stories, conversations and instructions as well as concepts of size and location of items. The child will be able to share opinions, ideas and thoughts with a diverse and extensive vocabulary in ways that are easily understood by others, and also to seek information by asking sensible questions.
Cognitive development helps the child to acquire certain intellectual abilities that are useful in the development of memory, reasoning and judgment. They learn to recognize characters and plot of a story and can retell it after listening, as well as invent their own stories. The child will show interest in drawing and writing and be able to recognize familiar words. The child learns pre-mathematical concepts like recognizing shapes, counting in sequence and associating numbers with quantity. He also learns a sense of time, such as bedtime. Pre-scientific concepts should be learned like examining natural phenomena (like thunderstorms or rain) using different senses.