Looking forward!
The birds take this position on the feeding site in our garden, and wait for the bowl to be filled with feeds. That is how we know that they arrived for their feed.
The pre-school children look forward to the latter years in their life at school. By the time they are about three years, they have had an exposure to the circle of friends and play mates that they look forward to having more of that experience at pre-school.
That becomes a common instinct for children to want to go to pre-school from having been at home thus far.
They look forward to a fulfilling and cheerful experience.
Most children find transition to pre-school years easy to adapt to, as they find being with other children giving them a new experience.
This can happen, if from the age of two years, the home is a place where children can have a variety of indoor and outdoor experiences of play, exploration and experiences.
I remember a family telling me how much their son of three years looked forward to go to pre-school as it had a mini zoo with birds, rabbits, cats, dogs, aquarium and goats. The child was used to pets at home and associated school with pleasant thoughts.
The School-centirc view of a pre-school child can be made hospitable when the home based activities in the Child's Corner at home were regularly focussing on the triad of: seeing, feeling and experiencing. That is why activity based pre-schooling is more akin to the readiness level of a pre-school child for non-formal learning.
Children look towards pre-school experience. They are hungry for exploration and experience.
I wish that would get addressed first so that the transition to formal leaning of reading, writing, and information gathering would be comfortable for pre-school children!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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