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The main purpose of movement and play activities at ERA College is to enable children to develop and enrich their learning experiences through games. Before breakfast, students engage in free play activities and group games in play corners specially prepared for their age, developmental needs and interests. With these games, children meet their movement needs and enrich their imagination. In addition, through games, children rehearse their daily life experiences and take the first steps in real life skills. During movement and play activities, where children have the opportunity to get to know themselves and their environment, children are provided with opportunities to play not only in the classroom but also outdoors.

ERA College accepts that each student has a unique learning process and provides individual support by monitoring each student's learning process. This approach, which allows students to express themselves, discover themselves and gain self-confidence, helps students be successful and use their potential at the highest level.

Turkish activities in ERA College kindergarten are made fun by supporting the "scamper", that is, "brainstorming" method, which will enable students to think differently, dream and create original products by using their intuition. Activities are carried out to ensure that children speak Turkish correctly and beautifully, improve their vocabulary and increase their communication skills. The aim of Turkish activities is to enable children to speak Turkish correctly and beautifully, to produce sounds, to acquire listening skills, to express their feelings and thoughts verbally and non-verbally, and to adjust their tone of voice well. In addition, the primary goal in ERA kindergartens is for children to develop a positive attitude towards books and to gain a love of books through Turkish activities.

In Turkish activities, approaches that encourage child-child and child-adult communication are used to support language skills. In addition, activities such as telling nursery rhymes, playing finger games, reading poems, asking riddles, chatting, reading picture books, completing a story, creating another story, retelling the story and creating a new story from pictures are performed.

At ERA College, reading and writing preparation activities include activities that are included in the primary school preparation process and are carried out to facilitate children's transition to primary school and increase their readiness levels. The goal of the pre-school education program is not to teach children to read and write, but to provide them with the preliminary skills needed to quickly learn reading and writing in primary school. For this reason, children are first tried to be taught the necessity of reading and writing and their relationship with real life.

Children are supported to develop a positive attitude towards reading and writing. For this purpose, students are given pencil usage and manual dexterity exercises, visual perception exercises, listening, feeling and distinguishing sounds, producing words that start and end with the same sound, attention and memory exercises. All these desk studies, which are carried out to raise awareness for literacy and develop a positive perception towards school, are supported by many different types of activities such as art, drama, music and games.

ERA College, knowing that children in kindergarten are curious and inquisitive, attaches importance to science and nature activities in order to support the development of children in this direction. These activities are activities that encourage children to pay attention, ask questions, wonder, research, examine and discover. While children get to know the realities of life through these activities, they also learn environmental awareness. Concept studies carried out using experiment, concept network and analogy methods are also among the science and nature activities.

With nature activities, children learn about subjects that occur in daily life, such as lightning, rain, wind, snow, and the developmental characteristics of plants and animals. Thanks to the activities and observations they make, they learn more easily about events that occur in daily life, day and night, seasons, general characteristics of the Sun, Earth and Moon, the causes and consequences of movements in nature, and the connections between events.

At ERA College, mathematics activities are supported by the Gems education program. The Gems education program helps students develop thinking and problem-solving skills using scientific methods. It also encourages students to be interested in mathematics and science subjects and enables them to be successful in these subjects.

The mathematics activities implemented at ERA College aim to develop mathematical inquiry skills in children. The aim of the mathematical activities is for children to notice the patterns in their environment, to develop and test hypotheses, to solve problems, to reason and to communicate using mathematical concepts.

While performing mathematics activities, children are given examples that they may encounter in daily life. As much as possible, we work with real objects and then continue working with symbols. While measuring, children are given the opportunity to make measurements using non-standard measurement units such as feet, pencils, toothpicks and books. Establishing relationships, matching, grouping, creating patterns, sorting, counting, addition and subtraction, recognizing geometric symbols and preparing graphs are among the mathematical activities carried out with children.

At ERA College, mandala-based art works include extremely entertaining activities that open colorful doors to children and enrich their imagination, with visuals that support the curriculum accompanied by classical music. While mandala studies awaken children's minds, they also serve as therapy against stress. Mandala helps children develop coordination and psycho-motor skills. It ensures the development of finger muscles. It supports holistic relaxation of body and mind. It contributes positively to the artistic perspective by increasing the aesthetic perspective. It helps with concentration and increases attention span.

The time the child spends to complete the mandala teaches him to be patient and wait. The product he creates with effort improves his self-confidence and increases his ability to take responsibility. Mandala activities that increase the child's visual perception skills also contribute positively to drawing and writing skills.

Art activities at ERA College kindergartens aim to reveal children's creativity and imagination. Art activities are applied to students by branch teachers. Children are enabled to actively create original products through activities such as easy, three-dimensional works, cutting, tearing, gluing or painting, using various artistic techniques, applications and waste materials.

With these activities, children studying at ERA College kindergartens become aware of their interests and abilities from an early age. In the digitalizing world, parents and children who face various problems during the socialization process can adapt to social life more easily with these activities. At the same time, children can acquire hobbies suitable for them.

At ERA College, creative drama activities contribute to the versatile development of children. The purpose of drama as an education method is to develop children's innate creativity and support the development of their imagination. In creative drama practices implemented under teacher leadership, the first thing you need to do is warm-up, that is, movement exercises. These activities increase the child's desire to participate in the game. In the second stage, the role-play stage, children play freely within the determined rules. Techniques such as story creation, role playing and improvisation are used. In the final stage, the evaluation stage, children are asked to do different activities such as preparing posters and drawing pictures about the process.

At ERA College, musical activities are carried out in the form of activities that support children's five developmental areas. These activities include activities such as listening to sound and music, rhythm studies, breathing and voice studies, singing, moving with music, and creating musical stories. These activities teach children responsibilities such as making music individually or with a group, listening to others, and being able to cooperate.

Musical activities, which are one of the effective ways that facilitate learning and perception, enable children to reinforce concepts such as thin - thick, fast - slow, long - short. Educational and instructive children's songs are listened to and sung with the children. Studies that contribute to language development, such as melodic counting and tongue twisters, are carried out. Children have fun while saying these and gain accurate and fluent speaking skills.

By combining music with their physical movements, children gain the ability to move in accordance with the rhythm of the music and in a certain order. This skill contributes greatly to the child's motor development.

At ERA College, English language teaching starts with the pre-school program, aiming to establish a solid and permanent foundation. By taking into account the individual differences and learning styles of children, they are provided with a foreign language in a natural environment in kindergarten.

Our language program; In parallel with information technologies in pre-school, it is based on songs, rhymes, movements, gestures, facial expressions, pictures, objects, games, drama, painting, listening activities, stories and learning by doing. Since foreign language teaching, especially through games, contributes to the development of skills that form the basis of language development, such as listening, imitation, and concept formation, the program we implement as ERA College supports our children's learning by having fun and creating natural speaking environments. Our children, who learn by having fun, speak English all day long with expert teachers, improving both their vocabulary and communication skills.

At ERA College, sports activities in kindergartens are held in our gyms or outdoors. While achievements that will form the basis of various sports branches are given, the awareness of sportsmanship in sports is gained by experiencing the feeling of winning and losing in competitions. In addition to children's basic movements such as walking, running and jumping, the development of skills such as bending, twisting and throwing an object with the hand is supported. These activities not only contribute to children's bone and muscle development, but also positively affect the development of their cognitive abilities. During the education process, students' height and weight measurements are taken at certain times and their development is closely monitored.

At ERA College, it is aimed for children to develop their thinking skills, perceptions, memories, cognitive skills and experience the feeling of winning and losing in competitions with mind and intelligence games in kindergartens. Mind and intelligence games also contribute positively to children's character development and are effective in preventing bad habits.

With the mind and intelligence games program, the student;

Facilitates learning by keeping intelligence active,

Acquiring the ability to act in a planned manner,

Strengthening one's foresight,

Acquiring new abilities,

Improving concentration,

Developing the ability to produce solutions and multifaceted thinking,

Being aware of one's abilities,

Developing research skills,

ERA Mind Studio lessons are held in our specially designed studio classes where children can practically advance their 5-fold development (academic, social, psychological, physical and mental development). The development of students is monitored through scientific tests and practices that essentially support the multifaceted holistic development of children, and it is aimed for them to realize their potential at the highest level.

Expected gains of students in ERA Mind Studio courses:

Development of Fine and Gross Motor Skills

Positional Awareness Development

Development of Focus and Organizational Skills

Balance and Coordination Development

Development of Rhythm and Timing Perception

Development of Bodily Perception

Development of Sports Skills

The development levels of students are determined through scientific tests and applications. Results are prepared and shared with parents. At the end of each semester, students are given a report card.

At ERA College, coding, the basic language of the digital age, is taught to children starting from kindergarten. Learning coding at an early age gives children very important skills that they can benefit from in the future. Coding is a very fun and exciting activity for children. Laying the foundations of coding at an early age enables children to learn and apply coding more easily in later years.

While coding, children begin to count numbers, associate objects and locations with each other, and indicate the direction in which they are moving. With the coding studies, children's concepts of place and direction develop and their mathematical skills are strengthened. Children can find more than one solution and develop strategies for problems encountered during coding education. This contributes to the development of children's problem-solving skills. Additionally, children exchange ideas with each other while coding. Thus, effective communication skills are strengthened.