Music ignites all areas of child development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. It helps the body and mind work together. Many surveys on Brain Development conducted around the world conclude that including music in early learning makes children quicker learners & easily adaptable. At Ekam Early Learning Centre, vocal & instrumental music is an integral part of the curriculum and starts at the earliest stage. We have a well-equipped Music studio, and our unique music program immerses our little ones in the language and joy of music at school.

Children are naturally creative. Ekam Early Learning Centre includes art in everyday classroom activities to make exploration not just exciting, but also educational. Our environment enables free art exploration to strengthen motor skills, cognitive development, focus capabilities and to tickle both sides of the brain for accelerated brain development. Our Art Atelier is one of the most favourite places for children at school. It is where they thoroughly enjoy using a variety of tools like rollers, brushes, stamps, sponges, leaves, stems, forks and a lot of other types of natural and synthetic materials for art.

The ability to start dancing develops in children before they can even form words! Through Dance, children learn a vast range of motion, body awareness, balance, muscle strength, coordination, and endurance. It is not only entertaining but also develops social skills and the ability to express and emote. Ekam Early Learning Centre seamlessly includes Dance into the curriculum to enable kinesthetic learning. Dance classes are designed to make little ones more expressive, artistic and physically & mentally flexible.

The dramatic arts at Ekam Early Learning Centre is used to help students overcome hesitation and shyness, and to develop the ability to overcome stage fright and fear of interacting with strangers. Roleplay or Imaginative play is also considered essential for the development of children’s cognitive and social skills. Along with being fun, using imagination at play improves children’s creativity and promotes better performance and also helps them develop a robust problem-solving approach in dealing with issues. At Ekam, Drama and Role play are integrated into the curriculum and provides children with a wide range of opportunities to express themselves.

Reading & Story-telling helps children get to know sounds, words and language, and develops early literacy skills. It sparks children’s imagination and stimulates their curiosity. It also promotes brain development and teaches children about various emotions. Reading also improves focus and concentration and builds stronger analytical thinking skills. At Ekam Early Learning Centre, there is a strong emphasis on developing the habit of reading among children. We have a beautiful, well-stocked library which has a variety of books in different genres to spark an appreciation for reading and inform the young readers about the world. Children visit the library regularly and thoroughly enjoy reading books and story-telling sessions conducted by the teachers and their peers.

Sports are well-known to provide a whole slew of benefits to children from a very young age. From understanding the value of team spirit, learning how to follow the rules, take turns, work with others, and how to build resilience, playing Sports and games also develops motor skills and make the children physically fit and active. At Ekam Early Learning Centre, we have a Soccer field and a Basketball court for our little ones. Along with that, we also offer a well-structured Fitness Programme which is designed for our early years’ age group exclusively.

The outdoor spaces at Ekam Early Learning Centre are carefully designed with a focus on creating a stimulating, enriching and fun-filled environment which is full of play, as play is the best way a child can learn. Apart from our Sports facility, we also have areas for unstructured and free play. It includes a variety of play equipment like monkey bars, specially designed outdoor gym equipment, climbing and obstacle bars, a well-defined outdoor multi play station, sand & water play etc. Our outdoor spaces enhance curiosity and provide excellent resources to support exploration and promote physical development.

Preschoolers enjoy the opportunity to move freely, and our Indoor gym is one of the favourite places at the Ekam Early Learning Centre. It is filled with open-ended and structured activities where children are allowed to develop their gross motor skills and improve skills such as spatial awareness, locomotor, coordination and rhythmic skills. Children learn to balance on balancing beams, crawl through tunnels, jump over hurdles, hang on wall bars, climb on soft walls, glide through slides, jump under parachutes and so on! Children of all age groups much like gym time, and it forms an integral part of the schedule.

Gardening engages all of the senses! Squish your hands in the dirt. How does it feel? Let’s add some water. What does it look like now? How does that flower smell? We grew this vegetable let’s eat it and see how it tastes! Hear that crunch when we bite into it?
As you can see, it’s easy to incorporate sensory play into a gardening activity!
Gardening is meditative and offers so many exciting opportunities for children, and has many benefits. It not only develops their motor skills but also teaches them the value of responsibility, patience and helps them to learn how to plan and organise. Gardening is an essential part of learning and development at Ekam Early Learning Centre. Through the gardening sessions, children also learn how to nurture and care for another living being at an early age, shaping them into empathetic individuals.