Great Little People methodology. Specialists in early childhood education

To better understand what it is based on Great Little People methodology And how do our work specialists in early childhood education, we invite you to share and reflect through a brief and simple question. Why don't we follow the same steps when we acquire a second language as with our mother tongue? To follow that innate model, at Great Little People, we want to change the way Learn English from a young age.

The process of educating children in English is a long process.

We are specialists in early childhood education so our classes are based on the individualized acquisition of English in a new language starting from the first year of age. We consider it to be an unconscious process that happens naturally. In this way, we get ahead of learning English when we have already acquired the mother tongue, which would involve: reasoning, translation, rules and error correction, which make the process lose its naturalness.

In Great Little People the sessions They are 1 hour and 100% in English, adding to this course a hybrid model with classes in Online English for children.

Our early childhood education specialists work on specific objectives

We work on language-specific objectives such as comprehension, expression and phonetics. We have also developed our own method with the help of early childhood education professionals. We seek to cover the integral growth of our students by covering such important areas as psychomotricity, social skills and logical-mathematics. Everything to enhance the Benefits of learning English.

The average concentration time in children is less than 10 minutes. One of our keys, therefore, is to ensure that we can capture their attention and keep them focused throughout the session. We promote body movement and experimentation through the senses. We take into account the periods of maximum sensitivity in each of its stages. And they are always accompanied by fun songs to have fun with.

Our early childhood education specialists organize the session by corner or”Corners“and this is what the Great Little People methodology is based on

Start corner

As the first contact and warm-up in English, we introduce concepts such as emotions, days of the week, calendar, colors or numbers and simple actions. We also review the weather and the clothes we wear depending on who we came to the session or to whom we came to the session. Los materials in English they are manipulative, visual and with magnets to be placed and removed on blackboards.

Phonics corner

Through object manipulation and discovery, our students learn English sounds in a practical and useful way. Since at Great Little People, one of our maxims is to overcome the frustration of girls and boys in bilingual schools, we started working at a very early age on reading and writing, with various materials such as sensory sandboxes and the construction of words through sounds.

Active corner

It is a space dedicated to movement and the active acquisition of content, generating social interactions between them through motor games, board games, experiments, dances or artistic activities. Our guide is the teaching units, which invite us to discover the contents of each session, taking out flashcards of different elements to discover new concepts and making crafts based on it.

Let's Eat Corner

We introduce diet-related vocabulary by working on hygiene habits and formalisms in English. We encourage dialogue and their first words always come out in the new language! For example, to please order the object you want or need. This is when they best consolidate certain ideas related to textures, shapes and colors, since they appreciate it with all their senses.

Reading Corner

We will start in the Reading in English for children with more than 50 children's books, storytelling activities, representation of logical series or puzzles. Then he returns to calm and we read a story. We can also do a small theater to relax them after the intense activity. It is by listening how you learn the pronunciation and intonation of a language before putting it into practice. As specialists in early childhood education, we have always been concerned about it and therefore it has always been present in class.

Covid-19. Routines as part of the Great Little People methodology

We want girls and boys to live the current COVID-19 condition as just another situation in their daily lives. English for safety and hygiene through “anti-Covid” routines before and during the key moments of the session. We have new songs for this and we have reviewed all our activities in English for children. We wanted to adapt them to the new times. In addition, we have already implemented all the health security measures, and our classrooms are equipped spaces for teaching English. This allows us to allow girls and boys to continue their development process safely.

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