La Chrysalide Agadir - The Children's House 3-6 years old

From 3 to 6 years old, the child has a conscious absorbing mind. He takes hold of everything he hears, sees, and touches. He is constantly guided by his quest for functional independence. He memorizes, thinks, experiments, sorts, classifies, by combining psychic and manual activity. If the environment is well prepared, he can learn to read, write, calculate with the same appetence as he learned to walk and talk.

At La Chrysalide, each child is given the tools to work on the skills and attitudes that will enable him or her to be an effective lifelong learner as they reach their individual potential.

Une expérience éducative unique

Le besoin d'autonomie

C’est la demande implicite de l’enfant à l’adulte : l’aider à grandir, à se déployer, à voler de ses propres ailes. L’autonomie de l’enfant peut être acquise grâce à la liberté (cadrée) qu’on lui laisse (mouvement et choix de l’activité) et qui permet le développement de la confiance en soi et de l’indépendance. Mais elle est également renforcée par le caractère autocorrectif des activités. Ainsi, l’enfant peut se passer du regard approbatif de l’adulte en lui faisant modifier ses représentations mentales, en les adaptant aux résultats de ses essais et erreurs.

Une grande capacité de concentration et d’apprentissage

Notre but, en tant qu’éducateurs, est de cultiver chez l’enfant son propre désir d’apprendre. Si l’enfant est respecté et nourri, tout naturellement, il pourra développer ses capacités de concentration, son goût du travail, son envie d’apprendre, de tout essayer, de tout comprendre.

A unique educational experience

Practical life

A real aid to the child's independence and development is found in the practical life activities. They are composed of actions of daily life decontextualized to allow the child to practice, repeat the activity and thus perfect it before being able to do it in real life.

Sensory life

Reading, writing, counting and listening are learned first and foremost through the body. The brain can only function at full capacity if the whole body is balanced and in good posture. It is necessary to stimulate the 5 senses and not to limit oneself to the eyes and ears channels, by allowing the freedom of the body movement.

Mathematics

A large number of specific materials isolate each notion and difficulty, making them concrete through manipulation. It is a sensory approach to mathematics which allows to give a lot of meaning to these notions which are often too abstract for the child. The goal is to move the child from concrete thinking based on exploration and action, to an increasingly abstract conceptualization of numbers and their uses.

Language

Writing and reading are not natural human activities like oral language is. They are codes to transcribe oral language. Writing can be defined as the ability to express one's thoughts using written symbols, while reading allows access to the thoughts of others. Behind these simple definitions lies a series of complex actions to achieve writing (discriminating sounds, encoding sounds using their graphic correspondence, exercising the motor gesture of letter calligraphy, ...) and reading (visually discriminating letters, decoding them using phonological correspondence, merging sounds to arrive at the word and then the sentence in order to extract meaning).

Culture

Exploring the world, discovering the living, the world and the materials are all practical and sensory activities that nourish the child's mind and guide him to understand the world around him.