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Whether your child is ready for school or not is not defined by attending preschool. Many parents do not want their children to attend preschool, as it is often associated with immaturity. However, preschool offers many benefits and has nothing to do with your child's intelligence.
Here you will find out why your child should go to preschool, how you can prepare your child for it, and what your child will learn there!
Why should children go to preschool?
In Germany, it has become standard in recent years to integrate preschool into the final year of daycare. In Austria, on the other hand, there are separate preschool classes. The advantage here is the usually smaller class size and the fact that preschool can be counted towards the duration of schooling. Preschools in Austria and Germany certainly have one thing in common: they gently prepare your child for school in an individual way and without pressure, thereby ensuring your child a stress-free start to a new chapter in life.
How to prepare your child for preschool
If the preschool year is integrated into daycare, the gentle transition into the "serious business of life" is largely up to the educators. You can support your child in this regard by, for example, playfully incorporating numbers and letters into everyday life. The important thing is to have fun, so that your child is not pressured and refuses to learn. Most children this age are naturally curious. If you want or have to send your child to preschool in Austria, it is important to strengthen your child's self-confidence. They should not feel less valued just because they are not enrolled in school right away.
What your child learns in preschool
In Germany, there is no mandatory curriculum for preschool. Almost all federal states have an educational plan that the program is based on. The goal is to prepare children for school playfully and to provide them with all the necessary knowledge that will make their everyday school life easier. In Austria, there are 2 different variants of preschool. The first variant is attending a special preschool class, the second variant is the flexible school entry phase, where your child either has two years to learn the material of the first grade, or three years for the material of the first and second grade. All preschool exercises pursue the same goal, such as the transmission of the following knowledge:
- Letting others speak and listening
- Learning to deal with disappointments and defeats
- Learning language skills, both oral and written
- Early mathematics education (for example, learning to recognize and read simple numbers)
- Learning and following rules
- Integrating into a new group
- Being considerate of others
- Resolving and tolerating conflicts
- Making decisions
The points above are just some of the things your child will learn in preschool. As you may have already noticed, this also includes topics such as social skills, which your child has needed time and again throughout the entire kindergarten period. So you can rest assured, because your child has certainly already learned many of these skills independently in everyday daycare life!
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