✳️ The Observer: Outer World Exposer Our play group program provides a curriculum catered to early childhood learners as kids meant to be taught in Kindergarten. Our learning environment is part of our Learning program and the Early Years space has curving flowing lines, mud spaces, sand pits, playgrounds, a space for meals. We believe in learning through play in nature. Our program sparks children’s natural curiosity and instills the joy of learning through singing, dancing, art, story-telling, cultural celebrations, yoga, mindfulness, green studies, and excursions around our awe-inspiring campus. We foster holistic development – physical, social-emotional, language, cognitive, creative, cultural – through our learning journeys (thematic in nature), proficiency (language and numbers), and experiential (arts, projects, and explorations). ✳️Sitting cross-legged Pattern (Play/Nursery/LKG/UKG: Children sitting in by the circular play space and colorful play structures, Sitting cross-legged comes with multiple health benefits for kids body. It helps in stretching the muscles and improving the posture of the body. It also helps in boosting bowel movement and improving the blood circulation throughout the body. Sitting cross-legged also helps in improving the range of motion and are beneficial for kids knees and the joints it also helps to maintain the natural curvature of the spine. It’s said that a cross-legged posture closes the lower part of the body and enables one to receive energies from the higher dimensions of life. ✳️ Nature Camps: Nature outings Children participate in our “walkabout” (Nature Outdoors Camps) program to develop an appreciation and awareness of the beauty of nature outside of our school. The program is intentionally designed to be wall-less in that students and educators take advantage of our living campus and to strengthen connections with outer world. Students explore the wonders of their surroundings through field trips and outdoor adventures. The courses give students valuable life experience by connecting them to local and global communities, and engaging them with people, projects and important environmental and human causes – local, national and global. ✳️ The Echo Chronicles: Kids Theatre The young kids in-house music, dance, singing, acting academy. We nurture and polish multi skilled children here. As this is the era of social media, we help our kids to sharpen their skills in this way we are passing the Legacy through these events. Teaching kids about ancient Indian heritage and culture through puppets, folklore, games, songs, activities, and cultural celebrations. ✳️ Sports Academy: fitness first We sharpen the gaming skills and spirit of our young players with their chosen sport. Sports coaching and athletic training is given to all students. The MGS is going to launch Olympic Games, Horse Riding and Cricket Training club at the proposed new school campus. ✳️ Meditation : the life compass of SOCIAL EMOTIONAL WELLBEING We believe that Social and Emotional skills, such as Mindfulness, play an integral role in self development. Mindfulness offers strategies for helping our young learners focus their attention, improve self-regulation skills, build resilience and develop a positive mind-set whilst at school and in life. Mindfulness is weaved throughout the day as a practice in the classrooms and school wide is a feature of each day. The entire school pauses each day the school overs, as the Bell sounds and invites each member of the community to bring awareness to their breath. ✳️ YOGA: for a balanced personality Each student in Early Years participates in a yoga session every week in our meditative peaceful premises. The students focus on mindfully moving their bodies along with an awareness of the breath. Yoga is dynamically introduced through songs, games, stories and asanas (traditional yoga postures). The children work collaboratively to experiment with partner yoga poses. In addition to the weekly guided sessions, yoga is spontaneously done in the classrooms and on the playground. ✳️ Friends’ and ‘friendship’. This program is designed to foster relationships between grades and learning neighbourhoods. Students in classes, meet and play games with their mentors from school. These relationships are important to our Early Years students as they learn to play and collaborate following our IRESPECT values. ✳️ Eccotarian: ENVIRONMENTAL CONNECTION We nurture in our youngest learners a love for nature and respect for the planet. We do so by immersing them in our natural surroundings, where they discover, learn, play, and explore. Areas like the campus Mud Pits, where the children play in the mud and experience the enjoys of getting dirty, the on campus ground where they play, plant, care planting, the pet Animal Enclosures, where they play active roles in caring for and learning from pet animals, and even help build the enclosures, or our on campus Gardens where they harvest vegetables and fruits and sometimes cook using these organic ingredients are all areas that define the Early Years experience, and nurture our students into becoming true Children of the Earth. ✳️ MYSTERY GUESTS Concept In Early Years, one exciting feature of the experiential frame is the ‘Mystery Guest’ who visits weekly. These members of the Mind Green School’ “Eccotarian”community provide a link to real-world experiences through their stories or activities. For example, some parents have conducted science experiments with students as other faculty members have come in to share stories about their work, projects, and passions. Other families have shared cultural traditions, including holidays, dance, language, stories, and cooking, with the Early Years community. People from different walks of life can apply to be a mystery guest at MGS. ✳️ Mystic Innovator: The creative reasoning within Kids are encouraged to participate in Project-based learning with low and high-tech daily life experiences. This makes them more informed, confident and comfortable with their surroundings. ✳️ Books Exposure and LIBRARY VISITS: books are life treasures Nurturing the love of books by allowing student-choice in the books they read. ✳️ The Family Bond: We teach kids to value for their family, they learn moral values through our parent-kid-associations (PKA) we do different kind of regular activities at schools with the involvement of the parents to strengthen children’s bonding with their parents; Drawing Cooking Puzzles Treasure Hunt Parents Spa Helping the chores Doing Craft Pottery together Chair games Duo Games Antyakshari Word puzzles Nature Hunts Story telling Singing Dancing Acting MGS also provides parenting counselling support to the family members who need it.