Kindiedays Pro Success with Bedrock Academy in Bangalore, India

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Bedrock Preschool implemented the complete Kindiedays Pro Program during the first half of 2024.


Now, our Education Specialist Stella and CEO Milla met up with Leena Chandra, the Founder of Bedrock, to review the results and discuss the future.

How did it go?

Stella: Thank you for having us here today at Bedrock Academy in Bangalore, India. I would like to know a little bit about how you made Bedrock. 

Watch the Discussion HERE

Leena: My vision for Bedrock was to create a firm foundation for all children in Bangalore. International education is typically very, very expensive, and not all classes can afford a good education for the children. 

So, I wanted to provide global education, hence tying up with Kindiedays. I wanted to use that as a firm foundation to spread good education across all levels and all classes in Bangalore, and hopefully, this will spread across India. 

Rewamping Early Education: Insights and Actions

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

The early childhood education landscape is rapidly evolving, driven by changing educational policies, shifting societal expectations, and technological advancements. As preschool owners and teachers seek to navigate these changes, understanding the key challenges and effective strategies for renewal becomes paramount. 

Understanding the Challenges

The first step toward effective change is recognizing the challenges preschools currently face. Today’s educational landscape demands a shift from traditional methods to more holistic and technology-integrated approaches. The primary hurdles include:

  • Outdated curricula and learning methods, such as rote learning
  • Inefficient Parental Engagement
  • Staff Training and Retention
  • Increasing competition


Strategies for Renewal

Addressing these challenges requires a multifaceted approach, focusing on several key areas:

Dive Deeper into Finnish Education: What It Can Mean for Your Preschool?

Wednesday, September 18, 2024


The Finnish Education Model: A Quick Recap

Finland’s world-renowned education success comes from three key principles:

  • Playful Learning: Children learn through play, exploration, and creativity.
  • Child-Centered Approach: Focusing on individual needs and empowering children to take an active role in their learning.
  • Parent Partnership: Strengthening the relationship between educators and parents to support each child’s growth.

By adopting these elements in your preschool, you can create an environment where children thrive, parents feel connected, and your preschool community flourishes.

Here’s how we can help you get started:


Emotional learning environment

Sunday, July 28, 2024
Emotional well-being is a necessary foundation for learning in early childhood. Before children can learn, they need to feel secure, happy, and emotionally nurtured. Little children are very sensitive to the emotions of their caregivers. Therefore, the emotional environment can have a profound effect on their experience. In short, it is vitally important for teachers in early childhood education to take care of the emotional learning environment.


With these questions, you can assess the emotional environment:
  • Is the physical environment safe and comfortable?
  • Is the environment a pleasant and aesthetically pleasing place to be?
  • Are the teachers in the room welcoming, warm and calm?
  • Do you feel at ease in this place?

How to create a good emotional learning environment?


Sensitive and familiar teachers

Physical learning environment

Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The beginning of a new school year offers an opportunity to assess how the classrooms support children’s learning. A great learning environment for children has to provide activities for the whole child's development - for example, social, linguistic, physical, and cognitive development. Therefore, it is not indifferent to how the learning environments/play areas are constructed.


How do we make different play areas visible and interesting?

A classroom should have several different play areas where children can learn, practice, investigate, and, of course, play. It is a good idea to build play areas so that at a glance, you can already see what the point of each one is.

Make the play areas more visible. You can use different types of pictures on the wall and floor. For example, in the car play area, you can use black masking tape on the floor to make roads for the cars, hang pictures of different types of cars and vehicles on the wall, and so on. For animal play, you can use plastic grass on the shelves for animals to walk on, make fences for animals with colorful masking tape on the floor, and again put pictures of different types of animals on the wall near the animal play area.

Toys should be located so that children can easily see and reach them. Toy boxes can be see-through, or if not, the toy boxes should have a picture of the toys that belong in that box. This also makes cleaning the toys much easier - every toy has its own box where it belongs! Cars go to the car box, blocks go to their own box, and so on... When toys are nicely arranged and cared for, children also learn to appreciate the toys and play areas more. It is important that teachers show examples of how to play together with peers and how to clean after playtime is over.


Arranging learning areas by their type

Each learning or play area should be clearly defined by boundaries that separate it from the other areas. The boundary can be anything visible enough for children to understand the limits of the play area, such as low-storage shelves, bulletin boards, tables, chairs, carpets, or even colorful masking tape on the floor.

Similar learning areas should be located close to each other. For example, the library and writing area need quiet space so they can be near each other. On the other hand, the block area and role-play area need more space and allow children to play louder.

Some play areas can be "theme-based" so that they change over time according to the learning theme. For example, if children are learning about farm animals, you could have farm animal play in the classroom, enhanced with pictures, related books, and other little props.


Types of different play areas

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