Toptots Mother and Child Workshop Abu Dhabi 3.65

What happens in a Toptots class?

A typical class includes all of the following activities; free play, an age appropriate 'activity box', parachute, interactive music story, gross motor skills, an art activity/texture pit ,Pilates workout on the ball, action songs and a visit from Tom-e at the start and end of the class.

Why we have Activity boxes...
Toptots activities are specially designed to enhance intellectual and fine motor potential, and other important life skills, like emotional and social development.

Activities must be fun for the child, so don’t pressure them if they don’t feel like joining in today. Rather try the activity at home. In this way they will link learning with pleasure, and positive attention from the one they love!

Benefits of the Parachute and Reading!

These are just two of the activities the children are involved with at Toptots and there are lots of benefits to all of them.

Parachute

Balance is one of the many skills gained when we do our parachute activities. Muscle control and strength, confidence in their body. Awareness of the space around them - which in turn means they will be more successful in maneuvering themselves around their environment.

Parachutes were initially used for children who battled to open up to sensory stimulation, and it helps our little ones open up for new experiences, just before they go to textures and explorative play. Of course the most important thing gained is FUN!!

Reading

Generally when we are teaching our children their spoken vocabulary, they gain it from our modelling to them; by talking to them and showing them different objects. The pictures and words that children receive at Toptots teach them to increase their spoken vocabulary, and to begin to understand that those spoken words can also be represented in symbols (called words). This is very basic to us, but children don’t automatically understand this.

Sensory Integration Area

Our texture pit is a pre-reading activity. The child discovers something unusual through the senses. The brain has to unscramble this information, in the same way that the brain will later need to unscramble words that it receives from another sense organ (the eyes) when reading, so here we are practising unscrambling!