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SINGAPORE: Education is also about playing - and this is what educators are getting pre-schoolers to do.
Some 1,000 teachers and principals were at the inaugural International Conference on Early Childhood Education on Friday to exchange ideas on how to engage and inspire pre-schoolers.
The conference was launched by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean.
In the past, pre-school teachers emphasised spelling and writing. But educators now say this teaching approach has changed.
Josephine Teo, chairman, Steering Committee, International Conference on Early Childhood Education 2010 said: "There is greater recognition that even in the early childhood years, play is an important component, and play in fact does lead to a great deal of learning."
Sheila Ho, principal, PCF-Sparkletots Child Care Centre, Queenstown & Alexandra Branches said: "They will have the chance to learn their spelling in their primary schools.
"Give these pre-school children their childhood life - like playing with blocks, all these. It is not only from books. They can memorise, they can learn better through hands-on."
- CNA/sc
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