PAUD is considered important for children's education because the institution is the central point of human resource development strategies. In other words, early childhood education determines the history of subsequent child development and forms the basic foundation of personality. Children who get an early education can improve their health, physical and mental well-being which will have an impact on their future learning achievement.
Early age is the golden age. In the development of the human brain, the stage of early childhood development occupies the most important position, which reaches 80% of all stages of brain development. Children who receive adequate educational services from the age of 0-6 years have a greater chance of achieving success in the future.
Initially, the process of learning to read, write, and count (listing) was only taught in the first year of elementary school, in the age range of 6.5-7 years. However, now many elementary schools make the listing ability a requirement to enter school. This led to the emergence of listing courses for preschoolers.
The Advantages of the Early Childhood Education System
Preschoolers begin to develop speech and language skills. Language development is related to the development of reading ability. Mothers can start by multiplying reading for children to increase their vocabulary.
At the age of 3 years, children begin to recognize the fine motor skills needed to learn to write. Motor exercises can be started by making lines, circles, and coloring. At this age, children are starting to recognize the numbers 1-9. When fine motor skills have developed well, children can start writing numbers.
After early childhood education, children enter kindergarten age. This is the right age to introduce children to basic reading and writing. The first thing you can do is recognize letters and numbers, match words, and continue with syllable recognition.
Age 4-5 years is a good time to introduce reading material to children. At this age, children already know the numbers 1-20 and understand the sequence of numbers. In addition, children have begun to be able to group objects based on the nature of the object.