The family plans its activities to meet the needs of all the children, whatever their ages. The same principle holds true for dual-age classrooms. The teacher will design the kindergarten program to meet the needs of all students in the class. In fact, if you were to go into a dual-age classroom and observe the children, you would not be able to tell who is four and who is five. You would see children learning together.
Children learn well from each other At all ages, children learn from each other.
They imitate, instruct, direct and follow one another's knowledge, ideas and feelings. Research shows that young children in multi-age groupings do better academically and socially than children in groups of the same age. Here are some of the ways all children benefit from the dual-age kindergarten classroom. Typically, but not always, the older child is the expert . An important part of kindergarten is introducing children to the school environment, helping them learn how to interact with other children and letting them know what behaviour is expected in school.