ELC Summer programme 2025
A summer of joy, wonder and discovery!
Join us at The Purple Elephant 39 for a magical and enriching experience where little ones explore, create, and play through hands-on discovery
- Summer School Session 1 (23 June - 11 July 2024) and Session 2 (29 July – 15 August 2024)
- For children aged 18 months to 3 years old
- Children are able to sign up for whole sessions or any individual weeks.
- Snack and Lunch included
- Cost: Half day = 2,760 THB/DAY Full day = 3,960 THB/DAY
- For further information, please contact admissions@elc.ac.th
SESSION 1: ELEMENTS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW
Light is a magical phenomenon, a powerful source of transformation that affects the way we perceive the world around us. It is an energy in which young children find fascinating!
Exploring various light sources both natural and artificial along with a variety of spaces and materials, help children to learn about the relationships between them. The light becomes an effective tool for exploration, as a light beam travels across a room, touching upon some surfaces, lingering on others, passing through or being blocked by an object creating shadows or illuminating dark corners, these observations inspire children to create their own hypotheses about the nature, origin and properties of light.
“Every shade and light contains smaller shades and lights within it, creating a never-ending pattern of complexity and beauty. This is true whether we are looking at a simple object or a complex landscape.”
SESSION 2: STRUCTURAL LANDSCAPES
“The structure of life I have described in buildings – the structure which I believe to be objective – is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.”
– Christopher Alexander, Architect & Design Theorist
Our beautiful garden with its network of bamboo tree houses inspires curiosity and wonder where children encounter intricate flowers, plants, insects and more! Through these rich experiences children continually organise and co-construct knowledge through their play, making meaning of their world. They begin to categorise their discoveries, recognising shapes, forms and patterns, they create structured games amongst themselves and map out the garden spaces.
Structures are all around us, whether manmade or natural, social or organizational, even our own DNA is organised into a distinct structure. Structures are made up of various elements which are organised and related, for example a pattern has a structure. Young children encounter, investigate and create their own structures leading to opportunities for mathematical and spatial reasoning along with developing social/emotional skills and understanding.
The diverse array of colours, lines, shapes, growth patterns, and fractal formations found in nature nurture each child’s burgeoning comprehension. Patterns, in particular, aid children in structuring thoughts and establishing a sense of order in their lives. They pave the way for the development of mathematical vocabulary and cognitive concepts. As children begin to discern patterns in nature and existence, they bring a profound sense of harmony to their inner worlds.
