Practica Cape Town
Games in Cape Town

Practica is a comprehensive support system for parents to develop the skills which their children need to excell at school.
We teach parents how to play!.
Our program is for children from birth to seven years, we provide parents with a 40 kg chest with 30 apparatus, a Parents guide with over 4000 age-appropriate games to play in and around the house, a free telephonic support system and free assessments for school readiness.

Connections develop more densely between brain cells in the regions of a child’s brain that are used often. During the early years, the quality of a child’s experiences shape the architecture of his brain. Various regions of your child’s brain control different areas of his development, such as language, listening skills, hand-eye coordination, reasoning abilities, memory, etc. The Practica Programme tells you which new things a typical child will be able to do at every age in all these areas, so that you don’t miss anything. Newly emerging abilities are most susceptible to the impact of stimulation when the neural circuits that control them are still young and malleable. As you play and laugh with your child, you include clever little games that create the opportunity for him to exercise all of his newly emerging skills and build the neural networks that are forming in all the various areas of his brain. Imagine the difference that a thousand of these emotionally charged games can make, spread out over the first 24 months! Source: Example: Research observations of what a typical child does at various ages. A typical 2-year old can be taught to group objects by their color. He can put all the blue beads in one can, and the yellow beads in another. Emperical studies done on how specific enriching experiences can enhance children’s development. Lev Vygotsky observed how children learn and consequently develop during their interactions with adults. Jean Piaget described how children experience and interact with their environment differently at various stages and Maria Montessori popularized the idea that children learn better when the learning experiences are age-appropriate. Much can be learned and applied from the work of these and other similarly ground-breaking researchers. Tried and tested favourites in households, teaching and therapy. Instead of always playing tried and tested games in the old fashioned way, the Practica Guide adds a twist. Things that teachers wish their learners’ parents did to build their brains years ago, when the learners were still babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. If a 7 year old struggles to coordinate the two sides of his body and roll across the floor from point A to point B, he will most probably experience learning problems. It is specifically designed to be used by everyday parents who juggle many responsibilities while dealing with the time restraints of modern life. Maternal stimulation and infant exploratory competence.