如何让0-3岁的婴幼儿在安全与探索中，开启未来无限可能？

“AI这么强大，我的孩子以后会怎样？”

“AI 时代，什么样的教育才能让孩子从容应对不确定的未来？”

知识的叠加已无法应对不确定的未来，在真实情景中解决复杂问题的关键能力和必备品格，浇灌出孩子的 “核心素养”，才是孩子应对AI时代的终极铠甲。

上海世外幼教集团的IB PYP美好融合课程，以核心素养为导向为0-6岁孩子提供了早托幼一体化的教育解决方案。探究是儿童与生俱来的本能，IB PYP 美好融合课程从0-3岁的亲子托育阶段到3-6岁的幼儿园阶段，以双语超学科主题探究课程的进阶，全面培育孩子未来的竞争力。

如何让0-3岁的婴幼儿在安全与探索中，开启未来无限可能？

安全感是孩子探索世界的基础。我们遵循“尊重回应式照护”的理念，从亲子中心的教师双支持（支持家长、支持婴幼儿），逐步过渡到托育阶段的教师陪伴，为婴幼儿构建一个稳定而温暖的安全圈。

上海世外亲子中心在双语超学科主题之下将圈圈活动（circle time）——>自我服务（self care）——>自主探索（exploration）稳定的探索循环，置于发展动作、协调性的萌动课程（Little MOver）和充满启发、创造的探索课程（Little ExplOrer）中，建构起支持婴幼儿完整探索的安全圈。

婴幼儿完整探索安全圈

上海世外亲子中心创设了充满松弛感、多功能分区的环境和空间，在尊重式回应中，让婴幼儿与生俱来的成长力得以保护，让家长在教师基于关系的指引、示范、肯定中，找到适宜的个性化亲子互动模式。比如，在“不同的质感”主题下的自然感官区，孩子可以通过触摸来感受不同物品的硬度、温度、纹理等，家长可以在一角观察，孩子遇到新事物是大胆尝试还是观察后试探？孩子是碰一碰物品还是啃咬物品？老师也会支持家长，在孩子不敢探索时鼓励或亲身示范。

婴幼儿生来就是主动的学习者和探究者，然而他们的兴趣和注意力切换较快，上海世外青浦园托育部根据5年的实践探索，在IB课程的“探究六循环”的基础上，创新性地开发出适合1.5-3岁婴幼儿的Pre-IB“探究四循环”，孵化他们的概念萌芽。

Pre-IB“探究四循环”

婴幼儿天生对色彩敏感，在双语超学科探究“颜色”主题之下，1.5-3岁的婴幼儿在教师支持性陪伴之下通过四个循环阶段，逐步深入探索颜色的奥秘，在行动中表达对颜色的感知和理解：

1、  多元感知 引发兴趣

我们在室内外环境中，创设由各种色系的自然物和生活物品所布置的“颜色角”：金黄色的玉米，橙黄色的橘子，明黄色的柚子等引发幼儿对颜色的关注，激发他们对颜色的主动探索。

园内活动之外，孩子们还会携手老师、父母，踏入大自然这个天然调色盘，在森林中开启一场沉浸式的拾色之旅。孩子们俯身捡起五颜六色的树叶、果实、花瓣等，并在色板上为之寻找同一个色系的“颜色朋友”，在感知丰富颜色的过程中，孩子们完成了多元感知的进阶，初生的美学素养也在悄然生长。

2、自由探索  展示发现

在幼儿的世界中，玩具、食物、自然材料等，无一不是自由探索“颜色世界”的入口。孩子们用稚嫩的小手完成色彩配对游戏，尝试物品之间的颜色分类挑战，在此过程中，发现了事物之间的“颜色联系”，而自由组合这些颜色、用颜色DIY“装扮”日常事物，也会真正激发出孩子们的想象力和创造力。

为了让孩子们在日常生活中更好地探索“颜色”，恰逢幼儿园柚子成熟的季节，老师们创设了“柚子颜颜”主题活动，邀请幼儿园柚子树上的“柚子”进入课堂，让孩子们自由组合五彩缤纷的扭扭棒、吸管、贴纸、马赛克片、超轻粘土、绒球等材料，创造出属于自己的“柚子小精灵”。

3、联结整合 初步理解

当孩子们初步认识了蓝色、红色、绿色等“颜色朋友”，《彩色小怪兽》《小蓝和小黄》等绘本故事，又激起了孩子们的好奇心和探究欲：当“颜色朋友”抱在一起时，真的会发生变化吗？为此，孩子和老师们一起，在拍一拍、挤一挤、揉一揉、喷一喷的过程中，发现了“不同颜色融合后会变成新颜色”的神奇现象。孩子们通过这样的颜色探索之旅，逐步将“感知”与“理解”建立关联，形成了初步的“理解”：原来，不同颜色组合在一起，会产生全新的变化。

为了让孩子们更真切地感知、理解不同颜色融合后的变化，老师们创设了“颜色抱一抱”的主题活动，孩子们会主动拥抱，与自己一样喜欢同样颜色的小朋友，就像“颜色朋友”抱在一起一样，感受“你与我”、不同人事物交融后的奇妙反应。

4、建立新知 尝试行动

有了充分的探索经验，孩子们发现了颜色与不同事物之间的联系，于是尝试进行组合创造。颜色各异的贴纸、不同大小的乐高积木块、不同形状的海绵、各式笔刷、棉签、牙刷、玩具车的轮子等，都成为孩子们艺术创作的工具。这里如同一个色彩实验场，孩子们在玩颜色的过程中，一个个令人惊叹的作品产生了。

最终，孩子们以艺术展的形式，展现了自己对颜色探索的成果。老师们精心创设了艺术展，构建幼儿与艺术大师作品互动的场域，比如，在蒙德里安的色块矩阵里组合不同颜色的积木，模仿草间弥生的波点创造色彩魔法，孩子们在涂一涂、捏一捏、贴一贴等过程中，以艺术大师的作品为蓝本，共创出一个个全新的艺术作品。

我们为婴幼儿打造了一个广阔多元的学习社区，通过世界文化周、生活嘉年华、戏趣童话季、奇思幻想节等系列活动，在森林、在水族馆、在博物馆、在剧场等突破边界的空间中，教育在随时随地的进行，让婴幼儿能在美好教育生态中自由而完整的生长。

在0-3岁这个关键阶段，上海世外幼教集团通过「IB PYP 美好融合课程」双语超学科主题探究的进阶，让孩子体验“世界因我而美好”，成为改变世界的行动者，开启未来无限可能！

With AI advancing so rapidly, what will my child's future look like?

In the AI era, what kind of education will equip children to confidently face an uncertain future?

Merely accumulating knowledge can no longer prepare children for unpredictable challenges. The ultimate armor for the AI era lies in nurturing children's core competencies – the critical abilities and essential character to solve complex problems in real-world contexts.

The Well-being Education integrated with IB PYP Curriculum by Shanghai World Foreign Language Early Childhood Education Group offers a 0-6 integrated early education solution centered on core competency development. Inquiry is children's innate instinct. From parent-child programs (0-3 years) to kindergarten (3-6 years), this curriculum progressively cultivates children's future competitiveness through bilingual transdisciplinary thematic inquiry.

How to enable infants and toddlers aged 0-3 to unlock infinite possibilities for the future while ensuring safety and exploration?

Security forms the foundation of a child’s exploration. Guided by a respectful, responsive caregiving philosophy, our Parent-Child Center transitions from dual teacher support (for both parents and infants) to teacher-guided companionship in childcare, building a stable, nurturing safety net for holistic development.

Structured Exploration Framework at Shanghai World Foreign Language Early Childhood Development Center Under bilingual transdisciplinary themes, the center establishes a consistent exploration cycle:

Circle Time → Self-Care → Independent Exploration, integrated into two core programs: Little MOver: Develops motor skills and coordination and Little ExplOrer: Sparks creativity and inquiry.This framework fosters a secure environment for infants and toddlers to explore comprehensively.Intentional Spaces for Natural Growth and Parent Empowerment.

Holistic Exploration Safety Net for Infants and Toddlers

Shanghai World Foreign Language Early Childhood Development Center designs relaxed, multi-functional zones that honor children’s innate curiosity. Through relationship-based guidance, modeling, and affirmation, teachers help parents discover personalized interaction styles. For example:In the Textures themed sensory area, children explore hardness, temperature, and textures through touch. Parents observe subtle behaviors: Does their child boldly experiment or cautiously observe? Do they tap or mouth objects? Teachers support parents by demonstrating encouragement or gentle modeling when children hesitate.This ecosystem protects children’s organic growth while empowering parents as confident partners in discovery.

Infants and toddlers are natural learners and explorers, yet their rapidly shifting interests and attention spans require tailored approaches. Drawing on five years of practice, Shanghai Qingpu World Foreign Language Kindergarten (Nursery Division) has innovatively developed a Pre-IB Inquiry Cycle framework for 1.5-3 year-olds. This adaptation of the IB's Six-Step Inquiry Cycle nurtures their conceptual development, fostering curiosity and foundational understanding through teacher-supported exploration.

Pre-IB Inquiry Cycle

Infants and toddlers possess an innate sensitivity to color. Through the bilingual, transdisciplinary Colors inquiry unit, children aged 1.5-3 progressively delve deeper into the mysteries of color across four cyclical phases. With supportive guidance from teachers, they actively express their perception and understanding of color through hands-on exploration.

1. Multi-sensory Exploring & Provocating

We create color exploration corners in indoor and outdoor environments, curated with monochromatic arrangements of natural and everyday objects: golden corn clusters, orange tangerine displays, and bright pomelo collections. These installations stimulate toddlers’ chromatic curiosity and inspire spontaneous exploration of color relationships.

Beyond campus, teachers and parents guide children into nature's palette for immersive color-hunting journeys. Collecting multicolored leaves/fruits/petals, children match hues to color wheels, identifying color companions within the same spectrum. This sensory-rich process cultivates initial aesthetic literacy.

2. Exploring & Finding out

In children's worlds, toys, food, and natural materials all become gateways to freely investigate the color universe. Using tiny hands to complete chromatic matching games and attempt object classification challenges, toddlers uncover chromatic relationships between items. As they freely combine hues and transform ordinary objects through color-based DIY projects, these activities authentically unleash their imagination and creativity.

To deepen color exploration in daily learning, teachers launched the Pomelo Palette project during pomelo harvest season, bringing campus-grown pomelos into classrooms. Children freely combine vibrant materials – pipe cleaners, straws, stickers, mosaic tiles, air-dry clay, and pom poms – to craft their own whimsical pomelo creatures.

3. Making connections & Sorting out 

As children become acquainted with color friends like blue, red, and green, picture books such as The Color Monster and Little Blue and Little Yellow spark curiosity: Do colors really change when they mix? Through hands-on color fusion experiments – squeezing paint blobs, blending pigments, kneading colored clay, and spraying watercolors – children discover the magical transformation of colors. This exploration journey helps them build cognitive connections between sensory experiences and conceptual understanding, forming their first scientific insight: color combinations create new possibilities.

To help children better perceive and understand color blending, teachers created the Color Embrace activity. Children hug peers who share their favorite colors, mirroring how color friends mix together. Through these interactions, they experience the magical effects of blending differences - both between people and colors.

4.Building understanding & Taking Action

After thorough exploration, children discovered connections between colors and various objects, sparking creative combinations. Materials like multicolored stickers, LEGO bricks of different sizes, sponges in varied shapes, brushes, cotton swabs, toothbrushes, and toy car wheels became their artistic tools. This vibrant color laboratory witnessed astonishing creations emerge as they played with hues.

Ultimately, the children showcased their color explorations through an art exhibition. Teachers designed interactive spaces where young creators engaged with masterpieces—assembling colored blocks in Mondrian-inspired grids, crafting polka-dotted color magic à la Yayoi Kusama. Through painting, molding, and collaging, the children reinterpreted iconic artworks, collaboratively producing fresh artistic visions.

We create boundary-breaking educational spaces through multicultural activities like World Culture Week, Life Carnival, Theater Storytime, and Imagination Festivals. From forests to aquariums, museums to theaters, learning happens organically in immersive environments, allowing infants and toddlers to develop freely and holistically within a thriving educational ecosystem.

During this critical 0-3 developmental stage, our Well-being Education integrated with IB PYP Curriculum employs progressive bilingual, transdisciplinary thematic inquiry. Through this progressive framework, children embrace the belief that  I make the world beautiful empowering them to become agents of change and unlock infinite future possibilities.