Magaji Abdullahi Early Childhood Care, Development and Education (ECCDE) centre, Sokoto is a busy place to be on a typical morning during school hours.
On arrival, the pupils are seated in a circle on the floor. Most of the time, they would stand in uniformity to match the activity in question with an action on the directive of a teacher.
To her, the ritual encourages her to engage with friends and teachers in a positive way and also come to school every day. It was also gathered that preschool circle time activities keep kids occupied while helping the transition from one part of the day to the next. Circle time is usually light and fun and has the goal of getting children ready for learning.
Modi said the school is impacting knowledge to the kids through morning circles and also identified lack of water as another challenge as there was no borehole in the school. However, Farouk Umar, the director of Early Child Care Development, SUBEB, Sokoto said the state is looking towards addressing some of the challenges of early childhood education.