The Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) "believes that purposeful play-based early learning sets the stage for future learning, health, and well-being."
Welcome to Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) website. This page provides supports to early years teachers, early childhood educators and parents. We focus on the young child, birth to age 8 since this is the most rapid period of development in human life. Through a collaborative approach, we partner with school divisions, other government departments (provincial, federal), Early Learning and Child Care, educational stakeholder groups, and parents to promote developmentally appropriate programming and services that help to prepare children for successful school entry and optimal learning in the early years.
* The term parents includes guardians, caregivers and other family members who can help young children learn.
Learning and Joy in the Pandemic: Manitoba Kindergarten Practice Resource
Manitoba’s Kindergartens offer our youngest students (who are only four and five years old) a joyful introduction to school. Kindergarten gives these students the opportunity for intentional, play-based, developmentally appropriate learning experiences that enable them to become capable, motivated, confident learners. It fosters their health across all developmental domains’ even during pandemic times.
Learning and Joy in the Pandemic: Manitoba Kindergarten Practice Resource ( 244 KB)
Newcomer Parent Guide
This parent guide provides information on what families can expect in Manitoba Kindergartens and information on how to register for school. The guide also provides helpful tools such as checklists and questions that can be used to communicate with teachers and administrators for various purposes.
Kindergarten: What can my child expect in Kindergarten? ( 1.1 MB)