The Learning Experiences by Using Creative Arts Activity Sets to Promote Basic Math Skills of Preschool Children for Kindergarten Year 2 in Watlahan Municipality School.

Abstract

The learning experiences by using creative arts activity sets to promote basic math skills of preschool children for Kindergarten Year 2 in Watlahan Municipality School to purpose of this were to: 1) develop learning experiences by using creative art activities to be effective according to criteria  80/80. 2) compare basic math skills of preschool children Before and after organizing learning experiences by using creative art activity packages and 3) studying the effectiveness index of learning experience management by using creative art activity sets. The sample group used in this research was the kindergarten students 2/3 who were studying in the second semester of the ac ademic year 2016, Watlahan Municipality School, number 25, which was obtained by cluster random sampling.  Research tools were : 1) learning experience management plan by using creative art activity package  2) creative art activity set and 3) basic skills assessment the science of early childhood 2nd kindergarten , 50 items. Statistics used in data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test. Dependent Samples.

The research found that

1. Organizing learning experiences by using creative arts activity sets to promote basic math skills of preschool children. Kindergarten Year 2 is 94.73 / 87.92 which is higher than the criteria set 80/80

2. Basic math skills of preschool children 2nd year kindergarten that has been organized by using creative art activities to promote basic math skills of preschool children. Kindergarten Year 2 has an average score after the experience management is higher than before the experience arrangement with statistical significance at .05 level.

3. The effectiveness index of learning experience management by using creative arts  activity sets to promote basic math skills of early childhood Kindergarten Year 2, the overall average is 0.7260, indicating that students have an average of 72.60 percent increase in learning progress.