Where Small Wonders began in 2002, and where Panipat’s sharpest young learners have started since. Play, wooden gifts and a great many questions build the thinking that serious education runs on.
What we believeA child who is playing is working. The wooden gifts are simply the work made small enough to hold.
The idea · The First Gifts
At Small Wonders, learning starts with a question, not an answer. Long before a child can read, we hand them a shape, a ball, a box of blocks, and give them the room to work out what happens.
Every gift starts the same cycle our learners will use for the rest of their school life, at Infinia and beyond: wonder, find out, make sense of it, and act. Open each gift below and try it yourself.
Gift 1Tuning in
The first gift is a soft ball on a string. Before any lesson begins, there is a child watching a ball swing away and wondering why it always comes back.
In our classroom
Ask your child tonight“What happens if you pull two?”
Gift 2Finding out
The second gift is three shapes, and children soon find that each behaves differently. One rolls. One stays put. One does both, depending on how you hold it. Nobody tells them. They find out.
In our classroom
Ask your child tonight“Which of your toys can roll? Which can’t?”
Gift 3Sorting out
The third gift is a cube that comes apart into eight little cubes. Take it apart, count it, build two towers, put it back. However you arrange it, eight is always eight. That is where number begins.
In our classroom
Ask your child tonight“Can you make eight out of two fours?”
Gift 4Going further
Later gifts were flat: little sticks and half-rings laid out on the table. A child who can make a house from six sticks is one small step from making letters. Lines and curves become an A, an S, a W.
In our classroom
Ask your child tonight“Which letters can you make with only straight lines?”
Gift 5Taking action
The fifth gift is a box of building blocks. Alone, a child builds a tower. Together, children build a town, argue about the roof and agree on a door. That is taking action: using what you know to make something real, with other people.
In our classroom
Ask your child tonight“What would you build with a thousand blocks?”
Gift 1 of 5
A place your child learns to take turns
Model Town · ages 2 to 6 · since 2002
Our classes
Four steps, from the first goodbye at the gate to the first day of Grade 1. Each one gives the child something the last one made possible.
Ages 2 to 3
Holds it, and tries again
Ages 3 to 4
Names what they are doing
Ages 4 to 5
Sorts it, counts it, explains it
Ages 5 to 6
Plans it first, then builds it
Teachers and care
Our teachers are trained in early years, and the part of the job we hire for is noticing what each child does.
A plan written for each new child: short first days, the same face at the gate every morning, and a call home whenever it would help.
Small groups at each table, so every child is seen and nobody watches from the edge.
At home time you hear what your child worked out, not a list of what the class did.
Children go home only with the grown-ups you have named.
CCTV in classrooms and play areas.
Staff trained in first aid for young children.
Washrooms, basins and furniture built for small people.
School transport with a woman attendant on board.
Guidance for parents, and no junk food at school.
Our spaces
Low shelves, open boxes, and every gift where a two-year-old can reach it without asking. Five places a morning moves through.
What families ask
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Many children do at first, and it is normal. The same teacher meets your child at the gate every morning, the first days are short, and we call home whenever it would help.
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Play is how children this age learn. Behind every ball, block and shape is a question: why does it roll, how many, what happens next. Teachers watch and ask, so the learning happens without feeling like a lesson.
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How to wonder, find out, make sense of it and act, the cycle they will use for the rest of school. Along the way come numbers, shapes, early letters and sounds, through play, songs and stories.
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Ready does not only mean reading. It means curious, able to stay with a question, and happy to ask for help. Our learners leave EY3 knowing how to wonder, find out and try again.
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Model Town is where Small Wonders began in 2002. It starts with simple things a child can hold, a ball, a shape, a box of blocks, and lets them work out what happens. Ikigai and Kaizen teach the same way, each with its own focus.
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Often, yes, if there is a place. Call or message us and we will tell you. A new child gets a gentle start and a teacher who learns their name on the first day.
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Admissions
Book a visit and spend a morning with us. See the rooms, meet the teachers, watch a class.
A short, relaxed conversation with the head, while your child plays.
Fill in the form and share a few documents. We will guide you through it.
A gentle start: shorter days in the first week, and a teacher who already knows your child.
Two to six. Early Years from age 2, then EY1, EY2 and EY3. We have been taking children at this age in Model Town since 2002.
Gently, and with a written plan for each child. Shorter days at first, the same teacher at the gate every morning, and a call home whenever it would help. Most are settled within a few weeks.
Through the gifts, and through inquiry. A child is given an object, asked a question about it, and left to find out. Wonder, find out, make sense of it, act: the same four moves they will meet again at Infinia.
They go on to Grade 1. Many of our families choose Infinia World School, the only IB World School within 100 km, which teaches the IB programmes from Early Years through to Grade 8.
Message Model Town on WhatsApp, or call. The number is just below.
Visit Small Wonders Kindergarten
Where Small Wonders began, as the first kindergarten of its kind in Panipat. In 2007 it became the first kindergarten authorised by the state of Haryana, and it has been named best pre-school of the year four times.
Call or WhatsApp702 740 1201After the gifts
The child who pulls a ball to see what happens is the same child who, a few years later at Infinia, asks how Panipat should be planned. Same cycle. Bigger questions.
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