CREATIVITY IN PRIMARY AND PRE-PRIMARY CHILDREN

Pre-primary period is the most appreciated time because it comprises the most important educational experience of a person's life. During its evolution, there are developed several features that define human personality, as well as obvious facts that help the individual enlarge his/her personal horizon. The teacher's task is to find and exploit the creative capacities of the children. Working and developing the children's creativity also implies knowing their creative potential that intermingles with their intellectual features. The means that the teacher uses in order to educate the children's creative potential are different. One of them is the freedom of letting them to express themselves in order to discover their creativity thoughts. This might happen when the child knows to connect meanings, to make associations and to find answers to his questions. Each creative act starts with questions that have to be meaningful and reasonable. The question is the one that provokes the creative behavior and the one that leads to the development of the child's curiosity. The contemporary school, centered on the pupil, is very important in the development of the child's intelligence and it will ensure a continuous socio human progress. It was always believed that creativity was a feature of the clever people, but, in fact, all we have to do is to be aware of the multitude of the ideas developed by children, their intelligence and creativity being visible since childhood. The products that children create during Romanian language classes are multiple: ideas, tests, projects, literary compositions. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK