Feb News

What a great first month of school. We have been transitioning into new routines at school, learning everyone’s names, making new friends and getting to know each other. Currently there are 13 children in Toddlers Group ages 2-3 and 13 children in Early Years Group ages 4-6. The Early Years Group is under the guidance of Ms. Ng and I. She graduated with a Business Degree and has a passion in teaching. We look forward to an exciting year ahead with the children. You may have noticed there are 4 children attending our Junior Educare as well. One of them is Ms. Sri’s son. We are very delighted about this new addition to the school as we are providing this service to children whose primary schools are around the neighbourhood.

Our first theme was All About Myself. We discussed about our senses, how to take care of our teeth, how many fingers we have on our hands, where we are from and how old we are. In Montessori environment, there are some basic expectations we have for the children such as we tell the children “walking feet” means walk safely and calmly in the environment, “indoor voices” means use gentle voices, no yelling across the environment. We constantly remind the children not to disturb others who are working and return materials in good order to shelves.

We will start our second theme with the study of Botany by introducing Plants & Flowers. We use the book The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. It is a wonderful book to use especially for the younger children. Some of the activities planned for the children are, we will examine seeds, plant and compare different types of seeds, learn how seeds travel, learn how the stem carries water, learn the needs of plants, parts of plants and lots of art and crafts will be made with this theme. We encourage parents to participate with children by collecting different types of leaves and bring to school that we will press into a book.

To enhance our learning, the Early Years children will be going on a field trip to Tropical Spice Garden, Teluk Bahang Penang on Feb 25. The school does not have mass transportation so we rely on parent volunteers or teachers to transport our students to and from field trips. Further details will be sent out later on.