Christmas Party

Halloween Party

The children had fun in our Halloween Pyjamas Party. The children performed their Halloween chants, making jellies, art & crafts and learning to trick or treat!played games and had fun trick or treating.

Toddlers Picnic Day

The month of Aug was dedicated to learning about Food. We started off talking about different types of Malaysian food, food pyramid, reading food labels, how to eat healthily, different types of food served in each meal, how to set table for lunch, napkin folding and table manners.

Our toddlers had a picnic at our school garden. They learned about sharing, taking turns, how to eat properly and how not to waste food.

Wild Animals

The theme of the Wild Animals let us re-visit Zoology unit we learned earlier this year in March. We have created many types of animals at the art corner, walked like an elephant, slithered like a snake, hopped like a kangaroo. For Sensorial activity, we shown the children different types of habitat that these wild animals are living. The children have really liked exploring many jungle animals. The toddlers always surprise us with the different sounds that these wild animals make by listening to the story of Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear? by Eric Carle.

July News

Our theme in July is Wild Animals. Through our study of wild animals, the children will become familiar with the names and homes of the many zoo animals and we will be talking about endangered animals and at the same time we will create awareness to children on how to preserve their habitats. Younger children will be read a book by Eric Carle, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear? They will learn the different sounds these animals in the book are making.

Some of the experiences planned for this theme :
o Sensorial activity – touch different types of fabric materials such as wool from hair/fur and leather from skin.
o Science Culture table – children will be working with toy animals and place them in each habitat that these animals live, some prefer icy cold land, muddy places, some animals prefer grassy land or water.

June Holiday Workshops

We're very happy to announce our first batch of June Holidays Crafty Time sessions, led by scrap expert Joyce ended with a blast! The children learned new skills and produced loads of fun and creative art projects and their felt sewing projects, including cute stuffed donuts, cool book cover and bags for all stuff.

I loved sewing myself as a child and it is a wonderful thing to pass on to the kids. I have been very keen in making sewing available to children and hope to break down some of the barriers associated sewing with it being a girl thing. My intention is only to make sewing fun for children and for them to pick this as a new hobby...who knows one day they will become one of the world's top fashion designers?

The children learned to sew using needle and thread and two basic stiches. Backstitch is the strongest hand stitch and is used to imitate machine stitches and herringbone stitch and it is used to hold down a hem. This is a decorative stitch and could be used on the outside of a piece of clothing.

Parents' Day

What a great Parents Day! Today, the weather was so kind to us and our parents and children thoroughly enjoyed our first ever Parents Day. Huge thanks to all of you who came and cheerfully participated in all activities with your child. Thank you, parents, for sharing your precious children with us. Thank you for the privilege of allowing us to take part in their early years. Thanks go out to our teachers and helpers for making this event a success.

June News

Last month have seemed to pass us by very quickly! Teachers have been busy for the coming up Parents’ Day and our Parent Teacher Meeting. We would like to thank all parents for taking the time to come and discuss with us about your child. A gentle reminder, kindly sign and return the progress reports by this week.

We have had such wonderful changes in the Toddlers class. We have the classroom walls newly painted. Last month our focus was Colours and Shapes. We sang the classical song I Can Sing A Rainbow in order to help the children learn the colours of the rainbow. They learned about primary and secondary colours. The children also created many beautiful artworks from this unit. The children will continue to be able to use many different materials and techniques to create their art for the rest of the year. We will be increasing the amount of free art projects to allow their creativity to flourish.

We are pleased that Ms. Joyce a local artist is willing to spare her busy time to organise holiday art workshops for our children during this coming 2 weeks school holidays. These programmes stressed on child’s creativity and encourage the child to think out of the box. We will be using a vast variety of art tools, recyclable materials, lolly sticks, egg cartons, paper plates, dollies, old magazines, fabrics, buttons, etc.

This month we will be learning all about Nursery Rhymes. Nursery rhymes stimulate memory, improve language skills, develop appreciation for music, enrich vocabulary, develop phonemic awareness, encourage thinking skill and they are fun!

Some of the activities that we will do :
- Sing along with the nursery rhymes and learn rhyming words
- Learn prepositions on, in, above, under, behind, in front with Humpty Dumpty
- Experiment with sink and float using Jack and Jill’s pail
- Learn time with Hickory Dickory Dock
- Learn pairing and matching with Hey Diddle Diddle
- Learn tonque twister with Peter Piper

Teachers' Day

On 16th May was Teacher’s Day. We had a week long Teacher Appreciation Week from 10th – 14th May. Children were invited to send their appreciation to their teachers on these days.

Thank you children and parents for showering us with lots of gifts and flowers. You really lighted up our lives!

Happy Teacher's Day

Teachers are generous people. Throughout the school year, they spend countless hours preparing teaching materials, decorating classrooms and volunteering their personal time to attend parent-teacher meetings and special events - not to mention digging into their own pockets for special stationeries, stickers and goodies for children. Does this sound like you ? If yes, give yourself a big clap and that of all the things that you do...you deserve a day specially dedicated to you!!

Parents, sending your appreciation shows that you and your child appreciate the little things she does to make school enjoyable. Here’s a shout out to teachers everywhere including my terrific teachers ! You are the best and enjoy the week. HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY!!

I know Mother's Day is around the corner but I'm just getting a little bit over too excited over here that really makes me want to post this banner up for you to see....

May News

The Early Years and Preschoolers children had great fun when they visited Paya Terubong Fire Station on 28th Apr. The firefighters showed them what they have always wanted to see, how they slide down the pole, the fire engines and all the equipment that they use. The children held the long hose and pretended to put out a fire. What a fantastic experience when all children and teachers had a chance to ride on a fire engine. The children sang a song as an appreciation to the firefighters. Going on a field trip also taught the children how to behave on outings, care for themselves and friends.

Learning about other jobs was fun too! Not to forget our recycling bins, we managed to collect three bags full of trash for recycle. The children were shown how much of trash we have collected and that we care for the earth.

We have children previously from Toddlers Group (2-3 year olds) promoted to Early Years Group (3-4 year olds) that are developing well into reading and writing. They work on letter recognition, initial sounds and sight words. They are developing their pencil grips steadily and they are doing their handwriting without ‘tears’ and with more confidence now.

In May, we will be teaching Colours and Shapes. We will be telling the story of Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle. The toddlers will be learning about colours of the rainbow, sorting out shapes, sequencing patterns. The Early Years will be learning Primary and Secondary colours, reinforce comparative language for dark and light, working on Geometric Solids and lastly the Preschoolers will be working on Colour Box III to create colour wheel and observing architectures of famous buildings. With the help of Montessori materials, the children find abstract concepts and language skills easy to understand and remember.

On 19th May (Wed), we would like to invite children to wear anything colourful to school or they can come in polka-dots, stripes, checked, etc for show and tell.

This month, we will also be talking about a very important person in children’s lives that is mum. Besides that, 16th May is Teacher’s Day. We will be having a week long Teacher Appreciation Week from 10th – 14th May. Children are invited to send their appreciation to their teachers on these days.

Field Trip - Fire Station, Paya Terubong, Penang

The Early Years and Preschoolers were able to visit the fire station on 28Apr for our Community Helpers theme. They had a fun bus ride there and when we reached there, we were greeted by the Fire Station chief. He assigned one of the firefighters on duty to tour us around. The children listened very carefully to the talk about the station, fire work and most of all safety. The Firefighters reminded us all how to call in case of Emergencies only. They showed us how to do that. They talked about how to stay low in a fire.and they took us all around the fire engine.

The ketua balai bomba gave cakes and drinks and we thank them with a Firefighter's song. That was the highlight for the firefighers. The chief was so great with these children and all of our children behaved excellently, it was a wonderful trip. Thank you Fire Station for having us, thank you Firemen for the tour and thank you teachers for taking good care of the children.

The kids Go Green

Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 of every year. It is our children who will someday be responsible for taking care of our planet. We have to start educating them from young!

Here was one activity we did in class to help them love the earth and get involved in making it a better place.

Do you know the pastry man ?

There's nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked pastries in the morning..now, where's my tea ?



Our little chef brought some puff pastries to share with the teachers and friends. Mind you, this was not any ordinary puff pastry, this was homemade puff pastry by this cute little chef and his lovely mum. We love how the mum brought him into the process of learning. He could actually tell you how this was made, what ingredients he used and bla bla bla...After the show and tell, our little chef cut the pastry and served to his friends..lovely!

Great blogs

While I was searching for some printables sheets for our theme next month, I found these blogs :

A great place to get more ideas on extension for Montessori materials. I especially love her creativeness on EPL.
http://mymontessorijourney.typepad.com/

A blog by a mum sharing her fabulous ideas about homeschool and crafts
http://mama-jenn.blogspot.com/

April News

We had a great time learning all about dinosaurs during the past two weeks. The children have learned about the different kinds of dinosaurs, what they ate and how big they were. They can easily name dinosaurs in our classroom collection as well as in the numerous classroom books and know exactly what their names are. Pretending to be Paleontologists has been a lot of fun too. The children especially enjoyed looking for fossils in our garden.

Our fun and fantastic theme for April is about Community Helpers. The children will be learning a wide variety of job. Ask questions like “What does he do?” “Where does he work?” Name all the tools a community helper needs to complete the job. Talking about what your children want to be when they grow up. Play dress up as Doctor and Firefighter.

Some of the activities that we have planned for the children :
o In conjunction with Earth Day on 22nd Apr, we will teach the children what we can do as part of the community and what we can do to take care of the Earth. Children are invited to bring trash from home daily to throw away into the correct recycling bin that we prepared.
o We would like to extend our understanding on jobs by taking a further look at the job that you do. Children are invited to bring a photo or two on Wed, 14th Mar for show and tell to the class of their parents at work.
o As we close our unit on Community Helpers, we will have our field trip to the Fire Station onWed, 28th April. Info and permission slip will be sent out soon.

Paleontologists at work

On 24th Mar, we brought the children out to our backyard on a fossil hunting.

Mar News

I hope everyone enjoyed the festivities of Chinese New Year. Thank you for your lovely comments on the teachers’ Chinese New Year window decorations. We talked about the meaning of the celebration and twelve animals in the Chinese Zodiac, We also talked about Friendship and Valentines.

We have been practicing being nice to our friends by saying please and thank you, waiting for our turn and using a soft indoor voice. For art, we did activities related to our themes: making art using sunflower seeds, Chinese fans, dragons, paintings in the lucky colours and made heart shaped cards. We then wrapped up our celebration by having a Chinese New year snack.

In Feb the children learned about Garden and our children were involved with gardening and it was rewarding to watch their interest and self-esteem grow as their gardening efforts yielded good results. Some children insisted their mums to cook the onions that they brought home.

Our exciting theme in Mar will be Dinasours which is sure going to spark children’s interest in these fascinating prehistoric creatures. We will be teaching some of the different features of dinosaurs.
o Some had bony plates on their backs or heads.
o Some dinosaurs had spikes or horns.
o Some had very long necks and tails.
o Some dinosaurs had big teeth and claws.
o Some walked on two legs, while others walked on four legs.
0 Some ate meat; others ate plants.

We will have children create their own dinosaurs using paints. When the artwork is complete, we will encourage children to name their dinosaurs after themselves (such as Gabrielosaurus or Megan rex) and introduce their creations. We will cut out paper dinosaur footprints of various sizes and let the children put them in order from smallest to largest.

We will also be going on a dinasour hunt. We are going to have a special Paleontologist Day on Wed, March 24th. Your child may dress up as Paleontologist to school that day as well as bring in other tools that a Paleontologist needs such as binoculars, hat or toy camera. On this day, we will dig up dinasour fossils from the ground and fit them together to make dinasour skeletons.

Feb News

We had a great first month of school! Our focus for the first month was for the children to become familiar with school, including meeting new friends, learning routines and transitioning. They did a really nice job.

We also introduce some basic rules to the children. 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. In Feb, we will continue to focus on children’s care of environment and self like rolling mat, rolling socks, put shoes/bags on the correct places and grace and courtesy.

We will start our second theme with the study of Botany by introducing the topic about Garden. Some of the learning experiences planned for the children related to gardens include :
o acting out the story of The Enormous Turnip
o preparing a section of our play yard for a garden.
o planting onions and carrots
o smelling activity of different types of herbs that could be grown in the garden
o learning that worms in soil will make it better for plants

The week of Feb 8-Feb12, we will be talking about Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year. We will also have a Chinese New Year celebration on Feb 22 when the children come back to school after the Chinese New Year break. Children are invited to wear their Chinese costumes or wear something red. Children are invited to bring in food to share too.

Jan News

Happy New Year everyone! Welcome back to school! Some children are keen to be back and to catch up with their friends and teachers. It was lovely to receive your phone calls during school holidays. We missed you too! We have 6 new children start this month. They are Careen, Kien Ting, Tiffany, Maverick, Persia and Karen. We hope you enjoy your time with us. We will be spending most of our time getting the children know each other, daily routines and exploring the environment.

Our first theme is My School. We will be discussing about what we learn at school, people that help us at school, ourselves and friends and also Chinese New Year festival that we will be celebrating next month. Some fun activities we have already planned for children include sharing information about their family as well as themselves, counting how many boys and girls friends they have, create giant puzzle together and culture table of Chinese New Year.

Reminders :
o Please be informed that our school gate will be locked at 9.10am. If you’re late, pls ring the bell and wait. Try to be punctual so as not to cause disturbance to other children and teachers. Please send your child in promptly so your child does not lose any valuable learning time at the beginning of the session.
o Please label your child’s clothing and water tumbler as they always get mixed up and go home with the wrong child.
o If your child has been sick or had diarrhoea they should not attend school for 48 hours. This is to protect everyone in the school.