Dear Parents, We are in Term 2. It gives us great pleasure to be your child’s Nursery 1 teachers. We will continue to support your children learning and development and work in collaboration with parents to enhance the child potential and growth. The theme for this term is ‘Myself, Family and Friends’. Children will have opportunity to engage in interesting learning experiences. They will be able to share and exchange their ideas through interaction and participation .Children will have hands on experience in art. He will be able to express his thoughts and ideas through drawing and painting. Children will learn about self- identity through dough play, songs and storytelling. Children will have opportunity to interact and share their ideas. They will be able to communicate about their families and friends. The experiences will enhance the child’s self-esteem and confidence. Children will be engaged in meaningful experiences that promotes intellectual, social and emotional development. Children will work on next exercises in the Montessori curriculum. The practical life exercises enhance fine manipulative skills. The sensorial materials help the child to problem solve. The language exercises aid in the development of language and communication skills. The mathematics exercises create awareness of mathematical understanding and concepts. The cultural materials create awareness of the surrounding and enhance child cognitive thinking. In Term 2, Passport to the World, we will be exploring Norway, one of the Nordic countries occupying the western part of the Scandinavian Peninsular. Parents-Teachers Meeting will be held in June 2008. During this session we will have an opportunity to discuss the overall development of your child and share our observations of your child’s progress in school. It a pleasure to share children’s learning experiences. Parents can support this experience at home through interaction and listening to children views. Regards, Ms Kumutha, Ms Ophelia & Ms Min
April 2008 Passport to the World – Norway: Geography 9th April - Photo taking 25th April -Parental Involvement – “Walking In My Shoes”
May 2008 Passport to the World – Norway: Exploration 14th May - Parents’ Day Celebrations 21st May - Trip To the Singapore Flyer (TBC)
June 2008 Passport to the World – Norway: Culture 20th June-Trip to the Tailorshop/NPP 27th June-Speech and Drama performance /PTM
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Practical Life
Sensorial
Practical life exercises help young children to refine their fine motor skills. The exercises increase their concentration ability as they work to complete their tasks. Practical life also emphasize on social skills, which helps young children in their social and emotional development.
The sensorial materials are designed to educate the impressions the child receives from his senses so as to build these into an inner mental order and aid in the development of his intelligence.
In this term, we will continue with exercises on Social Grace and Courtesy, Exercise for Development of Dexterity & Craft Activities, Care of Indoor Environment, Care of Self as well as Care of Outdoor.
In Term 2, we will continue with presentations of exercises on the knobbed cylinders, knobless cylinder, Colour Box and Geometric solid. The selected sensorial materials will help children achieve the objective set out. Teacher’s reflection
Teacher’s reflection
James Andrew fixed the knobs into the sockets. It demonstrates his problem-solving skills and understanding of perception of dimension
Ririko worked with Opening and closing exercise. She had demonstrated her palmer grasp and fine manipulative skills.
Exercises in Gross motor/Grace & Posture • • •
Walking on line Walking on line with filled tray Walking on beams
Exercise for the muscular development of the hand, wrist and fingers • • • • •
Using Using Using Using Using
Spoon tweezers & Buttons Tong Tweezers & Stamp Sponge
Exercises for Care of Indoor Environment •
Opening and closing boxes and containers
Exercises in Dressing and Undressing • •
Press Studs Large Buttons
Perception of dimension •
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Perception of Color •
Cutting paper Cutting paper on line Cutting along thick line
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Exercises of Grace and Courtesy • • •
Making eye contact Saying Good-Bye Saying Thank you
Colour Box 2
Preparation for Early Geometry
Exercises for Development of Dexterity & Craft Activities • • •
Knobbed Cylinder -Working with 2 Blocks -Working with 3 Blocks Knobless Cylinder (II)
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Geometric Presentation Tray (circle, square, triangle) Geometric Cabinet Drawer 1: Circle Drawer2: Square Drawer 3: Triangle Geometric Solid II Rectangular Prism Cylinder Ovoid Geometric Solid/Base
Silence Game
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Respond to signal
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Language The Pink Montessori Scheme materials are presented to children to teach them phonetic sounds of alphabets. For this term, we will continue to present the exercises to introduce the twenty-six alphabets.
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Mathematics Young children are intrigue by counting and numbers. Thus, making learning fun will interest them more to learn Math. Songs, games and hands on activities will allow your child to discover simple mathematical concepts. Using objects that can be found in your child’s environment to learn Math can aid him in understanding these concepts. This term, we will be focusing on the following exercises:
Teacher’s reflection Jing Yuan traced sandpaper letters and articulated the sounds of the letters. She is able to trace and recall the phonetic sounds. This exercise helps the child to enhance in her language skills and prepares for writing.
Teacher’s reflection Kofi counted the number rods. He demonstrated his Mathematical understanding counting from numeral 1 to 10.
Sound of Letters of the Alphabets • •
qrjv guw k
Introduction to nos.1 to 10 • • • • •
Song •
“Ant on the Apple”
Number Rod: 4,5,6 Number Songs: 4,5,6 Sandpaper Numeral: 4,5,6 Picture Talk 4,5,6 Number Games
Introduction of Object box: •
Revise ‘i’, ‘o’ and ‘e’ boxes
Maths concepts
Introduction of Pictures box: • •
Revise ‘i’, ‘o’,’e’ boxes Pink ‘u’ box
Picture Talk • • •
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one-to-one correspondence same/different
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triangle rectangle
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orange Purple pink
Shape
Colour Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3
Pre Writing Skills Tracing: • •
e z o p q r j v
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Self Identity, Family and Friends
Cultural Culture materials provide children with the experiences in botany, zoology history and geography and natural sciences. The cultural experiences enable the child to view the worlds holistically Maria Montessori, “cosmic education”, called this and it is aimed to bring about in a Montessori classroom a variety of materials in botany, zoology, history, geography, art, music along with the respect for different cultures and people.
April- June: For the thematic lesson in Term 2 we will be focusing on: • Self esteem-Me, Myself and I • My Family and their jobs • My friends and feelings The child learns about his self identity. The learning experiences would help him to increase his self- esteem and self confidence. Children will have opportunity to express their emotions and feelings through art activity, discussion, music and movement, story telling and participation. Children are encouraged to communicate and share their ideas. They will be able to talk about their families and friends. The experiences will promote development of language and communication skills and enhance a child social emotional well-being.
Teacher’s reflection George is able to say the names of models of sea creatures. This demonstrates his awareness of the surrounding and cognitive thinking.
This term, children will be introduced to:• Nature Table • Collection of Model of Ocean Creatures • Collection of Model of Insects • Jigsaw Puzzles of Animals -Fish -Bee
Teacher’s reflection Children engaged in music and movement activity. They expressed their ideas through singing and dancing.
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Collection of models Extinct Animals Loosely Grouped Animals -Birds -Fish Puzzle of 5 Senses -Sight -Taste -Smell -Hearing -Touch Loosely Grouped Animals -Reptiles -Amphibians
Teacher’s reflection Tsubasa and George did finger painting. They were able to express ideas and thoughts through representational drawing.
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Physical exercises help keep our brains and ready for learning new things every day.These are the exercises we will be practicing in Term 2:
This term we will be discovering about the history and geography of Norway. We will be learning about the flag of Norway, the geographical position of Norway and also the people of Norway.
If you have any memorabilia or pictures related to Norway, feel free to let your child bring it to school to share with his or her friends!
Lengthening The Activities: Arm Owl Activation
Energy Water Exercises: Hook Brain Up Thinking Button Energy Yawn Cap
Midline Cross Movement: Double Crawl Neck Doodle E lephant Rolls Music : Hop, Hop, Hop Song(Bk 1) Humming 1) Song
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April 2008 7th April – Johan Madru 11th April – Caeley Liew 11th April-Nate Kelly May 2008 6th May – Andrew Chu 17th May- Keith Lee June 2008 1 James Andrew 15th Shouq Alduumayji 13th –Ririko Maruyama 28th –Miko Cheng st
1st May Labour Day 19th May Vesak Day 5th & 6th June Teacher’s Seminar
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