The Earth, I Love

Beautiful and creative creations with leaves and peas/beans/nuts/seeds.
We are entering into the amazing Amazon & Rainforest to round up the theme on plants and to start the journey on Animals.
With all the prior knowledge on grouping or patterning, measuring (height of tree, circumference of trunk, width of leaf), adding & subtracting using number bonding concept, we will next embark on multiplication.
A 2 cent worth of advice:
Please avoid the temptation to make your child memorize the time-tables. From the perspective of early childhood education, the ONLY benefit is that it may please the adult or parent 'if' the child is good in reciting it. What if he cannot remember at all or can recite well but got all the problem sums wrong? Oh, then it must be that the teacher or perhaps the school programme is no good!!!???
Nonetheless, if the child enjoys the rhythm of the time-table,it suggests that it is time to discover the child's talent in music. Ability to recite the time-table well has nothing related to mathematical reasoning at a very young age. On the otherhand, if the child understood the concept from concrete and daily useful experiences and uses that understanding in his reasoning, he will out shine many others in his application.He will be a high achiever who knows how to enjoy learning. BTW, mom & dad, can you believe that your child can tell you how many seeds they've used in the activity on the left, in less then a minute! Thanks to the array of beans that make the pupils feel easy learning multiplication!

Speech & Drama makes learning language fun & easier

Our acquisition of english language has been very exciting. We have completed has vs have, this vs that, these vs those... you name it! Now, we are into challenging dramatization on what we understood &/or imagined from the reader. You know what I mean, it is a must that T.Phyllis will ask questions, challenging questions related to the reader. She also told us that in the filming industry, 'Take 1, take 2, take 3.... imply that the performers did not do their best. We need to also practice the intonation while reciting the text.Otherwise, we will end up having 'Take 99'. Watch us doing these fun speech & drama....