Can you see the process of our learning and sharpening our organisation skills

The month of March has been really overwhelming, we were completely immersed 'under the sea'. Even our cookery class was filled with tuna fish. With so much to do and all the extras such as the Welcome Days and the coming Easter Celebration on 5th Apr. But, there is only 1 word to describe how we felt, ie.FUN!

More,more,please!

First we were given raisins, though we were told not to eat it now,our hands and mouth coordination just couldn't follow the instructions.So, we have to ask for more raisins. Otherwise, my face will be without eyes!Then we were given a 'fresh banana stick'.This was really challenging. The teacher purposefully dropped it onto the plate and expect us to pick it or move it to the correct position on the face. But it was almost impossible to pick it up because it is so 'sticky-like slime'! We tried our best anyway and messed up the banana. Interestingly, we are now aware of the texture! Just wondering, how on earth is our mouth is so wonderful, it handles so many things without stress!Then, our mouth was represented by a cracker, this was really irresistible! The last thing that we tried was the lettuce. At 1st, some of us really couldn't bear to put it into our mouth. After much bribery/persuasion by the teacher, we tried and kind of like it! We ourselves are surprised too!We like to learn more with all these fun activities!Thank you teachers, thank you friends! Thank you mom & dad for letting me come to school everyday on time.

I am getting good at my speech and recognizing words

Through our speech and drama activities, we learnt to say:"Hello, I'm Carissa, nice meeting you!" Mom and dad, can we play this at home, remember to shake my hand ok?
I can also recognize and name the colours. Our teacher said that we are going to be able to match the words to the colour soon because we have a beautiful learning corner & a print rich environment full of fun activities.

Mum and Dad, I am in a new class now!

We played new toys in a new way too. We learn math with more attributes. A little difficult by I can do it! Can you see that the rectangle shape is becoming visible with only 5 popsicle sticks.All I need is just my foot if there is anything short.



See, I can even build a house just nice for my size! It is so fun, you will never get a house with a tunnel in it. I want my house to be like this when I grow up!

We take pride in our students' success in early literacy

1st picture: N1 children drooling on that citrus aroma of the orange.

2nd picture: teacher acknowledged that by squeezing the orange. The juice splashed on their faces

creating humour.

3rd picture:once the children could match the words to the fruits, they are rewarded with a fruit feast.

Every year around the 3rd quarter of the year, it is always my pleasure to share with parents and the children on their literacy achievements through lots of play and a print-rich environment. In the above activity the main objectives are to:

1.create awareness of how material can be reuse (the styrofoam tray)

2.describe the texture and taste of the fruits with adjectives (in complete sentences)

3.match the prints to the correct fruits (even after reshuffling the words)

4.to observe that child say the word through phonetic cues.

Last but not least, as the Principal, I must also acknowledge all the work of the teachers and the good cooperation of parents. With this opportunity, I must also attribute the success to the important contribution from Teacher Darshini in reinforcing the project approach and multiple intelligences curriculum and ensuring that they are diligently delivered by her team. Without her dedicated followup, Phyllis will be torn into many parts and yet may not achieve what I am proud of today. Thanks everyone for all the efforts, patience and cooperation!

Super integrated activities that engaged our children cognitively

During the theme on animals, we not only learnt the general knowledge of category of animals such as farm animals, wild animals, pets etc. We looked at and discussed the animals diet like hen feeds on seeds. While doing all these, we have the fun of cracking melon seeds. We use the shells to outline the shape of the animal of our choice. It was so difficult that most of us decided to form a snake, cobra to be specific! Then we get the reward of eating the seeds, its really yummy!
We were further motivated to count the number of shells, correct method and answer during the process of counting will entitle us another melon seed. It was so enriching, how we hoped that mom & dad were here to join me then, perhaps we will get more yummy seeds!

Patterns all around us! -From the desk of Darshini, N2

Through the objectives of Logical/Mathematical and Environmental Intelligences in our curriculum for the theme of Animals, see how we learnt to be aware of patterns around us. We reinforced that awareness by expressing it through our visual/spatial intelligence activities.Then the beautiful masterpieces were put up on display. Everyday, not only do the children appreciate it, they talk and discuss about the details and process. Isn't that a wonderful environment that create happy and skillful learners at all time! It makes us happy seeing them 'interact' with their work among their friend. Well done children!