The Playground: A Space for Self-Discovery and Achievement
A child who makes it across the monkey bars for the first time can feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. A child who invents a game other children enjoy will admire their own creativity. Playgrounds are a great way for children to explore and develop their sense...
Building the Pink Tower Blindfolded: A Montessori Challenge in Sensory Perception and Patience
Build the pink tower without being able to see any of the cubes. This is another work that he had mastered long ago, but the blindfold made him slow down to be sure he was choosing the next largest cube as well as placing it carefully on top of the tower without...
Reading: A Soothing Voyage Through Words and Images
Reading goes beyond pointing the text to read out loud, it’s a calming and pleasant journey to know what a book is delivering through text and illustrations.
Creating Harmony: Cultivating a Peaceful and Cooperative Classroom Environment
Harmony. There is a distinct sense of peace and harmony in the prepared environment. Students move carefully, define their work space, and respect each others work. The children instinctively work together to create a harmonious classroom community that is essential...
Growing Minds: The Benefits of Classroom Plant Care for Children
Children understand the satisfaction of caring for a plant and seeing it develop, as well as the feeling of achievement that comes with it. They find meaning in their green pursuits and their classroom reflects this, teeming with green life and providing a peaceful,...
The Educational Significance of Tree Climbing for Children
To climb a tree is for a child to discover a new world. In the simple activity of climbing trees, there lies profound educational significance. Take, for instance, a longan tree: its dense branches and sturdy trunk provide a platform for a child to stand upon,...
Developing Mathematical Skills through Sensory and Hands-On Learning
This system in which a child is constantly moving object; with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special aptitude for mathematics. When they leave the material, the children very easily reach the point where they wish to...
Working with the Sandpaper Letters
Working with the Sandpaper Letters, children learn how the sounds they hear are written. Montessori emphasized that writing comes first, then reading. Later, by blending these sounds, children begin to read phonetic words without laborious effort.
The first school outing in 2024!!!
As the saying goes, It is better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books.. but for me, why don’t we do both when we can? Yes, no doubt that reading and learning from paper materials is how we learn in most time of our lives, but outing is...
How to foster confidence in writing among young children?
People have great thoughts or ideas, but it’s always not an easy task to project our own thoughts verbally or even through words…why?? Perhaps a person was being pointed when he was trying to express himself… In a Montessori classroom, we always open up a topic for...
Are children able to learn in a mixed-age environment?
Are children able to learn in a mixed-age environment? In Montessori, children of different ages learn together in the same classroom. This promotes collaboration, social skills, empathy, and the sharing of knowledge. Older children become mentors to younger ones,...
The bead chains
In Montessori, the bead chains are a math material for hands on learning. The purpose of the bead chains is to teach skip counting. However, the bead chains are also an indirect preparation for multiplication, understanding the squaring of numbers, and then...
Beneficial of observation in a Montessori classroom
The power of observation is one of the many key elements of a Montessori classroom. Children are free to observe their peers, in so far as they don't interrupt their concentration, or otherwise disturb them. Observation in a Montessori classroom is beneficial for...
Classified Pictures
Classified Pictures is a favourite work of the young ones in our school. This amazing piece of material not only offers names to the child but also a meaningful conversation that revolves around that picture. We often observe a child tell his or her friend the same...
Hari Raya Open House
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri Hari Raya Open House at school.A million thanks to the parent's support and teacher's effort in making this celebration successful.
The “prepared environment”.
The “prepared environment” is Maria Montessori’s concept that the environment can be designed to facilitate maximum independent learning and exploration by the child. In the prepared environment, there is a variety of activities as well as a great deal of movement. A...
Culture Scrapbook
Our Culture Scrapbook. No doubt scrapbooking develop children's creativity. Right from their preschool years, scrapbooks can hone their creative skills and thinking skills and let them be more imaginative. It is like a memory book for them. Good job my dear...
The smelling bottles are a part of the early childhood Montessori Sensorial.
Smelling bottles are standard material in the Sensorial area of a Montessori classroom. The smelling bottles are a part of the early childhood Montessori Sensorial lesson sequence, focusing on the olfactory sense. Children and adults alike can have fun with the...
Why Practical Life Activities are so important in a Montessori classroom?
Why Practical Life Activities are so important in a Montessori classroom? Practical life activity is a way of life for humans. It helps the child to adapt to his/her environment. Children are naturally attracted to these activities. The graceful coordinated movement...
Mathematics is introduced through concrete materials to abstract materials.
In the Montessori classroom, Mathematics is introduced through concrete materials to abstract materials. Children at the first plane of development are Sensorial explorers. These concrete materials help children to understand the concepts of quantity and group...