Children love water play, all sorts of water play! And for the children, turning a lesson on ’Water’  into hands-on, play time is always welcomed with open arms! This term, Mdm Chen gave the children an opportunity to learn all about water. Through fun and entertaining mini experiments, exploration and class discussions, Mdm Chen facilitated the...

It’s never too early to start paying attention to your child’s oral health. Preschool allows children the opportunity to practice brushing while providing activities and lessons that focus on dental health. Miss Gao took the children through the desired steps for oral hygiene practice by reinforcing a routine for daily tooth brushing. She also carried out a demonstration of  proper toothbrushing focusing...

Play is an important aspect of childhood. It has also become an essential part of learning for children. With this in mind, Teacher Xu Qi embarks on devising a lesson plan based on this objective. Children pick up important skills during play. They develop physically, build up their personalities and confidence all through playing...

The Life Skills lesson “Little Hands at Work” was designed to allow the Nursery 1 children to learn about important day to day household chores such as scrubbing, mopping, sweeping, wiping, carrying, pulling and wringing. The main objectives of this lessons is to motivate the children to work or do things independently and inculcate good personal...

Before the teacher introduced the theme “Pets and their Homes” , she got the children to make their favourite pet headgear so as to allow the children the opportunity to pretend play and learn all about pets, their homes, the food they eat etc. Next up, came other activities like feeding Blossom’s very own rabbits and...

We are learning about numbers 1-5 today! To make our learning more hands-on andcreative, we sat in our circle and had 4 different activities to cater to our different VAK (visual, auditory and kinesthetic) learning styles! Visual Our first activity is associating the numbers with the counters on our worksheet. Auditory Our second activity is a listening game...

Role-play is always an exciting and fun activity and is loved among all children! In our Kindergarten 2 theme-based Chinese Language curriculum, Teacher Li Li introduced ‘The Supermarket’ by setting up a ‘pretend-play’ supermarket corner in the classroom and allow the children to maximise their imagination through role-playing a cashier, shop-assistant and consumer. During this lesson,...

This Chinese story is specially selected because it coincides with the theme ‘Nature’. Besides reinforcing the theme, it has also taught the children how to show care and concern for others. Towards the end of the lesson, children either drew or wrote on how they can help others on each coloured petal. 教学目标: 1. 帮助幼儿理解故事内容,明白故事所蕴涵的意义:只有帮助别人,才能得到真正的快乐. 2. 在理解的基础上,学习阅读图书.同时尝试用不同的语气表达:“飞哟,飞哟小花瓣呀,请你……”的不同效果. 3. 在活动中启发幼儿大胆积极地表达自己的见解,发挥幼儿的想象创新能力. 4. 手工,学习自制七色花. 课后反思: 这个童话故事虽然篇幅较长,但浅白易懂,而且意义深刻.教学活动中,让幼儿在理解的基础上加深对故事的感悟,理解只有献出自己的爱心,帮助了别人才能得到真正的快乐!通过联系实际的现实生活,调动幼儿的学习兴趣,并将华文的口语表达能力,汉字的认知能力,书写能力以及绘画能力有机的结合起来,把...

Introducing hands-on and experiential learning never fails to capture the attention of young children, especially when it excites their 5 senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch! There’s really no better way to introduce hands-on, experiential learning than to incorporate it in our Thematic Learning and Creative Expression lessons! Experiential learning is learning by...

Our Nursery 2 became chefs of the day, busy preparing and sampling a yummy fruit salad they made for themselves. Engaged in this sensorial and hands-on learning activity, the children had a ball of a time learning about the different characteristics & tastes of the various fruits prepared. It was indeed a fun and interesting lesson for...