Thursday, June 24, 2010

MY ASPIRATION...

• The development of human capital starts at the early age i.e preschool level, hence, we want to contribute in terms of experience, knowledge and expertise.

• In line with our Minister of Education’s aspiration in encouraging the setting up of more private kindergartens especially in the rural areas.

• To reap the mutual benefits of sharing, engaging and discussing ideas and issues related to early childhood education especially on learning and teaching methodologies.

• Encouraging parents’ serious involvement and commitment towards their
children’s early childhood education.

• Being aware of changes taking place in this industry and taking steps and actions to remedy or ride on the changes.

• To inculcate the passion for reading and acquiring of knowledge in our society

• Encouraging graduates to get involve in this line of business and making use of the knowledge to teach their children at the same time.

• Discharging our duty and responsibility to the Muslims in terms of encouraging the culture of knowledge among the ummah.

Friday, June 18, 2010

PLAY RHYMIN' SIMON




Q1, Do you know what rhyming words are?
A1, Words that have the same ending sound.
eg: "floor and door" rhyme
"cat and bat" rhyme
"dog and cat" do not rhyme

Sing this nursery rhyme :
Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

Eventhough , the 'end spelling' is not the same;
star and are do rhyme,
high and sky also rhyme.

Q2 Why rhyming is important?
A2 When kids are familiar with rhyming words they will eventually grasp early reading without much problems.

Would you like to play rhyming simon with your kids?It's fun....Watch the video and try it with your kids.You can add more words as many as you like. HAPPY TRYING!!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

ARTS BUILD CREATIVITY FOR LIFE
















































If you ask your child...


Q1.What subject he/she likes to do most but not/or less done in school?

Q2.What subject not seriously taught in school( as it is not a UPSR subject) but in actual fact it is the subject that will inspire the creativity in every child?

Q3.What lesson that involves mixing and playing with primary colours ( red ,yellow,blue) to get interesting secondary colours like pink,purple,orange and green?

The answer for the above is of course....ART & CRAFT lesson.

~ I discovered green is a mixture of yellow and blue when I was at my secondary school.Should I explore the experiment much earlier I would have become much much more creative than what I have been today.

~To my surprise,I can get brown colour by mixing red ,yellow and blue.I discovered this through my 8 year old Adam who attended Abrakadoodle Art & Craft holiday programme last week.http://www.abrakadoodle.com.my

NOTE:See carefully the pictures that they hold.Do you notice that each child's art is different/ unique? It is as original as he or she is....

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

DO WE PRAY FOR OTHERS?

As my eight year old kid was reciting the Doa after his maghrib prayer, he looked up to me and asked, “Ibu..Adek really miss Nadim….Adek’s best friend”, he bemoaned . “What happened to him? I shrugged.”He has not been around at school since last week, he had met with an accident…”, my son replied. “I am so sorry son, maybe we can visit him today and hopefully that will make you feel better”, I murmured. “ Can I ask Allah to take care of Nadim, ask Allah to heal his wounds so Nadim can get back to school soon?” suddenly my son interrupted.” But of course son, you can always ask Allah anything as long as the intention is good, go ahead, recite that in your Doa”, I concurred.As I left my son’s room I heard him continued reciting his Doa and I can hear Nadim’s name in the background…

I started to reflect on the conversation with my son that evening and relate to my own life, our society and the planet that we live in. Do I pray for my neighbours? Do I pray for my neighbours’ kids? Do I pray for my teachers,my teachers’ kids,my friends and their kids? Perhaps if all the neighbours’ kids are blessed, all school children are blessed, community and society will be blessed… our kids will be mingling around in a blessed surrounding and the planet will be a much better place to live in....