It’s Singapore’s birthday. When I was young, my dad would bring us to watch the annual NDP fireworks 🎆. During Secondary 2 days, my school participated in the National Day Parade (NDP) performance. We spent months rehearsing in school and at Padang. It was a year of minimum homework and tonnes of fun with friends. […]
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As high-achieving parents raising children with limitless potential, we need to open up about mental wellness. Here are 3 simple steps to an Olympics teachable moment on handling nervousness.
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Living in Malaysia and sometimes Singapore, our family has friends who celebrate Halloween although we don’t really do so. We were invited to a Halloween party once where little El dressed up as a pumpkin and that was about the experience we had. Nevertheless, the kids spent some time learning about Halloween in English and
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After a few weeks of stuffing ourselves with mooncakes, it’s finally Mid-Autumn Festival today! The kids spent some time learning Chinese history and language. We read a story on the Mid-Autumn Festival from the book above. The children have already heard variations of the story over the years. So this year, we focused more on
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Owlissimo’s re-designed Addition Flashcards Printable is here! Complements Singapore Math CPA approach Montessori colour-coded: the colour of dots closely follow Montessori beads for a blended programme Ideal font: specially-designed font for children’s learning materials Lesson plan ideas: flash the cards in various interesting ways over many months Game ideas: play games after flash card sessions for a fun time with your child When
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Here are more ways to bring Chinese reading alive, while learning the 石部首 (shí bùshǒu, radical of “stone”). Since 石 means stone, we worked with many little stones in a Montessori way. To save you time researching, you’ll be able to download the printables later. All you need to do is to write the words
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It’s Dragon Boat Festival today, so we took the opportunity to explore Chinese history and language. We read a story on the Dragon Boat Festival from the book above. Since the main character Qu Yuan took his life by jumping into a river, you may wish to read this to a child who is mature
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Little El is learning to read Chinese and has been mixing up Chinese characters of the radical 辶 (走字底 zǒu zì dǐ). So I made a Montessori-style printable puzzle to help him remember better. It’s very simple… Puzzles pieces… Show the components of each character, spot the differences… Control of error behind each puzzle… Materials
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Need ideas on what meaningful activities to do with the children during school closure? Here’s what we’ve been busy with over more than 40 days at home! Each activity is connected to meaningful learning objectives and is generally simple to put together. It’s more about giving you ideas to make the best use of what
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Our family loves folding origami and the easiest place to start is the origami boat. Besides presenting this origami boat as a craft project, you have many opportunities to extend it to other areas of learning including memory, mathematics and reading. Read on to find out how… Instructions You may use either a square or
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