Vee is starting on Singapore Math – My Pals are Here primary 1 books. So far, he’s been learning Math using the Shichida Method (from 1 year old), the Montessori Method (from 4 years old), and through daily experiences. I’m using My Pals are Here to observe how he takes to textbook and workbook-style learning. […]
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Today’s post is on how to make your own Montessori Golden Thousand Cube for teaching Mathematics. To let the child visualise quantities of 1,000 to 9,000, the Montessori Decimal System (Golden Beads) Complete Layout requires 45 Golden Thousand Cubes. Over here in Malaysia, each cube costs RM100+ (!!!), so there’s no way we’d buy 45 of them
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Here’s a short post on the Montessori method of teaching a child to write on a line… Some time back, I let Vee practise writing on lined paper, but his letters were “jumping” all over the place. So I went back to Karen Tyler’s Language album to use the presentation on Line Placement (on page
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In today’s post, you’ll get a free printable of our homeschool classroom calendar — in English, Chinese & a bit of Bahasa Malaysia. For a long time, I’ve been wanting to do up my own classroom calendar, to display the different date formats in our two main languages. This is a sample of how it looks
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