Little Beans
I'm Yvonne, the principal of Taska Little Beans Montessori. Through this blog, I would like to share with you the happenings at Little Beans, my experiences as a mother of three boys as well as new insights in early childhood education while doing my Master in Education with USQ, Australia.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The Mixed Up Chameleon
We are doing a theme on The Wonderful World of Eric Carle. The Mixed-Up Chameleon is one of his books. Beautiful story that tells us that it is always better to be ourselves. I told the children we must strive to be the best that we can be - A BETTER SELF!
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
ALL ABOUT SCIENCE (2)
More pictures to share!
Baking a pizza - also a lesson in science
Building and construction - finding the most stable foundation
Which is hard and more stable?
This structure is also very stable and forms the foundation of tents.
The Colour Box 3 - all about colours and tones
Parts of a tree - bark. leaves, fruits, roots
Rainbow!
Admiring a double rainbow in the sky
Germination on Day 2
Flowers, Flowers!
They are beautiful, so are we!
Do you like my flowers?
Fruits Galore!
So many to taste! What are cikus???
Playing with magnets - same poles repel, different poles attract!
Putting out the flame with carbon dioxide, produced by mixing vinegar and baking soda.
ALL ABOUT SCIENCE! (1)
Science is everywhere. Working with Little Scientist, we have a hands-on science programme in Little Beans for children from 3 to 6. Innovative, fun and experimental, children (and teachers) learn all about science the fun way. Visit Little Scientist website for more information at www.LittleScientistS.com. On top of that, we learn science the Montessori way as well as through our monthly themes.
Making a model of our lung - we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
Inhale- our lungs expand, exhale - our lungs contract
Threading through the hand model and the pull the strings, the hand moves like a real one!
Learning about surface tension and bubbles through play.
Parts of a tree
Parts of a turtle, parts of an insect
Parts of a fish - scales, gills, head, tail, fin
Pasting the scales onto the fish template
Watering our onion bulbs
And watch them grow!
Crickets upclose!
Looking at the crickets through a magnifying bug viewer
Fishes swimming in the bowl
Making our own colourful fish
Dot with food colouring, spray with water and watch the colours spread
Blue + Yellow = Green
Red + Yellow = Orange
Blue + Red = Purple
Beautiful fish, our very own!
Fishes swim together as a school
Sunday, August 18, 2013
THEME BOARDS 2013
We had an interesting year so far, with a myriad of themes to engage the children in learning new things as well as to enrich their vocabulary and understanding of our beautiful world. Below are some of the theme boards so far, and the themes which we discussed. Some of them will be detailed in my later blog entries. Thanks to the teachers who made the themes great successes - BEAUTIFUL INDEED!
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn - talks about the first day of school and the separation anxiety that the child faces. Beautiful story to help settle a child into the school environment.
Chinese New Year 2013
I AM SPECIAL.
Each child has a right to a happy family.
The right to learn, explore and make new friends
The right to a safe and healthy community
The right to a sustainable environment.
Under Construction
All About Trees
Birds live in trees.
Parts of a tree - flowers
Branch
Wise old owl .... in the tree
5 Layers of the Ocean
Sports and Games
Our Home, Malaysia
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