"Montessori gives your child a strong basis in the most fomative and important years for developing into a responsible, happy and fulfilled person"
- Dr Maria Montessori
On 11th August, Mama took me to MMI Katong for a trial class. Mama is always interested in Montessori method and she believes in it.
Our class is 10am and we reach there exactly at 10am cos we waited very long for bus no.40. We started of with some Practical Life Exercise (it's like a revision for mama), she also try to pick up some of the exercise that she can do it at home with me...after that we gathered around and did phonics exercise...We learned the alphabet "A" and the words alligator, ant, apple and also apron, they even have a song for it...The teacher showed us the alphabet "A" traced on a sandpaper. We were taught to use our sense of touch and visual to learn the alphabet (sensorial exercise). I also learn the number 1, 2 and 3.
Now it's fun time, we have water play, we wore an apron (hey apron is the word I just learnt).. According to teacher May, it can be part of practical life cos we practice and refine our motor skills by scooping water with cups and transferred to a bottle...I was all wet cos I went into the tub of water...haha and naughty me start splashing water unto other...hehe...
We went back to our classroom for lesson. Teacher May taught us shapes with the Montessori materials, where we trace the shape with our fingers, we also sing a song about shapes. The floor was all pasted with many shapes like rectangle, square, circle and triangle...we sing and walk tip top on the border of the shapes...
We ended the class with some song of jumping, hopping, walking...WOW FUN...can hop around...we suppose to have art and craft but we don't have enough time for that.
Ater the class I was so tired, probably because of all those jumping and hopping...when we board bus no.40, in less than 10 mins, I fell asleep...
Mama went home and discussed with papa about sigining up. Mama is seriously considering of signing up for me next month...
For those who interested to know more about MMI, here is their website, http://www.modern-montessori.com/preschool.htm
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