Babies Playschool Class - Chocolate Museum

Over the weekend, we brought the class for an outdoor field trip to chocolate museum@ Kota Damansara. This motto for this trip is to encourage parents to talk to their babies, explaining to them what is it that they are seeing. By explaining all this to them, it will help to increase their intelligence and at the same time broaden their knowledge.

At this age stage, baby learn the best as their brain is expanding and they have the capabilities to absorb input information better due to their vast brain neurons. If these neurons are not use, it will die off and discard from the body system like dead cells.

parents explaining how does the chocolate conching machine works while the baby look on

parents reading the history of the artifacts to the baby during the field trip

After the museum visit,  we head back to the center for the next indoor activity. We start off the class after all the babies are well fed. 

The theme for the class is "personal possession". We are introducing personal items to the children. We did reading using Glenn Doman read program.

After the reading session, we proceed to the sing-a-long session. We have altered the nursery rhyme of yankee-doodle into "my super pillow" to suit our theme. parents take turns to sing along to their babies (we encourage parents to practice that at home to reinforce learning). Sing along also helps babies in language development and enjoyment of learning.

After the reading session, we then proceed to the 5 senses pathway class. Where babies will choose their own paper bag and then parents will explain what is the item inside the bag while the baby are exploring with it. example: this is a hard brush, can you feel how hard is the brush bristles (rub the brush bristles against the baby cheeks, foot and etc). Baby learn best through senses and the information retain better through experiential learning.

We wrap off the day class session with "messy ice painting". All of our class painting, we only use natural color based from fruits or food coloring. We do not use toxin paint in case if babies or toddler put them in their mouth. For this class, we use fruit puree as the color based, freeze them and used it for the painting. during this session, babies learn of the sensation of cold, name of colors and shapes while they create their master piece!

Transportation 1.0

For this week, our playschool theme is Transportation 1.0

Children learn about all types of transportation of various category (land, air, water). Throughout the whole session, they also did  sorting activities (maths), storytelling (reading and language development), matching games (memory), GD bits (knowledge).

the class start off with the reading program using Glenn Doman method. After which the children learn what is the difference between each mode of vehicles. Then they did a pic and word matching game.

The sorting station : children learn to sort all types of different vehicles according to their category (land, air, water)

the basket of vehicles toys for the children sorting game

the land category

the water and air category

the story telling station. we bring the story alive by creating the whole scenario. this way, it will help the children to find reading interesting and promote imagination skills.

The knowledge session : where children learn about the types of land vehicles that can be found globally. this session is done through Glenn Doman Bits (Bits of Intelligence) program.

FREE play area time !

this week is building blocks.

what do we mean by free play??

it actually means its a play without parents interruption. children are given things to play at a designated area. they are allowed to play however they wish without any interruption. parents / teacher are only allow to supervise. we respect the child right to play freely and creatively

Let's go camping !

This week is our camping week theme. We are aiming at letting the children to learn about animals, the sounds they make through Glenn Doman reading program. Example frog croak, elephant trumpet The session end with the children constructing a giant ant craft (which will help them to enhance their fine motor skills)

Materials needed for the giant ant craft : pipe cleaners, plastic spoon, googly eyes, picture of ant print out, glue, marker

Valentine - Mommy I love You

For this Valentine, we have lined up a small activity for promoting reading and fine motor skills. The children hand made a lovely sensory touch heart shape decoration for their mommy.

Besides learning how to make this lovely heart decoration item, the children also learn to recognize others different shapes. As usual we start off the reading session suing Glenn Doman method. For this session, the child learn about shapes of heart, octagon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon. 

off the children go to make their masterpiece - the heart shape decoration item for their mommy.

Finally before end of the class, we introduce the children to types of musical instrument. 

Valentine Baby Exploration Day

To celebrate this loving occasion, we have decided to organize a Valentine Day Out for the babies with their lovely mommy's and daddy's

We have lined up a baby exploration program using Glenn Doman 5 senses pathway to the brain - Taste, Smell, Hear, See, Touch. Babies brain will be able to register what they learn in their brain through this 5 senses.

We have prepare 6 types of different fruits. Each fruit are prepared in 5 different manner - fruit puree (for taste and smell), whole fruit (for touch and see), picture of the fruit (for see), word of the fruit (for reading). Hearing is done throughout the process as we will be reading out-loud the fruit word.

Method  (if we take banana)

First, we start off by letting baby taste the fruit (where we put a dab of banana puree on the baby tongue), wait a for a sec and then say out-loud 'banana'. Then we let the baby smell the fruit (where we hold the puree near his nose), wait a sec for the baby to smell and then say out-loud 'banana'. Next we move on to showing the picture of the fruit and say out-loud 'banana', Then show the word of the fruit and say out-loud 'banana'. Next show the actual fruit and say out-loud 'banana'. Finally pass the actual fruit to the baby and let him touch and feel and say out-loud 'banana' 

 After the fruit tasting session, we moved on to Gnostic Sensation session where babies learn the different contrasting texture with a wide variety of household items. Eg ; smooth and rough, soft and hard, hold and cold.

We end the session by doing balancing exercise to introduce the concept of space to babies using a gym ball.

Whats Sinks and Float !

Sink or Float?? a little science session for the kids this week as we aim to introduce the science philosophy of ...
1. what items sinks and what items float
2. things float in salty water (dead sea)

As usual we start off with warm up session, we did 'activity dice'. unfortunately it only lasted 1 min coz the children is more interested to play with building blocks and gym ball. So we shifted it to those as warming up session 

We move on with story telling after the warm up session. We did the story called 'Sir Mike' and follow by emotion expression and flower painting. we use frozen food coloring water as the paint based (we are afraid of chemicals from poster paints)

Finally... what sinks and what floats??.. 

the children is amaze with why the 1 egg float in a tub and the other egg in other tub sinks

We end the day session with a critical thinking activity of 'cup tower stacking'. after which we did the Glenn Doman bits of intelligence program on flowers