Newton Kindergarten
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hello faithgurl,
Our children in SG are indeed blessed!
However, outside SG, millions of poor, homeless children roam the streets & back lanes hungrily for leftover food, searching high and low desperately for food to fill their hungry, growling stomach.
Kids in orphanages live by faith. They live one day at a time. They dare not think of tomorrow. Got food or no food ?
At meal time, when kids in kindergarten pray,
“Dear God, Thank you for today’s food laid before us. Bless the food, so that it nourish our body - that we may grow up tall and strong ! ”
-\tit’s because children want to give thanks, with a grateful heart.
-\tIt has got to do with character development.
Teaching a child gratitude.
What is gratitude all about ?
do not get yourself confused that the above prayer is leading yr child heading more to Christianity. Nothing to do with religion, in kindergarten setting. But first, you need to clear this obstacle in your mindset.
below are some reasons I’d written, hope to help you clear mindset.
If you follow the reasoning behind, you’ll understand.
Clarifiy - What it means when a child says the above prayer, at meal time?
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-\tfrom the perspective of character development.
to inculcate the right Character value in a young child from young. Learn to have a heart of GRATITUDE, at ALL times.
-\tso that the child in the midst of growing up years will learn to …. APPRECIATE the small, little, little things in life.
-\tso that the child learns to be mindful of less fortunate ones around him. That at meal time, the child will remember hungry orphans. Think of the homeless in / outside SG in poor countries – who got no food to eat, no water to drink, while he is in stark opposite contrast, so blessed to have nutritious, piping hot cooked food all ready for him to eat in the kindergarten.
-\tso that in the process of growing up, the child will not take everything in life for granted.
ask the child - how did he get the warm cooked food in the first place ?
ask the child – if no one cook in the kitchen for you, do you think you’ll have food ?
Explain to the child that behind every warm meal cooked for him in the kindergarten, how many pairs of hands toil & labor in the kitchen for him - first to select fresh ingredients from the market, then cut ingredients, wash vegetables, poultry, fish, chop garlic onion, fry, steam, etc - just to dish out one nice, warm meal for him ?
True, the young child may not understand what’s going on inside the kitchen. But parent can sit down & explain to own child step by step the process involved, why the child should not take things for granted ?
-\tto train child in understanding meaning of the Chinese verse, yin shui si yin.
means before you drink the water, reflect upon the source of water ask yourself – where does the water originate / come from ?
so that the child will be Thankful and grateful to his parents forever.
so that the child will not take his parents for granted, nor forsake parents esp. when parents grow old.
-\tBut learn to be Thankful, with a GRATEFUL heart.
-\tThat in all situations (good or bad) and circumstances, learn to give Thanks.
if you still have doubts, perhaps you want to speak to kindergarten Principal or church Pastor ?
go with an open mind.
once and for all, clarify all yr doubts.
ask all those questions that’s causing concern in you.
once you have peace in your heart, you’ll know which is the right, suitable kindergarten to enrol yr child.
God bless! -
Hi greenbean2011,
Thks for yr views / comments. I think I will find some time to go and have a look 1st. -
hi smurf,
your son in Playgroup this yr? you intend to enrol him in Catholic High Primary, 2015 ?
fyi – from 2006 to 2010, for parents keen to enter CH, balloting is required whose residential address < 1 km. -
We have already long given up on CHS.
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how about Maris Stella Primary, or St. Andrew Primary ?
which one you prefer ? -
We are not staying near Maris Stella, so that is out too, unless no balloting…
St Andrew, we are not near too, and dun think we can get in also…no affiliation mah… -
smurf:
don't understand thisWe are not staying near Maris Stella, so that is out too, unless no balloting...
St Andrew, we are not near too, and dun think we can get in also...no affiliation mah...
no kindy has any affiliation to any primary school in SG, it by operation of the MOE policy
some people's kids do get into the seemingly \"affiliated\" primary school is not by kindy, but because they are member of the church group which entitles them as \"connected\" persons to the primary school -
I'm answering to Greenbean question. She asked me whether I would consider putting ds In ACS, we are not presbyterian nor Methodist or Anglican, so we dun have any connection or affiliated to to the sch by religion, so we can only consider phase 2c for ACS. And also, we are not nearby the sch.
Of coz I know that no kindy has any affliation to sch lah...:celebrate: -
hi,
When I read this story about how this determined and plucky boy from Pasir Ris Secondary who brave all the odds, and who travels more than an hour across Malaysian JB causeway just to attend school EVERYDAY Monday – Friday, I think of our own SG pupils who are habitually late – because they were up the whole night on MSN …. chit chatting to friends.
He does this not one way, but to and fro, every day !
When everyone is still sleeping soundly in dream land in bed at dawn around 4.30 am, he is already up and awake …. pack up his school bag, get ready to go to school, all the way from JB.
Even if he wakes up on a morning showered with heavy rain thunderstorm and strong wind blowing, he still carries an umbrella and jostle with thousands of office workers, and pedestrians across the jammed JB causeway daily, just to reach school on time !
I truly admire / salute his spirit, coming from such a young boy !
it is really the mindset, attitude, fierce discipline, hardworking, sweaty determination, undogged perseverance, the hungering prowess to taste sweet success that …. propels / motivates this student to surge forward against all odds, and overcome difficult hurdles / obstacles placed in his path… that counts at the end of the day.
click here to read the article:-
http://www.edvantage.com.sg/edvantage/news/news/531420/School_s_top_student_from_across_Causeway.html -
smurf:
O I C !!I'm answering to Greenbean question. She asked me whether I would consider putting ds In ACS, we are not presbyterian nor Methodist or Anglican, so we dun have any connection or affiliated to to the sch by religion, so we can only consider phase 2c for ACS. And also, we are not nearby the sch.
Of coz I know that no kindy has any affliation to sch lah...:celebrate:
so which have u decided ?? cheers!
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