All About Montessori

[foreverj]

cs montessori is at the newly opened nex shopping centre - serangoon mrt. 4th floor.

[faithgurl]

Hi foreverj,


Thanks for sharing!

[buds]

jul04:

Thanks, buds! :thankyou: I know you're very busy with THREE kids! But I'm desperate coz I plowed through the pages of this thread & am very goggle-eyed now.

Heyya jul04, don't thank me yet... :dowan:
i haven't even begun to help you with your queries or anwered your PM. *gulp*

I'm not busy with the baby really.. :please:

Just that my P4's homework has been a KILLER! :frustrated: There is almost
a few pieces of homework for every subject every single day! Not inclusive
of all the enrichment/supplementary lessons the school is giving. I'm not complaining
cos it just goes to show that the school very ONz but i'm dead beat from assisting
her with them and she's dead exhausted too cos it means less rest time and
almost zero playtime or family time. All that homework has eaten into our usual
quality family time (daily) and also some weekends that it has gotten to us and
our nerves... so much so i told the girls today we go out to Mac Donalds for
dinner and ice-cream... we haven't done that since school re-opened.. and
boy was that a good breather for all of us. :love:

jul04:

So confused and torn between Montessori & \"traditional\" pre-school. Very stressed, u know? :?:

I remember answering this similar question somewhere within these pages..
Hmmm... gotta dig now.. Aniwaes, below are some links to some sharings
i did some time back.. if it helps. Btw, goggle-eyed sounds cute.


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=906&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=70

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=906&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

[smurf]

Hi Buds,


Just want to ask u something about phonics. A Montessori teacher told me this, when a child learns phonics, he or she started with a single letter sound, after that proceed to blending. But when blending many phonics teachers tend to do this:

Blend the last 2 letters together and make a sound.

For example, this word 'cat'.

A child would learn the 'c' sound first and then the teacher will teach 'at' as 1 sound. This teacher told me that it's wrong. The child should learn to separate the 3 letters and thus, make 3 lettes sound separately instead of just 2 letters sound. I just want to know if what she said make sense. It does make sense to me, coz there is no such letter as 'at' sound, so a child would get confused and would have difficultly spelling next time.

[buds]

Blending two letters first to make one sound like say... \"at\"...

followed by reading the words that rhyme using one beginning single
letter sounds with that same ending sound like... bat cat fat hat mat pat (etc)
is using the word families styled reading.

Some children have been known to memorize words using the above way
to read and yet still unable to spell when asked to (perhaps due to the
lack of emphasis and solid teaching of single letter sounds during the
initial stage... while others have the ability to catch on that the sound
combinations represent two separate single letter sounds & effectively
use them to read and spell other words with that combination.

The other, which blends single letter sounds separately... c... a... t... is the
word building styled reading.

Both are learning styles that can work. No right and wrong. I do suppose
the Montessori method is no longer rigid as in.. it can bend in some ways
as long as it benefits the children.

I personally prefer to work with my children, students and parents the
word building way as it has proven to be more effective and concrete on
top of helping the child to pave the way to independent reading as they
learn to hear sounds in words to be able to read them & like wise also
decode sounds in words to spell them.

Hope this clarifies. Cheerios!

[smurf]

Thanks Buds!


By the way, are u conducting classes now? I read somewhere that u have prepare a room for teaching?? :?

[buds]

You're welcome, smurf. :celebrate:


Just so you know, Montessori Directresses are all trained to work the
word building method during their training. It is in my opinion
a better way to introduce word formation to children who have
completed and fully gotten the single letter sounds perfect.

Word building will help motivate children to try reading almost every
other word they see... in newspapers... road signs... labels... etc.

One parent shared that while on holiday in Australia (if i recall
correctly) his daughter tried to decode almost everything she
could there... they were walking along window shopping and
she was reading all the names of the shops. Suddenly, the
father said,\"I was too late to stop her...\" She went, \"Sssss...
Ehhh... X.... Sh.... orhhh... p. What shop is that dad?\" Then,
out came the salesperson and asked, \"Which are you, sir?
Small, medium or a large?\" :faint: The daughter plied the
father with so many questions after that... in his heart....
boy... how i wish she didn't know how to read yet. :roll:
She was asking him all the meanings of the words she
read but he stopped short of that one lor.. :laugh:

I only asked him, \"Did you eventually answer the salesperson?\" :rotflmao:

Uh... dahling... barely a month has just passed (after i've given birth) and
you asking me about my lessons arh? :lol: But hor... oredi got waitlist.
Kekekee.. You willing to do PV anot? :rotflmao:

Nope, not running the classes yet. Coming... coming...

[smurf]

Thanks babe for answering! :celebrate:


Yup yup, can join your wait list, pleaseeeee??

I can be traffic warden...

[buds]

:rotflmao:

[keltong]

buds:

Blending two letters first to make one sound like say... \"at\"...

followed by reading the words that rhyme using one beginning single
letter sounds with that same ending sound like... bat cat fat hat mat pat (etc)
is using the word families styled reading.

Some children have been known to memorize words using the above way
to read and yet still unable to spell when asked to (perhaps due to the
lack of emphasis and solid teaching of single letter sounds during the
initial stage... while others have the ability to catch on that the sound
combinations represent two separate single letter sounds & effectively
use them to read and spell other words with that combination.

The other, which blends single letter sounds separately... c... a... t... is the
word building styled reading.

Both are learning styles that can work. No right and wrong. I do suppose
the Montessori method is no longer rigid as in.. it can bend in some ways
as long as it benefits the children.

I personally prefer to work with my children, students and parents the
word building way as it has proven to be more effective and concrete on
top of helping the child to pave the way to independent reading as they
learn to hear sounds in words to be able to read them & like wise also
decode sounds in words to spell them.

Hope this clarifies. Cheerios!

Word families styled reading and word building styled reading. I learn something new today. Many things to learn in this forum. Thanks buds!