All About Montessori
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[quote]I prefer my children be independent as soon as they can.
The whole idea of gg pre-school IS to un-sticky them isn't it?
[/quote]I guess so, at 3yo. 18mth to me, still a bit early. My no pay childcare leave ends when she is 3, and I'll be ready (note, it is \"I\" :)) to let her go alone then.
[quote]I am also a SAHP and love my kiddies to bits, but i dun like koalas
sticking on me too long. :lol: [/quote]I also don't like. sob sob.
But cos I don't have helper or other help, dd has seen mostly me since birth. In fact, a large part of the day, it's just me she sees, so she's a big big koala.
You don't know how happy I am for her brothers to come home from school (even though they are so noisy), cos it means they can distract her for some time!
Your elder kids went to preschool so early too?
My ds1 started at 3yo but at that time I was working and mil said it was too traumatic for her (note: it is \"her\", not ds1) to send him to school when he cries every time she has to drop him off. So we took him out, and started him at 4, and only 2x a week, 3hrs in the morning only.
He only truly started kindy at 5. But he took to it like fish to water.
ds2 was 3 at that time, so he wanted to go to school like big brother. No problem for ds2 then, since he was the one who wanted to go. Hence for me, ds2 started \"earlier\".
I've been a SAHM for 4 yrs liao, 2 more yrs and it will end. I think I will treasure it and just teach her myself, if I can't find somewhere suitable, and since you have moved further off! I thought CCK was still ok.
[quote]I got a :salute: from my friend (the operator) & the staff for my
gung-ho-ness in leaving my first born behind just like that. :D[/quote]Indeed, not easy! So I salute you too!
(I dk why i cannot use the emoticons, I click click click, cannot, otherwise can be like u, use so many.... hehe)
I[quote] had requests for baby sitting too like day-care but a bit much
to do since i am alone without help. So i didn't take it up.[/quote]yup, can imagine! totally understand. pat your back.
me too, 2 older kids plus this not so small baby, but still baby. ugh...
too much work! too little time!
JW is crowded indeed. I don't like crowds too. But my family and friends are all around this area, so it was a natural choice for me when we bought our flat. Also, flats are so cheap here when we were buying, we paid it off fully within 4 yrs, no need long long loan, save on interest.
Which is why even though DH not a super earner, I can stay home lah.
So JW has its benefits.
Abt schools, true, not that many choices of good schools at certain levels (only tertiary lvl, 2 unis in the west...). I think for preschool the crunch is worst.
Pr sch, also quite bad. Too many schools bursting and over subscribed. But Sec sch, River Valley just moved here, so it's a possible good school choice. haha. Thinking too far huh? And anyway, getting Off Topic liao.
nvm, maybe someday can get together just for playdates, if not classes! -
[quote]I prefer my children be independent as soon as they can.
The whole idea of gg pre-school IS to un-sticky them isn't it?[/quote]I guess so, at 3yo. 18mth to me, still a bit early. My no pay childcare leave ends when she is 3, and I'll be ready (note, it is \"I\" :)) to let her go alone then.
[quote]I am also a SAHP and love my kiddies to bits, but i dun like koalas
sticking on me too long. :lol: [/quote]I also don't like. sob sob.
But cos I don't have helper or other help, dd has seen mostly me since birth. In fact, a large part of the day, it's just me she sees, so she's a big big koala.
You don't know how happy I am for her brothers to come home from school (even though they are so noisy), cos it means they can distract her for some time!
Your elder kids went to preschool so early too?
My ds1 started at 3yo but at that time I was working and mil said it was too traumatic for her (note: it is \"her\", not ds1) to send him to school when he cries every time she has to drop him off. So we took him out, and started him at 4, and only 2x a week, 3hrs in the morning only.
He only truly started kindy at 5. But he took to it like fish to water.
ds2 was 3 at that time, so he wanted to go to school like big brother. No problem for ds2 then, since he was the one who wanted to go. Hence for me, ds2 started \"earlier\".
I've been a SAHM for 4 yrs liao, 2 more yrs and it will end. I think I will treasure it and just teach her myself, if I can't find somewhere suitable, and since you have moved further off! I thought CCK was still ok.
[quote]I got a :salute: from my friend (the operator) & the staff for my
gung-ho-ness in leaving my first born behind just like that. :D[/quote]Indeed, not easy! So I salute you too!
(I dk why i cannot use the emoticons, I click click click, cannot, otherwise can be like u, use so many.... hehe)
I[quote] had requests for baby sitting too like day-care but a bit much
to do since i am alone without help. So i didn't take it up.[/quote]yup, can imagine! totally understand. pat your back.
me too, 2 older kids plus this not so small baby, but still baby. ugh...
too much work! too little time!
JW is crowded indeed. I don't like crowds too. But my family and friends are all around this area, so it was a natural choice for me when we bought our flat. Also, flats are so cheap here when we were buying, we paid it off fully within 4 yrs, no need long long loan, save on interest.
Which is why even though DH not a super earner, I can stay home lah.
So JW has its benefits.
Abt schools, true, not that many choices of good schools at certain levels (only tertiary lvl, 2 unis in the west...). I think for preschool the crunch is worst.
Pr sch, also quite bad. Too many schools bursting and over subscribed. But Sec sch, River Valley just moved here, so it's a possible good school choice. haha. Thinking too far huh? And anyway, getting Off Topic liao.
nvm, maybe someday can get together just for playdates, if not classes! -
Wow, kabalevsky, you paid for your flat in so short time?? u must be earning big bucks when u were working! :salute:
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smurf:
Wow, kabalevsky, you paid for your flat in so short time?? u must be earning big bucks when u were working! :salute:
no la, flat was v cheap. similar 4rm flat in same vicinity now 400+k, 500k, but i bought mine in 2002, slump period, plus JW location, only 128k.
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Still, paid within such a short period of time is :!:.
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smurf:
Agree with smurf... 500 per mth is relatively reali good budget.No lah, my budget is really low...less than $450.
If u can afford $500 and above, chances are your search is quite easy.
However smurf... less than 450 dunno whether you can get daily
Montessori playgroup or workgroup classes. Enrichment centres
that offer flexi-days Montessori pgrm oredi like 400 for like 3X
weekly... thereabouts? -
buds:
ya, unless like MMI.
Agree with smurf... 500 per mth is relatively reali good budget.smurf:
No lah, my budget is really low...less than $450.
If u can afford $500 and above, chances are your search is quite easy.
However smurf... less than 450 dunno whether you can get daily
Montessori playgroup or workgroup classes. Enrichment centres
that offer flexi-days Montessori pgrm oredi like 400 for like 3X
weekly... thereabouts?
The Sat playgroup is 1x a week. 1 month $100.
The weekday playgroup meets 2x a week. 1 month $150. -
jul04:
Do you prefer them shouting or running around kinda cheerful? :evil:Cheerful Students
The children I see at Montessori For Children aren't cheerful either. They look.. well, intense. They're concentrating on their work & they're all quite well-behaved. Not running ard, no shouting/screaming, no fighting. Is this \"normal\"? :?
Intense uh?
D'ya mean that if they had at least smiled while at work
then they'd be seen as cheerful students? :lol: That my fren is the power
of concentration. The power of children at work. In relevance to primary
school life thereafter... the children can be oblivious to distractions of
say... errmm.. :idea: ... adults chatter in the background... or tv... or
generally noise lar.. they can block out distractions and concentrate on
work at hand. Consider good anot?
Yes, generally Montessorian children are well behaved as they learn to
respect everyone's work space within the classroom environment so
that wud mean no running as they may cross over someone's work
mat... or worse drop materials on a fren while running. They learn
to appreciate the prepared environment and help to care for school
property plus ensure materials are used for their intended purposes.
There isn't a need to shout for someone you can invite to work with
you is just a whisper away.
That said however, come story time, music & movement session plus
theme based lessons everyone comes alive with ideas and their own
self-expressions. In my classes, i also get my students to do gross
motor activities like inter group bean bag races, ring the hoop or
even egg-in-spoon races which is a helluva hit! We'd do musical
chairs during music session too! Variation of activities make the
lessons interesting and we get to see all the fun children have
being the children that they really are. :love:
I suppose it's reali the directress that plays a part? :oops:
I mean i don't wanna spoil market ya know..
Though i've been told to just spoil it, as it IS for good reasons. :laugh: -
kabalevsky:
ya, unless like MMI.
Agree with smurf... 500 per mth is relatively reali good budget.buds:
[quote=\"smurf\"]No lah, my budget is really low...less than $450.
If u can afford $500 and above, chances are your search is quite easy.
However smurf... less than 450 dunno whether you can get daily
Montessori playgroup or workgroup classes. Enrichment centres
that offer flexi-days Montessori pgrm oredi like 400 for like 3X
weekly... thereabouts?
The Sat playgroup is 1x a week. 1 month $100.
The weekday playgroup meets 2x a week. 1 month $150.[/quote]Enrichment setting probably...? Cos of the shorter session durations?
Not childcare kind, right? Childcare set up can do 3 to 4 hours
kinda PG / WG sessions. -
Erm, some of the not bad workgroup has less than $500 budget, eg, totsville, SG Montessori. They are good, but you can tell that they didn't change their teaching apparatus for quite some time.
But all these aren't important. Most important is the teachers and the method they use, I guess.
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