All About Montessori

[buds]

Btw, I love long PMs. :please:

[natureautumn]

Oops, sorry for my earlier long post, should. Send pm instead ?

Wah buds, you are really capable to handle 4 kids;)

[buds]

If same content, natureautumn... no need to resend as PM. Your post was intended for me to reply, right?

[buds]

phtthp:

my friend looking for a reliable montessori child care centre, not kindergarten. She stay in Bedok. Any recommendation (besides Brighton too ex) ? TIA !

If she's ok to explore MMI there's one in Bedok Reservoir.
> http://www.modern-montessori.com/mmi_chinese_site/ch_presch_centres_br.htm

Another in Marine Terrace she can recce.

Sunrise Montessori
Blk 57 Marine Terrace Haven
#03-127 Singapore 440057
Tel No.: 6448 7432
Mobile No.: 96199710
Email: [email protected]

A quick search got me these two..

Planet Montessori
22 Kew Drive Singapore 467960 
Tel : 6441 8708

Josiah Montessori Kinder-care
1 Changi Business Park Crescent 
#01-05 Plaza 8 @ CPB 
Singapore 486025 
Tel : 6634 1780

[buds]

natureautumn:

Wah buds, you are really capable to handle 4 kids;)

:dowan:

Still learning.. :please:

[buds]

brainkuku:

Hi buds


For phonics.. he seems to know all the sounds.. but how to incorporate that into pronouncing a word? I know there are word blend, but I am not sure how receptive my son is on the word blend.. how do i test him on whether he knows or not? Or there isnt any need for test, just let him be?

Do you think flash card methods works?

Seems to know does not indicate he \"does\" really know. Must be able to distinguish letter names from letter sounds.. can associate objects/pictures of items beginning with corresponding letter sounds.. can match LMA to sandpaper letters.

See here for details... > http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=114377#p114377

Do word building with him as prelude to introducing three letter phonetic words formation.

See here to know how to carry out wordbuilding..
> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=133487#p133487

*Wordbuilding is at Point 2.*

Flashcards work, YES! Though I don't do the \"flashing\" ala Shichida. *flipping at record speed!* I'm clumsy with the cards. :oops: I use the cards for sight reading (words) and introduction to real/actual pictures of the words.

Pssst... I've invested in Glenn Doman's huge language n math cards... plus the encyclopaedic cards to try out with my boys... since boys have been known to have more of the right brain capacity, I'm gonna try it out.

http://www.mathpower.com/brain.htm

[natureautumn]

Thanks Buds, appreciate all your input here;)

Along the way, also many input from soo many others, really a very informative thread.

Btw, just for info. I visited spring Montessori near dairy farm bukit panjang.
It’s a very clean place and when I went, the kids were working having their activities.each child was involved in their activity with the directness by the side.Liked the small class size and the owner seemed very nice too.

Am still considering them, but they are on the steep side and harder to. Convince Dh.
Who feels my boy too young to have such expensive tuitiom.

If distance and fees are ok, I think it’s a place worth visiting.

[k9dev]

HELP!!


understand that Montessori has 2 kinds of ownership - 1 is franchise and 1 is directly owned by them… is this true?

how can we tell the difference?

[buds]

natureautumn:

Hi all, I have been ploughing the thread for the last 3 nites but think i managed to reacd only till post 100 and kinda of zonked already. I know someone, maybe Buds? mentioned some books to read up on montessori method or doing some activity with the child at home? I cant remember which post it is on, but could someone please kindly guide me along?

Here you go, natureutumn. Was this what you were looking for?
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=359950#p359950

In future, if you chance upon some posts or articles you know you would wanna go back to but afraid you'd forget where to find them, you can bookmark them or add to reading list.

[joyceharper]

i have heard about montessori before and it was quite popular a few decades back, but is the teaching method still relevant now? are they able to update and keep up with the changing environment kids today are involved in?