Alif Ceria 2013 Inter-Centre Reading Competition

An inter-centre reading competition was held last Saturday, 15 June 2013 at Bilik Serbaguna Kompleks Kejiranan Presint 8, Putrajaya, Alhamdulillah. It was our very first of such event, aimed to inculcate the reading habit among the children as well as to boost their literacy and expose their parents to the reading techniques used at Tadika Alif Ceria.

Tadika Alif Ceria, since its opening in 2010, has been using Bacalah Anakku and ReadEasy phonetic reading series by ReadNetwork in the teaching of Bahasa Melayu and English reading.

The contest, involving 29 kids aged 4-6 years from all five Alif Ceria centres, were focusing on those who were able to read according to their age groups and reading levels in three categories:- Bahasa Melayu, English and Jawi. Judging scores were given based on three key areas:- fluency, pronunciation and confidence. Though some were nervous, these kids stood bravely in front of the audience to read their texts. Well done kids! You were amazing! MasyaAllah…!

Caterpillars 4 & 5 years old: Bahasa Melayu
Cocoon 5 years old: Bahasa Melayu
Cocoon 5 years old: English
Butterfly 6 years old: Bahasa Melayu
Butterfly 6 years old: English
Butterfly 6 years old: Jawi

Parents were also entertained with reading-related shows by our young performers during the short break. Our group of singers cheerfully sang the familiar Abu Ada Ayam, Cory Cat and Sakura songs – all fun but simple songs that are being used to teach phonics at the school. We then had our group of Buletin Ceria newscasters, reading fluently the local news, sports news and weather forecast. Awesome, kids! A job well done!

 

Winners were then announced and all contestants including the performers each brought home a bag of reading goodies. Thanks to our sponsors, Alhamdulillah!  We sincerely hope that this competition will inspire both children and parents to read more at home, InsyaAllah.

Hooray for Sports Day!

F-U-N is the word. Bright sunshiny day, happy and cheerful kids, supportive parents, high-spirited teachers, all came in together for our 4th Annual Sports Day which was held on 2nd March 2013 at Padang Kompleks Kejiranan Presint 16. Alhamdulillah!

We’ll let the pictures tell the story, okey? 🙂

Long queue… yeay for sporting parents in Green, Purple and Orange!

An umbrella for you!
Let’s go to the tent…
Breakfast for energy!
Are you ready kids??
Doa recitation by our parent
Oh Allah, please make it easy for me…

 

 

Sports Day vow by representatives from the 3 houses
Negaraku…Tanah tumpahnya darahku…
Warming up!
Purple House Superhero!
Green House Warriors!
Power Orange!
Taekwondo Demo by ProSports Taekwondo
Jump kids jump!
Aim for the ball!!
That’s the way!
My turn to jump!
Oh..this is so much fun..see the smiles?
Roll it Abah, faster!
Pulling it gracefully 😉
Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!
Go Purple Go!
Almost there…I can do it!
The winning smile, priceless 🙂
Daddy can also do it!
You did it!
Tricky cue foot
Funny gunny sack run!
Hurry! Let’s pass the baton!
1,2,1,2,1,2… hope it works!
Doing it while running? Fantastic!
Weaving the ketupat by parents to add house marks
Pull daddies pull!
It’s time for brothers and sisters!
Hands-off the plate girls!
Can you spot the Clown?
Waiting for the result…
Well..it doesn’t matter who’s the winner…
Tired? No! Smiling doesn’t take that much energy, right?…:-)
The trophy is ours!! Congratulations Purple House!
Medal for everyone.. kudos kids, you deserve it!
But I want the trophy too… hehe
Tired but still smiling teachers.. one event down.. what’s next?

The event has indeed brought us all closer together, MasyaAllah.. Days of practising running, jumping, bouncing and cheering together has formed friendship between the kids and the teachers from all our 5 centres. These were the actual rewards that we all got apart from all the medals and prizes.

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah! Thank you Allah for another sweet and remarkable memory in our school life.