Category : Look what we did today

Creating a positive, loving environment and making the school a happy place to learn has always been a challenge to all early childhood educators. These two important points are our goals when planning out the kids’ activities to meet the objectives in our preschool curriculum. And when it comes to kids, we believe that the best way to have fun while learning is through PLAY! Let’s take a peek at some of the “PLAY = Learn” activities at Alif Ceria this year:

GrainsPLAY = Textures & Hand-eye Coordination

StrawPLAY = Hand-Eye Coordination & Construction

SandPLAY = Sensorial & Measuring

StickyboardPLAY = Imagination

BoxPLAY = Measuring & Construction

Do it yourself-PLAY = Coordination

WaterPLAY = Phonics

Do it yourself-PLAY = Food Nutrition

MindMapPLAY = Creative Thinking KitchenPLAY = Listening Skills (Following instructions) KitchenPLAY = Practical Life Skills

ManipulativePlay = Patterning

ManipulativePLAY = Construction

RolePLAY = Maths and Money

RolePLAY = Confidence

PretendPLAY = Imagination (“Where would you like to go?” asked the driver)

BubblewrapPLAY = Sensorial

PLAYdoh = Fine Motor Skills

StrawPLAY = galah? Hand-eye coordination

Opps.. where are the books? Does that mean our kids are not learning at school? What do you think is the answer? 🙂 

May Allah bless our country and grant us the strength, unity and patience so that we could all live in peace and harmony. Amin. 

Map of Malaysia by 6 years old students (KG2 Naiim and KG2 Na’wa)

Jalur Gemilang Collage by 5 years old students (KG1 Adni)

Paper Art- People of Malaysia by 5 years old students (KG2 Adni)

Handprints of Future Leaders by 4 years old students (KG1 Firdaus)

July is the healthy, green vegetables month. We learned that:

1. There are many kind of vegetables.
2. Vegetables come in many shapes, sizes and colours.
3. We can buy fresh, canned or frozen vegetables.
4. Vegetables have different names.
5. Vegetables can be eaten raw or cooked.
6. Vegetable is good for our body.
7. Vegetables need water and sunlight to grow.

And it’s time to grow our own vegetables!

We are ready teachers!

First, put in the soil…

 Is this enough teacher?

Using the garden spade to smoothen and level the soil

Red chili seeds

Sowing the seeds into the soil

More seeds

Spraying water to dampen the soil

Oppss! Look where the water is pouring!!

Has it grown yet?

The pak choy (sawi) after 1 week..

More updates coming soon..

Fruits and Vegetables Are Good for Me!
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
Apples, pears, and oranges,
Fruits are sweet for me and you.
Carrots, peas, and broccoli,
Fruits and vegetables
are good for you.
They keep you healthy
and are yummy too! (Rub bellies)

June is all about FRUITS and we love it because we got to learn and taste many different types of fruits – local fruits, fruits from other countries, fruits with few seeds, fruits with many seeds, seedless fruits, small fruits, big fruits, sweet fruits, sour fruits and many more!

We even got to make our own fruit juices.

Teacher Liz’s 10 years old wedding present has finally been put to a good use… 🙂

Freshly cut green apples and oranges

Taking turns to squish the fruits

Apple juice

Let’s try the fiber.

Wow banyaknya…

Yummy.. alhamdulillah..

It is not too early to start teaching the children to help in saving mother earth. March theme is about ‘My House’,and in conjunction with the theme, the children are introduced to many things in the house that can be recycled, reused and reduced!

We started with creating our own recycling bins ~ made from recycled boxes and pictures cut from recycled hypermarket flyers. Blue box for paper, orange box for plastic and brown box for aluminum cans and glasses.

Then we colour the 3R logo using stencil art.

And we also made recycle papers from recycle newspapers.

We got to build the tallest building using recycle boxes.

Counting while waiting for the building to collapse

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This one lasted until 10 only before someone blow it. 🙂

This one lasted until 64 before someone give it a kick. 🙂

And this is the most stable one, lasted for about count of 220…. well, the collapsed building give such a joy, someone needs to make it collapsed anyway.

Happy recycling everyone!