The Children's House

Well yesterday me and Danielle went to check out Children's House at Tmn Tun. It was a nice pre-school, very neat and very well organise. I had a chat with the principal while Danielle played with kids there.

In Children's House they practice Montessori Method, teachers are qualified and train under the Montessori Method. Montessori Method is a greatly hands-on approach to learning. It encourages children to develop their observation skills by doing many types of activities. These activities include use of the five senses,kinetic movement , spatial refinement, small and gross motor skill coordination, concrete and knowledge that leads to later abstration.

The classrooms provide an atmosphere that is pleasant and attractive, to allow children to learn at their own pace and interact with others in a natural and peaceful environment. In the ideal classroom, children would have unfettered access to the outdoors, but this frequently is impossible, given modern-day limited space and cost considerations.

In response, teachers stock their classrooms with nature shelves, living plants, and small pets, or perhaps a window-sill garden, allowing children to experience as much as possible of the natural world, given modern constraints.

In a nutshell, Montessori method is to built upon the idea that children develop and think differently from adults; that they are not merely “adults in small bodies, Montessori method discourages traditional measurements of achievement (grades, tests) on the premise that it damages the emotional inner-growth of children.

Too bad fees too expensive, daddy said he could not afford to pay.

End of story.