NURSERY 1 (born in 2016)

Effective communication is an essential life skill for self-expression. Hence, we hope to empower your child to be independent and confident communicators – to listen, act and verbalise.
As our program progresses towards more non-verbal reasoning exercises, this ability becomes all the more crucial - for your children to express their thought processes; and for us, to better understand them.

In this lesson, we seek to familiarise your child to the key elements that make a complete sentence structure (subject-verb-object), while expanding on your child’s vocabulary (verb) to describe actions in the present continuous tense.
As the foundation, we encourage sentences to be made in the ‘active voice form’ and perform out these action verbs, to help build a stronger association between the word and its meaning. We focus on verbs as they are an important component for sentences to be built around.

Ultimately, we are working your child towards piecing ideas together to create, verbalise, and eventually write vivid and engaging narratives.  

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NURSERY 2 (born in 2015)

Oral communication provides greater freedom of expression – of emotions and ideas; which acts as an empowering tool for children. Effective oral communication requires a mastery of
1) listening & comprehension – to process visual & audio information, as well as,
2) expression through words (speaking).

To aid listening and comprehension, we encourage children to visualise what they hear in their minds (mental imagery).
As for speaking, we seek on expanding your child’s vocabulary pool, focusing on action verbs (in present continuous tense) since these words form the cornerstone in most sentences.
Through charades, children learn to better associate meaning (actions) to a word (verb), and describe illustrated scenarios using the action-feeling format.

Lastly, we expose your child to listening comprehension activities (laden with multiple “distracting” choices in each question). As warm up, your child would first undergo visual memory training – to improve concentration and mental imagery skills for better comprehension and understanding.
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A rich vocabulary pool would elevate your child’s ability to think deeply and pick up new ideas quickly. Because the choice of verbs is a major determinant to the grammatical form in a sentence, your child would also start to pick up grammar rules naturally. This is the reason why children are continuously encouraged to explore the use of new verbs when forming sentences.

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KINDERGARTEN 1 (born in 2014)

Apart from narratives, children will be eventually challenged to switch between various forms of writing (propositions, argumentative, compare & contrast, etc), depending on the situation or requirement. As such, we hope to nurture in our young children a habit of independent reading. By exploring various sources of text and writing styles, we seek to build in them the confidence and interest to explore reading beyond non-fictional stories – to include magazines, informational books, websites, etc. as alternative materials for learning.

In this lesson, children learn how to differentiate between fictional and non-fictional text material, mainly through analysing the subject(s) and/or text style(s).

Acknowledging that non-fictional material can appear more daunting to budding readers, we demonstrate how a scientific magazine can be broken down into its smaller components – such as pictures, labels, captions and headings. Through this process, we hope that children can utilise similar strategies to aid their understanding of source materials that might be laden with unfamiliar terminologies.

Undoubtedly, writing an essay involves structure. To introduce this fundamental idea, children are tasked to create three forms of non-fictional text (of varying personal and social purposes), namely, 1. Lists (Shopping List / Wish List), 2. Diaries, and 3. Invitation cards (i.e. Birthday / Event).

This exploration and creation of texts will pave the way for children's later literacy success – to make meaning from texts and create meaning through texts.

 

 

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KINDERGARTEN 2 (born in 2013)

Activities such as listening comprehension can exercise your child’s ability to capture, understand, remember and evaluate auditory information – to make inferences and problem-solve.

In this lesson, your child will need to tackle some of our most difficult listening comprehension questions - math story problems involving financial transactions, recounting Lesson 3’s concept on algebraic substitution, while introducing a brand new concept of currency to develop money sense.

In the next half of the lesson, your child will be engaged in story-content creation. We begin by introducing the components of a storybook – such as the cover page, summary page, illustrations and text. Through the analysis of a story, children familiarise themselves to the structure of narrative writing, in the subject-problem-solution format. By applying what was learnt, your child will be tasked to come up with their own short stories. Here, children are tasked to describe their scenes in sequential order and spell out these sentences independently.
By encouraging children to engage in invented spelling, children are trained to be more reliant on phonetics, rather than pure memory work. This focus on sentence / essay structure, rather than spelling, helps alleviate some of the pressure that comes with essay writing, to build confidence, courage and independence of the writing process.

Creating and writing a story encourages the generation of new ideas and the expression of creativity, while developing organisational and grammatical skills.

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THINKING WITH ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS