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[21 Nov 2011 | No Comment | 248 views]
Margot Fonteyn Term 2 – Nov 2011. Vol 5

LET’S COUNT
Last October, Toddlers learnt about the primary colors (red, blue, and yellow). They also learnt about circles and squares. They practiced their gross and fine mo-tor skills through painting, throwing and catching a ball, walking around the playground, and pasting paper to make flag.
In November, toddlers will learn about triangle, secondary colors (green and orange), and will start to count. Toddlers will also learn some new words about farm animals through the story telling and hand puppet. They will learn about farm animals, their colors, their types of skins, …

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[2 Nov 2011 | No Comment | 258 views]
Margot Fonteyn Term 2 – Okt 2011. Vol 4

Dear Parents,
Welcome back to school! We are in term 2 now. We are happy to see our children’s progress during term 1.
During this term, the goals of the children’s social and emotional development are that the children will learn to maintain their routines and learn how to interact with other children in a positive manner. For the new students, they will learn to adapt with new routine. For all these aspects, we need your cooperation to bring your child to school on time. It helps the process of getting used …

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[31 Oct 2011 | No Comment | 239 views]
Margot Fonteyn Term 1 – Sept 2011. Vol 3

Come, Play, and Love to Learn Things in Toddler
It has been 7 weeks of school days. Some of children are used to the routine; some still need encouragement to come consistently to school. It is important that children have pat-terns in their daily life. They need to learn about consistency to build their independency and self confidence.
The routine in toddler class has been applied consistently twice in a week. Those who join the class consistently have shown good progresses.
These last three weeks, children have learnt about “Me & My Body” …

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[31 Oct 2011 | No Comment | 199 views]
Margot Fonteyn Term 1 – Aug 2011. Vol 2

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need (Kahlil Gibran, 1883—1931)
During second and third week, toddlers learnt about the primary colors, Red and Blue. Children were introduced the colors through activities such as painting and sorting things. When they sorted items, the activity was integrated with gross motor skill exercises such as crawling their body parts through the tunnel and putting the items in the basket. Through the theme “Me & My Family”, toddlers also are getting to know the vocabulary of family members, …

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[21 Sep 2011 | No Comment | 287 views]
Margot Fonteyn Term 1 – July 2011. Vol 1

WELCOME TO FONTEYN CLASS!
Toddler is the first step to know the new comer apart from their family circle. They start to build their sense of socialization and independent behavior. They like to explore many things from the environment. They like to move, cannot stand still, and their concentration span is limited. They still need guidance and high supervision during activities.
It is the reason that all kinds of activities in our class are delivered in 15 minutes. For every transition we also encourage them to sing and try to give understanding …