Early Childhood Development Initiative

This term we have 41 children, 7 of those are full time, 22 receive full tuition waivers thanks to your support.

Friday field trips have been a high light of the last few months with excursions to visit The Pope Statute, Tasi Tolu Beach, Hiam Health, Permatil, Arte Moris, the New Play Ground BH Habibi, and the Tais Market. These excursions provide our children with knowledgeable about the local area in which they live building a stronger identity. We have noticed that our students have made strides forward in their competence and confidence this term.

This last term of 2019 we are revisiting our Jolly Phonics Programme, Montessori maths and fun games. We are also practicing for the end of year concert and graduation ceremony.

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This term at Ba Futuru’s Early Childhood Education Facility we have been focusing on science and baking! We currently have 47 students, 8 which are full day students. We have 22 children from the nearby Timorese community that receive full tuition waivers with your support, and 25 fee paying children.

Last month we focused on science, we strengthened the children learning with exploring different experiments learning mixing color, baking soda and vinegar, gas, and the strong force of water. Children have been finding insects and then observing and collecting data “like a scientist”.

In the last 2 weeks we have been baking, the children have preparing their food for their snack with making pancakes, cookies, and cutting up fruits to make a fruit Kebab.

At our termly community potluck lunch children performed a song, poem and showed parents their favorite sciences experiments. We also introduced our new program called “Place Based Learning”. This entails going to places to learn about them and the world.

Our two classes have now blended together for the most part of the session, in the outdoor classroom.  This means that the younger children are learning from the older children, with being involved with the teaching and learning program. We have observed the older children being nurturing of the younger children and have seen them being great models to their peers even teaching them skills that they have mastered. We continue to play our fun literacy and math games.

For our teacher professional development they will be doing a fun games workshop presentation to a local preschool that is just learning about Play Based Learning education.

Links:

• Short video of kids learning