Moon cake festival without the MOON!

Ready for a walk?
The heaviest recycle lantern ! I love my mummy!
I Love my mummy, too!
Let's burst the baloon!

On Saturday, we have organized a MOON cake party in our kindergarten. Parents and child proudly bring along the recycle lantern they made. That night, we are supposed to walk with the lantern around our Taman. However, it drizzled and we have to cancel the walking and play games instead. The highlight of the night was of course the prize giving ceremony for the best three lanterns.

Some parents did not participate as they informed me that they do not how to make. To us, the objective of this activity is to provide an opportunity for whole family to sit down together and discuss on what to do. It is the process that counts. Children will learn when they involve in the process of discussion, and bonding will develop when whole family did this activity together.

To my surprise, parents were really creative and they can make very creative recycle lantern. It gives us a tough time to choose the best recycle lanterns.

It rained the whole night and this was the first time we celebrated the moon cake festival without the moon! Anyway, I did believe the children and all who attended the party have fun together.


中秋节是每一个小孩等待的一个节日。为什么？因为在这一天，他们可以提灯笼，玩蜡烛，吃月饼。今年，过了一个没有月亮的中秋节。只怪老天爷不作美，当老师兴致勃勃地将一个一个的灯谜，一个一个的环保灯笼挂上时，天空竟下起了毛毛细雨。这一张场绵绵细雨可长命，一下就下了几小时，害得我们没得提灯笼游花园，连先前安排好的游戏，表演，也因为场地问题而搬进户内进行。幸好家长也通情达理，虽然有些拥挤，但也陪伴孩子们一起参与游戏，尽情欢乐。

今年我们也举办了环保灯笼制作比赛，目的是为了让家长和孩子们有时间参与亲子的活动。有些家长认为，他们不能做，所以孩子也没参与。其实，做的美不美是一回事，和孩子坐下来一家人商讨如何制作灯笼的过程才是我们要的结果。很多家长不了解，认为一定拿不到奖，所以就干脆不参与。所以孩子也就错过了一个学习的过程，也让孩子种下了一种观念，要参加就要赢，如果不能赢就不要参加。其实孩子需要去学习参与，灯泡也不是一夜可以发明的，在参与的时候，他们就学会面对失败，学会接受事实。
一些家长告诉我他们没时间做，不会做，结果？今年的环保灯笼做得好美！家长们都很有创意，害得我们评判的工作有点难度！家长你们也实在太谦虚了！

尽管细雨绵绵，我们也开开心心的渡过了一个没有月亮的中秋，家长们，你们认同吗？

Lantern Festival

Winner of recycle Lantern-Xin Qi
The Heaviest recycle lantern made from Car batery- Xin Yi
猜对最多的灯谜-Mrs. Soon
Others recycle lantern.
Recycle Octopus lantern made by Teacher !

Creative art class

Yi Ren is ready to make his master piece!

Jing Qian
one of the art created by student, beautiful..........
I am trying, slowly move.........

Choosing a Kindergarten?

How to choose a good kindergarten and nursery for your child?

When our child turned two, it is time for us to consider the nursery services or pre school education that you want for our child.

As we all know 0-6 years are the golden period for child development. The moral value, learning attitude and habits are developed during this period. Hence, choosing the right nursery and kindergarten will give your child a jump start in life.

Before visiting the nursery or kindergarten, did you ever sit down and ponder what are you really looking for? Do you want a school that emphasizes on academic only? According to Professor Dr. Chiam Heng Keng, President, Association of Professional Early Childhood educators, Malaysia, “ Learning is not just for exam results but for self development, for the drive to go on learning for life”.

What are the factors you should consider when choosing a kindergarten? What is important?

Here are some advices on how to choose a quality preschool. (adopted from positive parenting article. The full article can be found at www.mypositive parenting.org/articles/english/preparepreschool.htm )

1. Child-safe, child friendly

Your child’s safety is top priority. This is why it is so important that a preschool is registered! This means that it satisfies local safety, fire and hygiene requirement. You can know whether the preschool is registered by seeing the JPN registration number on the signboard. In additions to this, see if safety measures are taken. For instances, ensure that the outdoor area is properly fence, no sharp corners on the tables, sinks and toilet are child-sized.

2. Comfortable number of children

When it comes to preschools, more is not necessarily merrier! As open communication is important in the learning process, an ideal class size is between 12-15 children with a teacher and one assistant for younger age.


3. Good and qualified preschool teacher

A good preschool teacher is kind, cheerful and loves children. She is interested in and actively involved in what the children are doing. She is dressed in clothes that allowed her to kneel down to the children’s level when talking to them, run around and even crawl with then during play time. She has the knowledge on the preschool curriculum, understand child development. Did the teachers attend training regularly?

4. Happy, expressive and production children

You should sees children working in group for projects making friends and having fun. They are expressive, confident and openly communicate with each other as well as their teacher during class. You also can see children are actively participates in performance and presentation in many occasions.

5. A Curriculum that fits the child

The preschool curriculum must emphasize on total development of the child. The National Preschool curriculum (NPC) was formulated in 2003 as a set of guides to help preschool plan activities and construct experiences that will optimize all aspects of the children development. We hope the education system can produce thinking individuals who are inquisitive, able to create and innovate, solve problems and are consistently exploring new ideas, skilled and resilient individual who love their country and are grounded in moral values.


Actually, early childhood care and education (ECCE) is provided not just through preschools but at homes too. You can build a strong foundation for your children’s future by creating for them the right environment and ensuring that they have positive experiences at all times- whether they are at home or at preschool.

QQ Sports day & family day

Mother and daughter as a team!
Happy Family!
We are ready!
Getting ready to start!
Jump, jump pony, jump!

A day to Sweat Out!

It was a sunny Sunday Morning on 17.8.08. All of us woke up early than usual to QQ Kindergarten. What’s Up? It was QQ Sports day and family day. All parents and children had prepared to sweat out!

You can see children excited and proud faces as they are accompanied with their parents. All children were involved in the racing and telematch. You will be surprised that they can run so fast to show their daddy and mummy that they can run.

The highlight of the day is Tug of War, when 18 fathers volunteered to participate. It was a tough fight and you can see they really enjoyed the game. Then, parents were involved in telematch,too . I can see all parent were so excited and sporting to complete each task given.

The time that all children waited was the prize given ceremony. Every child will have at least a medal. This year we have given an extra trophy for the most sporting spirit prize to Tan Qi Kai, for his effort to complete each game even though he has difficulties in his motor skill.

Since it is fruits seasons, our theme was local fruits festival, parents had brought different types of local fruits for sharing. We also held a small birthday party for children who were born in July, August and September.

Everybody was tired at the end of the day. But, we can see children satisfaction and happiness.

Thank you to all of you who had made this event a successful one. Also do no forget to thank our teachers who planned out the games! Kudos to our teachers!