Sep News

Another month has passed and we are welcoming October's theme," Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See " . We have had a great time exploring with the theme " Under the Sea " creatures in September, and the children were asking for more. We will definetely include this theme again in the near future. We hope all of you particularly parents will enjoy browsing through our photographs and please leave some comments for improvement.  Scroll down and you will be amazed at all the activities that we have planned for the children.

Among the sea creatures that the toddler made are puffer fish ,shark ,star fish ,jelly fish , crab ,turtle ,sea horse and octopus.Besides that, we also decorated the board with sea weed and sea shells.We did a lot of sticking, gluing, tearing and finger painting on our crafts.

Just look at the beauty of the under the sea world where various sea creatures live together, hidden beneath the waves.

Do you know seahorse changes in its colors to match their surrounding? Sea horses are also among the tiniest fish in a coral reef. Look at how colorful our seahorses are.

For the development in mathematical area, we did counting of number 1-9 using fish counters. Besides counting, we also sorted the colour of the fish into their particular colour group. Again this activity also promotes turns- taking.

The toddlers also enjoyed playing with the sea creature's puzzle. These puzzles were carefully chosen for the toddlers. The puzzle that we choose are of thick and good quality, colorful, consists not more than 6 insets and must be attractive.They loved putting the pieces together over and over again. Through repetition , these children achieve self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

The toddlers and pre-toddlers enjoyed the fishing game too. Besides, having fun fishing the sea creatures , this activity promote concentration skills, listening skills as well as hand to eye co-ordination.This activity also promotes co-operation among them and taking turn.

Crab and Starfish Song by toddlers and pretoddlers group

Last but not least, these are the list of books that we use for our September's theme :

Hari Raya Celebration

We would like to wish all our Muslim friends “Selamat Hari Raya”. We are all proud of our multi-racial society and will not miss this opportunity in celebrating this festival.

 n order to give the children an insight into Malay culture, we organized a little Hari Raya tea picnic on Thursday. We had a typical Raya spread such as lemang, dodol, nasi impit, bahulu, satay sauce, kurma, onde-onde, kuih sago, cookies and of course rose syrup drink. We were very fortunate to have such a lovely weather on that day. At the end of the picnic, most of the foods were snapped up and the children helped to clean up. They have had such a great time and have been asking for the next picnic.

The kindergartners also made their own Hari Raya card. It was beautifully decorated with tiny tinsels and the children drawn pictures of mosque, stars, moon and fire works on it.

Besides making cards, we also made Ramadhan lantern or fanoos. The Fanoos is similar to the lamp, only it is lighted by a candle instead of oil. It is not popular in Malaysia but are commonly found in Egypt. In Malaysia though, we have oil lantern or pelita. We hung our proudly made fanoos on the fence.

We certainly look forward for the next festival celebration.

Teeth check-up

We were grateful to have nurses from the Dentistry department today. After introduced themselves, and explained the purpose of their visit, they began checking their teeth.The kindergartners were excited to have their name called whereas some of the toddlers' were crying as soon as their name were called. However we managed to persuade them to get their teeth checked.

Every year the dentistry department will visit us twice.This is their second visit this year . While the first visit was to teach the children to brush, this visit was to conduct a check up on their teeth.I have included a few photographs from the first visit. Enjoy !!

August News

Merdeka ! Merdeka! Merdeka! shouted the children with pride. They were so happy and proud by wearing visor painted by themself with Jalur Gemilang, and of course I didn't miss the chance to take their photo! Well, they couldn't be happier as they celebrated the birthday's of Khoo Jia Yi ( 7 years old ) and Tan Zheng Yang (2 years old) at the same week.

They were treated with pizzas, cakes , drinks , puddings by JiaYi's parents .

Meanwhile we had mouth-watering mini tarts, fried beehon , cream puff and cakes by Zheng Yang's parents.

To celebrate their birthdays, we played a birthday game . This game is called " The Birthday Candle Song " . Jia Yi stood in the middle of the circle while the rest of children sang and walked around. These children represent candle. When they have finished singing the song, Jia Yi blew a child down, and this will continue until only seven children were left standing ( thus representing Jia Yi's age ). In the end , the rest of the children guessed Jia Yi's age and sang him a birthday song.

Introduction

Welcome to the blog of Fingertips Day Nursery & Kindergarten. Fingertips is located in Island Park in a semi-detached residential neighbourhood.

We know how important it is to feel confident in the care that your child receives. One of the main reasons that Fingertips was conceived was to provide an environment where both the needs of the child and the parent were met. Children and their families are valued for what they are and will be welcomed and respected within our establishment. Here each child is seen as individual and is encouraged to develop at their own pace.

At Fingertips, we provide a wide range of activities to ensure the all-round development of the children in our care. We use a thematic approach, and allow our children to make connections between the various experiences during a school day to enhance thematic teaching and we also organizes excursion to relate to the themes. The activities planned cover the six areas of development, which are:

• Personal , Social and Emotional Behavior
• Communication , Language and Literacy
• Mathematical Development
• Physical Behavior
• Creative Behavior
• Knowledge & Understanding of the world.

Children do a wide range of activities during the day at the nursery. Among all the facilities available are book corner, dressing area, home corner, construction corner, puzzle table, art area, malleable play corner, outdoor and IT area.

We also believe that parents and families are central to the well being of the child. Thus, we involve parents in as many activities or celebration as possible. We have an open door policy for parents to come in and discuss their children's progress.

We had a barbeque for our family day. Parents, children’s, teachers and grandparents joined in the fun. Beside fastening relationships amend and between the parents, we want everyone particularly the children to have fun.

The children in our care are continuously observed and assessed in our progressment report. Together with the assessment, there will also be an evidence book to record their progress. This progressment will be discussed over parents' day which will be held twice a year. Alternatively, parents can discuss their children's progress or advice at the end of each day. A daily detailed report will be given to the parents in a daily basis. Vital information such as milk intake, sleep records and etc. are recorded.

Our daily meal is prepared by local aunty, we have an extensive menu ranging from Chinese to western cuisine. Weekly menu is clearly displayed on the bulletin board. Children need the opportunity to try various types of food and deserved to have a nutritious and balanced meal. Children's independence is also encouraged during meal times.

Fingertips is about the children it cares for making their time at nursery happy as well as providing them with the opportunity to grow and develop, to make new friends, to question and discover and to become confident and able to move to the next stage of education.