5y – Baytzuhr Montessori

Creative Writing

baytzuhr — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:01:01 +0000

Lupa nak ambil gambar tadi. Aqeel pilih tulis cerita hari ni. Dari apa yang saya ingat Aqeel tulis, “Aqeel keluar jalan-jalan. Aqeel jumpa snake. Selepas itu Aqeel lari. Aqeel jumpa tarantula. Selepas itu Aqeel pengsan.”

Ok, bab pengsan tu kelakar. Tapi lepas dia panggil dan minta baca cerita dia, saya cuba expand sedikit ceritanya, supaya lebih details. Saya tanya Aqeel, “Tarantula tu rupanya macamana?” Aqeel cakap banyak kaki. “OK, jom tulis banyak kaki.” “Ia mempunyai banyak kaki.” “Warna apa?” “Warna light brown.” Kemudian kami bincang macamana rupa spider dengan lebih details dan tambah.

Personal Favorite Lukisan Aqeel

baytzuhr — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 14:49:52 +0000

Gambar ni sums up everything. Sebabkan meja kerja saya hadap dinding, setiap kali mereka cari saya, nilah pandangan mereka. Aqeel lukis ni sebab Aqeel main-main jadi fotografer. Kamera lukis kertas, buat tali, tapekan tali tu bagi sambung. Then ambil gambar guna kamera kertas tu pastu lukis pandangan yang disnapkan tu. Nilah hasilnya. Haha.

Weekly Update

baytzuhr — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 23:47:35 +0000

Minggu sebelum tu cuti je. Tak buat apa-apa aktiviti. They’re allowed 2 hours of screentime.

Minggu ni pun sebenarnya tak plan apa-apa. My plan was to store all of the materials on shelves and tukar dengan new materials. Bukan ‘baru’ tapi kira ikut perkembangan terkini, interest, and what needs to be worked on.

Sebelum masuk storage, bagi dulu diorang buat. Contoh brown stair ni.

Bermula macam ni. Abang tengok, took interest and built a tower.

Which leads to this;

Hana sambung buat latihan Addition Strip Board.

Tapi gambar yang atas ni Hana buat tak guna Strip Board, kira sendiri dan check jawapan dengan Chart #1. Saya ambil juga Strip Board untuk Hana buat tapi Hana tak nak. 1. Sebab tak nak susun strip. 2. Sebab bila susun strip tu dia cam gerak dan susah nak susun sebab licin. So that frustrates her.

Aqeel tunjuk minat dan minta2 nak buat.

Jadi keluarkan semula Number Rods ni (tak display di shelf sebab dia cam dah tak minat and passed this stage) untuk ikut macam kakak. Saya duduk belakang perhati. Mula-mula Aqeel susun macam ni. Perasan salah, susun macam ni pula.

Perasan salah lagi.

Akhirnya.

Disebabkan Hana tak nak guna Strip Board tadi tapi masih nak buat addition, terpaksa kenalkan dulu Finger Chart walaupun tak ikut sequence.

Addition slips, Finger Chart #1, Paper & Pen to record.

Minggu ni juga join MHsN Mini Sports Day, belah pagi ada badminton, kami tak join. Kami join belah petang, Dodgeball Clinic! Baru tahu rupanya it’s an official sports dan Malaysia adalah World Champion! Jadi yang coach diorang adalah dua orang dari team Malaysia! Thank you See Ming for organising this!

Berapa minggu dah tak dapat join kelas Scout, akhirnya! Minggu ni dapat join kelas Scout Mr Quek. Tapi hujan lebat. Biasa kalau hujan pun kelas jalan juga. Ada pondok dekat padang jadi biasanya buat bawah ni. Mama, Hana, Aqeel terpaksa stay dalam kereta sambil tunggu Abang. Lagipun Aqeel tidur. Setengah jam camtu, Hana mula bosan. Ada motor aiskrim yang biasa datang setiap minggu berteduh kat situ. Hana mula minta aiskrimlah, nak tengok abanglah. Kejut Aqeel turun, dapat makan aiskrim, hujan mula renyai, SPLASH!

Dapat dengar sikit buat aktiviti apa minggu ni. Mr Quek lukis rumah, dan tanya apa ada dalam rumah. Ada cakap pintu, swimming pool, bathtub, dapur dll. Dan diorang kena identify mana tempat yang bahaya dalam rumah. Ada 3-4 group rasanya. Setiap group dapat kertas warna masing-masing. Seronok tengok diorang tampal-tampal mana tempat bahaya dalam rumah. Satu yang kelakar tampal toilet bowl. “Because water snake could come out from the toilet bowl.” I’m really enjoying their interactions and how Mr Quek handle them. Conclusion: “THERE IS NO SAFE PLACE IN THE HOUSE!” Lol Mr Quek. Budak-budak ni tampal je semua. Then discuss jawapan, safe ke tak, safety measures etc.

Esoknya Hana buat What Makes Ten, Commutative law; cari kombinasi sama, dan potong yang sama dalam chart #1, kenalkan chart #2.

Hana nak buat lagi jadi cuba buat addition slip problems dan double, 1+1, 2+2, 3+3. From now on check jawapan guna Chart #2. Tunjuk sekali je Hana dapat tahu. Problem 9+1, cari di chart jumpa, dan next 2+9, dia cari takde, dan saya tanya, mana lagi boleh tengok 2+9, it takes a while untuk dia cari dan jumpa dan next problem dia dah tahu dah.

Abang pula masih lagi buat topik darab. Ini kami guna buku Singapore Math grade 3.

Haris suku buat buku. Jadi ni dia buat buku khas untuk tulis operasi dan jawapan masalah matematik hari ni.

Abang masih belum hafal sifir, kadang kami guna Math Mammoth dan kadang guna Singapore Math. Untuk darab, Math Mammoth punya silibus perlukan menghafal dan Haris having trouble nak hafal. Hmm. Jadi untuk ni guna Singapore Math, mula-mula jadi slow sebab suruh dia kira sendiri darab sendiri, jadi dia tak nak, asyik lambat je. Kali ni nak bagi cepat (sebab nak cepat habiskan pun ye, huhu) guna Montessori Multiplication Finger Chart, hoping that this will keep him interested dan help him memorise bila buat banyak kali. Dan dua kali buat dia cam sukalah, wah tengok ni laju je buat. Tapi bila bab Word Problems tu yang macam hmm dia struggle sikit. Need to work on. Dia cam susah nak imagine….

Counting 1-10, Odd and Even Numbers

Sat, 07 Mar 2015 19:26:08 +0000

Reviewing counting using Montessori Method here and here.

While Hana lines them up. ^^;

Practice writing number.

The start of a new schedule…

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:32:48 +0000

Dah banyak bulan kelam kabut, sebab mak mereka sekalian ini tengah mengandung. Jadi mula dari first trimester memang tak larat nak buat semua. Jadi, bila Haris dah biasa, hari-hari ikut suka dia je, struggle juga a few weeks ni nak minta dia datang duduk dan do/learn something. ^^;

So, I had to come up with schedule. Mula bulan lepas, hantar Haris belajar agama dari pukul 9.00 pagi hingga 12.00 tengahari. Jadi, takpelah, mula-mula ni masa untuk sit down dan belajar kita buat sikit dulu. Mak dia pun terkontang kanting lagi masih testing what works best for him. Tambah pula, Hana tengah banyak rebellious sekarang *mak nanges*.

So, officially, the new schedule starts today. I’m going to try to fit in 4 different subjects, with 15 minutes each. If any topic of the day yang dia enjoy it’s fine to expand it a bit. It just a guide and plan and Allah knows best.

The 4 subjects are:

Math
Bahasa
English
Science/Geo (alternate)

While Hafazan dan Islamic Studies, setiap kali selepas solat, inshaAllah.

Untuk Hana pula, will start with practical life, slow-slow. ^^

Surah al-Fil

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:24:47 +0000

Hafazan Haris belum lagi sampai pada Surah al-Fil, tapi masa balik kampung the other day, one night Haris minta bacakan cerita sebelum tidur. I was thinking of short stories from Quran, and remembered al-Feel and did a quick search on internet and jumpa website ni; Teaching kids the Holy Quran. He immediately became SO interested, sebab LEGO. I guess to teach meanings of each surah next time, had to include these, and I’m very thankful for the effort put in this project.

And so, he can’t wait to come home and build Kaa’bah with his Legos. Bila dah sampai rumah, the first thing he did the next morning? Yes, he remembered his goal. Lol. Cepat-cepat dia buat, but since (*rolls eyes), he’s such a perfectionist, marah-marah dia sebab Lego pieces dia tak sama dengan gambar. I encouraged him to just use what he has, to try and to think, he hesitated. I left him alone and eventually he came to me and finished it!

Just like Surah al-Masad, I’m trying to think to incorporate whatever lesson related to the Surah. And I think I’ll do Elephant and Bird unit study next. ^^

Surah al-Masad

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 17:07:50 +0000

Mom listens to this:
[youtube=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l26eDJUPr_c”]

Mom reads:
NAK’s transcript on the Surah.

When talked about flame/fire, Haris tanya kenapa api padam bila ditiup? Sebab biasa kalau lilin menyala, contohnya, scented candle / birthday candle, dia akan blow untuk padamkan. And so, mom had to find experiment untuk fahamkan dia. Hehe.

First we need to know, what is fire?

And then, discuss about fire safety. Fire safety booklet at Teaching Mama.

Experiments Fun:
Flying Tea Bag Ghosts
What puts out fire?
What makes fire?

Ordinal Numbers

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:44:00 +0000

Introduce Haris pada Ordinal Numbers. Had to use what interests him to gain his interest. Lol. Jadi minta dia susun superheroes-superherosnya pada ranking yang dia rasa siapa paling kuat hingga lemah.

*Bring me the third ball and bring me three balls*

Update: 2 Mar 2015
After three days (reviewing), he still can’t grasp the difference between ordinal and cardinal. Will try again somewhere in the future.

Resource: Math is Fun!
Singapore Math
Math Mammoth

Quick update!

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:00:30 +0000

Haris 5 year 2 months.
Hafal al-Fatihah 3 Qul. Dah kenal huruf hijaiyah dan satu baris atas, bawah, dan hadapan. Tgh mengenal dua baris.

Hana 20months.
Picks things up fast. Know certain words and developing fast, mashaAllah! Also, aktif mengacau whenever me and Haris doing something. ^^;;

Telling Time 1

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 01:57:55 +0000

Haris: 5 Years

Haris dah boleh baca jam by hour dan half an hour. Masih belum tahu minit dan saat. Pukul 3. Pukul 3.30. But I never really properly introduced him about time. So, we discussed about seconds this morning. Macamana jarum saat tu pusing, cukupkan satu pusingan sebanyak 60 kali dan jarum panjang akan bergerak and told him that was minute and when the minute cukupkan satu pusingan pula, jadi jam.

Penguin from Making Learning.

Source:

Activity:
Put students in pairs. Use the timer. One student counts how many times their partner can clap in ten seconds. Then reverse the roles and do it again.
Jog in place for one minute. Is a minute longer or shorter than a second? The minute hand goes around one time each minute.
Now show your students that you are setting a timer for one hour. That means that the minute hand will go around sixty times. Ask them to predict what they will be doing when the timer goes off. Write down some predictions.