Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri

Events Next Week!

Join us for the following events next week....

August 16 - Visit to the National Monument

August 18 - Visit to the Police Station

August 20. - Baksos & Bukber at Saraswati

Celebrating the Child!

"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm." ~Bill Vaughan

"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. " ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

"Every Child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso

"The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. " ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
~Angela Schwindt

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. " ~Walt Streightiff

"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago" J. Robert Oppenheimer

Physics Teacher: Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity..isn't that wonderful?

Student: Yes, Sir! if he had been sitting in class looking at books like us, he wouldn't have discovered anything!

I LOVE SARASWATI because

I can relax in the Tom & Jerry swing

I can count up to hundreds with the Montessori material

I learn to write letters in the sand

I can paint with my fingers

I can share playdough with my friends

I can find just about anything to create what I want - colorful yarn, seeds, bits of paper, and many more

I can see if the green water will flow out of the strainer

I can paint all I want

I can plant and grow my own vegetables

I can build with the brick blocks

I can make words with the wooden letters

I can put things in the loader truck

I just love Saraswati!

Tugas nenek dalam keluarga apa ya?

Salah satu kegiatan dalam tema ‘Me and my Family’ adalah menggambar diri sendiri. Anak-anak boleh melihat diri mereka di cermin – bagaimana ekspresinya kalo sedang marah – sedih – gembira. Hasilnya semua menggambar diri sendiri dengan senyum yang lebar. Kemudian, anak-anak dan teacher membahas mengenai anggota keluarga dan membuat family tree. Lanjut dengan diskusi mengenai tugas masing-masing anggota keluarga…

Teacher bertanya, ‘kalo anak-anak tugasnya apa, ada yang tahu?’

Anak-anak: kalo kita sekolah, kak, belajar….

Teacher: Kalau papa apa tugasnya?

Anak-anak (konsisten): Papa kerja cari uang

Teacher: mama apa tugasnya?

Jawaban anak-anak lebih variatif, ‘mama kerja’, ‘mama masak’, dan lainnya

Teacher: kalau nenek apa tugasnya?

Timi: Nenek aku kerja.

Gian: Nenek aku juga kerja

Raia (dengan wajahnya yang lucu dan mungil): Nenekku kerjanya kerokan, kak!

Aku jadi bingung apa sih bedanya biji dan bibit?!

Anak-anak antusias mau menanam bibit sawi yang dibawakan oleh bu yuli (mama Athira). Anak-anak dan teacher berkumpul di taman belakang, masing-masing membawa perlengkapan seperti sekop, ember, penyiram dan bibit.

Rayya: Kak, aku tahu bgm cara merawat tanaman.. Aku pinter lho!

Zilla: Kita menanam sawi dari biji ya?

Teacher: iya, dari biji atau bibit

Sisi: Iya…dari biji.

Rayya (dengan nada khasnya): Aku jadi bingung! Apa bedanya biji dan bibit?

Teacher menjelaskan bahwa bibit bisa berupa biji, tapi ada juga tanaman yang bibitnya berupa batang.

Rayya: O…sekarang aku ngerti…berarti kita harus rawat setiap hari.

Aku ngga suka orang itu ngerusak tanaman!

Zilla protes berat saat melihat perbaikan taman depan. Kebetulan kelas TKB berhadapan langsung dengan taman tersebut. Berhari-hari tukang bekerja mencangkul tanah, menggali dan mengisi.

Zilla: Aaah…aku pindah sekolah aja !

Teacher: kenapa Zilla?

Zilla : Itu orang-orang merusak tanaman terus.

Teacher: Mereka bukan merusak, Zilla, mereka sedang memperbaiki taman.

Zilla senang sekali saat taman selesai diperbaiki. Saat masuk kelas, anak-anak menggeser kursi dan meja mereka dekat dengan jendela dan mereka pun duduk menghadap ke taman.

Teacher : Wah, gimana kakak bisa jelaskan tugas kelompok kita kalau semua menghadap ke taman?

Anak-anak kemudian menggeser arah kursi dan meja kearah teacher tapi posisinya tetap dekat dengan jendela, serasa di pesawat ada window seat dan aisle seat.