In My First Skool, teachers as early childhood educators believe that children learn best through hands-on experiences. Children here learn through a science-based curriculum, where they observe and discover the environment around them. Through such curriculum, children will eventually acquire some basic process skills like observing, experimenting, predicting, comparing, classifying and asking questions.
One such example is a lesson on “Sifting Flour”. In this lesson, children experimented with flour and could come up with some characteristics of flour such as “soft”, “smooth”, “slippery like powder”, “pleasant smell” and more. At the same time, children learnt about the different types of sieves; those with bigger holes and those with smaller holes. They tried to predict that the flour
will be sifted faster in the sieve with the bigger holes as it was easy for flour to “travel” down.
Yamone was feeling the flour with both her bare hands, telling the teacher that the flour felt “soft and nice”.
Tiffany was amused as she touched the flour. " So soft! I like it!" she said.
Aniq seemed to enjoy himself as he experimented with the flour. " This is like poweder!" he exclaimed.
Yu Le was good at sifting the flour. She could steadily move the sieve from left to right without spilling the flour.
Yu Le and Hao Zhe were having fun experimenting the flour with their sense of touch.
Aniq,Tiffany and Zavier were seen following the pictorial instructions in sequence to mix the different ingredients together.
Baking Cupcakes
In another lesson, children had the opportunity to bake their own cupcake. As they
went through the process of baking, they were facilitated to predict outcomes
when they mixed certain ingredients together. To reach this goal, the teacher
asked questions while they were working on it. This not only increased their
level of critical thinking, it also helped these children to communicate and
interact better with adults.
went through the process of baking, they were facilitated to predict outcomes
when they mixed certain ingredients together. To reach this goal, the teacher
asked questions while they were working on it. This not only increased their
level of critical thinking, it also helped these children to communicate and
interact better with adults.
Yamone and Rakin were counting to themselves, “One, two, three…” as they added the different ingredients into their bowls.
Jia Xi was busy stirring the mixture of butter and sugar.
These children were very task-oriented. They were focused when mixing the different ingredients together.
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