Recent trend: Sekolah Alam.

Dear all, aku udah agak lama sih denger  dan baca tentang sekolah alam, tapi akhir akhir ini agak lebih terfokus karena salah seorang saudaraku ingin memasukkan anaknya di salah satu sekolah alam Jakarta. Nah, karena aku ini bergelut di bidang pendidikan, dia tanya- tanya pendapat aku deh(cieh..).

Setelah browsing (aku hanya browsing sekolah- sekolah alam di Indonesia, bukan international ya), aku melihat bahwa sekolah alam ini konsep utamanya ialah 'back to nature' or 'learn with nature'. Nah, tujuan utamanya ialah akhlak atau behaviour; jadi ketika individu bersahabat dengan alam, individu itu akan mengerti bagaimana untuk menjaga dan melestarikan alam. Dan jika individu bisa bersahabat dengan alam tentu aja itu akan mempengaruhi akhlak atau behaviour individu tersebut, kan?

Yang membuat aku kaget, ternyata sekolah sekolah alam yang ada di Jakarta itu banyakan yang berbasiskan Islam. Sebelumnya aku pernah baca di salah satu majalah tentang sekolah alam di Bali yang kerennnnnn banget terus ada foto orang bule nya (yang membuat aku berpikir bahwa tenaga pengajar nya ialah orang asing.

Aku sangat mendukung sekolah alam di Indonesia, tapi aku hanya memberikan pesan kepada orangtua bahwa akan lebih mudah bagi semua pihak (guru, murid and orang tua) jika orangtua dan sekolah mempunyai visi dan misi yang sama. Jangan hanya karena ikut- ikut atau coba- coba. #BenerLoh #DoThink.

Montessori Class

Hi fellas!
So, I am taking An Introduction to the Theory & Practice of the Montessori Method of Education for my final sem.
I attend 14 classes; 7 classes for the theory and another 7 classes for the practice. We have learned Montessori philosophy and background in some previous subjects. But we never really explore about it. And, the time has come!
Btw, for the exam, we have written exam and practice exam. For the practice exam, we need to choose one material for each categories and present it in front of the lecturer (the lecturer become the child and me become the teacher). There are 5 categories; Activity for everyday living, Literacy, Numeracy, Culture and Sensorial.
So, these are the materials that I chose for my practice exam (1st Dec).

1) Using pegging- Activity for everyday life

2) Sandpaper letters- Literacy

3) Seguin Board B Naming the symbol 10-90- Numeracy

4) Continent Globe- Culture

5) Color Box 1- Sensorial Activity

Thank Goodness, it went well! From 5 materials that I chose, the lecturer will decide 3 materials to present only. And on that day, they (yes, they: 3 lecturers was assessing me) chose Using Pegging, Sandpaper Letter and Color Box 1.

Overall, I like Montessori Class!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I like the materials that I chose for practice exam. Hehehe.
Xoxo
Vini

Social Studies For Young Children

I am taking Social Studies for Young Children for this semester. First, I thought it is an easy subject. However, it is not. Hmm. My lecturer gives pretty standard assignments. But, there are sooooo many aspects that we should dig about.
Frankly, I do not really aware about this subject. After I have gone through 8 classess, I notice that social studies is connected to every subjects such as: Science and Language. Sometimes when you teach the children social studies, you also teach them about science.
From that I made my own conclusion that many schools do not have social studies in curriculum because it is related to other subjects. When the children learn Math, they also get a chance to learn social studies. For example: Time (Past, Present, Current)... When the children learn Language, they also get a chance to learn social studies. For example: Family. When the children learn science, they also get a chance to learn social studies. For example: Solar system.
When it comes to "Who is the founder of telephone?" and stuff like that, I am thinking that do the children ages 4-6 need to learn about this? Do they understand? Do they grasp the concept of founder?
Nevertheless, we as the teacher should prepared ourselves to teach the children about social studies.
Currently I am trying to read a social studies text book that my lecturer suggested to us. You know, preparing myself for exam ;)
GAMBATEH!

ART& CRAFT class; DONE!

Well, I was taking art and craft for young children subject at my fifth sem. It was really fun but at the same time it wassss so intimidating (for me).
The most intimidating time was when the lecturer asked us to make animal paper mache and a bag!!!!! Dang. Shoot me!
However I've gone through that moment thanks to my friend who helped me a lot......
So, here was my individual work:

Some of my artworks 

Rhoda Kellog's stages of art development. My theme: Fish

My bag. Yeay:))

Turtle- Paper Mache

Next: Fun at class and Group work!!!!!

starch painting 1

starch painting 2

Mobiles for valentine day

Do you see the tone?

There was a day when the lecturer divided each group to make different animals at majong paper. And my group was a prince  frog. We coloured it with colour pencils and we painted for the background. TIRING AHH!

Well, enough! There are soo many of pictures but I need to get back to study. Soo, bye =>

kiss me?

Kids Edu Fair 2011- Malaysia (KL)

I went to Kid's Education Fair at PWTC with my friend. It was raining that day and we arrived there around 4 pm then we registered our name. After that, they gave us the map and we can freely visit any booths at 4th floor and 3rd floor. It was a very fun time!
Here is some pics that we took that day:

Prime Minister wife  and Krista students

awesome!

learn to make sushi with Sakae sushi

P.S: Kidzania is coming really soon here in Malaysia! Yuhuuuu! I love Kidzania. I went to Kidzania Jakarta with my young brother and cousin last time and it is soo good for children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And I hope I have a chance to go to Kidzania Malaysia (excited like a child!).