Class Details
Class Details
Branch/Venue
531 Bedok North Street 3 #01-704, Block 531 (460531) , Singapore
About The Tots Classroom
The Tots’ Classroom is an early childhood education centre for parents, toddlers and young children. We seek to help young children master and excel through the early childhood developmental stages. We want to help parents achieve their hopes for their children through development and education
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1.The Physical Child
Children learn through play. They start
with physical play. The Physical Child course aims to enhance your child’s
physical abilities and coordination. Having better physical abilities enables
your child to better explore their world, to have more “adventures”. Strong physical
skill is the foundation your child needs to build on to learn other skills.
Space, time and motion
Coordination, motor skills, locomotor
skills and fine motor skills
Safe vs. dangerous activities
Introduction
A physically active and capable child is
a healthy and happy child. This physical literacy course will use crafts to
develop the early-learner’s fine motor skills. Crafts will keep the child
entertained, improve and extend the child’s dexterity. We will use tumbling and
physical exercises to develop a child’s gross motor skills and their spatial
awareness.
Class Info
Class Size:
The teacher-student ratio is 1:4. We have
a high teacher to student ratio as two teachers will conduct each lesson. Each
class can have up to 8 child-parent pairs.
Course Admission:
Your child can join The Physical Child
course at the beginning of each term. Mid-term admissions are subject to
availability in ongoing classes. You are encouraged to attend a free trial
class with your child before starting lessons.
Age Limit:
(15 months* to 3 years old)
Child must be able to walk on his/her own
to enroll into The Physical Child
Parental
Involvement
We strongly encourage parents to
participate by attending lessons with your child. This helps you learn
activities and teaching methods that can be used at home to enhance your
child’s development.
Lesson
Format
The lessons cover music and movement,
hands-on activities, craft work and circle time. These encourage learning
through exploration, manipulation and interaction. Each lesson lasts for one
hour and thirty minutes (90 minutes). There are 18 lessons each term (9 weeks).
The Physical Child course lasts for four terms.
Learning
Outcomes
Children should:
·
improve in their
self-confidence;
·
learn about their
own space;
·
learn to respect
others space;
·
improve on their
ability to control physical outbursts;
·
learn to channel
energy into acceptable and productive physical activities.
This course prepares your child for the
next developmental stage that is covered by The Sociable Child course.
Information Source :
Official Website/Facebook Pages of " The Tots Classroom"
2.The Sociable Child
The Sociable Child course offers
activities to help children improve their social and emotional skills. This
improves their ability to engage with others. A young child socializes mainly
with other children and with family members. Up to age three, children will
model (learn) behavior from close family members. Between three and six, they will
gradually learn more of their behavior from friends of their own age.
Gardening and rearing class pets like
fish to help sensitize your child to show care, concern and empathy. This
encourages awareness of nature and responsibility to care for pets, their
belongings and care towards other children. This also helps your child grasp
the concept of sharing and togetherness.
Lessons to develop a knowledge and acceptance
of different cultures.
Learning etiquette and manners through
role-plays. Your child develops socially acceptable behavior (e.g., greetings
and table manners).
Introduction
Lessons and progress in this course will
be matched your child’s expected social and emotional development milestones.
To facilitate the learning of desired behaviors, The Sociable Child course uses
games (group and individual) to encourage social interaction.
Older and younger children are encouraged
to mix in class. This gives younger children the chance to learn from older
children in supervised activities. Older children get to experience the older
brother/sister relationship with younger children. This build’s your child’s
self-confidence in social situations.
Class Info
Class Size:
The teacher-student ratio is 1:4. We have
a high teacher to student ratio as two teachers will conduct each lesson. Each
class can have up to 8 child-parent pairs.
Course Admission:
Your child can join The Sociable Child
course at the beginning of each term. Mid-term admissions are subject to
availability in ongoing classes. You are encouraged to attend a free trial
class with your child before starting lessons.
Age Limit:
Suggested for children from 3 years old
Parental
Involvement
We strongly encourage parents to
participate by attending lessons with your child. This helps you learn
activities and teaching methods that can be used at home to facilitate your
child’s development. While we strongly encourage parental attendance, you may
drop-off your child for The Sociable Child lessons. If the latter option is
chosen, our teachers will provide updates of your child’s progress.
Lesson
Format
The lessons include:
·
music and movement
·
emotion-building
activities
·
social activities
·
circle time
These encourage learning through
exploration, team-work, manipulation of objects and interaction.
Each lesson lasts for one hour and thirty
minutes (90 minutes). There are 18 lessons each term (9 weeks). The Sociable
Child course lasts for four terms.
Learning
Outcomes
This course develops your child’s ability
to interact socially. The activities offer parents and children opportunities
to practice being confident when interacting socially, to practice ways to
control emotions and to understand how to work through tantrums and meltdowns.
The course will increase your child’s
confidence and comfort in daily social interactions and friendships. Your child
will learn different ways to interact with important adults like teachers.
Activities in lessons help a child become more aware of social dangers – for
example, strangers, on the internet, dangerous situations and materials.
Your child will learn with children from
different cultures/backgrounds. This is an important developmental step that
helps children get along better with others when they enter formal schooling.
The Social Child course prepares your child
for the next developmental stage. This next stage is covered in The
Communicating Child programme.
Information
Source : Official Website/Facebook Pages of " The Tots Classroom"
3.The Thinking Child
The Thinking Child course helps your
child to improve their cognitive skills. Activities in the lessons seek to use
your child’s natural curiosity to make learning fun. Teachers will guide them
to think in these activities using learning structures from mathematics,
imagination and science.
Children like to know the way things
work. Science experiments like growing potato shoots and Mentos Geysers help
your child learn about concepts and ideas. Structuring term projects around
these scientific projects helps develop your child’s grasp of complex and
structured thoughts. These abilities can help them solve complex problems –
e.g., mathematics logic problems.
Introduction
The Thinking Child course helps children
develop their own system for learning. This system uses their reflections of
past experiences as a foundation to build new knowledge. This process is called
formal learning. For example, we use multi-stage science experiments to draw
out your child’s knowledge about an idea. To this, we pose a new problem and
let them try to solve the new problem. This type of learning provides your
child with a framework that augments their inquisitiveness to develop problem
solving skills.
Activities in The Thinking Child include
having children document their experiences – through diaries, charts and
drawing. They use these to verbally describe their experiences. This helps them
reflect on and engage more fully in the lessons. We also encourage more complex
writing and graphing by having children keep records. For example, recording
daily temperatures.
Class Info
Class Size:
The teacher-student ratio is 1:4. We have
a high teacher to student ratio as two teachers will conduct each lesson.
Course Admission:
Your child can join The Thinking Child
course at the beginning of each term. Mid-term admissions are subject to
availability in ongoing classes. You are encouraged to attend a free trial
class your child before starting lessons.
Age Limit:
Suggested for children from 5 years old
Parental
Involvement
We strongly encourage parents to
participate by attending lessons with your child. This helps parents learn
activities and teaching methods that can be used at home to facilitate your
child’s development. While we strongly encourage parental attendance, you may drop-off
your child for The Thinking Child lessons. Our teachers will prepare updates of
your child’s progress if you do not regularly attend lessons with your child.
Lesson
Format
The lessons include:
·
story time
·
sentence structure
activities
·
phonics and pronunciation
activities
·
expressive
activities
These activities aim to encourage
learning using experiments. The child devises tests of items and ideas, they
propose possible outcomes (hypotheses), and test these hypotheses. In the
process. they learn ways to build knowledge.
Each lesson lasts for one hour and thirty
minutes (90 minutes). There are 18 lessons each term (9 weeks). The Thinking
Child course lasts for four terms.
Learning
Outcomes
The Thinking Child course develops your
child’s ability to look for, store, process and retrieve information. Over
time, the information becomes your child’s knowledge. This is an important
early learning step that helps a child attain fundamental learning skills. This
is different from other “content driven” or “rote” teaching methods. The course
will increase the child’s confidence and comfort levels in getting and using
information.
This course will help your child become
more prepared for formal schooling.
Information
Source : Official Website/Facebook Pages of " The Tots Classroom"
4.The Communicating Child
The Communicating Child course helps your
child to develop and improve their language and expressive skills. Course
activities help them learn skills and models that can be used to communicate
their thoughts in coherent and structured ways. They will learn systems that
help them to listen better, speak more clearly, begin to write and learn to
communicate through arts like music and drawing. This builds on skills your
child has learned in the Sociable Child course.
Introduction
The Communicating Child course offers
activities to help your child synthesize different areas of communication. These
combines listening and observation to help your child come up with stories and
ideas. They are coached on how to speak about these ideas systematically and
clearly. They learn about the rules and structure of a language through
verbalizing the language. The ability to say a language correctly helps them
begin to read. As such, The Communicating Child course places a large emphasis
on helping your child link the spoken to the written word. Giving the child a
link between speaking and reading makes reading easier. Making reading easier
increases the probability that your child will like reading, and will want to
improve their reading skills. Reading skills are a cornerstone to success in
school work.
Art is a form of communication.
Expression through drawing, acting, singing and signing are ways your child
will begin to communicate abstract ideas. By encouraging and enhancing this
type of communication, we build a strong foundation to move your child’s
learning to higher forms of communication that uses speech and text. Art also
requires the use of imagination and abstract thought. These activities serve as
foundations for the next stage of development that is covered in The Thinking
Child course.
Class Info
Class Size:
The teacher-student ratio is 1:4. We have
a high teacher to student ratio as two teachers will conduct each lesson.
Course Admission:
Your child can join The Communicating
Child course at the beginning of each term. Mid-term admissions are subject to
availability in ongoing classes. You are encouraged to attend a free trial
class with your child before starting lessons.
Age Limit:
Suggested for children from 4 years old
Parental
Involvement
We strongly encourage parents to
participate by attending lessons with your child. This helps parents learn
activities and teaching methods that can be used at home to help in your child
develop more fully. While we strongly encourage parental attendance, you may
drop-off your child for The Communicating Child lessons. Our teachers will
prepare updates of your child’s progress if you do not regularly participate in
lessons.
Lesson
Format
The lessons include story time, sentence
structure activities, phonics and pronunciation and expressive activities.
These encourage learning through interaction, understanding of a language and
communication.
Each lesson lasts for one hour and thirty
minutes (90 minutes). There are 18 lessons each term (9 weeks). The Communicating
Child course lasts for four terms.
Learning
Outcomes
·
This course
develops your Childs ability to communicate.
·
They will learn to
communicate in a structured and coherent manner.
·
Children will learn
show and tell (presentation), be able to articulate and express themselves
verbally, through art, writing and song.
These encourage learning through
exploration, team-work, manipulation of objects and interaction.
Information
Source : Official Website/Facebook Pages of " The Tots Classroom"
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