Saturday, 16 January 2010

Welcome to our brand new nursery-school

Hello and welcome to our web page.





This is a new journey for me and my daughter who is the most precious and wonderful gift God gave me, and for this reason I want to make her grow and educate her at the best of my capabilities so that as young landy, and later as a woman, she will shine and be recognised for her good manners, her knowledge, her values and her education, and this will make all my efforts and my struggles as a mother worth while.

I have decided to start home schooling for my daughter at an early age because I believe that through play and art and craft all children can learn every sort of thing, even if they can't still talk and their abstract intelligence is not developed enough to learn all the math and science. Another reason is because I am quite disappointed with the nursery education that children receive here in UK: I have been voluteering in a state nursery-school and I kind of understood how the system works, and now that it is time to register my daughter in a nursery I have been visiting many to find the best one in the area just to find out that really they are all the same. I was brought up with the Montessori system and I hoped to find some elements of this system in the state nurseries as well, this is not the case. State nurseries are not allowed to do any structural type of learning, only games, cut and stick and colouring. In my opinion at 3-4-5 years children should be doing something more.



My home schooling will be based on fun activities for my daughter, that will be enjoyble but also have some structure so that she will be able to learn new words, numbers, colours, shapes, values, get to know the world around her. I hope to incorporate some of the Montessori system in my teaching. Of course a young child needs to socialize and interact with his peers, and knowing the importance of this aspect for a child's development, I am taking my girl twice a week to the local children centres, that provide an unvaluble service to the community. There she is able to do lots of messy activities and meet other children, learning how to share and take turns.

Some days I will entertain my little one with lots of activities, other days it will be more about play (role play or just play for playing's sake). Every day holds a new experience for a young child, he just needs lots of explanations and guidance to bloom.



I will also post some of my daughter's favourites food recipes, since in every nursery there is also meal times.



Hope you will enjoy our nursery and that you may find some useful ideas.

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