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2 Year Olds

‘Careless Machine’ and the Question We Need to Ask About Childhood Online

The BBC documentary Careless Machine raises an uncomfortable question about childhood in the digital age: are children ready for social media, or is social…

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Are Bottles The Only Thing You Can Open With Your Strength?

P, a 4 year old, came to me to open her water bottle. It’s usually a little tight for her to open by herself, so she asks for…

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A Paper Mache Adventure By Our Preschool Facilitators!

Inspired by the nature, Reggio-Emilia system, and wanting to use less of the non-degradable materials, our facilitators decided to take things into their own…

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What does ‘Hope’ mean to you?

Let me start with that question: What does the word ‘hope’ mean to you? Let’s take a few seconds and ponder on it. ...We, the…

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When Children Found Their ‘Power Within Me’ to Create SM Times!

Before the pandemic and online classes became the new normal, children at Sparkling Mindz had been discussing the ‘power within me’ in their House…

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A Blue- Green Chair Problem – You can be anything you want to be!

The 4 year olds were making a circle with all of the colourful chairs around them for their usual Monday circle time. They had…

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We ‘fixed’ our ‘Invention’ poem!

It’s Poetic Soiree time of the year again and the preschoolers are busy practising their poems. The two 4 year olds in Cubs class…

2 Year Olds

How about a poem on the go?

We were preparing for the upcoming event in our school,  the Poetic Soiree.   In order to help the 2 – 4 year olds understand…

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5 Little Monkeys or 5 Little Dragons?

The 3 to 4 year olds at SM were having their Movement Song today and they were running, walking, jumping, clapping, singing…and just pretending…

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Getting Creative With Constraints: 2 pipe cleaners? No Problem!

Today’s interesting challenge for the 3 and 4 year olds at Sparkling Mindz Global Preschool was to make anything they want BUT with only…

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