OPEN HOUSE
Date/Time 10 September 2011 (11am to 3pm)
Place: Blk 231 Bishan Street 23 #B1-05
Telephone: 65540603 or 97608837
FREE BALLOONS, GOODIES BAGS, ART & CRAFT
LIGHT REFFESHMENTS AND SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Joyhouse Montessori Bishan Open House
OPEN HOUSE
Date/Time 10 September 2011 (11am to 3pm)
Place: Blk 231 Bishan Street 23 #B1-05
Telephone: 65540603 or 97608837
FREE BALLOONS, GOODIES BAGS, ART & CRAFT
LIGHT REFFESHMENTS AND SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED
Joyhouse Montessori Bishan
About Joyhouse
A one-stop Children Enrichment centre which prides itself in providing high-quality Montessori Preschool for children from 18 mths to 6 years old.
Joyhouse also offer Student Care Services and Tuition programmes to help your children excel at school.
Joyhouse was set up and registered with the Ministry of Education in 2004.
Courses include Montessori Playgroup and Workgroup; Montessori Phonics & Reading; Montessori Mathematics; Fun with Chinese, P1 Preparatory Courses and Creative Writing. We also offer school-based Tuition at Primary & Secondary levels to older children based on the Singapore Ministry of Education syllabus.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Joyhouse believes in the potential of children and the ability to raise that potential in a sustainable manner in an environment of joy and teaching dedication.
Our programmes interweave music and activity. We encourage the development of social and leadership skills through structured (as well as creative time) programmes that forges responsibility and team work.
Our learning groups are small, between 5-8 children to 1 teacher so as to provide individual attention to every child.
All our teachers are trained to understand the child’s development needs and to help the child build confidence to instill analytical, creative and lateral thinking through creative problem solving and games. Joyhouse aims to be remembered by our children as a place of learning and fun, which opened their eyes to the possibilities in life.
OUR STRATEGY
The underlying strategy of Joyhouse is to position itself as a provider of multiple-intelligence-enhancing programmes that exploit music, art, linguistics and movement to deliver fundamental educational concepts and values to children that will positively impact their life-long learning experiences.
Joyhouse believes that all children has the potential to achieve and therefore strives very hard to enable these children to realize their potential in a sustainable manner, all within an environment of teaching excellence.
Call 6554 0603 for more information OR VISIT US AT BLK 231 BISHAN STREET 23 #B1-05 (next to Bishan Active)
Saturday, February 21, 2009
JOYHOUSE MONTESSORI- NEW COURSES
Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation
By Mr Yan KC
The Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation is a series of ten enrichment lessons aimed at improving the mathematical problem-solving skills of students through recreations and games.
Unlike traditional olympiad training programmes which focus primarily on the minority mathletes, Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation lessons hope to reach out to all those who are keen to become better mathematical problem solvers.
Currently, enrichment maths programmes are either recreational or theoretical, not both. Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation attempts to bridge the best of both – teaching the problem solving while exposing the fun part of rich mathematical ideas (through stories, history, jokes, applications, and the like).
The instructor’s vocation and avocation in both recreational mathematics (which is generally harder then school mathematics, but, nevertheless, within the ability and capability of most students) and problem solving hopes to popularise Primary Maths Olympiad to as wide an interested audience as possible, by striking a balance between the didactics and the aesthetics of mathematics.
The Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation programme should appeal to the following audiences:• problem solvers who want to improve their creative and critical thinking skills in mathematics
• students who want to be exposed to rich mathematical ideas and challenging problems, not normally covered in the traditional classroom setting
• students who simply want to experience the joy and fun (and pain) of mathematical problem solving
• mathletes who are seriously preparing for maths contests and competitions
• students who want to enrich themselves mathematically.
Lesson Topics covered
1 WHOLE NUMBERS ¬ counting principles and number patterns
2 & 3 FACTORS & MULTIPLES – divisibility tests, LCM and HCF,and prime numbers
4 FRACTIONS & DECIMALS – applications and shortcuts
5 & 6 RATIO & PROPORTION – percentages, speed and rate
7 MENSURATION – area, perimeter and volume
8 GEOMETRY – angles, triangles and quadrilaterals
9 ALGEBRA & LOGIC – numerical manipulation, IQ questions
10 PROBABILITY, STATISTICS & ESTIMATION – average, statistical diagrams, guesstimation and approximation.
Duration: Ten 2-hour Sessions
Fee: $350 per participant
A sample of questions
Find a two-digit number which increases by 20% when its digits are reversed.
If 5 boys are seated on each bench, 4 will be left without a place. If 6 boys are seated on each bench, 2 places will remain. How many boys and how many benches are there?
How many times does the minute hand pass the hour hand between 12 noon and 12 midnight?
How many zeros are there at the end of the product, 1 x 2 x 3 x … x 99 x 100?
What is the most number of three-digit numbers that are divisible by 3?
I write out all the whole numbers, starting from 1. If I wrote 2009 digits altogether, what was the last complete number I wrote down?
The ages of Mr Yan’s schooled children multiply to 60 060. How many children are there?
A quadrilateral has sides 1996 cm, 1997 cm, 1998 cm and x cm. If x is a whole number, calculate the largest possible value of x.
The radius of each circle is 3 cm.
Find the shaded area to the nearest 0.1 cm2.
The perimeter of square A is 12 and the perimeter of square B is 24.
Find the perimeter of square C.
Pages 6 and 19 are on the same double sheet of paper. How many pages does the newspaper contain?
What is the least number of snaps required to break a 10-square bar of chocolate?
What is the ones digit in the value of the product
9 x 19 x 29 x 39 x 49 x … x 1999?
Find the smallest whole number which has a remainder of 1 when divided by 7,
and a remainder of 3 when divided by 11.
…
About the instructor
Yan Kow Cheong (B. Sc, M. Ed) is a mathematics consultant for MATHPLUS Consultancy. He has been active on the educational scene for over two decades with mathematics teaching appointments at the ACS (Independent), NUS Extension, Institute of Technical Education, and Singapore Science Centre. He regularly conducts workshops and seminars for primary and secondary students, teachers and parents.
He currently consults as a Mathematics Specialist for two leading local publishing houses, and also writes a regular column on Aha! Maths in the YG Singapore. Besides editing primary and secondary MOE-approved textbooks, co-writing Teachers’ Guides, and ghost-writing assessment titles, he had also written contest questions and on-line assessment tests, and course materials for CD-ROMs.
A regular contributor to mathematics periodicals and journals, such as The Mathematics Educator, Mathematics Medley and Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, he is also the author of Mathematics Quickies and Trickies (1998), Aha! Math (2006), Mind Stretchers 2 (2008) and Get Calculator Smart (2009). His academic interests involve research in mathematics education, in particular, the psychology of learning and teaching mathematics, and problem solving.
His forthcoming titles are: Higher Maths (a four-title series on Olympiad Maths), What’s Wrong?: A Comedy of Mathematical Errors, Geometric Quickies & Trickies, and CHRISTmaths All Year Round. He also regularly conducts recreational mathematics courses, and educates the public against innumeracy and pseudoscience.
By Mr Yan KC
The Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation is a series of ten enrichment lessons aimed at improving the mathematical problem-solving skills of students through recreations and games.
Unlike traditional olympiad training programmes which focus primarily on the minority mathletes, Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation lessons hope to reach out to all those who are keen to become better mathematical problem solvers.
Currently, enrichment maths programmes are either recreational or theoretical, not both. Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation attempts to bridge the best of both – teaching the problem solving while exposing the fun part of rich mathematical ideas (through stories, history, jokes, applications, and the like).
The instructor’s vocation and avocation in both recreational mathematics (which is generally harder then school mathematics, but, nevertheless, within the ability and capability of most students) and problem solving hopes to popularise Primary Maths Olympiad to as wide an interested audience as possible, by striking a balance between the didactics and the aesthetics of mathematics.
The Primary Mathematics Olympiad via Recreation programme should appeal to the following audiences:• problem solvers who want to improve their creative and critical thinking skills in mathematics
• students who want to be exposed to rich mathematical ideas and challenging problems, not normally covered in the traditional classroom setting
• students who simply want to experience the joy and fun (and pain) of mathematical problem solving
• mathletes who are seriously preparing for maths contests and competitions
• students who want to enrich themselves mathematically.
Lesson Topics covered
1 WHOLE NUMBERS ¬ counting principles and number patterns
2 & 3 FACTORS & MULTIPLES – divisibility tests, LCM and HCF,and prime numbers
4 FRACTIONS & DECIMALS – applications and shortcuts
5 & 6 RATIO & PROPORTION – percentages, speed and rate
7 MENSURATION – area, perimeter and volume
8 GEOMETRY – angles, triangles and quadrilaterals
9 ALGEBRA & LOGIC – numerical manipulation, IQ questions
10 PROBABILITY, STATISTICS & ESTIMATION – average, statistical diagrams, guesstimation and approximation.
Duration: Ten 2-hour Sessions
Fee: $350 per participant
A sample of questions
Find a two-digit number which increases by 20% when its digits are reversed.
If 5 boys are seated on each bench, 4 will be left without a place. If 6 boys are seated on each bench, 2 places will remain. How many boys and how many benches are there?
How many times does the minute hand pass the hour hand between 12 noon and 12 midnight?
How many zeros are there at the end of the product, 1 x 2 x 3 x … x 99 x 100?
What is the most number of three-digit numbers that are divisible by 3?
I write out all the whole numbers, starting from 1. If I wrote 2009 digits altogether, what was the last complete number I wrote down?
The ages of Mr Yan’s schooled children multiply to 60 060. How many children are there?
A quadrilateral has sides 1996 cm, 1997 cm, 1998 cm and x cm. If x is a whole number, calculate the largest possible value of x.
The radius of each circle is 3 cm.
Find the shaded area to the nearest 0.1 cm2.
The perimeter of square A is 12 and the perimeter of square B is 24.
Find the perimeter of square C.
Pages 6 and 19 are on the same double sheet of paper. How many pages does the newspaper contain?
What is the least number of snaps required to break a 10-square bar of chocolate?
What is the ones digit in the value of the product
9 x 19 x 29 x 39 x 49 x … x 1999?
Find the smallest whole number which has a remainder of 1 when divided by 7,
and a remainder of 3 when divided by 11.
…
About the instructor
Yan Kow Cheong (B. Sc, M. Ed) is a mathematics consultant for MATHPLUS Consultancy. He has been active on the educational scene for over two decades with mathematics teaching appointments at the ACS (Independent), NUS Extension, Institute of Technical Education, and Singapore Science Centre. He regularly conducts workshops and seminars for primary and secondary students, teachers and parents.
He currently consults as a Mathematics Specialist for two leading local publishing houses, and also writes a regular column on Aha! Maths in the YG Singapore. Besides editing primary and secondary MOE-approved textbooks, co-writing Teachers’ Guides, and ghost-writing assessment titles, he had also written contest questions and on-line assessment tests, and course materials for CD-ROMs.
A regular contributor to mathematics periodicals and journals, such as The Mathematics Educator, Mathematics Medley and Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, he is also the author of Mathematics Quickies and Trickies (1998), Aha! Math (2006), Mind Stretchers 2 (2008) and Get Calculator Smart (2009). His academic interests involve research in mathematics education, in particular, the psychology of learning and teaching mathematics, and problem solving.
His forthcoming titles are: Higher Maths (a four-title series on Olympiad Maths), What’s Wrong?: A Comedy of Mathematical Errors, Geometric Quickies & Trickies, and CHRISTmaths All Year Round. He also regularly conducts recreational mathematics courses, and educates the public against innumeracy and pseudoscience.
Monday, November 17, 2008
CREATIVE WRITING AND COMPREHENSION (P1-P6)
Combining 2 major components of the English paper, this course will help students to score an A in their examination results.
COURSE CONTENT:
Creative Writing:
Learn the techniques of writing and how to write creatively. Students are guided in the writing process through question prompts, vocabulary lists, model compositions and concept maps.
Comprehension
Learn to analyse a comprehension passage, understand the questions, and isolate points from a passage to answer each question.
COURSE CONTENT:
Creative Writing:
Learn the techniques of writing and how to write creatively. Students are guided in the writing process through question prompts, vocabulary lists, model compositions and concept maps.
Comprehension
Learn to analyse a comprehension passage, understand the questions, and isolate points from a passage to answer each question.
ENGLISH ENRICHMENT (P1 – P6)
Based on the latest MOE syllabus with major emphasis On Grammar, Vocabulary, Synthesis, Comprehension cloze and Open-ended comprehension.
MATHS ENRICHMENT (P1 – S4)
Based on the latest MOE syllabus with major emphasis on challenging maths problems and examination techniques. We will be teaching students how to manage time to achieve speed and accuracy and also to avoid careless mistakes and common errors.
CHALLENGING MATHS MADE SIMPLE (P1 - P6)
Does your child struggle to understand challenging Maths problems?
Our Maths specialists with many years of teaching experience will coach your child, step by step so that he/she is able to achieve success for his/her examinations. Come join our course this course and they will be one step nearer to success in their coming Maths examinations.
Our Maths specialists with many years of teaching experience will coach your child, step by step so that he/she is able to achieve success for his/her examinations. Come join our course this course and they will be one step nearer to success in their coming Maths examinations.
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