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You want the best for your child, but the endless parenting research puts you in a deeper concern. You are unsure of which advice to follow. This is especially true when it is time to prepare your toddler for the next stage of life. The idea of preschool sounds great, but you cannot help but to doubt the necessity of it. Well, guess what? Sending him to preschool earlier provides life-changing benefits that help in his development.

Promotes Social Development

The first six years of life are crucial for critical learning. A child develops rapidly in his first six years of life, hence, making it crucial for children to gain a firm basis in one the most fundamental elements in life – social skills. Sending your child to preschool earlier means he has the opportunity to grow socially as he interacts with his peers and teachers.

In an article from the Star online, Datuk Dr Chiam Heng Keng, founding president of the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Council says: “The foundation needs to be laid. Critical learning happens within the first six years, so the window of opportunity is very small.”

When you put your child in preschool, he will be separated from his home and family to face new environments, look at new faces and interact with new people. As he mingles with his peers and talk to teachers, he will pick up essential communication skills, learn to read body language as well as practice empathy. This then contributes greatly to the social development of a child, especially if he or she is the only child at home.

Improves Progression to School

Children who attend preschool will experience a smooth transition to their next stages of education like kindergarten and school. Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), Dr W. Steven Barnett says: “Children who attend high-quality preschool enter kindergarten with better pre-reading skills, richer vocabularies, and stronger basic math skills than those who do not.”

Your child will experience a smoother progress in school because he had already learned the basics of reading, writing, and even numbers in preschool. Preschools are known to conduct teaching in enjoyable ways to promote effective learning among children. As your child joins fun activities with his peers in preschool, he is indirectly learning the basics of calculations and vocabulary that are seamlessly incorporated into lessons. As he carries forward the knowledge obtained from preschool to school, your child will be a little ace in class in no time!

In preschool, your child also gets to quench his thirst for answers as he asks his teachers interesting questions. You will find your child freely expressing his creativity when he transitions to school because he has been exposed to a creativity-triggering surrounding since his preschool days.

Builds Confidence

Preschool is a place where your child learns about self-esteem, effective communication, responsibility and leadership. All these are fundamental in nurturing your child to be a confident individual. Activities in preschool involve children learning how to be independent. They scoop food, set tables, water plants, arrange materials and learn to clean up.

When children succeed in completing a task, they gain confidence and self-esteem, knowing that they can also do things on their own without help from adults. It is important for a child to learn to be independent, and in a way, a process of separation from his parents as this greatly affects children’s decision-making and problem-solving skills as they grow older. Independence is best to be nurtured when a child is young so that he will make it a lifelong habit that eventually readies him for the demands of adulthood, says Dr Jim Taylor, an American specialist in parenting psychology.

Children are such curious and creative individuals. Each mind is unique and expressive, making it fundamental that you allow them a safe and healthy environment where they get to develop as well-rounded individuals. A little goes a long way, so put your child in preschool earlier and witness the positive difference your action can make.

Deciding on a preschool takes some effort as there are many preschools to choose from offering a variety of curriculums claiming to be the best. And after all the research and school visits there then lies the question: “What if my child cannot fit in? What if he won’t stop crying? What if he hates his teacher?”

Consider this, what if you can send your child to a leading, longest-established Montessori preschool in Malaysia that has been trusted by parents for more than two decades?

The children’s house is opening its doors this April in Bukit Jalil City especially for working parents looking for a preschool in the area. What’s more bring your child with you to experience the fun-filled, nurturing and beneficial environment of a true Montessori preschool at its Grand Opening on 20 April (Saturday) from 10am to 2pm!

New Experiences in New Environments

At TCH Bukit Jalil City’s Grand Opening, your child will get the chance to explore new environments of a preschool. This way, they wouldn’t feel out-of-place or anxious when it is time to leave them under the care of the Aunties. The Bukit Jalil City preschool offers a bright and exciting environment that forms a great learning ground for children. Your child will be surrounded by other children of the same age, which provides a great opportunity for your child to experience a play group environment where he can interact with his peers. This contributes greatly to the social development of your child, especially if he or she is the only child in the family.

Let Your Child Experience A Montessori Education

The Montessori Education is different from other approaches. As the first school in Malaysia to adopt and incorporate this method in its classes, TCH has successfully created an environment that is conducive to learning that inspires a child to develop a love for learning.

By bringing your child to the Grand Opening at Bukit Jalil City, he or she will be immersed in fun-filled activities that incorporate didactic materials that support the Montessori core values like Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Number Work and Culture. Your child will be intrigued to explore the world on his own as he is free to choose from various materials to work with. Here in TCH Bukit Jalil City, teachers are just facilitators who step in to guide your child where necessary as the Montessori method believes in letting a child express their unique, magical minds by learning and developing interests on their own.

Witness Montessori Educators Interact With Children

Children can meet the staff at TCH Bukit Jalil City and interact with them, familiarising themselves with the presence of trusted teachers and forming a bond that helps in the child’s future development in class. Gain assurance that your child is in good hands as you watch the Aunties interact with every child with care and passion at the Grand Opening. A nurturing teacher-child relationship is crucial to promote strong bonds, warmth and positivity between educators and children, according to a research by Hamre BK and Pianta RC in 2001 on early teacher-child relationships and the trajectory of children’s school outcomes. Witness how every educator of the preschool is confident in handling children as all of them have received Montessori training. Besides, the low children-teacher ratio means your child’s development is properly monitored.

RSVP Now

TCH Bukit Jalil City will be looking forward to meeting you and your child at its Grand Opening. RSVP now and be prepared to be fully immersed in learning, the Montessori way! You will also be able to  enjoy more than RM1,000 in benefits when you enrol your child on the day!

Parents of Bukit Jalil rejoice! The children’s house is extending its welcome to you and your child! Situated in the heart of Bukit Jalil City, the centre’s strategic location is ideal for busy working parents in the vicinity of Bukit Jalil to send their children to a trusted preschool. The children’s house has absolute confidence in providing your child the best early years education.

Here are some things you should know about The children’s house:

Longest-established Montessori Preschool in Malaysia

Yes, you’ve read it right. Enroling your child in TCH means your child is in the most trusted hands of Malaysia’s longest-established Montessori preschool. It all started when Nan Civel, or fondly known as Aunty Nan opened the first TCH preschool in Damansara Heights. Inspired by Dr Maria Montessori, Aunty Nan developed great respect for the unique and magical minds of children. As she delved deeper into Early Childhood Education research to gain greater observation of children’s minds and the Montessori method, The Teacher’s House, a centre that provides in-house training was established where professional and trusted educators are trained to facilitate in the optimal learning and development of children.

Co-founder, Nur Jiwawati Anis fell in love in Early Childhood Education and began to involve herself in improving the quality of children’s experience in TCH by injecting creativity-inspiring ideas into the elements of the Montessori method. Educators of TCH highly value teamwork by working together as a family instead of co-workers while sharing the same ethics and respect. The TCH community always puts children first to ensure their development and well-being are taken care of by establishing a harmonious relationship between parents and educators.

 Standing Out From Other Preschools

Other preschools in Malaysia may have featured the Montessori Method but none are as comprehensive as The children’s house. The children’s house is Malaysia’s first ever preschool to adopt and apply the all-inclusive Montessori Method of education and it has positively impacted the country’s early childhood education landscape.

Your child will be immersed in the Montessori Method that is further enhanced by dedicated staff who care deeply for the development of children under their care. The co-founder is personally involved in uplifting the quality of children’s learning experience. Nur Jiwawati Anis has been researching and applying new ways to make each class more exciting and informative for the children. Rest-assured that you child is attending a preschool recognised for its evergreen high-quality Montessori education throughout the country.

Benefits of the Montessori Method

The children’s house believes in the Montessori Method and the benefits that it would bring to children in the long term. TCH has all the didactic materials needed to support the 5 core values in the Montessori Method: Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Number Work and Culture.

In Practical Life, children are engaged in home-like activities that require them to utilise common materials like trays, jugs, bowls, spoons, ladles, tongs and dressing frames. These allow children to imitate common physical tasks such as carrying, scooping and transferring, enabling them to develop greater focus at tasks, movement coordination, sense of order as well as independence.

Sensorial materials help a child make sense of the environment. Materials are made to be multisensory, sequential and self-correcting to refine the child’s senses. Using Montessori-based language materials, children are able to gain better control of the writing instrument to easily form the letters of the alphabets using stereognostic sense in which a child feels an object and recognises it based on the feeling.

Number Work materials effectively help children master complex concepts like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division including zero, odd and even numbers. Culture activities ensure children have a better understanding of the world. There are also activities in the school that involve nature walks and talks, helping children develop an appreciation towards nature and life forms.

This method makes a child happier as learning is done in a rich and fun-filled environment that motivates children to enjoy learning. Here in TCH, children are given the freedom to choose their own materials and work, whereas teachers are only facilitators who guide children when necessary. This method allows children to explore their interests in various fields, giving them time and space to learn and develop skills on their own.

 Montessori Method Around the World

There are Montessori schools around the world like the Cambridge Montessori School (USA), Toronto Montessori Schools (Canada), Perth Montessori School (Australia), Seisen International School (Japan) and Oxford Montessori Schools (England). This shows that the Montessori Method is globally recognised and practised as an effective teaching method for crucial stages of life.

TCH is proud to utilise the method in the most fundamental stage of life – preschool. The Montessori method nurtures children to be well-rounded individuals who are confident, responsible as well as well-mannered and intelligent, which explains why it has a large presence in Malaysia as well as Singapore.

Visit Us at Our Grand Opening!

All parents want the best for their children, and TCH is ready to provide the best form of education that will shape children into well-rounded individuals ready to be leaders of tomorrow. Witness for yourself the enriching early years education TCH can offer at its Grand Opening on 20^th April (Saturday) of its latest preschool at Bukit Jalil City from 10am to 2pm. Bring your little ones along and let them experience the Montessori education through fun-filled activities. It’s going to be awesome!