Shanghai Utsukushigaoka Montessori Kindergarten assists in the growth of children by the educational idea of Montessori

Late autumn leaves slowly fall

It is November in the kindergarten

What are the fun activities for our children?

Let's take a look!

·Thanksgiving Day· 

In Thanksgiving Day craft class this year, the children in the Red Pink Group of Mandarin City Campus made cute little turkeys. They took small paper cups, cut and pasted the turkey's eyes and nose, and then inserted colourful ‘chicken feathers’ to create a unique holiday craft.

In the yellow group, children dipped sponges in turkey-inspired red and yellow colours and drew their own turkey feathers on paper plates. It took careful observation and hands-on work to get the colours on beautifully.

The blue group picked up leaves from the lawn of the kindergarten and created a Thanksgiving poster. Firstly, they wrote down their gratitude in English on a piece of paper, and then they picked their favourite patterns from the leaves and pasted them around the poster. Everyone felt a sense of accomplishment as they completed their own work step by step!

The children in the red and yellow groups at Pudong Campus made Thanksgiving bouquets using line drawing and cutting and pasting. The children in the blue group picked their favourite colours and made more colourful bouquets, and at the end, they wrote words of thanks in English on their work.

The Thanksgiving event at Meiqiu also was as an opportunity to thank the staff around the children who help out so much in the kindergarten. The children held the hands of the kitchen chef, the cleaning lady, and the administrative teacher and invited them to the classroom to taste the curry and rice that they had prepared with their own hands. A warm atmosphere filled the classroom, let's thank all of them for their care and help!

The children at Pudong Campus picked up the snacks and gave them to the bus driver, security guard and cleaning lady. We hope this activity will plant the seeds of gratitude in the children's hearts.

· Parents Visiting Week· 

The first Parent Visiting Week of the school year has begun! Parents chose the classes they were interested in according to the timetable and came to the kindergarten to visit their children's classrooms. Mums and dads are looking forward to watching their children's performance and recording their thoughts and suggestions on the feedback forms. Parents visiting week is also an important part of home-school communication. Visiting the classroom is a good chance to experience, and the feedback is also very helpful for the teachers to improve their teaching.

· Sports Activities· 

Physical activity has always been a very important part of our education. Early childhood sports activities have a very good effect on cultivating children's interest in sports and habits, enhancing physical fitness and body coordination, developing adaptability to the environment, and building self-confidence.

The children of the Red Pink Group of the Mandarin City Campus were doing exercises on balance and body coordination. With the assistance of the teacher, they were walking carefully on the balancing pole, trying to maintain the balance of their bodies and not falling down. Good job, kids!

In the after-school PE session, everyone mobilised their limbs for crawling exercises under the guidance of the PE teacher. Crawling helps to build muscle strength and improve sensitivity and coordination. Ball games are always exciting for children, and the process of playing is also a process of physical exercise. We are committed to making  child like sports through a variety of fun activities.

The children at Pudong Campus were practising obstacle running and jumping in the concert hall, a fun exercise that teached them to be brave and not afraid of difficulties. The plyo soft box exercise can practice children's jumping and climbing ability as well as their physical ability.Everyone finally strives to stand on the highest  box with the help of the teacher.

During the outdoor activities, children and teachers played various games in the small playground of Donghe Apartment. Even when the weather got cold, we still need to move our bodies! Whether it was jumping rope, kicking a ball or sliding down a slide, the green lawn was filled with the sound of children's laughter.

October is full of colourful activities in Meiqiu. The Grandparents' Day, the Sports Day and the Halloween, each of these festivals decorate the children's happy kindergarten life!

The traditional Chinese festival of The Grandparents' Day has arrived! The children picked up their brushes and made cards for their grandparents, wishing them a long and healthy life and smile on their faces! At the end of the day, the teacher sent out the letters for the children in the traditional way.

Before the Grand Event Sports Day at Meiqiu Kindergarten, all the teachers and staff were hard at work making preparations, loading sandbags for fixing, carrying items, setting up the venue, arranging props, and the teachers were very much looking forward to the wonderful performances of the children who had practised so hard for this day!

Our children were getting ready to enter! Mothers and fathers were ready to record their children's adorable appearance with great anticipation.

The opening ceremony of the sports day was kicked off with exciting music. The children entered in a neat procession, and the principal encouraged and cheered for everyone, hoping that they could bring their A-game and keep that energy up till the very end.

The first event of the sports day was called Running Forward.With the order of the PE teacher, all groups of children rushed to the finish line at the fastest pace. You are the best who try to surpass yourselves!

Our lovely Red and Pink Group children from the International Department made their appearance on the stage! Dressed in grass skirts and headdresses, they presented a dance performance called ‘Cute Duckling’. ‘Run gracefully, still keep going even fall down.’ This is the spirit of our Sports Day, and we hope that the children can get up again even when they are frustrated, and will not give up and persevere until the end!

Mid-Autumn Art Works

Mandarin City Campus 

As the Mid-Autumn moon is full again, the children of Mandarin City Campus are making Mid-Autumn Festival art crafts to celebrate the festival. The children in the Red & Pink Group used crayons to colour the mooncakes and scissors to cut them out carefully.

The children in the yellow and blue groups were doing more delicate colouring crafts. The cute moon rabbit in front of the bright yellow moon, the naughty moon rabbit hidden in the mooncake, all of them completed a beautiful piece of artwork with their own hands under the guidance of the teachers. At the end, children took a group photo with the delicious mooncakes.

The yellow, red and pink group from Pudong Campus dipped into the paint and coloured the golden moon for the Mid-Autumn Festival under the guidance of the teacher, and finally they attached a cute bunny tail to the white moon rabbit on the moon of the art work.

The children in the blue group made their own collage of the bunny on the moon according to the instructions, and at the end, they proudly held up their work in their hands and left a confident photo.

Autumn Field Trip

This year's parent-child autumn field trip coincided with a rainy day, we went to the Shanghai Baoshan International Folk Art Museum for a visit. The children were very excited by the variety of exhibits in the museum. From the east to the west and from ancient times to the present, the children discover and feel the fun of various cultures through their own eyes and hands, the narrator's explanation also let the children have more understanding. The time spent with mums, dads and good friends was always so enjoyable.

At the end of the field trip, the children made dragonfly knots with a master of Chinese knotting. The work was quite difficult, the children and their parents listened very carefully, and finally, with the help of the teacher's guidance, they finished a cute little dragonfly.

Parents Meeting

At the end of September, the International Department held its annual parents' meeting, in which the Director of the International Department and the teachers gave detailed explanations to the parents about the school life, the cultivation objectives, the daily arrangement and the introduction of the curriculum. The blue group parents are concerned about the issue of primary school enrollment. The teaching director Even also gave a lot of professional advice. After the meeting, teachers held individual Q&A sessions to help parents. Communication between home and school has always been our foucs, and we encourage parents to keep communicating with the kindergarten and then adjust our education methods to better promote the personalised development of our children.

Mandarin City Campus

As the summer holidays came to an end, it is the start of a new school year in Meiqiu. Teachers from the International Department decorated the concert hall to welcome the new children who attended the opening ceremony.

The children greeted the new students to the classroom with a joyful song and dance. The principal cheered the children on as they entered their new environment, and the teachers introduced themselves on stage.We are a big family from now on!

At the end of the ceremony the teachers presented the new students with small bouquets of flowers, wishing them a fruitful life at Meiqiu. Then everyone left the first group photo with the class teachers. 

Pudong Campus

The children at Pudong Campus also celebrated the start of the school year. They left a group photo in front of the welcome board made by their teachers, hoping to make new progress and growth in the new term!

Mandarin City Campus

The children at Mandarin City are now doing Back to School Art, a fun and educational activity that has a positive impact on children's growth and development in many ways. Colouring aims to develop hand-eye coordination,  colour and shape recognition, creativity and self-expression, concentration and patience. Let's take a look at the works of children of different age groups!

The beauty of summer is countless, what are the unforgettable memories of the children in the summer holiday? Creative Painting Time gave full play to their imagination on the coloured paper and recorded their colourful summer with their pens.

The large lawn and plastic track at the Mandarin City Campus were renovated and refurbished during the summer holidays, and now the plush grass is waiting for the children to run and play freely on it. In the new school year, they ran and jumped with their new friends in the playground, climb and hang in the Monkey Bar area to exercise their muscle strength, coordination and sense of balance. We hope the children will thrive in the beautiful natural environment!

Pudong Campus

New students from Pudong Campus also had fun doing jumping exercises on the mats with their classmates, using small colourful balls to do the exercises under the guidance of their teachers.

Kindergarten is going to hold the annual  Sports Day in October. The children are now actively practising various performances under the guidance of their teachers, so please look forward to the wonderful performance of everyone next month! During circle time, children have been listening attentively to our foreign teachers, and we believe that they will all make great progress in the new term!

As the month of July rolled around, the International Department at Meiqiu organized a variety of activities. The Blue Group participated in an unforgettable Graduation Ceremony and Sleep Over Activity, which was a great  ending time at Meiqiu. Let's take a look at the photos!

Water Play

It was time for the children's long-awaited water play day! After changing into their cool swimsuits, the teachers led the children to the fourth floor terrace. In the inflatable pool, the children enjoyed playing with the water, and the little friends grabbed the small water bottles and the small water gun, and chased after each other to have fun.

Tanabata 

On the annual Tanabata Festival, the children of the International Department once again experienced the interesting Japanese culture. Under the guidance of the teacher, the children carefully pasted the Tanabata decorations prepared in the craft class onto the bamboo branches. A green bamboo gradually became colorful.

As a group activity, the characteristics of mixed-age grouping in Montessori education were also reflected. After finishing their own decorations, the older blue group students helped their younger friends in the class to finish their own works. Each “little teacher” patiently taught them by hand, while the children also helped each other, and they all worked together to complete the beautiful Tanabata bamboo branch decoration.

Children from Pudong Campus also completed their own Tanabata Festival bamboo decorations in their classrooms. At the end, everyone held up their work in their hands and happily waved the colorful bamboo, leaving a special group photo of the summer together.

Graduation

Time came to the day of the graduation ceremony. The children in the blue group put on their little white gowns and first came to the classroom to make preparations before the ceremony. Teachers from the International Department put on lovely corsages for the graduates. Good friends were together to spend a reading time in their usual familiar classrooms.

At the beginning of the ceremony, the principal of the kindergarten gave the graduates blessings, and then presented the graduation certificates. So our children have officially graduated at this moment! Mothers and fathers of the blue group recorded this memorable moment with their cameras.

Next was the children's long-rehearsed performance of poems and songs in English and Chinese. Everyone sang out loud and confidently in front of the teachers as well as the moms and dads. The final musical instrument performance and song “Hello Tomorrow” expressed the children's hopes and aspirations for their future.

As the melody ended and the ceremony drew to a close, the teachers presented the graduates with bouquets of blessed flowers. The graduates also presented flower baskets to the teachers who had patiently guided and witnessed their growth to express their small gratitude in their hearts.

At the end of the day, the graduates took unforgettable pictures with their best friends, teachers and their families. Children, please take all  you have gained at Meiqiu and keep moving forward! We wish you all the best in your future and welcome you back to the kindergarten!

Sleep Over

The Blue Group's grand finale, Sleep Over, is here! This activity aims to cultivate the children's spirit of self-reliance, enhance their self-confidence in living independently, as well as strengthen the concept of group life and cooperation. In the afternoon, the children were guided by the teacher to use a knife to prepare the ingredients for the dinner. They carefully cut carrots and made their own contribution to the dinner.

A sunny day is certainly not without water play. Children put on their swimming suits and had water fights on the rooftop lawn, where the cool drops of water took away the summer heat.

Dinner time is here. The children put their hands together and sang the “Pre-meal Thanksgiving Song”, giving thanks to all creatures in earth for giving them food, and at the same time thanking themselves for their efforts in preparing today's dinner. And the special dessert ice cream at the end of the meal made the children happy.

After dinner, the children came to the multi-media classroom to watch English cartoons together, and then played with toys in the classroom with their buddies, enjoying the leisure time after dinner.

As night fell, the children from the International Department joined the Japanese Department in the Music Hall. They listened to the story of the origin of fire told by the teacher. Afterwards, they lit torches around a bonfire.

After the bonfire, the teachers set off tiny fireworks outside, adding a little light to the summer evening. The children were also mesmerized by the beautiful fireworks, their cute faces reflecting the burning glow of the fireworks.

Early the next morning, the kindergarten held a Japanese-style watermelon cutting game, in which the children took turns walking blindfolded towards the watermelon under the guidance of the group and using the sticks in their hands to smash the watermelon. At the end of the day, the children were able to taste the sweet watermelon that belongs to summer. We wish everyone a cool and enjoyable summer!

The various kinds of parent-child activities of Meiqiu emphasize the importance of family education. The Father's Day activities in June gave busy fathers the opportunity to interact with their children, enhancing parent-child understanding and trust. Let's take a look!

Father's Day Event

On Saturday morning, the fathers brought their children to the kindergarten. As it was the Dragon Boat Festival, the first craft activity was a parent-child co-operation to make dragon boat dumplings. The teacher gave a demonstration and then everyone started to make the craft with great enthusiasm!

Dads picked up small scissors and coloured paper, either cutting or pasting, to help the children. They all worked together to make small parts of the craft, and finally put together to complete the work. The children were happy to be able to complete the craft with their dads in the familiar classroom, and the parents also experienced a warm parent-child time with their children.

Then all of the parents and children went to the Music Hall, where Teacher Torrian firstly warmed up the children by asking them why they love their dads, and then led them to do warm-up exercises to get ready for the games and activities that followed.

The first game was Pass the Hula Hoop. The game required the children and the dads to hold hands and pass the hula hoop to the next person by twisting their bodies. The dads tried their best to squat, bow down, twist their backs, and  moved the hula hoop from one person to the next. Everyone applauded and cheered together.

The competition was divided into class groups, and everyone made all kinds of hilarious moves in order to finish in the fastest time. The concert hall was filled with the laughter between parents and children.

The second game was to pass the ball. But different from the normal way, this time we need to sit on the ground and use both feet to hold the ball to pass. The children and dads were careful to hold the ball and then moved their bodies. They were united and finally finished the game.

After the game was over, it was time for the dads to experience the children's rhythm class session. The children first demonstrated the movements for the dads and the dads tried their best to stick to the movements accompanied by the teacher's piano. Through the activity, they not only exercised their body, but also shared the joyful time of parent-child companionship.

At the end of the event, the children presented their dads with the Father's Day song I love my daddy and gave them their Father's Day artwork. The Father's Day activities strengthen the bond of parents and children.

The Father's Day activity at Pudong Campus involved dads and children working together to create cartoon dad avatars out of clay. The children used various colours of clay to create a collage of dads.

The craft activity was followed by interactive games in the concert hall. At Pudong Campus, the game was "Two People, Three Legs", in which the children and their dads co-operated with each other to walk around obstacles and sprint to the finish line. After the game, the dads also tried out a variety of movements from the rhythm class with the children.

Daily Life in Mandarin City Campus

Another new child joined us in June! She had fun running and jumping in PE class with other little ones in her age. You were doing great!

The final gift to the dads on Father's Day was the children's Father's Day crafts. By dipping different colours of paint, everyone completed their own works by pressing colourful handprints.

The Dragon Boat Festival themed activity at Pudong Campus was to make various kinds of handmade rice dumplings. Teachers were guiding the children to complete the paper dumplings by folding paper. The works on the wall were dumplings made by the children with clay materials. Which one do you think is cuter?

The Pudong Campus was the first to hold an indoor water play activity this month. Children had fun playing with ocean balls in the inflatable pool inside the concert hall, playing fishing games in the small water basin, and shooting water guns with their best friends. They experienced the cool moments belonging to a summer's day.

On a beautiful sunny day, the children of Meiqiu International Department put on their school uniforms and got prepared in the playground. They were all excited about the spring trip, and the pink group children who just joined the school were also participating in a group activity on campus for the first time.You all did a great job!

We went to the Oceanarium this time. When entering the aquarium, children were immediately attracted by the Ocean animals in the blue pool. Seals, sharks and penguins swam to the edge of the pool to have a close contact with the children. Children were amazed that they could meet with the real animals.

The docents at the Oceanarium introduced each ocean animal to the children in each class, and they were all excited to visit the aquarium and learn the knowledge they gained while listening and watching. There is also a touch pool in the aquarium where children can touch the starfish. In the process, they could gain a deeper understanding of the creatures.

New children have joined Meiqiu in May! Let's make friends with the other little ones!

Koi is widely used as a symbol of prayer as it symbolises good fortune and prosperity in Chinese culture. The children made their wishes in front of the koi pond and we hoped that all their good wishes would come true!

A magical light show was on the giant ring screen. Everyone watched the gorgeous and colourful ocean world on the projection with rapt attention, and followed the cute animated little jellyfish to meet a lot of new friends. At the end of the short story, everyone also learnt the importance of protecting the ocean environment.

Finally the children went inside the aquarium's small theatre. As a pre-show warm-up, cameras took random photos in the audience. The children of Meiqiu made a variety of poses and left cute group photos on the big screen.

The big stars of the aquarium appeared! Two lovely sea lions appeared in front of everyone under the instructions of the keepers, either topping the ball or jumping in the pool, showing all kinds of skills. While enjoying the show, the keepers also taught the children about the difference between sea lions and seals. So next time, please call out their names accurately!

Happy times are always short. After the wonderful performance children all held hands and reluctantly said goodbye to the sea lions. Let's look forward to the next group activity together!

The annual Chinese Cultural Event at Meiqiu is to give children a chance to get close to traditional Chinese culture. This year, we invited acrobats from the acrobatic troupe. The performers walked slowly into the concert hall dressed in special costumes with their hands on plates, showing various difficult moves that were applauded by the children.

After the show, children from each class got to go on stage to experience the fun-filled acrobatics for themselves. Everyone carefully tried to lift the plate with their little hands under the guidance of the performer. All applauded for your courage!

The next day the acrobats came to the Pudong Campus and gave a wonderful performance. The children watched with rapt attention and were amazed by the skills of the performers, accompanied by music.

It was now time for the children at Pudong Campus to try. They all raised their hands to try it out and lifted the plate with the help of the performers. At the end, we all took a group photo with the performer to commemorate the experience.

Mother's Day was celebrated in May, and the children at the Mandarin City Campus made their own special Mother's Day crafts. The children in the Red Pink Group used their little hands to stick paint and leave unique colourful handprints on the drawing boards!

Under the guidance of the teacher, the children in the yellow group completed a bouquet of Mother's Day flowers with coloured paper. The small coloured paper balls look like budding flowers. Let's dedicate the beautiful handmade bouquet to our mothers and wish them a happy Mother's Day!

The children in the Blue Group used clay with colourful crystal stickers to make their own Mother's Day Love Bowls. 

On a sunny day, the children at Pudong Campus enjoyed their time outdoors. They played football or jumped rope on the football field, chasing each other and having fun.

The children in the Red Pink Group were doing paper-cutting seriously. They followed the teacher's instructions to cut the flowers carefully and meticulously with small scissors. The craft activities exercised the children's small hand muscles and developed their concentration and patience. We believe this will be very helpful to the children's learning and growth in the future.

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Shedding their heavy coats, the children of the Mandarin City Campus were free to move around in the monkey bar. Under the watchful eye of their teachers, everyone supported their body on the climbing poles through hands. Through these fun facilities, the children built muscle strength, core stability and improved their physical abilities.

On the big outdoor lawn in spring, the green grass is sprouting. Children ran and played on the grass with their best mates, enjoying the warm time of the spring afternoon.

New students have joined us in Mandarin City Campus! They were gradually adapting to the new environment in their daily activities, playing and making friends with children of their own age. We wish them all the best in their new endeavours at the kindergarten!

In the indoor Sports Class of the red and pink group, the children were doing crawling exercises under the sports equipment set up by the teacher. Everyone was encouraged by the teacher to crawl forward, and their little red faces were full of sweat after exercise.

The theme of this month's art class in the International Department was World Earth Day. Teachers asked the children to colour their own blue planet in order to cultivate the awareness of caring for the earth and protecting our home from a young age. Children in the red and pink group made colour cartoon patterns of the Earth, the yellow group used paints to draw a blue-green natural planet, and children in the blue group coloured different parts of the Earth from a geographical point of view.

Let's see what happy experiences the children of Mandarin City Campus had during their spring break. Some of them went on a spring trip with their parents from the airport, while others went to the zoo to observe what little animals look like in the spring, and all of them fully demonstrated their creative imagination on the colourful drawing paper.

The children of Pudong Campus also created their own spring holiday impression paintings, in which they spent a pleasant and fulfilling spring time with their families. In the art & craft class, the children in the yellow and blue group used colourful lines and sewed a spring flower of their own under the guidance of the teacher.

As the spring rain fell incessantly, the children in the red & pink group made colourful umbrellas by cutting, piecing and pasting various geometric shapes. As part of the art & craft class, the teachers also integrated different subjects in the classroom, teaching the children simple maths knowledge such as recognising triangles and semi-circles.

In the Chinese class of the Pudong Yellow and Blue Group, children were holding pencils in their hands and copying simple Chinese character sketches on exercise paper. Teachers are looking forward to seeing them all gain a wealth of bilingual knowledge during the language sensitivity period, so as to lay a good foundation for  future learning.

Now it's time for physical education! The children at Pudong Campus were running and jumping happily on the newly opened outdoor football field, exercising their bodies under the guidance of the PE teacher and enjoying the beautiful spring outdoor time surrounded by nature.

It's early spring in March, and it was finally a sunny Friday after the continuous rainy weather. The children from the International Department went to the farm in Fanghe Valley and picked up their little baskets to experience the fun of picking strawberries on the farm.

The warm trellis was full of bright red strawberries, and the children carefully steped across the farmland in search of big fresh strawberries. Let's see who picks more and better strawberries!

The children from Pudong Campus also gathered together and were ready to go! Our teachers and children took a group photo at the farm and then picked strawberries with their little hands together with the children from the Mandarin Campus.

Strawberry picking was also an encounter with nature, allowing the children to experience more of the colorful world they live in. At the end of the experience, each child happily harvested a basket of fragrant strawberries and then returned to the campus to enjoy a lunchtime with their friends.

Featured Classes

Let's record the experience of picking strawberries with colored pencils! The children of Mandarin City Campus left their creations on the colored paper. They either depicted the lovely strawberries or scenes with their best friends, showing their wonderful memories from different perspectives.

Colorful spring is a source of art. In the spring-themed arts and crafts class, children in the blue group made spring flowers, children in the yellow group made paintings of the Spring Mountains by cutting and pasting colored paper as well as using playdough, and children in the red and pink group colored tree trunks with crayon and pasted up a pink cherry blossom tree.

In the science classroom, the foreign teacher was sharing knowledge about animal groups with the children in the blue group in English. Everyone actively raised their hands to answer the teacher's questions. They improved their knowledge of natural science and learnt related English vocabulary at the same time.

In the Blue Group's music class, the teachers used rhythm games to teach the children simple music theory, allowing them to learn through play. Learning Chinese songs was also a good opportunity to learn pinyin and literacy. Teachers integrated cross-curricular knowledge into the classroom so that the children could utilize the most of their time in each class.

The children were making colorful paper lollipops in the Origami class, another special class of the Blue Group. Origami is the cultivation of comprehensive ability, because children need to use their eyes to see the process of folding and remember the process while watching. When folding, they need to do it by themselves, and in the meantime, when they encounter problems, they have to carefully recall and think about the teacher's demonstration. Origami must be done step by step, in this process the children can also develop a good habit of sequential and careful work, and develop their ability of observation and attention.

In the English classroom at Pudong Campus, the teacher made children in pairs to get everyone to complete a paper game. In the process, the children were able to increase their ability to cooperate with each other and at the same time master their English knowledge. In the rhythm class of the Red Pink Group, the children formed a circle and clapped their hands with the music, and then paired up to follow the teacher's instructions to complete a movement with their friends.

Although the weather in Shanghai is still cold in February, Utsukushigaoka Kindergarten had organized various fun and warm activities to fill the kindergarten with warmth in February. Let's take a look together!

Mamemaki Event

On February 2nd, Utsukushigaoka Kindergarten held a Japanese Mamemaki cultural event. Welcoming spring is very important in Japan, and the custom of scattering beans before the first day of spring originated in China as a New Year's ritual to get rid of ghosts and exorcise evil spirits. It was originally held at the court in ancient times, but later popularized in general households and has a long history as a representative seasonal event in Japan.

The children of the International Department came to the music hall with great excitement and stood in a line outside the designated circle, listening to the Japanese teacher's explanation of the activity. Each child was given a few "ghost-exorcising" soybeans, and then waited with anticipation for the next activity with the sound of drums.

"Monsters" are coming! The children grabbed soy beans and sprinkled them as hard as they could. Although they were a little scared to see the ‘monsters’ played by the teachers of the Japanese Department, they all plucked up their courage and bravely dispersed the demons to bring in good luck for the new year.

With the concerted efforts of all the children, the ‘monsters' were driven away! Teachers were proud of their courage. At the end of the activity, the teachers and children picked up the soybeans on the ground and cleaned up the concert hall to make it available to the children for the next activity. Thank you all for your help and care for the environment.

Special Handcraft Activities

Mandarin City Campus held a new round of Chinese New Year craft activities after the Spring Festival. The children in the blue group folded paper and then trimmed a beautiful windowpane with scissors; the yellow group children cut and pasted colorful paper to create New Year's fireworks; and the children in the red&pink group folded small dumplings with colorful paper and then collaged them to create a Chinese dragon. The handcraft activity was also an immersive learning experience of traditional Chinese New Year culture.

Teachers of the International Department also actively encouraged children to help each other to complete their own works during the craft activities. This also reflects the educational goal of Montessori education, which focuses on developing the ability of caring for others. Finally, the children were proud to finish their works!

Let's take a look at the Valentine's Day craft activities in Pudong Campus! The children were drawing hearts for the Valentine's Day candy bags and preparing cute scrapbooking decorations. The children were free to color and collage the hearts, using their creativity to create a piece of art that was full of the children's own characteristics.

Valentine's Day Event

February 14th is the traditional western Valentine's Day, but Valentine's Day is not only limited to the expression of love between lovers, it can also be an opportunity to share love and joy among people. Our special Valentine's Day activity allowed the children to prepare their own love candies and distribute them to their classmates during the activity, so that the children could learn to experience the joy of sharing with others.

The children of the International Department entered the classroom in the morning with their own carefully prepared candies and chocolates. During the activity, children from each class took turns carrying bags full of candies and putting them into their friends' gift bags, and happily said 'Happy Valentine's Day! 'The children were also very excited to receive the candies.

The Valentine's Day activity at Pudong Campus was equally joyful. The children exchanged candies one by one, and sweet smiles filled everyone's faces. We wish everyone a day full of love and warmth with sweet candies and the joy of sharing!

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