It was a wonderful and busy October here at VFKH Phoenixville. We had the opportunity to celebrate and learn about different holidays throughout the month. Diwali Thank you to our families for helping us celebrate Diwali, including the stories about this celebration and the beautiful ...
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Thank you to everyone for the wonderful Spring Play and Song Fest 2022. I am so proud to see everyone blossom during the play. I saw children’s confidence, independence, hard work, leadership, and teamwork. I am so happy to witness a few transformations in the children during the play. Some shyness ...
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What happened in the Phoenixville Primary classroom during the month of February? Besides the children working as industrious bees, we celebrated Chinese New Year on February 1, 2022 and Valentine’s Day. In this blog, take a look at some amazing photos from our classroom during the month of February ...
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In this article, I elaborate on how to create a home environment that supports your child’s learning development and aligns with the school. The intention is not to replicate the classroom, but to create a home environment that supports your child’s learning to be consistent with what he/she learns ...
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Parents - Thank you for coming and celebrating Thanksgiving in our classroom. Your children have been excitedly expecting to work with you in the class. We can see so many proud happy faces working together with his/her parents and vice versa. We captured some precious moments shared in the gallery ...
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You may have heard a lot of parenting advice saying, “The key to parenting is consistency. You have to be consistent with your children.” What is consistency? And how does consistency work according to the world of Montessori? How can you, as parents, help your child through offering ...
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I was born with the name, Megawati (she who has a cloud) Tjokro (chokro), in a small country of islands in Southeast Asia named Indonesia in the capital city of Jakarta. During my childhood, I lived more with my grandparents than my parents. My grandparents owned the best Chinese restaurant in ...
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In the Montessori environment, children have a chance to analyze, infer, and enlarge their field of perception through sensorial experiences. All the materials have order—from simple to complex and from basic and general to more specific and detailed qualities—resulting in higher and more critical ...
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