Month: September 2010

Message from the Director - Mid-Autumn Festival, Typhoon and Happiness in Ordinary Times

While everyone was looking forward to the 2010 Mid-Autumn Festival, Typhoon Fanapi was forming on the sea and heading towards Taiwan. News reports for several days in a row predicted that the typhoon would hit Taiwan on Saturday and Sunday, and urged the public to be prepared for the typhoon, and the Department of Education came to sign an official letter reminding schools to be prepared for the disaster. There is no doubt that prevention can minimize the occurrence of disasters. Typhoon Fanapi landed in Hualien at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday morning.

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"Parenting - Don't use your heart too hard!

Recently, there is a best-selling book in Japan titled "100 Million People Always Have Depression". Indeed, we are now in a globalized world, when the world has become flat, in addition to everyone's work pressure, parents also deeply sigh: our children must compete with the world's children in the future, what should we let our children learn in order to be competitive? Parents try their best to organize everything for their children, but the world is changing so fast that no one knows what industry will be the most competitive in the future.

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Words from the Head Gardener - Sharing is actually a habit!

Every Friday morning, it is a regular task to read the children's weekly teaching materials, so it has become a habit for me to come to work one hour earlier on that day. Through the teachers' and parents' sharing columns, I learned about parent-teacher and parent-child interactions, and found that most parents cared about their children and were accustomed to sharing; of course, there were also some books that were always blank, not even signed, so I don't know if the parents had ever looked through them. Sharing is actually a habit. Some parents said, "I don't know what kind of

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"Parenting - Selection of reading materials and ways of reading together.

Tainan University of Science and Technology, Department of Early Childhood Care, Ms. Lin Fangjing ◎ The choice of reading materials and the way to read together 2-3 years old children: 1. In the form of expression: toy books, three-dimensional books or audio books and other games of reading activities can enhance the child's interest in reading. 2. In the subject matter: the plot is simple, the story is short or the establishment of a simple cognitive ability to life, such as: characters, animals, food, color, Transportation, etc. or nursery rhymes, poems, etc. Themes are simple and illustrated with pictures.

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Words from the Director - Dreams and Reality

On Monday, I learned from the TV that the Mighty Turtle Sweepstakes had been held for several consecutive issues, and the accumulated prize money was 1.1 billion dollars, which is a lot of money for anyone. I thought I'd go and buy some, maybe I'll have some good luck. I knew about it, thought about it, but didn't act on it. I forgot about it at work, but when I saw it on TV, I remembered it again. This time, the Powerball lottery fell in Taitung, and one lucky person won 1.1 billion dollars, which is really enviable. Buying lottery tickets seems to have become a national sport, and this trend has infected small children.

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Parenting 『Parent-Child Parenting』Cultivating Chinese Language Proficiency~Follow the Reading Train!

Huang Mei-Mei has been advocating reading in Taiwan for many years, but the recent results of the International Reading Literacy Assessment (IRLA) show that Taiwan's fourth-grade students are not considered to be good readers, especially when it comes to reading the inferences between the lines. If you have always known how to read with your children, how do you grasp the characteristics of language development and learning, and how do you properly nurture your children's Chinese language skills? Since the 70's, the Shun Yee Foundation has taken the lead in promoting the concept of "Parent-Child Shared Reading" in Taiwan, encouraging parents to read with their children, and letting picture books accompany them.

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Message from the Principal - A New Beginning for a New School Year

It's the beginning of a new school year, and Renhe's campus is once again full of life. The first day of school was marked by a typhoon that hit Taiwan, but despite this, the ceremony and activities were still carried out according to the original plan, except for the gatecrashing activity, which was postponed to Thursday. In order to make every child feel valued and welcomed, the mothers of each class prepared tiaras and wreaths beforehand. When the children arrived at the school, the mothers put on the tiaras for the new students and wreaths for the old students, and most of the children felt very surprised and flattered by the teacher's actions, and some were very happy to be there.

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"Parenting" Going to school to meet new friends.

By Lin Xinhui (From Preschool Monthly) September is the beginning of a new school year. Is your child going to daycare or kindergarten? Entering a new environment is a test no matter how old they are. The first thing parents need to do is to help your child build new relationships and make new friends. If you ask your 4-year-old child, "Who is your best friend? His answer may be different every day! It's not that your child is incapable of maintaining friendships because he hates the old and the new.

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A Word from the Director - The Challenge of Independence

Soon, the one-month summer camp ended today (8/27) with the passage of time. Under the arrangement of the kindergarten, the children had a colorful summer life, from the Father's Day celebration in the first week, movie appreciation, Kaohsiung Science and Industry Museum trip, to this week's visit to Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store, swimming, physical fitness, music, English learning, and growing wisdom and increasing knowledge under the guidance of the teachers. We have been able to enrich our vacation life through regularization and knowledge.

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"Parenting" - Take advantage of Grandparents' Day to care for the elders in your family!

The Ministry of Education has recently announced that starting this year, the fourth Sunday of August will be designated as "Grandparents' Day" (August 29th will be the first Grandparents' Day), and a series of activities will be organized by social and educational centers in the hope of awakening the importance and care of grandparents in our families. We will organize a series of activities in the hope of awakening our respect and care for our grandparents and rediscovering the sense of family intimacy.

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