Programs & Curriculums
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At Maple Bear students become:
CURIOUS: Passionate about knowledge and learning.
CONFIDENT: Deeply aware of their talents and potential.
INDEPENDENT: Prepared to lead their own lives, and decide their own paths and destiny.
ANALYTICAL: Able to think freely & shape their own beliefs.
FLEXIBLE: Adaptable in a world where change is the only constant.
CREATIVE: Always motivated and enthusiastic about asking “what if?”
PREPARED: In possession of the knowledge and tools necessary for an outstanding performance at college, at work and in life, in their home country or abroad.
GLOBAL: Bilingual and culturally literate for a global future.
Literacy (English)
We provide children with opportunities to interact with adults and peers, and engage them in meaningful literacy activities with purposeful instruction. We create a literacy-rich environment for children to build on their literacy skills by adopting Letterland programme, for it was created to teach phonics using a story-based approach. The story logic engages children leading to long term retention of concepts. A wonderfully multi-sensory programme, it activates every learning channel through music, actions, alliterations, movement, song, art, games and role-play.
Bilingual Immersion (Chinese)
Maple Bear is unique because it is based on immersion learning which is different from more traditional language instruction.
Immersion students will speak language naturally and will be able to manipulate and utilize words in any context. By contrast, rote learning may cram a large vocabulary into a child, but he/she may only use them in a specific sentence or context.
The Maple Bear learning environment is structured so that the children learn language in a natural way, the same way in which they learned a first language.
Numeracy
We provide many opportunities for the children to explore endless manipulate concrete materials to develop numeracy concepts and skills, by investigating, comparing and to construct their own understanding.
Story books are carefully selected to set meaningful context for the learning and understanding of numeracy concepts.
Science
Children are naturally curious and are filled with wonder and fascination of the world around them.
We provide ample opportunities for children to explore the world around them by asking questions, making close observations and discuss their findings. We allow children to apply inquiry skills such as observation, prediction, investigation and drawing conclusions in their learning experiences.
Outdoor/Indoor Play
We have sufficient space for children to participate in sustained physical activities such as running in a relay and climbing a structure at the playground, which help to develop their cardiovascular and muscular strength. Through their involvement in physical activities, children develop components of fitness such as agility, coordination and flexibility.
Music & Movement
Daily musical experiences are enjoyable and meaningful. Children explore dynamics, rhythm, pitch and tempo as they ae introduced to a variety of music, songs of different genres and play simple percussion instruments.
Our Enrichment Programmes
Science with Terra Minds
Terra Minds specializes in science and robotics enrichment learning experiences for preschoolers to help them acquire a strong and early advantage in science and technology. Through a fun-filled, hands-on and age-appropriate approach, your child will learn inquiry skills of oberving, experimenting and making conclusions of how an whu things work.
Ready Steady Go Kids
This famous kid’s sports programme teaches variety of sports in a structured, safe, inclusive and non-competitive environment. It not only shows pre-schoolers that sport and physical activity are fun, thus developing a lifelong passion for exercise, but also develope and enhance age-appropriate gross motor skills, coordination and correct posture
Chinese Speech & Drama
The programme gives your child a greater opportunity to read, experience, act and delivery their mandarin speech confidently. Your child will spend 30-45 minutes of fun once a week with their trained speech and drama teachers as they leap into each level using mandarin to express their thoughts and engage in conversations with their peers. Your child will spend time listening to stories, riddles, poems, rhymes, tongue twisters, songs and fables. From these experiences, your child will be able to recite the stories meaningfully, act out their roles & express themselves confidently and creatively.
KinderMusik
Created by Kindermusik International, the world’s most trusted brand in musical learning for 40 years and counting, Kindermusik programs serve over 2 million families in more than 70 countries.
It offers a fun, active, engaging multisensory learning workout for children. Research shows that music makes children better learners and improves children’s momory, cognitive development, learning skills, language, literacy, math, social skills and expressive ability. Children attend class once a week. Each session is 30-45 minutes.