Elephants & Math
We’re teaching math skills this week with big stomping elephants. This lesson had a dual focus on English Literacy & Mathematics! Using verbs, color coding, number recognition and math sum solving to learn about elephants …
We’re teaching math skills this week with big stomping elephants. This lesson had a dual focus on English Literacy & Mathematics! Using verbs, color coding, number recognition and math sum solving to learn about elephants …
The worlds jungles are filled with animals of different appearances, sounds, and abilities. This week, we introduced some of these broad patterns and differences to the children we work with. The children enjoyed a sensory …
When our team first launched the English Literacy Projects, we were visualizing disadvantaged children growing up to become a part of a globalized world, having been fully equipped to join global conversations and learn for …
Buildings surround us everywhere. Some tower, some are called homes, while others are called offices. What doesn’t change, however, is the people needed to make each building come to life. Meadows Academy’s purpose-built facility brought …
Of the many roles performed by our teachers, staying on schedule and managing time are two of the most important. This week, we introduced the concept of timed lessons at school and snuck a peek …
We spread our kitchen out in Meadows Academy’s creatively equipped facility – from ovens and stoves on one end of the playground to a pizza and cookie station on the other. Being a good chef …
Over two weeks, we discovered what it would be like to work as firefighters and firemen. Our team came up with innovative games like target-practice to practically demonstrate putting out a fire and planting carrots …
Stepping into the shoes of another person through imaginative play supports the development of creativity. This week, we developed a laughter-filled lesson about the roles of doctors and veterinarians in a functioning community. We do …
Uhuru Walk’s Team Leader and Mentor Sarah Suleman, has a passion for learning and teaching new information at a ‘conceptual’ level. Or shall we say, learning about the big ‘why’s’ of a topic. “Training our …
Transportation themes are the perfect time to teach spatial and temporal relations to children, as proven by Early Childhood Educators at Meadows Academy. These relations include learning the physical position of objects in relation to …