It’s a beautiful day for the children and teachers of Montessori Ilham. Our lessons today will not be held in school but at Carrefour hypermarket in Kota Damansara. We began with a short briefing in school and promptly at 9.30 am, we headed out to Carrefour. The excited squeals and laughter of the children was uncontainable. Our first stop was of course the fruits section. Every child wanted to look at their favourite fruit ……(apple, oranges, mango, grapes, watermelon…..) and bypass the not so favourite…..(sour sop, durian) We continued to visit various other sections eg. vegetable, poultry, seafood, bread and cakes, dry food, tin food etc. Besides learning the names of the product, every child had a chance to hold and feel the product. The next part of the lesson is where the children get a chance to queue up and pay at the cashier counter. Hence everyone selected a stationery product and lined  up to experience paying for the item themselves.

The Montessori Ilham family

Farish paying for his purchases

Then we proceeded to the next part of our trip, a visit to ‘Sweet Chills’ Frozen Yogurt shop, just around the corner from the supermarket. Here, the children learn about the benefits of yogurt, discover how yogurt was prepared at the shop and were treated to different flavors of ‘Sweet Chills’ yogurt made from the “Happiest Cows” on Earth.

Learning about “Sweet Chills” yogurt

Soon it was time to leave and with everyone’s tummy filled with healthy yogurt, it was a perfect ending to a good trip.