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All of us at Fonier Crest wish you (Efetoborhe Divine Edeki) a very happy birthday celebration, Long life and prosperity

Happy Father's Day to all our daddy's at Fonier Crest. It is our prayer that God will continue to guide you and bless the work of your hands

All of us at Fonier Crest Academy celebrate these our dear parents: Mrs. Adenike Adeosun Ojo, Mrs.Oby Ebirim Okwara and Mrs. Grace Okeji on this special day of the anniversary of their birth.
May your days be long. May your family and friends be always near to cheer you and may the Lord grant you happiness always and bless all your endeavours. Happy Birthday.

Happy Easter from all of us at Fonier Crest Academy. Shalom！
Do not abandon yourself to despair.
Easter rekindles hope and renewal.
We are the Easter people and Hallelujah is our song.
Happy Easter and a Blessed Celebration.

Wishing all our dear mums Happy mother's day

HOW DID NURSERY RHYMES ORIGINATE

Children in many parts of the world grow up chanting hundreds of jingles, verses and rhymes which their great –great grandparents chanted before them. For though the expression ‘’nursery rhyme’’ was first used in 1824, such rhymes have existed for hundreds of years.
Nursery rhymes have a great variety of origins. Many of them have grown out of festivals, ceremonies and rites used hundreds of years ago in Europe. Some have been made to explain the wonders of the world. Some repeat old chants for controlling rains, storms, droughts and floods.
‘’London Bridge Is Falling Down’’ is said to date back to ancient days. Prayer rhymes such as ‘’Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, ‘bless the bed that I lie on,’’ repeat ancient rites.
Rhymes may come from games centuries old. ’Knick knack Paddy whack, give a dog a bone’’ comes from a game of knuckle – bones which started in Japan. It travelled to Rome and was carried to England and Europe by conquering Roman soldiers.
Rhymes sometimes come from street cries of peddlers who called out their service in rhymes. ‘’Hot pease, hot, hot, hot’’ was such a street cry. Rhymed stories and songs were printed on long sheets of paper and sold for a penny. ‘’Three Blind Mice’’ was printed in 1609 and sold in this way.
Some rhymes were learned from travelling actors who gave plays in the streets. Schoolboy actors used the verse. ‘’Thirty Days Hath September’’ as far back as 1602! About half of the 800 rhymes commonly used today are 200 or more years old.

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HOW DID MAN LEARN TO WRITE

Nobody knows exactly where and when writing originated. But we do have an idea of how it developed from earliest times.
Man began by making pictures to serve as records of his hunting, wars and tribal life. Pictures could also be used for messages. A picture of the Sun meant a day. Two marks next to the Sun meant two days. Such signs are called pictographs. When civilization developed, this method of writing was speeded up by simplifying the pictures. The Egyptians used a wavy line to mean a body of water. The Chinese used an ear between two doors to mean ‘‘listen.’’ Such signs are called ideographs or ideograms.
The ancient Egyptians used a system of signs that we call hieroglyphics. At first it was entirely ideographic. Over the centuries the Egyptians developed a phonetic system as well. This is writing where the signs represent sounds rather than objects or ideas.
As civilization further developed, men needed more and more signs. So they developed a method of spelling words according to sound. For example, in English we would write the ‘’belief’’ by drawing a bee and a leaf. Such signs are called phonograms, and the writing is syllabic because it uses syllables.
The next stage in the development of writing was the idea of using an alphabet of single letters. Both the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians knew how to write in the alphabetic way. From their method came the Greek and Latin alphabets which are used today by most people outside of Asia.

Is listening to language on Television a good thing? Unfortunately not. Children learn language from interaction with real people, not from passively watcHong TV programme. In fact, research has shown that children who watch a lot I TV are not as good at expressing themselves in spoken language. This is esptrue when they watch a lot of programmes aimed at an older audience. Also, lots of time in front of the screen contributes to children becoming unfit and overweight, which is not a good thing.
This is not to say that TV is totally a bad thing. Used in the right way it does help to expand your child's knowledge of the world. Children like adults are entitled to relax and be entertained once in a while. It however pays to excercise some control over your child's viewing.

Here are some rules of thumb for pre-scshoolers:

1. Choose good quality programmes; one's aimed specifically at young children and preferably ones that you enjoy.
2. Keep viewing for between 20 to 30 minutes at a stretch and switch off when the programme is finished.
3. Do use and reuse favourite Videos/DVDs; Good programmes again.
4. Try to watch with your child and talk about the programmes again.
5. Keep TV as an activity for the family- and dont be tempted to let your young child have one in his bedroom.
6. Keep TV out of mealtimes; listen to each other instead.
7. Control what your child sees when other people are watching - better to save your own TV programme for when your child is safely tucked up in bed.
8. Don't let your child watch news programmes; seeing repeated shots of catastrophes and distressing events may cause stress and anxiety.
9. Of cause TV can be be a lifesaver when you need a few minutes to do something important or when you just need a break. But try not to use it as an electronic babysitter.

Meet 9 year old Jedidiah Egbuonu, a pioneer pupil of Fonier Crest Academy who started the journey with us from nursery school, now in Grade 4. He wrote the 2017 National Common Entrance examination and passed in flying colours. At FCA we groom children to be the best and to excel in whatever they do.

Celebrating children's day at the Abuja Chidren's Park and Zoo