This blog is a specially dedicated to my 2 little boys. I hope that thru penning down my thoughts and the things we do. When times goes by... I can still look back and remember all the things we have done!
I emphasize alot of time learning for these few days as I realised that Jayden is not very good at it. At the same time, I also teach Javier how to read time like 8 o’clock… 9 o’clock…. etc. (Showing him that when the ‘long hand aka minute hand is at 12 and the short hand aka hr hand is at 2.. it is 2 o’clock.) As only hr is involved, Javier got the hang of it quite fast.
These are some of the books which had gotten Javier interest. Did you realise that all the books are related to animals. In fact, he will be busy digging for books with giraffe, hippo, elephant, tiger book cover whenever he go to the library.
Today I introduced odd and even to the boys. I think Javier wasn’t interested at all, he was busy peeling the stickers, and couldn’t wait to do the activity.
As what I have written on the paper. Firstly, I wrote 5 numbers and draw the numbers of dots equivalent to it. So I explained to them that ‘even number’ would always go in a pair, while ‘odd numbers’ would always left the last dot with ‘no friend’.
It’s been some time since I last update on the books we read. We are still reading, but just that I don’t have much time to update here. Nevertheless, I managed to do a post on some of the books which we read and my boys enjoy.
It's been some time since I bring him to ride the bicycle. I’m quite surprised that he can ride very well now.
Here is the continuation of the activities that we had done .
This is an overdue post, and I am glad that I finally got time to do it. During these 2 week home learning, we are on the watermelon theme.
Activities on Letter W
Me and D went to The Workers’ Party 2nd rally for GE2011 at Serangoon Stadium tonight. And I wasn’t prepared to see the super massive crowds there. Everywhere you can see people, people and more people. Everyone was in such a ‘high’ spirit!!! Never had I witness such a big crowd in Singapore.. maybe perhaps during National Day parade……It wasn’t only the the stadium gallery, even the field was filled up with people…. we got to squeeze our way into the stadium! 
Be enthralled as delighted characters from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and The Mixed-Up Chameleon come to life on stage and shine in the brilliant black light, complete with puppets, music, movement and narration.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar tracks the adventures of a very tiny and very hungry caterpillar which devours an amazing variety of food to eventually metamorphosise into a beautiful butterfly.
Woo.. I know about this show from Lucas Mummy.. and was so excited… keke… I have already booked the tickets to this show as I know my boys would enjoyed it alot because they are so in love with this story by Eric Carle. We are so looking forward to this show in July.
Javier has been asking me upteem times when we are going for the show to the extend that it is driving me crazy!!!!! He was questioning me why did the show has to be in July and not now??????.. Would his friends Bing Heng and Stella going also….. How would the caterpillar travel to Singapore????? and all sort of funny questions!!!!! :(
The detail of the shows:
WHEN: 9-17 Jul 2011
Mon - Fri, 9am & 11am;
Sat - Sun, 10.30am, 2.30pm & 4.30pm
DURATION: 60 mins
VENUE: Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis
TICKET PRICE (EXCLUDE BOOKING FEE):
Weekday - S$25, S$20(Side View)
Weekend - S$28, S$22(Side View)
Booked by 9 May to enjoy early bird discount of 20%.
For more details & bookings, please click HERE
This is supposingly my last PV assignment as I have successfully clocked my 40hrs after this assignment. Yipppeeee… :) I have enjoyed myself alot; bringing the kids to excursion, and getting to know mummies and daddies, chatting with them and some of the teachers.
My last assignment is a very long one which started at 7.30am and ends at 6.00pm. The first half of the assignment was assisting the P3 students in Science Experiment. And the second half of the assignment was a hot, fun day at the Marina Barrage.
I make this simple maths puzzle for Jayden. But I think it was too simple for him, but it is a good practice for kids learning 1-100.
For Jayden’s i-creative lesson, he is progressing on to creative writing. The teacher would give them a few words, and they are required to come up with a few short sentences using those helping words. I have also noticed that the Jayden’s drawing is much better compared to a few months ago. He has included more details in his drawing, and doesn’t need us to help him much in his drawing work now.
I was goggling online for some homeschooling ideas and activities when I came across this articles on writing with Left Hand…. I thought it might be useful to post it here to share with any mummy whose kids is a lefty.
If you are right-handed, you begin on the left-side of a page and write, moving your hand from left to right. As you proceed you can see what you have written and your hand moves mostly in a pulling motion across the page.
However, if you use your left hand (try this), as you write from left to right, your left hand tends to move over and cover the words that you have already written, so that you can’t read them! If you are writing with ink that can smudge, this is an added problem. Your left hand moves across the page in a pushing motion.
In order to be able to see more easily what they are writing, many left-handed children, raise their wrist towards the top of the page, into a hooked position, so that their hand does not cover their writing. This is NOT the best way for a left-hander to write.
I prepared some letter cards to teach Javier letter blending. 
He got the idea after showing him a few times. I will say out the word slowly.. for example c-a-t and get him to form the word for me.
This is another of our Maths counting activity at home. For this activity, Javier need to spot the missing numbers and paste in the missing number’s stickers. Surprisingly, he enjoys this activity alot. But I find this stickers is too small for his small finger to handle. 
I got this game idea from a mummy blog, but couldn’t remember clearly where I got it from. I think this is a good activity for reinforcing the rote counting from 1 to 100 as well as number recognition. I would do only 10 numbers for each counting activity, unless Javier ask more more. 
This is all that are needed for this activity.
I find that these activity books which can easily be found in Popular, eg: like kumon… are good when I don’t have enough time to prepare the homeschooling materials with Javier. I can just whipped it out anytime and we are ready for some pre-writing activity. And Luckily for me…. Javier likes doing it. :D
I think at this stage, I would be exposing Javier to alot of pre-writing activity. 
For a Marine Experience for the K2 kids. Jayden was so excited and looking forward to it… that he kept reminding us to wake him up early on the day of his excursion! :D
The programs for this visit is
He benefitted much from this trip, and couldn’t wait to share with me the things he learnt there today when I came home. :) Just that he was complaining to me why he is unable to go for LongKang Fishing and only the Nursery Kids are able to. :P
Located at:
Paris Ris Kid’s Kampong
No 11, Pasir Ris Farmway 1,
Aqua Fauna Centre
Singapore 519355
My boys received this sand art in the goodies bag on Lucas Birthday. They were so excited and couldn’t wait to do it.
I did this with them after their dinner and shower. It was really messy with the sand flying around!!!!! :( But my boys enjoyed it!!!!!! 
I love to eat Japanese cotton cheesecake, and since a few months ago after chancing the recipe at a friend’s blog… I have been wanting to try making one.
This trip was decided a few weeks ago. And today was such a good weather to miss the chance to hit the beach. Recently, my boys has developed such a huge love for water playing.
We reached there at 11.00pm and it was such a sunny sunny day, and I was a shade darker after today’s trip to the beach. :( (I am already quite tan to begin with, if we would to go to the beach more often, I bet I am going to become a charcoal soon! :(
They began with some some playing. The boys were busy with their digging and sand playing while D and me enjoyed our quiet time for lunch.
He got his new yellow belt today and he was so excited! He dashed into the house wanting to show me his new belt upon returning from his taekwondo lesson. :D
Today is our last day in Japan, as tomorrow morning we would taking the morning flight back to Singapore. We enjoyed ourselves alot in this trip, but at the same time I missed my boys!
The agenda for today is Glibli Museum, Mitaka. It may seems new to your if I just mention the museum name to you, but I am sure most of us would knows TOTORO aka 龙猫.
Located in Mitaka, just outside of central Tokyo, the museum is a must-see for fans of the films. The museum itself is whimsically designed in the distinct style of the studio's films, and many of their famous characters are there, including a life-sized robot from Castle in the Sky on the rooftop garden.
This drawing was one of the many pieces that Jayden has been drawing at home. He tends to mix a teeny bit of alien into each of his drawing. It is always so interesting to hear what he says when I ask him about what he is drawing. He draw a ship that can travel in the water as well as land. Sea animals that have a antenna on their body… the red machine in the left corner can transform the sea animals into alien (That’s what he told me… kekeke…) Birds flying in the sky that got lights on their body.
My boys were invited to TimeZone by Glenda for some fun gaming on her birthday. My boys sure had a fun time there!!!!!
After the fun time at TimeZone, we went to Burger King for a cake cutting session.
It was not easy taking video of Javier reading this book. But well, today he is in a very good mood, and quite cooperative to read it. And when I told him I will take video of him reading, he says “ok!”
Currently we are doing a revision of the words learnt in book 1a by reading book 1b. I tried to make it a routine for him to read 3 pages on alternate day.
I have been wanting to dine in here for quite some time. But the very long queue which requires the wait for about 45mins was really too much for us, and I decided to give it a miss. And moreover my boys doesn’t like western food.. :(
Today since D and me is on leave, we decided to pop down to SSC for lunch after sending the boys to school. And course, we were determine to try this out since there were no queue!!!!
For Taekwondo, to proceed to the the next level, it is required to take a grading test to determine whether they are eligible for it. And I was really excited because Jayden is going for his 1st grading test today.
We promised the boys we would bring them to some place fun after Jayden’s I-creative class today. Javier had wanted to go the zoo again when I asked him where he wants to go. But the sudden rain lead us to change our plan. So instead, we brought them to Yishun library to borrow some books follow by going to Sembawang Shopping Centre for some water play as we need to do some grocery shopping there.
