Zoo Phonics Term 1 Assessment

Tonight Jamie was assessed by her teacher. I was peeking at her throughout the assessment. Overall, I think she is doing well. Here's what her teacher has to say... "Jamie has shown great sound and signal however, Jamie needs lots of support to sound out (basically she was asked to sound and do the various animals' signals pertaining to each sound. For this, I am the least concern if she doesn't do the signals. What I hope to see is she is phonemically aware) but she tries her best. Great work! "

Natural Purifier

I'm selling away my existing purifier for a better alternative. A friend of mine who is selling the natural salt crystal for more than a year at her online store, is giving me a very good offer! Hmm......wait till I clear off my current purifier hor.

Chinese Laptop

I personally love this set for its clarify in pronouncing chinese words. This set comes with alot of cards and some even have bilingual option! Look how engrossed he is ?

Fine Motor Skills

I used to search high and low just for a suitable plastic tweezer to let Jamie practise. Now I finally got 2 from another educational tool that I bought ! So I try it out on Jamie and obviously its a piece of cake for her! Now, I'm waiting for Jeremy to reach at least 2yrs old before he can practise it.

Bug's Life

Chunquan caught a small insect and instead of putting it into a plastic cup, I used this. Jamie has fun looking at its body's part in an enlarged form! Coincidently we are learning about parts of the flying insect and this just comes in handy!

Clearing Toys

Another sold ! Hurray!!

Viral Infection

This evening, Jeremy woke up with high fever that shock me! Immediately administered supporsitory, sponged and gave him lotsa water. Pray that he will get much better by this Saturday.

Nothing better to do...

Try out for fun. Visit here & also this!

Jamie Can Cook

This is Jamie's 2nd time frying her own egg omelette w cheese for dinner. She's sure daring and I can see her "I Can Do It" spirit! lol !!!

Ideas Ideas

I am slowing down in giving Jamie homework but instead, do these with her. Good to train her mind. :D

Monster Maths

Now I'm moving into introducing simple concepts to her using these. Today just taught her about "more" and "less" and "more than".

A Trip to the Farmart

Took the kids to the Farmart this morning. Good weather except no wind. The kids enjoyed the most while feeding the mountain goats! I'm very amazed that both of them went very close to feed the mountain goats without any fear. And they also had a close encounter feeding the rabbits, hamsters, tortoises, frogs & fishes. I'm glad I brought them there to remind them about God's beautiful creation.

Red + Yellow = ?

While Jamie is having her nap, I quickly get Jeremy to touch base with some paint before he goes for his nap too. This is his 2nd time trying out and he is not as frighten as compared to the first time.

Busy with my hands

I have planned to bring kids out to the library but it didn't happen as Jeremy slept for a straight 3hrs nap till 1230pm! By then, Jamie already yawning away. So , we did some art & craft instead.

Dip in Pool

Jamie has been pestering me to bring her for a swim since months back. So, here we are at the Country Club in the evening just walking distance behind our house. Both kids are so happy playing with the water.

Jamie's 1st Children Bible

I have been searching for that "perfect" book for her since long time ago. Bought some but it's either too wordy to test her patience for papa/mama to finish reading or the pictures are not lively enough to capture her attention.

BUT, this morning, while in church, I finally found just the right for her!! Hurray!

Bruise

See the bruise below his left eye? According to Elih, he used his toy car and hit himself when he knew that he's going out. Too excited ?

(9/3//07)

Hanging Mobile

Jamie did this while I was away yesterday morning for the phonics workshop . I purposely instructed her what to do with the stars that I drew on the party paper plates and left. She drew a seashell on the paper plate & gave it rainbow colors. Next, for the 3 stars, she colored, pasted stickers, painted and managed to cut out 2 out of 3 stars neatly all by herself! And she used those children's size plastic scissors and the paper plates are much thicker than the usual 80gsm paper. To me, she has done a very good job afterall she's only a 3.5yr old kid. I am so proud of you, Jamie!

Yummy !

Kids are getting better so I decided to give them some ice cream after dinner. Look at Jeremy's reaction! It's his 1st experience eating ice-cream!

Time for Workshops

While Jamie has just started learning phonics in JCK and Zoo Phonics, I also have enrolled myself into some workshops relating to Phonemic Awareness & Phonics as well as I believe in working hand in hand with her school teachers in order to accomplish optimal results. And so I will be busy on almost all Saturdays morning since February and this month. Here are the workshops (except Jolly Phonics)