learning to read

Reading
KB is having fun making 'at' families words and matching pictures to the right word, together with Bob books.




















We also learnt some sight words "The" , "is", "a" and "and"
These are the sentences KB made using sight words.

And - The squirrel is hanging and finding food.
And - A hippopotamus is climbing on an elephant's trunk and a ladybug is trying to snatch from the back of the elephant (bad ladybug, she's is trying to snatch the elephant's mummy).

The - The bird is trying to eat a worm on a tree
The - The bat is flying in a dark dark place looking for ants and other animals in the dark dark place.

is - The cat is 7 years old
is - The ladybug is kind and beautiful.

A - A caterpillar is climbing up to a safari car
A - A butterfly is hanging on a boat.

Delight-Learning
KB was interested in how we swallow and digest food, and basically the digestive system, so we showed him how things worked. It was good we had a anatomy model to play with. we could see which part of the body goes where. pretty awesome. KB would wake up from a nap and tells me "mummy , I can hear my heart pumping blood into my body!" hahaha..




















We also read "see inside your body, Usborne flap books, to learn more about our body.


Making ice-cream
I seriously didnt think this was possible until they did it! Both boys slurp it up as quickly as the ice-cream melts.




















Pretend Play
This would be the most hilarious pretend play we ever had at home because KB suddenly turned the envelope over and made it his crown. Everyone joined in the dance and it was just pure hilarious. We talked about us being the King's (God) son - princes. Look at the goofy picture on the left, the boys just have to do that for a picture!







































Math
Rule of the game - For each bottle that gets knocked down, you get two tokens which can be used to purchase ping pong balls to play for the next round. We learn counting by twos.















We also ventured into cuisenaire rods. We loved that it is so easy to see numeric values at a glance and the more the child plays with it, the more familiar he would be. KB is at the free play level.












Outdoor
Playing by the lawn. Relaxing by the lake.
















Catching National Day rehearsal @ the Pinnacle. Beautiful sunset.
















Craft: Spider web
We just finished reading a book on spider and we thought of making a spider web. This craft takes two days as it is important to let the glue dry out completely.

We use a balloons and got the boys to dab starch (home-made) on yarn. It is really slippery and provides great sensorial fun, although the yarn hardly sticks on the balloon! Once they are done with it, mummy uses PVC glue to go over it. Once the glue dries, the yarn would become hard and a random shape would be formed. Viola! Thei very own spider-web!

Then the boys could pry their spider - web from the balloon and paint it. The process is loads of fun. KB paints it and put some glitter glue on it as well. We put a plastic spider in the completed spider-web.



































Character: Servanthood
KB is asked to help little brother button his shirt. Other responsibility includes putting his little brother's slippers in the right order, and delegating which toys little brother should keep. Loved it when the big brother help out this way.

Raising little business men with a heart - FUn FaIr FUN!

Homeschool fun fair was round the corner and that got everyone excited. Mummy was thinking of popcorn, and son was thinking of probably a million things to make and sell.

So we started brainstorming and KB came up with close to 20 ideas, amongst which were making jeans, house, aeroplance, rockets ... and finally he said "mummy, I like music, I would make a trumpet to sell" and I had to say YES!

So we figured we could let him paint his beautiful drawing board in whichever way he likes and mummy would help to roll it up for him. These are the completed 'trumpets' or 'loud hailer', but we decided to call it a trumpet becuz the name was more catchy.

KB looks at his wallet (probably deciding there were too few coins), picks up his loud-hailer and calls out for customers... ha haha... this is so cute!



After some logistic challenges (something to do with bringing extension wire to hook up our popcorn machine!), mummy decided to scrap the idea of making popcorn and decided to just go for Game-for-charity. There was a Food Crisis at East Africa and that provided an excellent cause to go for. It would be meaningful yet fun to do something like that as a family.




















Game-for-charity : Scoop as many balls as you can under 10 secs. Highest scorer of the day wins Family Boardgame, "Chutes and Ladders". Game is suitable for aged 2 yrs-old onwards!

My 4 yr-old is in-charge of giving out stickers to those who completes the game, though sometimes he would also tend to his 'trumpet' stall.





































Which child would say no to ice-lollies? ;)















Face-painting!




















All good things must come to an end. Many (little) hands make work lighter.

All about planes

KB asked about learning the aeroplane. He wants to know how a plane flies, why a plane can fly, what type of plane are there and what is inside the plane etc.

We read The Flyer Flew by Lee Sullivan Hill, On the Go: Planes by David and Penny Glover, I love Planes! by Philemon Sturges.

Creating a scrapbook about planes
We put together photographs we took at our recent airshow , our visit to The Philatelic Museum which had lots of child-friendly history about things that fly and planes, print off the interior of an airplane and various airlines. We learnt about the first inventors and their attempts at flying a plane and made it into a scrapbook.


































Science Centre Omni Theatre: Legend of Flights.
It was certainly the most inspiring documentary about airplanes as the world watches the revolutionary aircraft Boeings 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 380 make its maiden flight into the skies. KB enjoyed it tremendously, sat through the entire film with eyes zooming in on every single shots. (Trailer below)





More than just taking an airplane, it is probably every boy's dream to know everything about the airplane. It is an amazing flying machine.



This is a bi-plane. It has wing on the top and a wing at the bottom. We build a wooden airplane.
KB painted every single part of the plane. Looks really wonderful!
















Free Play
Pretend play at the Museum and building train tracks






























Joining in the fun when we did The Very Hungry Caterpillar with Otter. KB loved crafts but dislikes mess. Hahah... see how he puts one hand in slowly...















Making butterflies on coffee filters, see the colours fly.... ! Really quite fun.




















KB played with the fruits and made wonderful discoveries about numbers and additions.We practise still life drawing. He was given a set of numbers and all the fruits the very hungry caterpillar ate, plus two pairs of tooth-picks.





















We visited Butterfly Park at Hort park. Loved that place. The landscapes were beautiful. Loved the variety of plants. We drew again. We just LOVED the swing enveloped by lush foliage.