coffee talk: Marriage

Elias: I want to marry mummy
Mummy: Ok ok
Theo: Oh I can't marry mummy because I am too short.
Mummy: hahahaa... its ok lah... I love you , you can marry me too! :))
God already prepared for you a girl and you won't be too short for her. But mummy have to interview her first ok? :)

Go tell Aunt Rhody

29 Nov 2012 - 5 yrs old

Happy 5th Birthday Theo!

April was holiday - KB played and played. We went to Indonesia and celebrated his birthday three times!
A surprise celebration with family and cousin, another one with the orphanage and yet another birthday lunch with extended family, aunties and uncles. Pure fun!

My first piano piece!

KB has learnt to play the piano with both hands and this is the first song he played. Kind of a milestone in all things first, so we were naturally very excited. We improvised because this piece was relatively easy, so I got KB to try playing with both hands. He seems to enjoy it.

Free Play: Coloured ice.

 

 Science: Seeds! Learnt how seeds look like and how seeds are being dispersed. We picked up some saga seeds and bought African tulip seeds from the Chinese medical hall. God is good to us. I was having a cough then and God partner us in our lesson. Do you know that African tuilp seeds has healing properties? 

 

Snails : KB's all time favourite. Now he gets to see all kinds of snails. Aquatic snails and how we can attract snails (even when it is not raining). We learnt that by opening a can of beer, snails are attracted to the smell of yeast inside the can of beer. Wow! Should we try it? 

We were at the science centre and learnt about fertilised and non-fertilised eggs, touched chicks and learnt some fun facts about eggs. KB was really happy to be cuddling the chicks. We heard that there is no where in Singapore one can touch a chick due to new AVE regulations in light of Bird Flu crisis. Also Science centre is the only place we can see if the egg was fertilised or not via candling, although we can shine a torch up an egg, most of the eggs available at the market would not be fertilised.

Math: Estimation. How many eggs can fit into 1 cup? :)

Geography Day 29 March 2012 - Lots of hands-on activities with really exposure to various countries and their culture. We had an Indonesia booth which talks about transportation. Elias joined in the fun too with suitable activities.

Birds , Volcano and more

We started our lessons in February with a workbox system which suits us well. KB & NB were both able to "look for their lessons" themselves which means I really don't have to tell them to "come, let's play the piano, or do Science or Mandarin".














Language: Writing & Reading

KB likes to make words, write or draw in his spare time. We also do a verse a week for him to practise writing since he enjoys it so much.












Chinese

We use pictograms to explain how chinese words come about. We bought the books here.
It worked really well. We would read books related to rain and write a sentence about rain.

















Simple word recognition and family tree.





















Science: God created water

We learnt about the difference between solid and liquids. Liquids has no shape. It takes the shape of any container it is put into.















We read books about the various type of water God created in form of pond, lake, ocean. We talked about the importance of water.

Water is denser than oil so it sinks to the bottom of a jar filled with oil.















Playing with colours under the sun. Nevermind them doing this a million times, they simply had loads of fun making purple and cyan and other colours out of the primary colours.
















Learning how different pressure creates various speed.




















Free Play/Pretend Play

KB creates a zoo using playdough, some toy and ice-cream sticks. Look how my old rice cooker pots has transformed into helmets! Loved their imagination.




















Outings

The Baby Panda is by far the best childrens play I have ever seen. It is lively and interactive. The boys loved the songs which they already knew how to sing and had lots of fun doing it in a group of kids their age. Kids also went to Dinosaur exhibition at Science Centre. Very visual experience. KB tried his hand at being an archaelogist, digging up dinosaur skeletons. He had fun.






























Devotion/Character

We role play Jesus healing the sick as the man was lowered from the roof by his friends. KB & NB had to do this over and over till all their "patients" aka soft toys are healed.

Delight learning

Birds

We spent quite alot of time here as there were so / too many things KB was interested in. First a bird flew to our neighbours corridor, just one floor down to make a nest! How can we not get excited over that? So we decided to embark on a "birds" unit. Check out the eggs and baby bird! We did various worksheets for fun and sneaked in "sex education" - an introduction of how birds were made really; egg, sperm and all.

KB was very patient as he tried his hand at weaving. No, we did not expect him to get every line and flap right, it was a child's work afterall, but he got the idea how bird's nest were made.

Volcano

This was relatively easy and enjoyable as we made the mould of volcano out of flour, I added some colouring to turn it into brown colour. Once ready, baking soda goes into the bottle and there, we simulated a volcano eruption. The boys were thrill. Kb asked me how come there is no cloud of ash above our volcano. hahah.. He does know his stuff. We use various online resources, printables and Usborne Beginners: Volcanoes.
































Art & craft