Thanks Auntie Pris :>
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Pine Pine
Dear Bloggy,
Still remember the pine pine i make for sensei Jane during Teachers' Day?
I practice finger training while making that...Ouch..painful! painful!
Anyway, She sent May a picture of Pine Pine. It is barely 3 mths Pine Pine changed so much...Pine Pine even got a new hairdo....Check it out....Its Roses Cut!!! Waaaah...
Pine Pine - Before
Pretty Pine Pine - After
Still remember the pine pine i make for sensei Jane during Teachers' Day?
I practice finger training while making that...Ouch..painful! painful!
Anyway, She sent May a picture of Pine Pine. It is barely 3 mths Pine Pine changed so much...Pine Pine even got a new hairdo....Check it out....Its Roses Cut!!! Waaaah...
Pine Pine - Before
Pretty Pine Pine - After
Twinkle Twinkle Little star...
Dear Bloggy,
See See See....
I drew this star all by myself....aren't you proud of me!!!!
But dont ask me to repeat that! :P
MOVING.....
1st Dec 2007....
I've gone down to the temple. They are busy packing for the shifts. I am having fun helping them....unpacking the things they put into the box....hehehe! :P
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
CHLOE'S BODY PART
Integrating finger training, Art and language at 20 mths 1 week and 3 days old. May tells you how i did it.....
May spoke:
I got her to lie face up on a long piece of paper. Next, using a crayon, i trace the outline of her body. Its amusing watching her lying down, and the eagerness in her eyes, wondering what i am doing with that crayon going around her body.
When is done, i helped her up and she was excited to see her body in life size drawn on paper.
ART
She chose the colour of crayons and I then guided her to draw in the facial feature and hair.
She chose the poster colour for her hand print and footprint. I helped her paint the colour on her palm and soles. Next, i guided her to do the prints on the papers.
Finger Training
This refers to the stickers used to represent the fingernails. She got to chose the stickers and practice peeling them off the sticker book and pasting it at the tip of the fingers of the hand prints.
Language
This refers to the labellings given to different body parts. We did it 2 ways:
a) I asked her where is a particular body part, she pointed it on the paper and i held her hands and label it.
b) I pointed to a specific body part on the paper and asked her what it us. I held her hands and label it.
And finally, for the finishing touch, I held her hand and wrote: My Body Parts".
20 MTHS...MORE TO COME....
May spoke again...enough mum...enough
Phonics
I was introduced to this website: www.starfall.com by my colleauge.
Chloe loves it. She picked up the sounds of each alphabet very fast. But i was mindful to restict her to the viewing for no more than 5 minutes, once in about three days. I was afraid that she will be addicted to it.
Recently, when we asked her "what does 'A' says?", she could reply the sound. We tried that on all alphabets and she could pronounce the sounds.
A for Apple
It an usual routine for us...when we drive up the multistorey carpark, i will calll out the alphabet on each deck. Since she has acquired the recognition of each alphabet, i try to increase the depth by calling out words that begin with the particular alphabet when the car drove past each deck. E.g: Deck A. A for apple, A for Ant. Deck B. B for Boy, B for Baby. So there was this particular day, as usual, i did the same routine. When we reached deck C, i said Deck C. C for Cat, C for Car, C for......My mind is blank! I suddenly couldnt think of a "C" word. I repeated, C for..... I could sense Chloe is waiting for me to say the "C" word. My mind is still blank. Suddenly, Chloe blurt out " C for Chloeeeeeee". We were astonished.
The car drove past Deck D. I asked, "D for.............?" Chloe replied, " Duck". Next, the car drove past Deck E. I said. "E for egg", E for ............?". She replied "Elephant". Finally, hubby found a lot at deck F. I asked again, " F for ............?". Chloe replied, "Fish".
Lotsa Praises and hugs to Chloe!!!
Do Re Me
This happened yeserday morning. She sat infront on her piano. I asked her where is Do? She hit the right key. Where is Soh? She hit the right key again. Couldn't believe it, i tried again. She could hit the right keys when asked for each note in an octave. Now, we are trying to migrate from Do Reh Me to CDE. Hope she can identify the correct alphabet to each key soon.
Dounuts
Hubby brought MUNCHI dounuts. The donuts were kept in the box. He then proceeded to fetch us from my mum place. In the lift, Chloe saw the box in the transparent plastic bag which hubby was holding. She called out in excitment. Her exact words loud and clear were: "Daddy buy dounuts!"
Hold me JiuMa
This was a typical evening. My brother and his wife brought Chloe along to causeway point. His wife is rather petite and was carrying chloe in her arms. Chloe is already 20 mths and it can be quite heavy for her built. As they shop, Chloe slipped lower and lower until as if Chloe's body is almost below her Jiuma's waist. In a moment of anxiety, Chloe called out " JiuMa hold meeeeeeeee!"
Both my brother and his wife were amused!!!
Chloe seems to have grown overnight now that she starts to articulate more and more! :>
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Phonics
I was introduced to this website: www.starfall.com by my colleauge.
Chloe loves it. She picked up the sounds of each alphabet very fast. But i was mindful to restict her to the viewing for no more than 5 minutes, once in about three days. I was afraid that she will be addicted to it.
Recently, when we asked her "what does 'A' says?", she could reply the sound. We tried that on all alphabets and she could pronounce the sounds.
A for Apple
It an usual routine for us...when we drive up the multistorey carpark, i will calll out the alphabet on each deck. Since she has acquired the recognition of each alphabet, i try to increase the depth by calling out words that begin with the particular alphabet when the car drove past each deck. E.g: Deck A. A for apple, A for Ant. Deck B. B for Boy, B for Baby. So there was this particular day, as usual, i did the same routine. When we reached deck C, i said Deck C. C for Cat, C for Car, C for......My mind is blank! I suddenly couldnt think of a "C" word. I repeated, C for..... I could sense Chloe is waiting for me to say the "C" word. My mind is still blank. Suddenly, Chloe blurt out " C for Chloeeeeeee". We were astonished.
The car drove past Deck D. I asked, "D for.............?" Chloe replied, " Duck". Next, the car drove past Deck E. I said. "E for egg", E for ............?". She replied "Elephant". Finally, hubby found a lot at deck F. I asked again, " F for ............?". Chloe replied, "Fish".
Lotsa Praises and hugs to Chloe!!!
Do Re Me
This happened yeserday morning. She sat infront on her piano. I asked her where is Do? She hit the right key. Where is Soh? She hit the right key again. Couldn't believe it, i tried again. She could hit the right keys when asked for each note in an octave. Now, we are trying to migrate from Do Reh Me to CDE. Hope she can identify the correct alphabet to each key soon.
Dounuts
Hubby brought MUNCHI dounuts. The donuts were kept in the box. He then proceeded to fetch us from my mum place. In the lift, Chloe saw the box in the transparent plastic bag which hubby was holding. She called out in excitment. Her exact words loud and clear were: "Daddy buy dounuts!"
Hold me JiuMa
This was a typical evening. My brother and his wife brought Chloe along to causeway point. His wife is rather petite and was carrying chloe in her arms. Chloe is already 20 mths and it can be quite heavy for her built. As they shop, Chloe slipped lower and lower until as if Chloe's body is almost below her Jiuma's waist. In a moment of anxiety, Chloe called out " JiuMa hold meeeeeeeee!"
Both my brother and his wife were amused!!!
Chloe seems to have grown overnight now that she starts to articulate more and more! :>
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Chloe's Latest Devlopment at 18 mths to 20 mths old
May spoke again:
Questioning??
2 to 3 weeks ago, she started questioning us."What is this?", What is Daddy doing?","Where is this?","Who is this?" Today, she cannot stop asking us these questions. Sometimes, she will point to a direction and ask "what is this?". Well, this can be frustrating for me because, i cant quite figure out what she is pointing at really :>
In fact, her questioning skill was first noted when she was 16 to 17 mths. But back then we wasnt sure that she really question because we only heard her said that once in a long long while. But at 19 mths it became obvious she questions and questions and questions....
We did realised that her her level of questioing skills is elimentary. they are the "whos", "wheres", "what", "where". I read somewhere these are basic questioings, when a child is cognitivly more developed and ready, the hows and the whys will appear.
Please, Thank you & Sorry
I dont think she quite understand the meaning of these but i'll still continue to educate her the basic manners.
When prompted " What must you say?", she's able to say thank you or XieXie Ni at 16-17mths old. When we prompted "Apologise" She can respond " i'm sorry". Sometimes, when we showed anger, she apologised too. "Please"....thats something we insists she says when she request for something. E.g: If she wants some more bread, she will have to say, Mommy, can i have some more bread please?" Well, the best she can reproduce was " Mommy, some more bread, please?".
[b]Sink & Float
Well, this phenomenon is commonly seen in our everyday life. I make it more delibrate for her. In my bathroom, I will prepare a transparent container, half filled with water, and then gather different objects such as coin, small sponges, rubber band, beads, etc and i'll get her to throw the item into the container. So for eg: when she threw in the coin, and it sinks, i'll say "the coin sinks". She enjoyed that!
There are some occasions she will drag me to the bathroom and say "SINK AND FLOAT" a strong gesture that she wanted to play the game. :>
Four Seasons
We have been showing her Baby Enistein "Baby Monet" series. She must have picked up the terms and relate them to the vivid colours that now when asked her what are the 4 seasons, she can tell you: Spring, Summer, Spring, Winter. She can recognise the words. She can also relate some sights and scene to the individual seaasons.
Walking her toy
It was a typical evening at 19++ mth old, we went to my mum place to fetch her, unlike most other evening, that particular day, she brought along her 10" tall big bird. My mum's unit is a corner unit, so its a long walk along the corridor to the liift. Chloe walked infront of us carrying her big bird in her arm. Then she made this remark, "I walk big bird to the park". I thought i was hearing things, i turned to hubby and asked you heard that...he nodded his head in amazement.
Questioning??
2 to 3 weeks ago, she started questioning us."What is this?", What is Daddy doing?","Where is this?","Who is this?" Today, she cannot stop asking us these questions. Sometimes, she will point to a direction and ask "what is this?". Well, this can be frustrating for me because, i cant quite figure out what she is pointing at really :>
In fact, her questioning skill was first noted when she was 16 to 17 mths. But back then we wasnt sure that she really question because we only heard her said that once in a long long while. But at 19 mths it became obvious she questions and questions and questions....
We did realised that her her level of questioing skills is elimentary. they are the "whos", "wheres", "what", "where". I read somewhere these are basic questioings, when a child is cognitivly more developed and ready, the hows and the whys will appear.
Please, Thank you & Sorry
I dont think she quite understand the meaning of these but i'll still continue to educate her the basic manners.
When prompted " What must you say?", she's able to say thank you or XieXie Ni at 16-17mths old. When we prompted "Apologise" She can respond " i'm sorry". Sometimes, when we showed anger, she apologised too. "Please"....thats something we insists she says when she request for something. E.g: If she wants some more bread, she will have to say, Mommy, can i have some more bread please?" Well, the best she can reproduce was " Mommy, some more bread, please?".
[b]Sink & Float
Well, this phenomenon is commonly seen in our everyday life. I make it more delibrate for her. In my bathroom, I will prepare a transparent container, half filled with water, and then gather different objects such as coin, small sponges, rubber band, beads, etc and i'll get her to throw the item into the container. So for eg: when she threw in the coin, and it sinks, i'll say "the coin sinks". She enjoyed that!
There are some occasions she will drag me to the bathroom and say "SINK AND FLOAT" a strong gesture that she wanted to play the game. :>
Four Seasons
We have been showing her Baby Enistein "Baby Monet" series. She must have picked up the terms and relate them to the vivid colours that now when asked her what are the 4 seasons, she can tell you: Spring, Summer, Spring, Winter. She can recognise the words. She can also relate some sights and scene to the individual seaasons.
Walking her toy
It was a typical evening at 19++ mth old, we went to my mum place to fetch her, unlike most other evening, that particular day, she brought along her 10" tall big bird. My mum's unit is a corner unit, so its a long walk along the corridor to the liift. Chloe walked infront of us carrying her big bird in her arm. Then she made this remark, "I walk big bird to the park". I thought i was hearing things, i turned to hubby and asked you heard that...he nodded his head in amazement.
I am 18 goin on 19....
May spoke:
LANGUAGE
We have brought a set of language genius flash cards. We commit ourselves to flash a set of 10 cards to her every week as part of the home practice. She loves looking at them. One day, she picked up the cards and started reading on her own. To our surpise she read the following " put beans into jar". What was printed on the back of the card was " I put the beans into the jar". That was when i asked myself, maybe she is ready to read. So, there it was starting to put cards of words on magnetic white board and point my finger to every word in the 5 to 6 words sentence. She reads them all (touched touched).
But she has not quite acquire self reading on her own i.e. Show her a sentence she reads on her own without guide.
SPEED READING
She loves flipping thru the story books. She will look at each page for a few secs then flipped to the next. I wonder if she is practicing speed reading.
WRITING & DRAWING & PAINTING
We bought her a 2 way easel board (one side is black board) the other side is glass board) from IKEA. Papers was laid over the board and she was encourgaed to scribble and draw and writre on the papers. This had become her favourite corner since.
Inspired by Selina's Right Brain Art Journel, i started Chloe on painting at 17 mths plus. Her first painting looks to me like a blur turtle. To date, she have created about 25 paintings, all of which are from poster paints. I think is time to introduce her to another medium. Will upload some of her masterpieces to share soon! :>
I am currently gettin her to do the four seasons since i introduced to her about 4 seasons and colours of seasons. Hope to do a canvas transfer on this and mount the masterpieces.
ANATOMY
We got her a 50 cm tall, human model which had major organs that can be dismantled and assembled. She likes him very much. She called her "Man Man". She could recognise and verbalised, brain, heart, liver, intestines (can't differentiate small and larhe intestines though), kidneys, lungs.
COUNTING IN MALAY
Credit to Daddy. He thought her how to count 1 to 10 in malay. But cant quite go on after "delapan".
LANGUAGE
We have brought a set of language genius flash cards. We commit ourselves to flash a set of 10 cards to her every week as part of the home practice. She loves looking at them. One day, she picked up the cards and started reading on her own. To our surpise she read the following " put beans into jar". What was printed on the back of the card was " I put the beans into the jar". That was when i asked myself, maybe she is ready to read. So, there it was starting to put cards of words on magnetic white board and point my finger to every word in the 5 to 6 words sentence. She reads them all (touched touched).
But she has not quite acquire self reading on her own i.e. Show her a sentence she reads on her own without guide.
SPEED READING
She loves flipping thru the story books. She will look at each page for a few secs then flipped to the next. I wonder if she is practicing speed reading.
WRITING & DRAWING & PAINTING
We bought her a 2 way easel board (one side is black board) the other side is glass board) from IKEA. Papers was laid over the board and she was encourgaed to scribble and draw and writre on the papers. This had become her favourite corner since.
Inspired by Selina's Right Brain Art Journel, i started Chloe on painting at 17 mths plus. Her first painting looks to me like a blur turtle. To date, she have created about 25 paintings, all of which are from poster paints. I think is time to introduce her to another medium. Will upload some of her masterpieces to share soon! :>
I am currently gettin her to do the four seasons since i introduced to her about 4 seasons and colours of seasons. Hope to do a canvas transfer on this and mount the masterpieces.
ANATOMY
We got her a 50 cm tall, human model which had major organs that can be dismantled and assembled. She likes him very much. She called her "Man Man". She could recognise and verbalised, brain, heart, liver, intestines (can't differentiate small and larhe intestines though), kidneys, lungs.
COUNTING IN MALAY
Credit to Daddy. He thought her how to count 1 to 10 in malay. But cant quite go on after "delapan".
Hasn't been updating my adventure for nearly 6 mths.
Here are some:
Story Reading
May have been reading storybooks to me since she was 14 months old. May & Des bought some of these simple reading from popular bookshops. These are short stories about 8 to 10 pages. Each page come with beautiful pictures and a single sentence. 1 month into story reading and one day, as usual, they were reading the sentences in the story book to me. they were suprised that i could fill in the last word in every sentence. they have upgraded me to 2 sentences per page since.
My memory of the story was suprisingly powerful. There are times, they will recite the story to me without the book, and i can fill in the blanks of the last word in the sentence withlout fail.
Today, every night when they reached home from her grandma's place, i will rountinely, go to my box of books, pick up any one book and start flipping, sometimes pause to read a word or two on a page, other time just flipping with quick browse.
Recognizing and verbalizing A to Z lower case
At 15 mths, i was able to recongnize all alphabaest upper and lower case. But can mixed up "n" and "u" at times!
Number Sense
Now they are getting me to verbalise 14 to 20. 18 and 20 are easy!
Finger training and recognizing world continents
May thought i need to improve my fine motor skills, she need to let me practice some finger excersie. So, she got me a little wooden puzzle of world continents. I can piece them up and read out the name of the continent on the puzzle although MYpronoucation needs to be further improved. :p
"Balls in the sky"
Thjis refers to the planets. i love them. Could recognize and verbalize the words and identify the pictures.
Descriptive words
Whn i turned 16 mths old, one day, the folks herad me describe a ball as "green ball". That is when the folks realise i can describes things. So, nowadays, they make a conserted effort to also add a descriptive word or two infront of every noun. E.g: Small purple pail, pink towel, blue sky, white fluffy clouds, happy face and etc.
Xue Hua Yu
They thought they have been communicating too much to her in english, so they got a set of chinese words and picture book. Grandma JiaJia is chinese educated, and since Chloe spent most of her weekdays time with grandma, it seems an excellent deployment to get grandma to teach me to recognise chinese characters.
Grandma did a great job, to date, i could recognise characters of basic body parts, natural phenomenal, family members and numbers in chinese!
One day, Grandma JiaJia's usual morning, activity is to go to the food court after a morning stroll at the neighbourhood park. Grandma and qigong Kakees brought me to the nearby foodcourt. I immediately recognise the character "kou" on the saucer which has the word "Kou Fu" printed on it. Every one was thrilled.
There was another occasion, i was sitting down on the floor with her chinese book. i was flipping and reading the charcters. And guess, what, when i flipped to the chinese chracter "Pi", i said "pi" and followed by "nose". I tell you, you should look at the faces of my folks...they were amazed!!! I went on vebalizing the basic body parts first in mandrine then in english. That was when i was 16 mths old!
Here are some:
Story Reading
May have been reading storybooks to me since she was 14 months old. May & Des bought some of these simple reading from popular bookshops. These are short stories about 8 to 10 pages. Each page come with beautiful pictures and a single sentence. 1 month into story reading and one day, as usual, they were reading the sentences in the story book to me. they were suprised that i could fill in the last word in every sentence. they have upgraded me to 2 sentences per page since.
My memory of the story was suprisingly powerful. There are times, they will recite the story to me without the book, and i can fill in the blanks of the last word in the sentence withlout fail.
Today, every night when they reached home from her grandma's place, i will rountinely, go to my box of books, pick up any one book and start flipping, sometimes pause to read a word or two on a page, other time just flipping with quick browse.
Recognizing and verbalizing A to Z lower case
At 15 mths, i was able to recongnize all alphabaest upper and lower case. But can mixed up "n" and "u" at times!
Number Sense
Now they are getting me to verbalise 14 to 20. 18 and 20 are easy!
Finger training and recognizing world continents
May thought i need to improve my fine motor skills, she need to let me practice some finger excersie. So, she got me a little wooden puzzle of world continents. I can piece them up and read out the name of the continent on the puzzle although MYpronoucation needs to be further improved. :p
"Balls in the sky"
Thjis refers to the planets. i love them. Could recognize and verbalize the words and identify the pictures.
Descriptive words
Whn i turned 16 mths old, one day, the folks herad me describe a ball as "green ball". That is when the folks realise i can describes things. So, nowadays, they make a conserted effort to also add a descriptive word or two infront of every noun. E.g: Small purple pail, pink towel, blue sky, white fluffy clouds, happy face and etc.
Xue Hua Yu
They thought they have been communicating too much to her in english, so they got a set of chinese words and picture book. Grandma JiaJia is chinese educated, and since Chloe spent most of her weekdays time with grandma, it seems an excellent deployment to get grandma to teach me to recognise chinese characters.
Grandma did a great job, to date, i could recognise characters of basic body parts, natural phenomenal, family members and numbers in chinese!
One day, Grandma JiaJia's usual morning, activity is to go to the food court after a morning stroll at the neighbourhood park. Grandma and qigong Kakees brought me to the nearby foodcourt. I immediately recognise the character "kou" on the saucer which has the word "Kou Fu" printed on it. Every one was thrilled.
There was another occasion, i was sitting down on the floor with her chinese book. i was flipping and reading the charcters. And guess, what, when i flipped to the chinese chracter "Pi", i said "pi" and followed by "nose". I tell you, you should look at the faces of my folks...they were amazed!!! I went on vebalizing the basic body parts first in mandrine then in english. That was when i was 16 mths old!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
TEMPLE VISIT
Dear Bloggy,
Today Desmond and May brought me to this temple. Its not exactly a building! Its seems too opened to be a building because the ceilings are red and white, i cant see any walls, windows or doors. So strange!
Anyway, i enjoyed my trip. I get to see lots of fruits. There's nana, papple, pear, orrrange. In fact theres fruits everywhere. The peopel here sure looooves to mum mum fruits! There's also these poles with 'gon'on it. Each 'gon'has a different colour...i like the orrrrange one :>. There's also 2 big big big fan. I love to go there..very cooling.
Whenever i go in the temple, May and Desmond and everyone else will ask me to pray pray.
There are many red chairs all stacked up. Then, there is this very strange looking chair also got 'gon' on it. In fact, this chair got many 'gon'. The chair also hangs many titu around its arm. Hmmmm good idea...when i go back to Grandma JiaJia place i also want to hang my titu on my chair chair.
I think the people there looove numbers very much. So many of them are wearing numbers. Some numbers i can identify; some i cant. I saw lao cek, he is in number 8. Pah pah!!!! CekCek in 2 and 6. Well, also in 5 and 10. I'm so confused, it seems like all man i must address as CekCek?
Today Desmond and May brought me to this temple. Its not exactly a building! Its seems too opened to be a building because the ceilings are red and white, i cant see any walls, windows or doors. So strange!
Anyway, i enjoyed my trip. I get to see lots of fruits. There's nana, papple, pear, orrrange. In fact theres fruits everywhere. The peopel here sure looooves to mum mum fruits! There's also these poles with 'gon'on it. Each 'gon'has a different colour...i like the orrrrange one :>. There's also 2 big big big fan. I love to go there..very cooling.
Whenever i go in the temple, May and Desmond and everyone else will ask me to pray pray.
There are many red chairs all stacked up. Then, there is this very strange looking chair also got 'gon' on it. In fact, this chair got many 'gon'. The chair also hangs many titu around its arm. Hmmmm good idea...when i go back to Grandma JiaJia place i also want to hang my titu on my chair chair.
I think the people there looove numbers very much. So many of them are wearing numbers. Some numbers i can identify; some i cant. I saw lao cek, he is in number 8. Pah pah!!!! CekCek in 2 and 6. Well, also in 5 and 10. I'm so confused, it seems like all man i must address as CekCek?
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