Monday, 10 March 2014

Lesson P for Pig: 9th Mar'14

First of all, reminder to self: REMEMBER TO TAKE PICTURE OF THE LESSON ITEMS!

**This post is going to bore you coz I do not have a single pic of what we did last night.. bummer.. I'll try to take pics of them when I feel hardworking.. I've kept all of them away :-(**

The last home lesson, to my surprise was more than 6 months ago! Gosh! I've been lazy ya!

IZ knows all the alphabets now, and how they sound, so we have moved to spelling randomly, just for fun, whilst I use phonics. I still have difficulty trying to different the phonic sound for C and K.. Haha..

Anyway, last night I decided to be hardworking and did a randomly picked letter.. and the lucky letter was P!

We started with the Hello song, he sat cross legged and clap hands with me and sang together.

When I said we were going to learn the letter P, he made the sound of the letter (as in puffing, panting). I asked him to write on the magnetic board. And then traced the feely that I pasted with paper clips. He could tell the paper clips were used by one of his teachers, but didn't know it was called paper clips.

Then I sang the rhyme of P, together with him.. pulling.. pushing.. puffing. and panting.. we did all the actions together.

And then it was the magic bag time!

Items in the bag were: pen, pencil, penguin, peacock, policeman, police car, pink paint, pink ball, paper, panda bear, pineapple, postman, pilot, (real) potato.

At the end of the lesson, I read The Three Little Pigs and asked him to write PIG on the board.

Before we turned in for the night, I tried to test him on what's P for.. he could name at least 5 items in the bag! How wonderful!

**When I brought him to the washroom to pass urine, I told him P is for penis too, and then he repeated to his dad, P is for Penis!**

To be honest, I didn't know P stands for so many things I could get hold of, I was very happy!

He asked for Letter X the next lesson. You can see, we do not go by sequence anymore. :-)

**Pictures Added on 11th Mar'14**







Friday, 7 March 2014

Computer 101

Lately, he would ask to "work" on my laptop if I do work in front of him.

He would go "mommy, I want to work on the computer!"

And so I would open a new document on Microsoft Word and let him play with the keyboard.

First try
Then, when he sees I work without a mouse, he would ask "I want that one too".

"That one, can turn and turn" and showed me using his fingers how he scroll (supposedly) on a mouse.

"Oh, that's a mouse!", I offered.

Ain't he lucky to be able to do Computer 101 at the age of 3?! I touched a Mac computer when I was close to 11!

I let him figured how the keyboard works, and taught him to type his own name. Last night, I taught him "backspace" and "space bar".

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Art Lernen-Reise Continued..

Time flies, it has been an awesome 10 weeks (one term) in his new art lernen-reise with Heart Studio.

We really like it that IZ had fun in the class, as the teachers are ever so friendly and approachable. Really thankful of Teacher Shafiq (the main teacher) and Teacher Jay.

I'm not sure if he's talented in any way, but so far, we were told he could do it step by step. So I do believe most of below work was done by him, guided by teachers.

Below a re-collection of the past term. We can't wait to embark on the journey after the 2 weeks break.

Project #1: SHADOW

Trial Class




Posed with Project #1

The sketches

The art piece

Project #2: CAR



Posed with his work

The sketches

The art piece

Project #3: OCCUPATION





First "want-to`be"


The sketches

The art piece

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Malay Heritage Centre

Our original intention was to visit Children Toy Museum at Kampung Glam, but it was not opened. IZ insisted that he wanted to go to museum. While we were walking back to the car, we saw the Malay Heritage Centre. Ding!!

And so we shall go to a MUSEUM.. Best part was, it was free entry for Citizen and PR, so we visited for free.

Malay Heritage Centre was originally the Sultan's palace. Which is little wonder the street is called Sultan's Gate. Now, it becomes a Malay Heritage Museum, which preserves and showcase Malay culture and heritage in Singapore, through history artefacts, multimedia display and exhibits.

And so it was IZ's first exposure to a museum. I wish I knew history better so that I could share more with IZ.

He had a lot of fun pretend play in the museum, and making noises of how he guessed the musical instruments would sound. 

For a 3 yo, I think that's good enough.

But, I still owe him a trip to a toy museum.

The compound - where the Centre's activities would be held

Leading upstairs

History of Malay in Singapore



Couldn't believe my eyes to see the will in English

Looking at the photos on the wall

Medal

Medal

Election of the 1st Singapore President

From Queen Elizabeth

The corridor in between bedrooms












Jawi Typewritter

Touchscreen book