Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon

IZ is pretty obsessed with Horrid Henry.

The books never failed to make him laugh.

PS: Not that I approve the horrid things Henry does! Haha!

Currently at home

Death

Once in a blue moon, I'll do some pages of work with IZ.

Yesterday, out of the blue, I took out an assessment book and somehow we landed on this page.

Using the tips, we talked about his fear.

He told me he is afraid of dying. He said he's scared he won't be able to play with his toys. He wants to stay.

His exact words: "I want to stay"

I wonder how much a 5 yo knows about death. 

As we think of the future, there are so many uncertainties. 

I told him each and every time we talk about the death topic, that everyone dies, regardless of age. One dies young, one dies old, one dies sleeping, one dies sick.

(I hope we'll be able to build good karma to die comfortably.)

While we are at this topic. I saw someone shared this book and its contents on FB. I took a look and was really thankful. Couldn't be a better timing, really.

At a play date we held in our place 2 days ago, IZ was ultra sensitive and touchy.

He cried over how I compared him with his peers over eating fast / slow. Seems like he has been holding grievances over hubby harping over him eating slowly everyday and suddenly he just exploded.

Then he also cried over me saying he picked fight with everybody. He said "that's not EVERYBODY".

"I want to kill you!!!" in front of everybody. I guess everyone's jaw dropped to the floor.

My heart too.

But I only repeated after him. I reminded myself I had to do the talking after the play date.

So, after guests have left, I told him I felt really sad that he wanted to kill me. Immediately, he cuddled up to me, and hugged me, and kissed me apologizing again and again and that he'd never say that again. I know he didn't mean it, but it was still shocking nonetheless. I wonder from where he got the idea of killing ME. Haiz...

So, when I saw this book "Missing Mommy", I wasted no time in reading to him. He hugged me and said he doesn't want me to die.

But the second round, he wanted to read it himself. He started tearing.

I'm so glad he teared.

He hugged me and kept saying he doesn't want me to die, and that he'll never say he want to kill me again.

Then he stuck to me like glue. Following me everywhere I went, and wanted to sleep beside me and all angelic.

Thanks Cobb!

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Duet with YJ Ah Yi

Reading time with daddy

Smiling face!

Rainbow Fish Puzzles Book

It's an award winning book by Marcus Pfister.

Every page of the book comes with a 4-pc puzzle. At the end of the story, you'll be able to get a big puzzle.

What I did was to read the story on each page, and IZ would fix the 4-pc puzzle for each of the scene. Upon completion of all the 9 scenes, he would fix the 9-pcs into a gigantic puzzle.

And I'll read the story again.

What IZ learnt from this book:
1) lantern fish
2) swordfish
3) jagged fins fish
4) lobster
5) and of course, RAINBOW FISH!

Rainbow Fish is indeed a very pretty fish!

Fixing the smaller 4-pc puzzle for each scene

All the 9 scenes

Fixing the 9-pc into a gigantic puzzle

Almost complete

Pretty puzzle completed!

The pic is not so nice, the rainbow fish scales are actually shimmering

The boy was very happy and accomplished

Well recommended!

1 week to 3yo..

I bought this set from Jann phonics for some time.. Hmm before he was even 2yo.

This is the 3rd attempt. 

First 2 attempts were disasters although he knew all the alphabets then. He was not interested in making up the words. And made a mess out of the alphabets. I concluded that he was not ready.

Last night I tried my luck again, taking it out with the stack of storybooks I intended to read. He saw and asked to do it after our reading.

I have to say I was impressed. While I may not remember how to do phonics correctly, at least I was able to read the phonics and he managed to find the letters. He didn't mess with the letters and he asked to complete the whole piece!

And tadah!

He did his first sheet today! 

Searching for the letter

Putting the letter onto the board

Spell it out loud

Good start to spelling!

IZ loves reading?

Not sure if it was coz he wanted to read or coz he wanted to escape from bedtime (as if he could)..

He has been saying "poo poo" for past two nights when I put him to sleep.. And made me put him on the toilet seat and read to him. "Mommy read story book" he would say.

I brought in some new ones from the shelves and asked him, "so, do you know how to read?" and was about to start my story on how we learn to read in school (hoping he wouldn't cry again tomorrow) when he nodded his head and said "yes".. Then he pointed to the cat and said "cat".. The fish and said "pish".. The crab and said "Pan cake".. (Pang xie!!!)..

Impressive! :-D