26 months and 25 days old

27 February 2015

Today is free and easy learning time and we will be reading from Peter and Jane Series from Ladybird. This series is introduced by my FIL as he said this series is quite good for kids to learn. Prices are not cheap as the book are pretty thin,  i think it cost us SGD 30 plus for this 6 books. Well, knowledge is priceless so we just gotta make full use of the books and look after them carefully so that the kids won't tore them up...

Our collection of Peter and Jane Series from Ladybird

The series starts with learning words and then slowly forming sentences. Later on, when the kids are bigger, they can learn spelling as well.

Book 1a (simple words)

Book 1b (sentences)

Book 1c (spelling)

For XX, i start with slowly learning book 1a, we read about 5 pages today, learning words and some short sentences. He is rather lazy and keep distracted while we are reading (keep eyeing his iPad as he was watching movie before i asked him to do reading). Manages to read about 5 pages, let him rest and we will continue again maybe later on or another day.

Key words to learn in book 1a

Key words

Short sentences

Longer sentences

Weekend is here and have a great weekend everyone. This weekend we are going back to Malaysia to visit XX's grandma and grandpa. Next week will be a busy week for us as mummy has doctor's appointment and will be working for 2.5 days. So, we might be posting less next week....Meanwhile, happy learning everyone as everything around us can be a great classroom and not just paper, worksheet or books :)

26 months and 24 days old

26th February 2015

It is Thursday again and today we will be learning shapes. XX can point to the correct shapes when i asked him which one is triangle, circle etc.. most of the time anyway...

But when i asked him what shapes is this? He can only answer 'triangle" as usual...

Today's worksheet

We started with recognising the shapes and then proceed to choosing colour to colour the same shapes with the same colour. Surprisingly, XX took out the correct "RED" colour when i asked him to choose red from a pile of his colour pencil.. not sure if it is just coincidence or he really can recognise RED colour (as those who followed us so far will know that COLOURS is definitely not XX's forte). Well, mummy is excited cause he choose the correct colour (like all mummy does) so I am quite happy :)

Finally, worksheet is done and this is what he had done. Look how he kinda draw triangles inside the huge triangle, quite a good control of his hand i must say for his age.... Well, mummy is proud of u darling :)

Finished worksheet

26 months and 23 days old

Hi all,

For those celebrating Chinese New Year, we hope that everyone had a good break.

We had a great time reunion-ing with family (both paternal and maternal), have 2 reunion meals (lunch at maternal side and dinner at paternal side). XX had a good time collecting red packets (ang pao) from relatives and friends, having chinese new year goodies and visiting relatives with oranges. XX will goes Blessed New Year while handing out his mandarin oranges....This year XX enjoyed Chinese New Year much more compared to last year where he is still "blur blur" and unsure what is going on. 

We also went on a half day trip to Pulau Ubin to cycle and enjoy the greeneries... 

Now QQ jie jie is back to school and XX will be starting his "home lesson" too... 

Today we will be learning "COLOURS" again... for those who has been following XX's learning journey, you will know that COLOURS is definitely not XX's forte... 

Well, we still gotta start slow somewhere. Recently the kids water bottle has been leaking, probably cause they have been throwing them around , so we changed to new ones...So , will be learning colours from the bottle...

Today XX learn BLUE, GREEN, ORANGE and WHITE... well, i would say still need more improvement but slightly better. Will keep reinforcing these few colours each time before XX drinks from his bottle :) 

Colourful water bottles

26 months and 9 days

11th February 2015

OBJECTIVE: Recognising colour by relating to daily life items

It is COLOURS day again today. My headache...If you guys followed my blog post, you will know that XX can only recognise PINK. The rest is always just "shake head". 

Today am trying a new approach, as usual can recognise all the pink items. Then , i pointed out to the "black" plate and tell XX this is "black" colour, just like mummy's hair. We try that for a few things but XX doesn't seem to be able to remember during this session. Well, at least i try, let me try and do it during our daily conversations and see if that helps.

Colours

Tomorrow we will be going to Science Centre and Friday will be out shopping for CNY stuff. Next week will be CNY week so we will be taking a break, so we will see you guys on Wednesday 25th February 2015!

Have a great Chinese New Year!

26 months and 8 days

10 February 2015

Today we are learning NUMBERS again. XX has been quite good in counting 1-12 so far.

OBJECTIVE: Counting, recognising number and writing.

As Valentine is approaching, we are counting LOVE SHAPES today.. in 5, 6, 7 and 8.

XX starts with counting the LOVE shapes and then recognising how the number looks like. After that i hold XX's hand and we write the number together. Towards the end, XX was pretty impatient, wanted to start colouring but i asked him to finish writing first.

Worksheet (Before)

And here are our finished worksheet.

Worksheet (After)

Wishing everyone a great Valentine Day :)

26 months and 3 days old

5th February 2015

Today XX requested to play with "play dough". Not exactly a great tool for learning shapes but XX does get to mould the play dough into different shapes and stacking them. So, i agreed for him to play with "play dough" but first he has to learn some COLOURS first...

Went through all 9 colours as shown but unfortunately, XX didnt recognise any of them... oh no, i must really work hard on colours. I was a little worried that XX is colour blind but he can recognize PINK all the time and though he can't recognise the colour, he would point to an object similar in colour when i ask him what colour is this... so i guess it is ok, i do need to observe him more and make sure he is really not colour blind.

Colour (part 1)

Colour (part 2)

Colour (part 3)

After XX unsuccessful colour learning, XX played happily with his sister QQ (QQ is at home today cause she is down with fever) so both of them happily play the play dough until my floor all dirty..."sweat"

Play dough

Tomorrow will be working again and Monday will need to run an errand, so we will see you guys on Tuesday to learn NUMBERS :)

26 months and 1 day old

3rd February 2015

It is Tuesday and we will be learning NUMBERS today. Today we will be learning numbers using a Leap Frog Toy.

Objective: To learn numbers through playing.

First, XX has to learn to recognize each number on the octopus' shoes. Then XX has to count the animals on the shoes... e.g.: How many tortoise, how many crabs etc...

Next XX can start playing by playing a ball (that comes with the toy) into the hole. Then XX has to guess which shoes the ball has gone into...Quite fun to keep opening up each shoes and checking if the ball is there....

Octopus with Shoes

Little shoes

Played for a while, then it is some free and easy play time. XX playing "cooking", he even took a puppet penguin and pretend to use it as a gloves to hold hot pot from his "stove"...

Tomorrow mummy will be working so we will see everyone on Thursday. Join us for our fun shapes Thursday!