tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31752674862485606842024-03-12T20:34:15.064-07:00Enriching Young LivesThis blog is a record of activities I do with my children during their childhood years.Gladyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12486945940284839469noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175267486248560684.post-24067778644735903572018-06-07T20:15:00.002-07:002019-03-02T05:24:14.499-08:00Mini Potted Edible Plant Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Since both my children are already attending school, I have a little more time in the mornings to take up a new hobby. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have always dreamed of having an edible garden of my own and have started a mini potted edible plant project last August (2017). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some "successful" and "somewhat successful" examples. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, its the Thai basil. I love basil and have tried planting sweet basil too, but have failed (twice). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I put some cuttings in water and waited for the roots to grow. About two weeks after the roots started to grow, I transferred them into a pot with soil. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I desperately wanted to see the flowers on my Thai Basil plant so I had to sacrifice it. If I were to keep the plant, I should cut off the flowers.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The plant thrived, to my delight, because I have not been successful in planting anything, even my spring onion was not really successful. (Later, I found out that spring onion would grow better in yellow soil.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second success was with mung beans. It was very satisfying watching them grow at a rapid speed and bore fruits in less than two months. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is how fast mung beans could sprout in soil. In just a day!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My first harvest of mung beans. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next plants which bore fruit was the tomatoes. However, it was not very successful and we only harvested a tomato. The plant was attacked by disease and the leaves turned yellow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My most recent harvest was the bettong ginger. It was a very successful one, despite me harvesting them at 9 months old. I just couldn't wait! I couldn't even wait of it to flower. However, I was really proud of it that I gave some away to a few friends. I don't need to consume all of them but I will replant them and yes, let them keep on multiply!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you love to eat, you should try to grow some food too! The satisfaction of eating your own home grown food is beyond words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy farming!</span>Gladyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12486945940284839469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175267486248560684.post-62374491719027054352018-06-06T01:08:00.002-07:002018-06-06T01:08:31.029-07:00Regrowing Leek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I am a foodie. I can eat all day. But due to body image's sake, I have to discipline and control my food intake. </span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kTgR2_QvQXw/WxdZGFy1rRI/AAAAAAAACbg/U7_n6Jj8xw8X8vgEpfRzbKiFJzNvZZg2wCLcBGAs/s1600/leek1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="894" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kTgR2_QvQXw/WxdZGFy1rRI/AAAAAAAACbg/U7_n6Jj8xw8X8vgEpfRzbKiFJzNvZZg2wCLcBGAs/s320/leek1.jpg" width="178" /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">So, I guess everyone who loves to eat might also want to have an edible garden of their own. Am I right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For years, I have imagined having a spice and herbs garden, and rows of vegetable patches so, about a year ago, I started my little project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On one hand, it was to make my dream come true and on the other, it was like a mini farming project I have with my kids. It is a joy to watch the food grow from seeds or even food scrapes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have read about the regrowing plants in water and decided to give it a try. Leek is often used as in ingredient in my soups so I gave it a try. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From water, I transferred it to soil in a pot. After two months, I managed to regrow it to 30cm long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pictures below shows the growth of the leek from "in water" to "in soil". </span></div>
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<br />Gladyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12486945940284839469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175267486248560684.post-74386424196053045152018-05-29T21:10:00.000-07:002019-03-02T05:33:29.060-08:00Another Way To Encourage Reading In Little Ones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another underlying reason for this project was to encourage him to read more often because reading from a "self made book" was more fun and he get to "show off" the end product to his sister and read to her (more often, I hope). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On top of all that, I also get to evaluate his understanding via the pictures that he drew. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, the story that I chose for him was "A Very Rainy Day". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I copied the story for him, dividing it into four sections and he had to draw pictures according to the storyline. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">JE, on the other hand, does not have much interest in electronic games and videos. Thus, she was not really exposed to electronic games or videos like her brother. She could sing the Alphabet Song and recite numbers one to ten but she could barely recognise them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to do what I did with JS. I started her with the alphabet charts. I don't have enough photos to do a post here yet so here is the link to an older post on the alphabet charts I did with JS. <a href="http://sotayoutlet.blogspot.my/2014/06/one-word-chart-many-activities.html" target="_blank">http://sotayoutlet.blogspot.my/2014/06/one-word-chart-many-activities.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">JE loved it so much that we did it almost everyday. Sometimes, two alphabets in a day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For her, the activity begins with counting the number of circles on her worksheet. In this case, five. Then she would have to guess or choose the correct number from two numbers given. In this case, 5 and 6. </span></div>
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Gladyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12486945940284839469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175267486248560684.post-59179489970585759182017-03-28T20:29:00.000-07:002017-03-28T20:29:12.610-07:00Recycling Old Learning Materials<span style="font-size: large;">Hi. It has been a long time since I updated this blog. I have been busy with JS and JE. All I could say is, we needed time for transitions and Mummy has been so busy that she could hardly find time to do a proper post. JS entering Primary One, JE attending Kindergarten on her own (without JS) and Mummy feeling lost for being without both kids in the mornings. Thank God both kids managed to adapt to this new chapter in no time. JS started learning mainly in Mandarin, a language which is quiet foreign to him although it is his mother tongue. JE attended school happily despite not having her brother with her. She was jolly in the mornings and very exhausted when I pick her up but still, that could not stop her from telling me what she did in school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of activities are still going on at home.. Mummy has been busy with new learning materials. JE needed extra help with alphabet and number recognition so we are working on the alphabet charts (exactly the same one I used for JS four years ago) and I was so glad that she loves working on her charts. JS is adopting to a new learning system. Learning three languages (Mandarin, English and Malay), Maths, Science and Moral Education. Of course, as predicted Art and Craft and Physical Education are his favourite sessions in school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank God we had a "break" last week. It was school holidays and I decided that our usually schedule was not important during holidays. We want to sleep in a bit more (but the kids won't cooperate! They still wake up early.... *sigh*), laze around a bit, watch a movie, eat more junk food, play with friends, sleep late, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So on the first day of JS' school holiday, we went to a book fair and bought some sticker books. My kids love them. He got himself two sticker books, about outer space and soldiers respectively. We got two Hello Kitty sticker books for JE as she is crazily in love with Hello Kitty and the colour pink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While reading his new books, I told JS to choose a theme to work on this school holidays. He could choose any and he decided on outer space. Immediately, he remembered the planets we made three years ago.</span><br />
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<br />Gladyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12486945940284839469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175267486248560684.post-36930897469183064122016-08-29T21:11:00.000-07:002016-08-29T21:11:18.668-07:00Learning A New Language<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KwNopZD4Dbs/V8UG_KVN4ZI/AAAAAAAACR0/92RQmFOwYFwIX2BELf-uijFzeQPZJYC8wCLcB/s1600/IMG_1226%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KwNopZD4Dbs/V8UG_KVN4ZI/AAAAAAAACR0/92RQmFOwYFwIX2BELf-uijFzeQPZJYC8wCLcB/s320/IMG_1226%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">One of the advantages of growing up in Malaysia is that we are expected to learn at least two languages. The national school uses Bahasa Malaysia (which is the Malay Language) as the medium of instruction and communication for all subjects but English is being taught as a second language. Besides national schools, we also have vernacular schools, which is also supported by the government but uses either Mandarin or Tamil as the main medium of instruction and communication for all subjects. Both Bahasa Malaysia and English Language are compulsory subjects for students attending these schools. As such, the students here are either bilingual or trilingual. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In our family, we speak both Mandarin and English so it is easy for the kids to pick up these languages when they started school but they would have difficulties with Malay. I did not really spend time teaching them the Malay language until recently. JS has learnt the basics from his teacher in school but he still did not have a clear idea of how to read in that language. He has started to pick up in English reading so I thought it was a good time to start giving him a clearer idea on how to read in Malay. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since he has already know most of the basic syllabus used, I chose a few groups of syllabus to help him form words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here, I chose three sets - ba bo bi bu be, ca co ci cu ce, la lo li lu le. He is familiar where these syllabus so it helps him to find the correct syllabus easily, therefore, he finds the activity easy and it helps to build his confidence in completing this task without much struggle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After sticking all four shapes, I asked her to pick a shape for each family member. She chose square for Daddy, circle for her big brother, rectangle for Mommy and triangle for herself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next comes the fun part of putting on the eyes, nose, mouth and hair all according to the shape of the face. For the square face, she should stick on square eyes and for the circle face, she should stick on circle eyes and so on. I use labelling stickers which are a lot easier to handle and she could learn to peel them off. It's an important fine motor skill and also fun to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When JS came home from school and saw what JE did, he also wanted to make one. This is what he did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really salute parents who could homeschool a more than one kid. I only have two and I am already struggling. It is not easy to juggle homeschooling with housework and I have not been seriously homeschooling my children for sometime now. I started "formally" homeschooling JS, my elder child when he was 2.5 years old so I have set that as the "appropriate" age to start with JE, my younger one, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since JE has just turned 2.5 years old this month, I am just starting to reorganise my schedule or daily rhythm (as I would prefer to call it) to start "properly" with her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I find teaching JE more challenging. Firstly, it is because she is being exposed to a lot of things much earlier than JS. With JS, (as I assume that it would be more or less the same case with all first borns), things were slowly being introduced to him. We did not have any colouring materials or any art and craft materials and no toys. So he got the opportunity to focus on one new toy or one new art material as we gradually add them to his collection. He did not have any elder sibling to observe too so perhaps that was why he was (to my opinion) mush easier to teach. Whereas for JE, she was exposed to many things at the same time and so it seems that she assumed that she knew how to use them and thus, she doesn't really take instructions. She would rather do things her own way. Or maybe that's just her character? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I decided that the best way to "teach" her new things is to give her something new to explore on her own (with me observing and not instructions given). If she shows interest, then I would try to show her new ways of using the "toy" that she was exploring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found out that she loves to play with paint and thus, have introduced to her some of the ways to use it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of the pictures of her exploring paint in different forms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Haze haze go away, come again another day, little children want to play, haze haze go away. Yes, the haze issue here in our country has affected our daily activities. Not only outdoor activities are being discouraged, the Ministry of Education also announced (on certain days due to high PSI readings) the closure of schools. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To keep JS away from too much screen time, I suggested that we play fun fair at home. JS had not been to a fun fair so he was curious about this idea. I told him that it has game booths like those found at Legoland and indoor theme parks and also lots of stalls selling food, especially junk foods. He was thrilled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We list down several types of games and foods that we would like to have at our fun fair. Our game list include fishing, bowling and shooting at targets while our food stalls include french fries, marshmallow, hotdogs, chicken wings, pasta, popcorn, chocolates and chips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We started off by setting up the game booths. We decided to have three booths, fishing, bowling and shooting a ball into a hole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, JS was thrilled to see so many colourful capsicums and started taking them out from the plastic bags. Besides admiring the vibrant colours, we did some counting with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, we cooked them! Or rather, JS, had his first experience cooking capsicum on his own. We (my hubby and I) do not really like the way capsicum is being cooked in Chinese dishes, especially when added in mixed vegetables. It was not something my husband would happily eat until I accidentally discovered the super simple yet delicious way of preparing this very nutritious vegetable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One day, some years ago, I was pan frying salmon and after that, I did not want to waste all the "good" oil that remained in the pan after frying the fish so I just used it to stir fry some capsicums. Surprisingly, it turned out really good and sweet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">JS has been very active ever since he was a baby. He wouldn't stop moving his limbs even when he was lying in the incubator. He was prematurely born at 30 weeks. He was also very talkative. The only time when he would not be moving his body or talking, is when he is sleeping. Thus, it is a challenge for me, who is not quiet active in sports, to come up with lots of physical activities for him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have always wanted to create a "sort of" relay match for him so one day, I just came up with this simple race. Since he had no one to race against, I made him race against the time, which is to finish all tasks and reach the finish line within a minute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He had to run from the main entrance of the house to the living hall where the sofa is and stack up a specific number of pillows according to my instructions which was only given when he reach the sofa, which was "Station 1". The pillows in the living hall comes in two different sizes so I would say something like "3 big and 2 small" which meant, 3 big pillows and 2 small pillows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once done, he need to run to the first "tunnel" (formed using two chairs) and pick a specific number of Lego Duple also, according to the instructions given only when he reached the location, which is "Station 2". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Through this activity, he learnt to take instructions and carry them out accordingly within a short period of time. On top of that, he gets to run and crawl around the house, something which he loves doing all day long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These can be short session activities but if she really enjoys it, she could play for quiet a long time. Sometimes, if we carry out these activities in the afternoon, JS would join in too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of the things we used are common items found at home and you can substitute them with other similar objects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example, we can use rings or rubber bands for this activity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For this activity (pushing and pulling objects through a hole) many other types of objects could be used. Here we used french beans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">JE doesn't really like to eat eggs but this activity was a success. I made her peel her own egg and she happily ate it! </span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UwzdMleweo0/VbSVLvstaDI/AAAAAAAACAg/ZfysvkfylzY/s1600/IMG_3077.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UwzdMleweo0/VbSVLvstaDI/AAAAAAAACAg/ZfysvkfylzY/s400/IMG_3077.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Markers have been my top choice of art supply for a toddler's first experiments with colours. I like their vibrant colours that will definitely attract young explorers, not to mention that they are less messy compared to other choices. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As pictures speak louder than words, I love to use them to depict the learning process of my children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of the pictures of JE exploring her new set of "toy".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been very busy lately and I am finding it harder and harder to update this blog regularly. With JE joining in most of the activities, it takes a longer time to finish a project or chore, but we are having lots of fun. JS has been able to help with a lot more chores than before. He seems to enjoy them, feeling like he is working like an adult. However, he is still a kid so he sometimes would back out if he finds it too difficult but with some encouragement, he is able to give the more challenging tasks a try again. Once he is able to complete it, he has this sense of pride in him that I could see in his smile. The smile that says "I can do it, all by myself. I feel like a grown up!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of the household chores that JS has been helping with lately. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is another long delayed post. JS made this weather chart a few months back. I have been busy organising, scheduling and re-scheduling my time and things-to-do list for a few months now, trying to find the best way I could to juggle housework and the children's needs, thus, neglecting this blog for quiet a while. On top of that, I have been a bit selective on the activities that I prefer to post first. I just noticed that I have not even posted the second part of our Chinese New Year activities. I will try to find the time to write that as soon as I can. I am trying to psycho myself into getting up 1 to 2 hours earlier so that I can get more things done but I am finding it hard to get out of bed when I wake up at around 5am to make JE a bottle of milk. When JE was still an infant, I did not go back to bed after feeding her at 5am and I could get a lot of things done but now, I wonder why I just couldn't do the same. Hmmm... perhaps I am getting old? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK. Lets go back to the weather chart. It was very easy to make as we used cut out pictures. The colourful pictures actually made the chart look quiet attractive. We used labelling stickers for words and cut a pointer from a foam sheet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wrote the words "WEATHER CHART" on a piece of paper for JS to refer to as he formed the words on a black mounting board. After that, he arranged and glued four pictures - rainy day, sunny day, cloudy day and windy day on the board. JS used to refer sunny day as "hotty day" (I presume that he figured the term out, in relation to "rainy day"). Until now, he would sometimes prefer to use his own terms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One morning, while on the way to school, JS told me that he dislike sunny days because it is too hot. He likes cloudy day or night time when the sun is not shining. Hmmm... he is more like his dad in this aspect. I love sunny day! Cloudy day is nice but if it lasts too long, I feel gloomy. Sunny day makes me happy. What about you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two weeks ago, JS was into growing plants and asked if he could grow some flowers. We did not have any flower seeds at home and I suggested that he plant some mongo seeds instead. Yes, for those who are following our blog, we have done this on cotton about a year and a half ago and now, we are doing it in soil and in a proper flower pot. The other reason I told him to grow mongo seeds is that they grow very fast and kids are not very patient at waiting for results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So everyday, as we leave the house for school (JS is attending Kindergarten 1 now) JS would look at the plants and say, "Mommy! They are growing!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few days after we planted the mongo seeds, I suggested that we plant some garlic. This time, unlike the mongo seeds that showed some growth immediately on the following day, the garlics showed none. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, after half a month, we found some time to do some detailed observations on the plants. We compared the roots and the leaves. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The garlic plant showed a lot of roots while the mongo plant has very little and the garlic plant has long leaves while the mongo plant has small leaves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was doing some "spring cleaning" last week when I found these breastmilk storage containers given to my by my sister-in-law soon after I delivered JS about five years ago. I have stopped breast feeding for more than a year now and these containers have been in the storage drawer since then. I thought they would make good storage for spices but as soon as I took them downstairs JS saw them and asked me what I wanted to do with the containers. Hmmm... no harm letting the children play with the containers first, I thought and so they became food sensory bottles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Identifying the items in the bottles. Since JE is still very young and tend to put things in her mouth, the best way to expose her to tiny objects is through sensory bottles. She gets to look at them, shake and hear the sounds they make and learn the names of these common foods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Learning the meaning of "same" and "different". Surprisingly and sadly, I have to admit that JS still does not know the meaning of these two and I have to find different ways to teach him and hopefully this could help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. The last game we played was the guessing game. I did not get to take any pictures for this since I played an active part in this game. I would hold one of the bottle behind me and shake it. JS would have to guess the item in it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One evening before going to bed he dressed himself in three layers of tops and when I took my iPhone to snap some pictures of him, he started to pose, making funny faces and all. At the end of the brief session, he came over to check out the pictures on my phone, looked at me and said, "like Han Ju boy". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This reminded me that children are great imitators. They imitate what they see regardless of whether it was right or wrong, harmful or harmless. As a parent, I should bear in mind that whatever I do and say will be passed on to him and if I am not careful, I might just be the one who cultivate negative attitude in him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is one such activity that focused on colour recognition which I did with JS several years ago. To make things obvious for JE, I would give her toys of the same colour to play with. The towel which I used as the base, was meant to let her concentrate only in that area. As we play, I would say (in this case) "yellow pin", "yellow star", "yellow banana", etc...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of JE's latest addiction is walking in her first pair of shoes. Besides her own, she also likes to walk in her brother's. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One afternoon a few days ago, she spent about an hour trying to put on the shoes, walking in them and taking them off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was good practical life skills practice for her and most importantly, she had so much fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of the pictures of her trying to put on her shoes in different positions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then she decided to try on her brother's shoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is nothing new, nothing special, nothing extraordinary. It is just a phase every child goes through but I love watching how she does it on her own - her struggles, her determination, the smile on her face when she finally did it. Basically, I love to observe how she works on her own because it tells me so much about her personality. It is the best way to get to know her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that JE is walking more steadily, there are countless of new activities that she could do. Here is one activity that helps her to practice her new skill. It involves a lot of movements and we also added counting to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started by taking five of the many pillows we have at the living room and placed them in front of her. As I do that, I counted one, two, three, four, five. Then I just let her do whatever she wanted to with them for a while, then I would make a pattern with them, counting one, two, three, four, five as I arranged them nicely. So, every time when I arrange them, I would do the counting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She would also learn to take instructions when I told her to "stack it" or "give it to Mommy" or "put it here beside this pillow". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Chinese New Year is just around the corner and of course, most of our recent activities are related to this occasion. JS does not really understand the meaning of the celebration, which is the ushering of a new year based on the Chinese calendar but he knows some of the things related to it, namely the lion dance and ang pows or red packets (which is money given to children or the younger relatives, siblings or friends who are still not married). </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This year, I planned to introduce to him the Chinese Zodiac and also some delicacies related to the celebration. Here, I would like to share with you the Chinese Zodiac activity we did several weeks ago.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I found some pictures of the Chinese Zodiac (I purposely chose the ones in Chinese paper cutting) online and printed them out for this project. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First, JS had to cut the pictures of the zodiacs and the Chinese characters out one by one. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To make the chart, he chose a brown coloured paper, which I thought was a good choice because it goes well with the pink zodiacs. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here, he learnt how to find the centre point of a paper and drew a circle with a compass. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then he had to divide the circle into twelve parts for each of the zodiac. </span><br /><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that he arranged the pictures and the Chinese characters accordingly on the chart. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And he learnt that his Chinese zodiac is tiger and his sister's is snake. I am also glad that he remembers his Daddy's is dragon and Mommy's is the same as his sister's. </span></div>
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