chocolate - narrated by Png Png

Gobble down the last piece of non dairy chocolate
No last 2
Do you wanna try?
Can't bear to gobble down the last piece

Adapt to childcare

I enrolled Png Png to Carpe Diem on 15 Nov 2010. He cried on and off in the morning when he was sent to Carpe Diem. Initially he was attached to a particular teacher, and didn't cry if that teacher was there to receive him. Then, he was attached to Chen Chen's classmate Sean, then Carl. Even the teachers called out for the Sean or Carl to help in the morning. I was fairly worried how is it going to be come Jan 2011 when the K2 boys graduated from Carpe Diem. Every night I talked to Png Png. He promised me he won't cry, still he cried on and off. Finally he stopped crying on 14 Jan 2011 onwards. Phew! Took him almost 2 months to adapt

Lap booking class Term 1 lesson 1

Literature for the lap book for first term of 2011 is The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

There were 8 tots in the class. Wow class getting bigger. Shirley's lap book class is very hot

We did
1. Sang Good Afternoon song.

2. Shirley showed the book "The Very Busy Spider". She pointed to the picture of the spider at the cover and asked Is this a bird? No. Is this an insect? No. It has 8 legs

3. Shirley read the book with animation eg gallopping action for horse going for a ride, jumping for goat jumping on rock

4. Shirley asked tots "What is your favorite animal?" Png Png's answer is Cow. Shirley said most tot will answer like all the animals or don't like any of the animals. She said by asking this question set tot into thinking. She suggested parents to tell tot what is their favorite animal and why that is their favorite animal. Then ask tot what is their favorite animal and why.

5. As usual, Shirley asked tots to go forward to choose lap book. This is the first time that Png Png was the first to go up to choose lapbook. But he chose yellow color lap book. Oh no, I am so sick of yellow color lapbook

Shirley gave a plastic pocket with 8 rectangle piece of paper. On the paper, there are name of animals - pig, sheep, goat, horse, hen, duck, cow, dog. Shirley wrote the name of the animal one at a time on the white board. Tot has to pick up the animal that Shirley wrote on the white board. Png Png got all the 8 animals correct. Shirley said introduce nounce first to tot in this manner than followed by sight words such as "This is a". It's easier to explain nounce. This is to introduce word recognition

6. Sang "Old McDonald had a farm"

7. Sang Good Bye song

Creative play - narrated by Png Png

See what I can do with mummy's thermal cooker cover
Vietnamese hat!
Cute right!

Go for a ride - narrated by Png Png

I am going for a ride. Do you wanna join me?
Hop on to my car
I am a careful driver
I drive with one hand though hehehe....

First day in Primary School

Time flies. Yan Chen is going to P1. I felt like yesterday when he was still a baby in my arms.
He was very excited on the first day of school. He got everything ready early which is unusal of him. Shot before leaving home to school. Upon reaching school, I sent him to the staircase and bid him goodbye. Parents were allowed in the school premises on first day but up to the hall, not to the classroom. We went in by the side gate, so I was allowed up to the staircase only. I took pictures of the food prices in the cateen then left the school.

We went to the school again during recess. The canteen was rounded up by barrier. Parents could look at their children and took pictures or video clips from the side but not in the cateen with their children. There was a buddy to bring Chen Chen to the canteen to buy food during recess. The poor buddy stood besides Chen Chen to see him and wait for him to finish his food. Surprisingly Chen Chen finished a plate of chicken rice after taking rice at home before leaving to school. Chen Chen purposely looked away from hubby and I. 没良心的. He pretended he didn't see us when hubby signalled him to drink water. Chen Chen's buddy saw hubby's signal and asked Chen Chen to drink his water. As usual, Chen Chen ate very slowly. Most of the kids finished their food.
The poor buddy had to bend down to talk to Chen Chen as he is very tall but Chen Chen is short.
We went back to fetch Chen Chen in the evening during dismissal.
He was happy to see hubby and I.

New Year Gathering at brother in law's house

Hubby's eldest brother held a New Year gathering at his house. My boys stayed in Yang Yang's room most of the time. What else, toys!
This is Yang Yang. He is few weeks older than Png Png but he looks very big. According to sister in law, he can't fit into pants for 6 year old though he is only 2 year plus.
The 3 boys played in harmony.
All of them are car craze, especially Yang Yang. He loves car, especially sports car. He likes to browse cars magazine and see utube videos on cars.
After a while, Chen Chen played with ipad and iphone with Yang Yang in the living room. Yang Yang likes to play with Chen Chen. Only Png Png continued to play with the cars in Yang Yang's room
Png Png was fascinated with this car track
He had all the toys in Yang Yang's room to his own
Happy like a king
Such a sweet look