Durian

There is a road side durian stall outside Rivervale mall. Hubby bought a 猫山王榴槤 to let the boys experience eating durian from the durian husk from raod side stall. That durian costed $28.
Png Png stood up to eat durian. The chair was too low for him.

Both boys enjoyed eating the 猫山王 durian

Swimming lesson

We wanted let Chen Chen learn swimming long ago. However, Chen Chen kept turning us down. He only wanna learn to swim from daddy. After much persuasion, Chen Chen finally agreed to learn swimming from a professional swimming coach.

Chen Chen attends swimming lesson at Tampines Swimming Complex on every Saturday from 5:30 to 6:30 pm

Painting

Among all the coloring media, Png Png likes paint the most. So, I bought him paints for his birthday gift
Guess what was he painting?

It's chameleon. I let him paint chameleon for the cover of his lapbook "A color of his own"

Chen Chen painted a train

Rarely see the 2 boys so focus and quiet, especially Chen Chen

Png Png's 3 year old birthday presents - narrated by Png Png

I have many birthday presents.
Which do I open first?
What do you suggest?
Shall I open this first?
Kor kor take picture with me and my birthday presents
Peace
Naughty look
More naughty look
Is this a sword?
It's paint brushes
My favorite are:
Piano from daddy
Paints and paint brushes from mummy
Keyboard from jie jie Wanni

Black current jam with bread - narrated by Png Png

I like to eat black current jam with bread
It's yummy!

And colorful. I like the purple color from the jam

See my mouth hehehe....

Massage chair

My dad has an Osim massage chair. My boys like to play on the massage chair. Png Png likes to press the buttons on the chair.

Png Png : Let's share. Kor Kor massage his back, I massage my leg

Lap booking class Term 1 lesson 10

Today we did

1. Sang Good Afternoon song

2. Shirley invited tots to read "Color of his own" with her. Png Png read first few pages with Shirley

3. Shirley asked tots what are the lizards we learned last week? - Noisy lizard Gecko, lizard that eats plant Iguana, purple color tongue Gila Monster

Shirley showed picture of crocodile and asked tot what animal is that. Tots answered crocodile. How to tell it's a crocodile? It has long body, short legs, long tail, why isn't it a lizard? It has sharp teeth. What is it's teeth for? To bite prey. Do you have sharp teeth like the crocodile? Only 2 at the side of the mouth. If a crocodile comes close to you and sit still in front of you, can you touch it? Can you put your hand or head in the mouth of the crocodile if it opens it's mouth? Can you tickle it, hug it, kiss it? No. Why? it will bit your hand or your head if you put them in crocodile's mouth and your hand or head will be gone. Crocodile has powerful tail that can sweep you off

What is the animal that slithers on the ground? Snake. Does it have leg? No. Does it have sharp teeth like the crocodile? No. It has 2 fangs. What else has fangs? It has 8 legs, black in color with red hour glass print. Spider. Shirley showed picture of tortise and asked what is it? Tortise. It has a hard shell. What is the shell for? Is it for it to hide when it rains? No. It's for tortise to hide from predator. Tortise hide it's legs, head and tail in the shell when it is scared. What else have hard shell? Snail.

Shirley said child's knowledge stored in the brain is like shelves in the library. Teaching them similarities and differences is to put the shelves next to each other. There is no point teaching 500 breads of dog. Teach a few bread will do. It is more important to teach them similarities and differences so that they can link the different knowledge they acquired and categorise them

Shirley assign each tot to distribute acitivity sheet to the class. Png Png did that too

4. Parents to teach tot the 4 types of reptiles. Describe to tot the similarities, differences, special features like what Shirley did

5. Tots to match individual alphabet to the alphabet of the word chameleon and lizard. This activity is to teach word recognition and word is made up of alphabet

6. Sang Good bye song.

I did the cover page of this lapbook with Png Png by using hole puncher to puch paper than paste on picture of a chameleon to demonstrate bumpy skin of the chameleon. Using hole puncher to punch hole trainned Png Png on motor skill. We also used paint to paint the chameleon.