Sunday, July 10, 2011

What's Png Png eating?

What's Png Png eating? So messy...

Cherry.....

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Potty training - begin of success

Sat with Png Png very long. Gave him food, read story book to him while he was in the potty
1 july urined in potty once
4 july urined in potty thrice
5 july urined twice in potty. Coaxed him with durian green bean soup
6 july urined twice in potty. Coaxed him with durian green been soup + craneberries

Pitty him. Everytime he got up from the potty, his buttock was very red from sitting too long on the potty. Hopefully he will be potty trainned from here.

Home teaching - The snowy day

The 2nd lapbook I did with Png Png is The Snowy Day

Most of the materials are extracted from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/b4_resources_snowy_day.php

Cover page we did for The Snowy Day

What Peter saw outside the window

Patterns

Picture of items that is white in color

I got Png Png to name me things that are white in color

Story sequence of The Snowy Day. Png Png got them right!

Odd one out snowflakes

Stamp letter S and poem

Trace words found in the story

The 4 seasons in a year

Distinguish features of the 4 seasons


3 stages of water

Winter apparel

Snowy animals

Color snow flakes with different color media - gluttering glue, oil pastels, vivid color pencils, crayon



Monday, July 4, 2011

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Lap booking class Term 2 lesson 9

Today we did
1. Sang Good afternoon song
2. Shirley asked tots if they can remember the color of the mice in the book she showed them last week. She said there are brown color mice, white color mice, etc. We are going to do a craft mice using grey color. Tots were to paint their palms with grey paint then stamp their palms on a piece of white paper. Parents to look for a short pointed side and use that as a guid of a mouse's nose. Tots to use index finger to stamp 2 ears of a mouse and draw a long tail for the mouse. Shirley said making a craft from scratch then making craft from a pre-drawn picture stretch tot's imagination.
3. Shirley asked tots to go forward and show tot a picture of a few mice in a cage. She asked tots to spot the mice. She asked tots what is in the cage (pointing to a ladder and slide) and what is the ladder and slide for. They are for the mice to exercise. She pointed to picture of a bowl and a container and told tots if you keep mice at home, you give them food like cereal in a food bowl and water in the bottle. In the wild, nobody gives mice food and water. They eat anything they can find. Where do mice live in the wild? They live in holes, on the tree.


4. Tots were given pictures of bird, rhinoceros, giraffe, kangeroo, elephant, seal, monkey, mouse to do an activity on Animals and their food.Shirley asked how big is a mouse? Can it eat a tiger? Why not? She said ask tots questions like this to set them thinking. Herbivores eat plants and fruits. Plants and fruits are there all the time. So, herbivores tend to be big. Giraffe, rhinoceros, kangeroo, elephant are herbivores.Monkeys in the zoo are fed bananas and nuts but in the wild, bigger monkeys eat smaller monkeys, eggs, fruits. Mice in the wild eat insects, fruits. Monkey and mouse are omnivores. There are many types of birds. Sparrows and pigeons eat fruits, worms, insects. They are omnivores. Shirley said that Hummingbird is herbivore. It feeds on nectar. However, I read in the web that hummingbirds feed on nectar and insects (bugs). So, Hummingbirds should be omnivore. Seal is carinivore. They live in the ocean. They eat fishes. Owls, eagles are birds of prey. They eat animals. Shirley advised parents to teach tots anatomy of animals by asking questions like What is elephant's tusk for? To protect itself. Likewise for rhinoceros's honk.
What does giraffe use to eat leaves on the tree? It uses it's long neck to reach out leaves on the trees
What do the animals in "Little mouse wants an apple" use to get it's food or catch it's prey?

5. Sang Good bye song

Mittens

I did lapbook on the literature The Snowy Day with Png Png. I showed him mittens used in Winter. He was very fasinated over a pair of mittens that belong to Chen Chen. Png Png wore the mitten when I showed him all the winter wear. The next morning when he woke up, he asked for the mitten again. When he woke up from his afternoon, he asked for the mitten again.

Me : Png Png, what is this that you are wearing on your hand?
Png Png : Mittens
Me : When do you wear a pair of mittens?
Png Png : During winter
Me : What is the season now?
Png Png : Summer
Me : Why are you wearing mittens?
Png Png : I stay in the air-con room. It is very cold, so I wear mittens

I am very satisfied with his answer