Lap booking class Term 2 lesson 7

We will be throwing birthday party for Chen Chen on Sunday, so we attended the lesson on Saturday.

We did

1. Shirley asked what does little mouse want to eat? Apple. How many apples are there on the tree? 8. What is the color of the apple? Shirley said teach tot to say in complete sentance "8 red apples". They will speak in full sentance in the future.

2. Shirley read the book "Little Mouse wants an apple" with questions and highlights in between like

animate mouse grind teeth and use legs to pull it's nose;

Who has long beck besides giraffe? Ostrick, flamingo;

Mrs kangeroo shares her apple with baby kangeroo. Baby kangeroo is called joey. Joey stays in the pouch of Mrs kangeroo and goes wherever Mrs kangeroo goes. Kangeroo is a marsupial. Marsupial has a pouch to carry baby

What does rhino use to shake tree? Rhino uses horn to knock the tree, Shirley pointed to the picutre and said the tree is bent, not straight then flip to another page to show picture of tree that is straight. Can little mouse shake the tree? No. Why? It's nose is soft. Shirley pointed to the mouse's tail and nose and said mouse's nose and tail are not straight, why? That shows that little mouse is in pain. Question like this sharpen observation skill.

Why sea lion ask if little mouse is fine? Sea lion saw that little mouse is sad so asked if little mouse is fine to show concern

What is sea lion good at? Tossing and juggling.

3. Shirley asked tots what did we cut last week? An apple. What color is the apple? Green apple. What did we use to cut the apple? A knife Which part of the knife? Blade Why do we need to use knife to cut apple? The apple is hard, we can't break it with our hands What is inside the apple" Seeds Is the seed bigger than the apple? No

4. Shirley drew picture of apple cut into half on the white board and drew a line in the center imagine we cut the apple into a quarter. Paper plate cut into half was given to tot to make craft of apple that is cut into a quarter. Tot had to tear a stripe of red color paper into pieces and paste them on the border of the apple as the skin of the apple. Tot also had to draw seeds in the center and core along the inner line of the plate. Shirley went round to ask tot where should the stalk of the apple be before she stapled it to the apple craft

5. Each tot was given 5 fruit stickers. Parents to describe each fruit in detail to tot and tot to match and paste the corresponding fruit stickers

6. Shirley showed a book on types of fruits. She highlighted a few types of fruits in the book
Citrus fruits has segment. It is very juicy
Compound fuit like durian, jackfruit has many segments. Each piece of flesh has a big seed inside the flesh
Melons are soft. It has many seeds in the center. The skin is thick and hard because the fruit is very sweet. Thus the skin is thick and hard as a natural way to protect the fruit being eaten by birds and insects
7. Sang rhyme Little apple

Home teaching - Napping house

Jun Rong's mummy Crystel from lapbook class shared this website with me http://www.homeschoolshare.com/level_1_lapbooks.php to get information on lapbooking for free.

I did the very first lapbook with Png Png on The Napping House. Most materials extracted from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/napping_house.php
When I first read this book. I felt that it's a silly book with no story line. As I read the book more, I fell in love with it. Png Png likes this book a lot too.

I got Png Png to tell me what are the things found in the house. I gave him magazines and flyers to look for the picture of the things he named. We used this as the cover page

The things found in my house

Sleeping songs

I spy with my little eyes something beginning with .. alphabet of the things (in yellow sticker); I spy with my little eyes things found in the picture (in white sticker)

Synonym of words

Concept of symmetry through coloring rainbow with paint;

coloring rainbow with crayon. This activity is a follow up from what we learned in Shirley's lapbook class

This is another follow up activity from Shirley's lapbook class. Concept of primary and secondary colors through mixing paints

Animal's sleeping habits

Coloring of shapes

Spot the difference

Arranging from small to big

Lap booking class Term 2 lesson 6

Today we start a new literature "Little Mouse Wants an Apple" .

This will be the last literature with Shirley as she is pregnant and will be due in September. Wonder if she will still conduct lapbook class after that.

Today we did

1. Shirley pointed to the story book "Little Mouse Wants an Apple" and asked what is the color of the mouse? Is it big or small? Have you seen a real mouse? How many apples are there on the tree. The tots went to her to count the apples including Png Png.

2. Shirley read the story "Little Mouse Wants an Apple". She asked questions as she read along. What does bird use to pluck the apple? Beak. Can mouse fly? No. Why? Png Png answered it has no wing. Can mouse climb the tree? No. It has short front legs that can't wrap around the tree trunk. Does mouse have long nose? No. Will it's nose grow longer when it pulls it? No. Can mouse's neck grow longer by stretching? No. What does rhino use to pluck the apple? Png Png answered horn. Can it jump? No Why? It has short legs and too heavy to jump. It runs and knocks the apple tree with it's horn and shakes the apple down. Can you jump as high as a kangeroo? Tots jumped as high as they can. Cute. Does sea lion have wings? Long nose? No It has short button nose. Can it jump? What is it good at? Juggling. Png Png said sea lion tosses the mouse up to pluck the apple. Why does mouse pluck 2 apples? To give 1 to sea lion and 1 for itself. Does all the animals have an apple each? Any apple left? How many animals are there? Shirley flipped back the pages to recall which are the animals. She suggested parents to take 8 apples and take 1 out for each animal while reading along. This teaches tots subtraction.

3. Shirley took a green apple and asked tot what is the color of the apple? Png Png answered green. Is it hard or soft? Is it smelly? She passed the apple around to let tots smell. Is it juicy? What is the taste of the apple? Png Png answered sour. How does mummy cut the apple? With a knife. Can mummy use hand to chop the apple into half or pull it open? She passed the apple to tots to chop the apple with hand. Some boys tried very hard to chop the apple with hand. Shirley said the skin of the apple is dry. She peeled the skin and said the inside which is the flesh is moist. She let tots touched the skin and the flesh of the apple. Shirley cut the apple with a knife. She told tots which part of the knife is handle, which part is the blade. Can you touch the blade? No. Why? Png Png answered you will cut yourself. She asked what is inside the apple? Seeds. What does mummy do with the seeds? Png Png answered throw it away. Shirley said we can plant the apple seed and it will grow into an apple tree. She pointed to the apple stalk, skin, core and flesh of the apple and asked tots what are they.

4. Shirley gave out picture of an apple and name of the parts of the apple. Tots are to paste the name and join to the part of the apple with magic ink

5. Sang Good bye song

Today Png Png participated actively in answering Shirley's questions and all the answers were correct. Good work Png! I am so happy over it. Shirley kept probing the answers that Png Png provided. Hmmm.... she is very good with details

Skypark at Marina Bay Sands

My sister in law's friend works in Marina Bay Sands.   She invited us to skypark.   She bought the tickets at staff priceUp in the skypark

Chen Chen in his signature pose

The glass panel is down to leg level which is good.   Kids can see views themselves and won't request adults to carry them

Png Png in his favorite romper - a dog on his back

We went there late afternoon and stayed till night time to view night scenery

Lap booking class Term 2 lesson 5

Today Png Png rubbed his chest upon reaching the classroom. I asked him if he was fine but he vomitted and cried very loudly. Shirley heard that and came out to see what happened. She asked the admin staff to mop the floor while I washed Png Png. Luckily he didn't vomit onto himself.

Shirley asked if Png Png had fever, cough? She said we shouldn't attend the class if Png Png was sick as there were many kids in the class. I told him Png Png was fine. He vomited only then.

We did

1. Shirley referred to the insects list she gave out last week and asked tots which is the insect that has yellow wings. Bee. She wrote the word bee on the white board and asked tots to point to the word in the list. She asked which insect has long blue body with 4 light wings. Dragonfly. She wrote dragonfly on the white board and asked tot to point to the word dragonfly in the list. She asked which insect has 2 big front legs that look like praying. Praying Mantis. She wrote praying mantis on the white board and asked tot to point to the word praying mantis. She asked is praying mantis 1 word or 2 words. Png Png got all the answers correct.

Shirley said insect has 6 legs, a head, a thorax (equivalent to neck) and an abdoman. She asked tots how many legs do you have. 2 Are you an insect? No. Does butterfly stomp legs? No. Butterfly walks gently. Elephant stomps legs. How many legs does elephant have? 4. It has a long trunk. Is elephant an insect? No How many legs does caterpillar have? She counts the legs of picture of a caterpillar in the book. 16 legs. Is caterpillar an insect? Yes. Why? Because it's mummy butterfly is an insect. She said all these questions emphasize that insect has 6 legs, a head, a thorax and an abdoman. These questions are important. They teach tots to draw back to memory and relate what they know. So next time, when a child sees something, he/she will relate to what he/she knew

Shirley asked where does caterpillar live? On a tree where there are leaves. Who else live on the tree? Bugs, birds. Birds pick up caterpillar with it's beak and bring it back to it's nest to eat. Can the caterpillar kick the bird(action kick)? Can caterpillar throw leaves at the bird (action throw things)? Can the caterpillar escape? No. Some caterpillars have spikes, some have angry colors like red with black stripes to warn birds that they taste yucky, not nice to eat. She asked tots will you eat fishballs with spikes? No right. They look yucky. That's the way caterpillar protect itself from predators. Same for butterfly. They have eye spots that are not real eyes. When predator sees the eye spot, it thought there is a pair of big eyes looking at it and dare not to get closed to the butterfly.

2. Shirley gave a mini book, name of the 7 days of the week, the things that caterpillar eats in The Very Hungry Caterpillar book. She said get tots to narrate what happened to the hungry caterpillar in the book. Ask tots what color is the apple. She said normally tot will answer red or green. Ask tot can it be green, yellow, brown? What color is the cake. Tot normally will answer brown chocolate cake. Ask can it be pink? Tots to paste the 7 days in the week (can use the 7 days in a week song to guide tot but start with Monday instead of Sunday) then the things that the caterpillar eat on each day

3. Sang Good bye song.

I added additional things to the cover of lapbook with Png Png