1 a Bao Bei, 2 a Little Prince

Monday, July 4, 2011

Nasi Lemak Bento

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

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Lap booking class Term 2 lesson 8

Today we did
1. Sang Good afternoon song
2. Shirley asked tots whether have they tried new fruits in the past few weeks? Anyone tried durian? Is it smelly? Mushy? Sweet? Bitter? Sour like lime? Anyone tried Mangosteen? What color is it? She showed picture of mangosteen. She said mangosteen has segments, it's purple color on the outside and white on the inside. Anyone tried dragon fruit? What color is it? There are 2 types - one is dark pink in color, another is white in color. It has many seeds. Do you remove the seeds before you eat it? No. You eat the seeds as well. The seeds cannot be digested, where do they go? They pass out in your poo but some are digested.
How to tell if something is a fruit? Is caterpillar fruit? No. Fruit grows on tree or plant. And it has seed(s). Is tree truck fruit? It grows on tree. No. It has no seed. Is car a fruit? No. Why not? Good to train a child to question why not? That shows that the child understand reason for something.

Are all fruits edible? kids eat fruits that we offer them. They do not know there are fruits that are inedible. Pong Pong fruit is inedible. It is poisonous. If you eat it, you will feel very sick and may die. It is green in color and looks like lime. It's tree is commonly found along expressway

3. Tots were given 2 mini booklet and picture of susage, apple, orange and plum to classify whether each picture is fruit or not fruit in the 2 mini booklet

4. Shirley asked tots have you ever make a wish? Do you make a wish during Christmas? Little mouse wishes that is has long neck, it hope it has long neck. It stretches it's neck hoping that it's neck will be long. Would it be sad if it's neck is not long? Would you be sad if mummy doesn't allow you to swim because you have running nose? You will be angry, sad, disappointed and throw tantrum. Shirley said it's good to teach kids words on feelings. This makes tantrum management easier as kids don't know there are such words to describe their feelings

5. Shirley showed a picture of mice on a book. She asked what is the color of the mouse? Where is the nose, eye, ear? What is on the face? Is it's tail long? There are claws on the feet for mouse to grib on tree truck when climbing up the tree. Is the fur long or short? Which mouse do you like? Is the body warm? What other animal has whiskers? Cat What is the whiskers for? It allows mouse to feel the surrounding especially when it comes out at night. What other animal in the story "Little mouse wants an apple" have whiskers? Sea lion. Sea lion uses it's whiskers to feel when it swims in the water

6. A picture of a mouse and words of it's body parts were distributed to tots to paste the words and draw a line to the body part in the picture

7. Sang Good bye song

Great thoughts from Chen Chen

Told Chen Chen aunty Lyn can't give him baby lobster as her baby lobsters died when she went for holiday. She put too much food in the tank and the water was clouded with lobster food. He said aunty Lyn should get a feeding machine which will release food into the tank at pre-set timing.Hmm..... I like that thought. He doesn't know such machine exist in the zoo

Had a causal conversation with Chen Chen

Me : I HATE these stupid geckos. Pass motion here and there
Chen Chen : Where? Around the basin?

Me : Yes...

Chen Chen : Put a camera here

Me : You think the gecko know it's a camera and will stop coming?

Chen Chen : No. It's a special camera that will spray insecticide and kill the gecko when it detects a gecko

I like his answer

Friday, June 24, 2011

Something to share : Food for thought - Bill Gates: The realities of life

I received an email forwarded from a friend. It's a good one!

~ Bill Gates~
This should be posted in every school or kid's bedroom.
Love him or hate him , he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about
eleven (11) things they did not and will notlearn in school.
He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings
created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and
how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something
BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.
You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping:
They called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault,
so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring
as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you
talk about how cool you thought you were:
So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation,
try delousing the closet in your own room..

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades
and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.
*This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters.
You don't get summers off and very few employers
are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.
*Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life.
In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds.
Chances are you'll end up working for one..