Websites for interactive learning

Just created a National Library membership card for JX and he used it to borrow his very first book! We may be a bit slow in this but he does have lots to read (books passed down by his cousin plus interactive websites).

YL attended a reading workshop recently about parents reading with children and the speaker introduced a website from Taiwan. Stories can be read out and reading activities created for parents to read with their childeren. The wordings are in "traditional chinese" but the activities are fun!

http://children.cca.gov.tw/home.php 儿童文化馆

Here's another 2 websites which have been shared previously:

http://www.mm-bb.cn/ 妈咪宝贝 (shared by Mdm Qin on parenting and many many more......)

http://www.starfall.com/ (on learning English)

Enjoy!!

Finally, Our First Family Outing in 2 weeks!

After a terrible bout of flu... finally... a family outing! Nothing beats cooling down with a nice cool ice cream after a cycling trip!

Countdown to Mei Mei's arrival in late Aug/early Sept :-)

A picture together at last!

...and yes... with matching polos!!

This was taken @ Mimolette (restaurant) at the old Turf Club.

A great place for kids to visit... but TBH, the food is expensive and not that great. But hey... the kids enjoyed the free balloon animals, face and arm painting and the (paid) horse rides. So it isn't that bad really. The whole deal reminds me of "cartoon-character cakes" - real darn expensive and not that tasty but... the kids love it.

Its me again!

Wow haven't been posting anything for months...

Time flies and my daughter Xin Ran is 11months now. She is becoming more and more curious of her surrounding and is trying out everything within her reach! I am still bringing her to parks and reservoirs frequently which i feel is keeping her clam and relaxed especially during this hot season.

Learning Chinese Characters

Too early,too late? You might want to try out:

JX's cousin passed him a set of word character cards (字卡) and he started word recognition about 1 month ago, till now, he could recognise up to about 40 plus characters and form short sentences like "我爱爸妈" minus the punctuation marks. We see him every weekend and the learning process is repeated every weekend. I believe this applies to English characters and words too. Of course, when he is "studying" , he does role play (he pretends he is the childcare teacher).