Recycling from young

Ooops, don't let the agents know......but these are useful for spelling :)

"Walking with Dinosaurs" - Pictures & Video

Some photos and a video taken during the show......

Dinosaur Exhibition@Science Centre!!!

It's holiday!!! Spotted this ad in "Today" (26/11/10) and also saw it in FB (Science Centre):

(1) Fun with Dinosaurs exhibition- hailed all the way from Japan! Come meet and greet “Stan”, the world’s second most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil. Open 27 Nov 2010 until 30 Jan 2011, catch these dinos before they disappear! ($2 per adult/child, does not include Science Centre admission)

(2) Robot Zoo exhibition (new!)Venue: Omni-TheatreDuration: 20 Nov- Mar 2011
Admission Price: S$1
Opening hours: 10am – 6pm everyday

Better than any picture book or documentary, visitors to the Science Centre will be given the chance to “interact” with zoo animal robots. With animal favourites such as the rhinoceros, giraffe, and the platypus, this collection of robots is fun, engaging and an excellent educational resource for children to increase their understanding of the unique qualities of animals. Come be intrigued and entertained!

Walking with dinosaurs --Roar!!!!!

http://www.dinosaurlive.com.sg/

Avoid these toys?

Mummies & Daddies,

Got this information from Suat Hong, check this out?

http://www.case.org.sg/downloads/central/toy_survey.html

Story Telling at Bookabura

Anyone tried this?

Storytelling at Bookaburra583 Orchard Road #02-03/04 Forum The Shopping Mall Cost: $5 per childWebsite: www.bookaburra.com
Call 6235 9232 to book a spot two days in advanceWant to beat the heat at a mall without window-shopping aimlessly? Head to Bookaburra on Wednesday or Friday afternoons at 4pm and let its storyteller, Siti, work her magic. Storytelling afternoons promise loads of fun with stories, interactive activities and a craft to take home. Well worth $5 per child! Best enjoyed by kids aged 3 years and up.

Doing housework together can be fun!!

Spring cleaning time! Get your little ones to help out in cleaning and hanging decorations to usher in the Lunar New Year! Of course, you'll have to educate him/her/them a bit on Chinese customs etc. Enjoy!!! 恭喜发财！！！！！

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY 2010 TO ALL DADDIES & MUMMIES!!!

Introducing...Ethan & Andrea

Finally... a photo update for members.

Here're my beloved children - Ethan & Andrea

Visit to Hill Street Central Fire Station

It was an impromptu decision and we off we went last Saturday!! There is no specific guided tour, so you could step in anytime from 9am onwards till 12pm (I suppose). The information I receive was tour starts at 9am and 10am. Anyway,we spent about 1 hour plus then went for lunch at Funan Centre, forgot to visit the Museum though. Perhaps next time...... Check these out!

JX enjoyed the ride so much,he went up 4 times!!!

Inside the Emergency Ambulance.

Demonstrations, the firemen are really brave to slide down 3 storeys!!

Visitors were mainly families with childeren.

Encouraging your child to read story books

JX learns to read. He particularly like this story and has repeatedly read it over and over again. He only recognises some basic characters and remembers the rest of the story. Heard that children at this age tends to memorise things better, so besides stories, you could try getting him/her to recite poetry too!

To us, grasping the Mother Tongue from young is important as he would get plenty of chances to learn English in future. At home, his Aunt and me would speak to him sometimes in English. Also, he would learn English from the websites. In fact, he has expressed before that he likes to watch English VCDs and speak English, perhaps from the fact that most of his classmates speak English at Nursery 2.

Enjoy reading!!!

Holiday Activities for children

Holiday activities for children:

http://www.singaporeforkids.com/

http://www.asianchildrenfest.com/

http://www.forestadventure.com.sg/

Check it out!!!

IF you like Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends show at Singapore Indoor Stadium this Dec:

http://www.sistic.com.sg/portal/dt?dt.isPortletRequest=true&dt.action=process&dt.provider=PortletWindowProcessChannel&dt.windowProvider.targetPortletChannel=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar/Event&dt.containerName=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar&dt.windowProvider.currentChannelMode=VIEW&dt.window.portletAction=RENDER&contentCode=thomas1209

Here's an interactive website on Thomas & Friends too!!

http://www.thomasandfriends.com/usa/



Enjoy!!!

Whee! I have passed the 1 year mark!!!!!

Xinran celebrated her 1 year this Sept. I bought her a small plastic chair so that she can push around at home!

Btw I read this in 10/10 Straits Times

"A 2006 report of the landmark Perry Pre-school project in the United Stated showed that the benefits over the life of the child stood at more than US$8 for every US$1 invested in early childhood education" I am beginning to believe that the behavior of our student now may be partly influenced by the type of child care education they had in the past.

Chinese books sales(商务印书馆大减价)

（见今天早报）
商务印书馆自９月３日（星期四）至１０日，一连８天在中华总商会嘉庚堂举行清货大减价。除了成人书籍，同时也特设特价儿童书专柜，推出书籍和光蝶产品。
时间：上午10时至晚上9时30分。

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).