Tumbletots/ Canopy Playschool

Tumbletots has a new name for its daily class, it is known as Canopy Preschool. As I couldn't find any info from the internet on the curriculum I was quite worry not knowing what yun was being taught as yun was singing the same song over and over again. Last week, I received a surprise in my mail box, an email from yun's teacher on the curriculum. Ah... at least beside the monthly file that contain yun's worksheet and art&craft, I know that my girl actually learned quite a substantial amount of things beside singing.

English
Practiced writing capital and small letters A, B & C

Story of the week: “Gingerbread Man”.
Learned that ginger is used to make gingerbread. The Kids were given ginger to smell and taste. Colored a gingerbread man picture and played pin the eyes on a BIG gingerbread man blindfolded.

Math: Same vs Different – sorted gingerbread man with the same/different sizes and colors. Revision on numbers 1- 20

Chinese
After learning the Chinese strikes “heng and shu”, the children were able to read the words “shang and xia”.
The teacher planed to do some very interesting activities with the children and thought them the song “ zou,zou,zou,”. The also learnt how does human legs function and to know some new verbs such as “ zhan, zou, pao, tiao and ti”---“ stand, walk, run, jump and kick”, they were expecting to know how to read these words as well.

In addition, Yun had started to love her new school and guess the reason? Because she had found 2 handsome prince:p

P.S I was searching the internet again a/f this post and finally found the Canopy Playschool website
:)

Jan2010PlayTime

Cam was very kind to invite us to her house again for the kids to gather. This is because the kids missed each other very much as they no longer in the same school. This time round, the kids had a makeover and pretend they are star for photo taking on the stage.

My Daily Battle With A 3.5yrs Old

Yun had been a active kid since she was young. Thus, it was never easy to teach her. I try to teach her to hold her pen properly by buying those rubber that could be attach to a pen, it didn't work, let her exercise her finger by playing with playdough, pick up things with chopstck and finally I give up as I did not hold the pen in the correct way too. So what's the heck to force my girl hold it the proper way. However, there's some improvement now at least she hold the pen and learn to write A-Z instead of running away. Mummy so proud of you, dear yun:)

I guess I could only blame myself for not establishing the routine of brushing yun's teeth when she's a baby because she is late in her teeth development. We only started to brush her teeth for her when she's about 1 year old thus now she does not like to brush her teeth. But these two magic brush - A Electric and A Talking toothbrush manage to get yun to brush her teeth voluntarily. If you do come across any interesting toothbrush do share with me ya. TIA!!

How to keep a toddler with sharp needle on her butt on the mrt seat for a 30mins ride. So far, yun would only be interested in reading story book, playing with sticker book and also with my camara phone. But we didn't let her snap photos all the way or else I would be blind from the flash by the time we reach our destination.

And lastly her boundless energy. Yun seem to have unlimited supply of energy a/f she turn 3 last year. She would run away and a few time, we nearly lost sight of her in the mall. Thus, I told DH unless necessary if not we shall not go to the mall. Just bring her to an open field to fly kite, let her do her marathon run or have a picnic:)

MIL & SIL Birthday

We celebrated MIL & SIL birthday at ParadiseInn in City Square The 1st eco mall in S'pore. We ordered many food, fish, soup, noodle, chicken, prawn and dessert for everyone. And the price is reasonable. Approx. $150 for 6 pax. The food is okay but for dessert those at dessert shop taste better.


P.S I forgot to bring extra clothing for yun and guess what she accidently pour the soup and wet her clothes. Thus, no choice but to buy her a new dress. Moral of the story- Always bring extra set of clothing:p

Gingerbread Man

If you are looking into having great baking time with your tots, do get premix like this, just mix the ingredients, cut, decorate, bake and viola here come gingerbread man....

Yamaha Little Notes

I thought it would be easier for me to bring yun to another music class Yamaha Little Notes at sengkang as SK is much nearer to our house as compare to mandeville at United Square. Thus, last sat. yun attended her 1st lesson at Yamaha. I would said the class does not suit my active girl as the student are expected to sit down on their chair while they sing. I would foresee having difficult time controlling my girl whom love to stand up and dance whenever she hear lovely song.

P.S For little notes class, we are expected to buy this set of paper which cost me $15 to make prop for the song. I will be giving away this set a/f yun class. Anyone need it?

Tumbletots

Yun started her nursery class at tumbletots last monday. I took leave on her 1st & 3rd day of school to accompany her. Here's the summary on my personal view of the school.
Day 1
Pretty messy as the classroom was divided by some low partition board into 3 classes. N1, N2 and K1. Thus, when some of the younger ones cried, it would disturb another class. Moreover, some of the parents stayed inside the classroom. In addition at 11am when N1 classes were dismissed, the playgroup student came in. Chaotic situation.
Day 3
Much better in terms of controlling the kids/ parents as I saw that they actually told the parent to bring the playgroup kid in at 11.30am instead of accepting the student like in day 1. In terms of study, Yun was in K1 instead of N2 as the teacher feels that she already know letter A-Z and could count 1-10 therefore yun could learn more writing and reading if she is in K1 class. However, I could see yun was not really happy. Maybe she's the only girl with 3 other boys in K1 or she's simply not ready to sit down and do some serious reading and writing. I had requested to transfer yun back to N2 hope she will enjoyed her new school/ classmates:)

Photobook3

This time round I ordered it from photobook singapore instead of malaysia. Thus, within 5 days I got the book. In terms of color, I find that it turn out much better than the soft cover. And do take note they are currently having a 40% discount exclude delivery charge of about S$15 otherwise it pretty expensive.

DEC09 Playtime2

As I was on leave during the last week of dec, I decided to organise another playtime for the kids before the school reopen. I made some sandwich, prepare some finger foods. Thanks to MIL for waking up early to cook the curry and Cam for making the sushi. The kids had a great time playing, making popcorn and learned colors through playdough and bubbles.

Ice Cream Maker

I got this toy from toyrus thinking it would be interesting to make some ice cream this dec holiday with yun. However, I couldn't find the recipe in the box, give the store a call and they said the recipe was not inserted in and they are currently waiting for the supplier to send over the recipe.
But yun was very excited and wanted to make ice cream thus I thought why not we experiment with our own recipe
1st trial - Unsuccesful as I only use full cream milk and the product was rather icy.
2nd trial - Product was much better. Actually don't need to buy this toy could make ice cream using the following recipe.
1) Full Cream Milk 250g
2) Dark Chocolate 250g
3) Whipping Cream 250g
4) Fine sugar 120g
5) Egg yolks 5
6) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Procedure
1) Put milk, cream, sugar in double boiler, cook till sugar dissovle.
2) Whisk egg yolk and vanilla, add into part 1 and stir constantly for 8-10mins or till mixture thickens
3) Remove from heat and stir in chocolate until melted. Cool slightly, refrigerate till chilled. Take out, whisk every couple of hours until frozen and creamy.

Places We Went this Dec Holiday

Boating at United Square

Swimming at Sengkang Swimming Complex

Photo taking at raffles city with barbie costume display

Photo taking along orchard road


It had been a great month with lotsa party/ garthering with friends and yun also recieved many presents from all the aunties. Thank you aunties!!