tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17853771598515557062024-02-07T16:17:08.651+08:00My Journal, a homeschooling momI started homeschooling my daughter on April 2007. She was 2 years and 3 months old.Homeschooling is not a very well known thing in Malaysia, the country that I live in. Lots of friends asked me what and how I do it.
I choose to share my journey here. Not because Im an expert in any of this. Instead I hope all the ups and downs in my journey will help you in yours.DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-86682047791654909212016-05-01T21:25:00.002+08:002023-03-25T23:35:14.421+08:00About teaching Chinese...after 8 years part 1: Legend of the Condor HeroesIt has been a long long time since my last posting. A few of you asked me why didn't I continue...well...nothing drastic...I supposed the reasons or motivations that prompted me to write at the first place are no longer there.<br />
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One of the reasons I started blogging was because blogging helped me to put my thought into words. It helped me to review and evaluate my actions and helped to organize and set my future goal. After a few years of homeschooling, I kind of found the "groove" or my own rhythm in doing things and thus no longer need to blog.<br />
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Recently, I found the need to blog again. This time it is specifically about homeschooling Chinese.<br />
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I have always been struggling with teaching Den Chinese. Something that I would not have guessed at the beginning.<br />
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Let me give you some background about myself. I grew up in a Chinese Speaking environment. Mandarin is my mother tongue, my first language, and still my strongest language. I was educated in a Chinese school all the way from primary to secondary school. I love the language and wish Den will be able to appreciate it too. I thought with my skill in the language I should not have a problem teaching her Chinese. I was so wrong.<br />
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However, my dear hubby doesn't speak Mandarin. So we choose to use English as her first language. Later on, we decided to homeschooling her with Sonlight. With that, English has become her main language.<br />
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I started teaching her Chinese formally when she was 3 years old. I used many methods and different materials. However, as with any language, you need exposure. You need the environment to speak and listen. Thus, she progressed very slowly. She was not motivated to learn it.<br />
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After much trial and error, we settled with Basic Chinese 500 (基础汉字500). It is published by a Hong Kong publisher. Targeted at kids who don't grow up in a Chinese-speaking environment. We started Basic Chinese 500 Level one when she was 6 years old. We are still at Level Five (the last level) this year (she is 11 years old now). She can read about 200-300 words. But she won't say a sentence in Mandarin unless she was forced to.<br />
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It is very difficult to find books that are interesting and yet at her reading level. I used to let her watch only Mandarin cartoons. Again, it is getting difficult to find a Mandarin cartoon that I approved of and that will interest her.<br />
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Finally, I make a decision about two months ago. I decided I'm going to lure her with Chinese culture instead. There are many unique books/movies that I have never introduced to her because her language level is too low. I decided since what I have been doing has not been a great success anyway, let's try a new approach. I'm no longer going to read to her or let her watch movies at her language level but with inferior/immature content. Let's introduce her to things that are uniquely Chinese. Forget about the language level. I want her to appreciate the beauty of the Chinese language and culture and thus hopefully motivate her to want to learn Chinese.<br />
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I decided to introduce her to Louis Cha's The Legend of the Condor Heroes (金庸的射雕英雄传)It is a WuXia novel (武侠小说). A concept that is uniquely Chinese. Even the genre's name cannot be translated into English. I read it when I was 10 years old and have fallen in love with the Chinese language since. However, many of my former schoolmates can't even understand it until they were 16-18 years old. It is a very difficult jump for Den. To make a comparison: imagine introducing Shakespeare in the original language to a 7-year-old.<br />
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I know I need to get her hooked on the story first before she will want to listen to me read. So I choose to introduce her to a 50 episodes TV series (2008 version, found on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOufF_4zubuTh9TnhQCy5d1x4v4l47sDZ">Youtube</a>. Honestly, there is nothing to shout about this particular version but it will fit my purpose. Shall explain later). We watched the first few episodes and she was hooked.<br />
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The watching process at the beginning was rather "painful". A 40min episode sometime would take us 1.5 hours to 2 hours to go through. I have to keep pausing to translate and explain certain words and cultures and concepts. Every night, after watching, I get a bad headache.<br />
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To help her figure out who is who and what is their relationship, I spent an afternoon making up a character map for her: (photo at the end of the post, no idea why it refused to appear here.)<br />
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But it is worth it for many reasons:<br />
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1. She bags me to study Chinese with her (hahaha!) aka watching the series.<br />
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2. The 1.5-2 hours per episode has improved to about 1 hour-ish per episode now (we are at episode 35). This proved that her understanding of the language has improved.<br />
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3. I purposely told her some of the storylines that are in the original novel but not included in the TV series. She bags me to read to her. I did and will continue. The book is way too difficult for her, so I can't read the whole book to her, instead, I choose to read those parts that are not told in the TV series.<br />
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4. The series comes with a Chinese subtitle. She is picking up some words naturally while watching the series. At the same time, I let her practice writing some of the character names.<br />
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5. This opens her eye to a world that she has not seen - the fictional world of WuXia, with many unique Chinese concepts. With such a complicated storyline, she suddenly realized Harry Potter's plot is like child's play.<br />
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I plan to let her rewatch it after we are done with the 50 episodes. But this time, I will let her watch it with English subtitles (can be found on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1A238F1BB456EA2">Youtube</a> as well, see why I choose this version?). I choose not to let her watch with the English sub the first time around because I think it will force her to listen instead of relying on subtitles.<br />
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Honestly, I am not sure how well this will turn out. The only thing I can say is, this is the first time in her life she is excited about something in Chinese.<br />
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After rewatching, I am seriously contemplating in watching Nirvana In Fire (琅琊榜)with her. That will be another long story. Shall continue in part 2.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By nature, I'm one of those people who like to plan, set goal, target and make list. If I can have my way, I would have plan our schooling down to every minute. 1000-1015 Chinese Reading; 1015-1030 Chinese Writting; 1030-1035 Break, etc etc etc.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Four years of homeschooling teach me to be relax, to let go, to give space for Den to grow on her own pace. I forced my self to give her time to be idle. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have not been progressing according to my plan for the past few weeks now due to sickness (hers, then me, then hers) and last min travelling. So now that we are back to our home, I'm rather impatient to get on with our school work. However, due to house chores and activities, we just don't seem to be able to study much.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've to keep reminding my self, it is ok. Travelling, chores and activities are very important part of the learning too. I've to keep my impatient at bay, not to squeeze in too much works in order to catch up the lost time and not to squeeze out her idle time.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I truly believe idle time is good for kids. They get to do things that they really wanted to do and also explore on their own. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In her idle time, Den read books, catch insect, wrote letters, making cards, doodle, writting poem or stories, etc. Tonight she decided to make a card game. Originally I wanted to queeze in some study time at night but I control my self and she came up with a game. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She called it "The Story Game". She make 30 cards and she wrote different nouns on each of them. The players use the cards on their hands to make up stories. She came up with three different ways to play this. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm sure there are something similar in the market but she has never play any of them before. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In her idle time, she also wrote a interesting short story as my birthday present. I will type it out on another day. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've to keep reminding my self learning is not just about desk work! She is learning in idle time too! (May be even more!)</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></p><p><font size="4">Update: a friend, who is also a homeschooling mom posted something beautiful on her blog that expressed this a thousand time better than mine. Check it out <a href="http://poundthegarlic.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-matters-most.html#links
">here</a>.</font></p>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-39753887821054390852013-10-31T02:23:00.001+08:002013-10-31T02:46:29.339+08:00The Important Thing<span style="font-size: large;">Wow! I just posted one and now I'm writing another, may be I'm catching up on the past year that I've not been writing? ^^</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Homeschooling has been a challenging journey. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it tremendously and in fact think it is not as hard as I thought it would be but still it is challenging. Sometime I feel like I'm a failure or I've not done enough or why isn't she remember, etc etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">However, from time to time, there are moments that reminded me again why am I homeschooling Den. The main reason. It has never been about how many animals Kingdom orders she can remember or she can be ahead of her peer in certain subject. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Most of our family members know Den is rather frugal. She guarded her money. However, she is very generous with her offering. Recently when we participated in Mission India, right away she put in all the loose change she has been saving. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">After much thought, she even put in the RM20 "hard earn" money she gotten from her daddy (through math challenge). With this special RM20, her daddy promised her, she can use it to buy anything (and her mom will not say anything). She was very excited about the money and had been planning how to spend it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">She told me later, God reminded her she should only has one master. So she put in the RM20 into the offering box. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It is in time like this, I know why I homeschool. </span><br />
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This is our forth set of Sonlight curriculum, I was expecting smooth sailing but it has not progress as well as I planed. Main stumbling block - SCIENCE! Suprised! Den has always loves science, so this is indeed a suprise.<br />
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Core C should goes with Science C but i choose to skip Science C and jump right into Science D. I make the decision on using Core D science instead of Core C science due to two reasons:<br />
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1. Last year, Core B science was too easy for Den;<br />
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2. We will be doing Core D+E after Core C and the suggested science is Core E science, so I thought instead of skipping Core D science, we can do It this year.<br />
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I would not said it was a mistake but definitely a challenge.<br />
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Main reason - the language used in the first two books - Real Science for Kids: Biology Level 1 and the Lyrical Life Science (optional) are difficult. A lot of scientific terms and rather dry.<br />
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In three weeks of science, it has covered kingdom classification, different type of cells, Monotremes, Marsupials, carnivores, Pinnipeds etc etc...I would not even bother to go in the detail of the cells!<br />
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We struggle for the first few weeks and now we kind of find a way into it - I don't read out the text word by word. Instead, I read them first then I explain to Den in my own language. It kind of works for us. However we are still very much behind in schedule. Our history and Readaloud has been very much ahead of our science. So I actually have to have a week or two of only science week.<br />
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The main reason of why we are so behind is because I choose to use the optional books - Lyrical Life Science ol 1 & 2. Some week we have to cover 4-5 chapter a week. That's a lot.<br />
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Even though it take up a lot of time I will still suggest whoever is using Science D use the optional books as well. Real Science by it self is very boring with lots of scientific term and not much explanation and example. On the other hand Lyrical Life Science gives too much detail.<br />
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So what I do is we read Real Science together (word by word) and Den will do the worksheet. I will only explain/summarize the Lyrical Life Science, listen to the song that come with every chapter and do the worksheet orally together.<br />
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I also make visual aids to help Den remember some of the main point. Some of the aids we make:<br />
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Den painted different type of cells:<br />
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It took us three weeks just to go through Sceince week 3 alone!<br />
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Week 4 has another 5 chapters of Lyrical Life Science! Good news is no more Real Science in week 4 &5, instead we have the child friendly Mystery and Marvel of Nature! Yes!<br />
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I suppose I can understand the reasoning behind all the difficult sciencetific term. We has been studying animals and marvel at their uniqueness since pre-k and now it is time to introduce to student how the scientist look at the animals - thus kingdom classification. But boy oh boy, it is a tough jump! I'm walking very cautiously now, I want Den to continue to love science and appreciate how difficult and clever of the scientists in classifing the animals and not to be permanently put off by it.<br />
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The rest of the Core C - history, geography and Readaloud are just good. We especially enjoy the Geography song. Den and I now can name and correctly point to some of the country in Middle East. That is an achievement for someone who actually thought Africa is a country (me...not Den).<br />
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We also participate in this year Mission India. This is our third time and we enjoy as much as the first.<br />
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<a href="" name="more"></a><br />DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-44408978252362069512012-04-04T13:22:00.001+08:002012-04-04T13:39:58.657+08:00Mandarine through drama<span style="font-size: large;">Today we started a new class. We, as in I'm the teacher and Den and her three other homeschooler friends are the students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The class is temporary named "Mandarin through drama". I'm still looking for a more fancy name. ^^</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The objective of the class is to use dramatic activities to cultivate the interest in Mandarin and to encourage the use of the language, especially in spoken form. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ive been thinking of starting something like this for the past year or so but not sure if I can fit it into my schedule. I also worry about the materials. Most of the stuff I had were in English. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blessedly, when I finally took up the challenge then everything just came together- the other kids agreed to join in and we managed to find a common time; a set of usable material completed with CD and DVD just miraculously appeared in Border (I was browsing for some other stuff!). Praise the Lord!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I go into the detail of what we did on our first class today, let me explain the background of my students-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Den, my 7+ dd, since our last year "improve Mandarin year", her Mandarin improved a lot. Still not up to her age level yet. May be around k1-k2 level. This year, I still try to make Mandarin our priority (but not as much as last year). One of the main problem is we seldom use the language in our daily life, so she is very much lacking of practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dan, 9+. Have been taking weekly Chinese classes for sometime now but refuses to speak any Chinese. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jo, 6+. Dan's little sister. Currently taking weekly Chinese classes too but rather weak with Chinese vocabulary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Car, 8+. Just starting to learn Chinese using Basic Chinese book 1. Both parents doesn't speak Mandarine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I design the class not to replace any Chinese classes or program they have been using, but as an add on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Class 1 (3 April 2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Intro: I greeted the kids Good Morning, children! (小朋友,早上好!) and asked them to greet me back with Good morning, Auntie! (Auntie, 早上好!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I asked for a volunteer to translate what I said into English. Right away, Den raised her hand and offered to be my volunteer (she did a wonderful job, I was so surprised! She can translate about 90% of what I said and she even translated the narration from the DVD!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gave them a few simple rules - raised your hand when you need to go to toilet or have question; give me a sign if I speak too fast...I tend to do that; try to use as many Mandarine words as possible in class and I told them I accept mixed sentences like this - 我 don't 明白!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After that I led them in prayer. I prayed in Mandarin and they repeated after me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After prayer, we started our class with a movement activity. I told them we are going to take bath (洗澡or冲凉) and we are going to wash our face (洗脸), hand (手), leg (腿). After that the mirror (镜子) got very misty and we need to wipe it clear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I play the DVD of Peggy Lyman and John M. Feierqbend called Move It 1 (one of the greatest find in Border recently- 舞起來) . It has 20 movement pieces with 20 classical music. The whole set - Cd, DVD and Chinese instruction booklet only cost RM45. I'm going back to buy the part two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For today movement, we used Anitra's Dance. The kids participated even though their actions had rooms to be improved, I think it was a good first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After that we watched today story The Lost Du Du 嘟嘟迷路了 on DVD. This is from the set of material I found in Border. It is an integrated material by 南京师大 to be use in k2 kindergarten. It includes story telling, songs, craft, activities and reading. It comes with cd, DVD, readers, activities pack. I did not buy the reading material because it is too difficult for most of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a simple story about a little bear Du Du lost his way while picnicking with his family members in the jungle. At the end he managed to found his way back to his family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not a difficult story but most of them didn't understand. So I had to paused the DVD a few time to explain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After that we discussed about our past experiences when we were lost...in English! ^^</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also mentioned the important of memorizing parent's phono number. I asked them to write down their parents phone number on a piece of paper without showing anyone (one of them didnt know her parents phone number) and after that they had to use action to act out the last number for us to guess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From there I linked it to the story of the lost sheep in the Bible. I retold it in Mandarin. With the help of a picture Bible and my little translator, they understood this familiar parable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the story, I introduced a Sunday school song called The Lost Sheep <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDQzhWoAoE">迷路的羊</a>. We came up with the actions and we practice it twice. By the end of it, most of them can sing the first two sentence - 迷路的羊,迷路的羊。</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They were hungry (or bored) after that, so we ended the class here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Watch the story DVD for at least 3 time</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our next class is next week.</span>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-37132994453570257492012-02-05T00:21:00.001+08:002012-02-05T00:21:41.336+08:00DreamsRecently a reporter from a local Chinese newspaper wrote about how she was having a very difficult time with her recent assignment. Her assignment was to interview middle age folks about their dreams. <br />
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Folks have answers like I hope my dd will get into the local Uni or my ds will become a very good doc etc. But when the reporter told them this is not what she wanted- she wanted them to tell her their own dreams, not about their ds or dd- they just look at her blankly...the reporter wondered does parenthood took away the ability to dreams?<br />
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I don't know, does it?<br />
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What is your dream?<br />
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The question has been on my mind for many days because I don't have a ready answer for it.<br />
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In my case, it is not so much of parenthood took away my ability to dream. When I look back I have never been much of a dreamer. Growing up in a typical Chinese family in modern time, I've been taught to be logical, sensible and the impractical dreams are for the fools. <br />
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Growing up I don't have any vision and ambition for my life, I never dream of what I want to be... I only know I don't want to be a mon and I don't want to be a teacher. Isn't that ironic that I'm both now?<br />
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I want Den to dream big, to dream the impossible. I find biographies helps a lot. Reading about how others achieve the impossibles help her to see the possibility in achieving hers.<br />
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She has been saying she want to be a scientist but not sure in which field. So whenever we read about something that even the current scientists are still puzzled about, she will right away say, "May be that is the field I should go into!" ^^ <br />
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But then how about me? Shouldn't I be dreaming for my self too? How do I teach her to dream when I dont?<br />
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So I've been contemplating on that. What do I really really hope/wish to do? What is the thing I will really regret I didn't do when I lie in my death bedt? Not looking at the achieve-bility but what my heart really want. I've a few possibilities but I'm actually not sure those are really what I want. So I'm going to think them over and hopefully will find one that I want to focus on. <br />
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No, I'm not sharing my dream here. <br />
DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-20899211173138686212011-11-04T17:44:00.000+08:002011-11-04T17:44:23.905+08:00Letter to LT<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you are like me, a control freak, having kid will be a big shock. ^^ </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before I have Den, Im pretty much in control of every expects of my life (or at least I think I did). Then Den came along, nothing is under my control. I learned what is like totally depend on our Almighty Father. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Recently, after a lengthy conversation with a friend who think she might be having post natal depression, I wrote a letter to her. I hope my experience will be able to help her in her journey. The letter is written in Chinese:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ZH-CN">我非常的赞同你所说的生了孩子过后才发现有许多的事情都不在自己的掌控中。或者应该说其实生命原本就不在我们的掌控里,只是很多时候我们并没有发现而被生活的假象欺骗了,尤其当一切都在根据着我们的</span><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span lang="ZH-CN">凑算在进行时,我们会以为自己在引导着自己的生命。而孩子(或病痛或死亡)把这假象撕破了。当我们发现无法掌控自己</span>/<span lang="ZH-CN">孩子的命运时,我们会非常的害怕,担心</span> but all these are good for our soul. It forced us to face the true reality – to face our limitation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ZH-CN">当一个人发现自己无法掌控未来时,有的人选择只专注在现在,不去想未来,因为想到就很怕,所以不去想,只告诉自己船到桥头自会直;有的人终日忧心,害怕与担忧成了心头上无法与人分享的压力</span><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span lang="ZH-CN">(无法分享因为他人会觉得自己杞人忧天</span><span lang="ZH-CN">),这份忧虑若是长久与持续就会成病。</span></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">我知道生命不在自己的掌控里,孩子的命运也不在我手里。即使我在怎么保护她,有一天,可能她上个厕所就被人拐走了。</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1320394847484478">就如今天DEN 与我跟一个我们完全无法预料的意外擦身而过。</span></div>
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刚才我带她去家附近的supermarket买菜,选完要买的菜,她说她要看看杂志。她一看起杂志来就是至少要15分钟,要不然绝不离开。既然今天不赶时间,我说ok. </div>
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1320394847484487">正要走过去时,我忽然想到不如今晚煲个汤。所以我对她说先买肉和瓜煲汤才去看杂志。就在我们在选肉时忽然传来一声巨响!我们过去一看 - 二楼的玻璃无端端破裂,掉了下来,就掉在杂志的那里!如果我们站在那里,不死也头部受重伤 !</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ZH-CN">虽然知道未来不在我的手里,我不选择不去想也不选择忧虑,我选择相信我与孩子的命运是在全能的爱我的父上帝的手里。我相信若不是他允许,没有任何的灾害会发生在孩子身上</span><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span lang="ZH-CN">(包挂我身为母亲所可能因为我的无知或罪根而犯的错误)。若是他允许任何的灾害发生,那么必有他的美意,因为他非常的爱我,他在圣经里答应我万事必互相效力,必叫爱神的人得益处。他必定赐我出乎人意料之外的能力来面对困难因为经上他答应过他不会给予我过于我可以担的担子。</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ZH-CN">我就是这样子紧紧握住圣经上的话,神的应许来走过许多战战兢兢的日子</span><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span>–<span lang="ZH-CN">当</span>Den<span lang="ZH-CN">惊风休克时,当发现</span>Den<span lang="ZH-CN">眼睛的问题时。我知道日后还会有许许多多穷出不断的难题,但我知道谁在掌管我们的明天。</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1320394847484422" lang="ZH-CN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">你一样也可以依靠在他身上,虽然要靠他而非自己是个很可怕的经验但却是唯一可以经历神的大能大爱的方法。如今孩子已经叫我们筋疲力尽,你能够想像当我们必须面对自己的生老病死时吗?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN"><br /></span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-18505665111598377622011-10-31T16:37:00.001+08:002011-10-31T16:40:01.802+08:00iPad Apps<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Quite a few of you have asked me to post all the apps that I use in my iPad here, so here you go. Please take note that this is as of 30 Oct 2011, I upload/delete my apps on daily basis. I don't have the time to go into detail, so check them out your self. Many of them are paid apps but have free version, so make sure you download the free versions and try them out first before you purchase.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A) Utility:</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/appadvice/id364906378?mt=8">AppAdvice </a>- very useful for the updates on iPad and its apps. It has pc version FOC <a href="http://appadvice.com/appnn">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/pocket-expense/id417328997?mt=8">Pocket Expenses</a> - I use this to keep track all my expenses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/sinchew-i/id376948520?mt=8">Sinchew-i</a> - Read 星洲日报 online, FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id384098375?mt=8"> CineXPlayer</a> - to transfer and play avi movie.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/penultimate/id354098826?mt=8">Penultimate</a> - for note writing</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8"> Facebook</a> - for FB, FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/blogger/id459407288?mt=8">Blogger</a> - for blogging in blogger, FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/mytraffic-malaysia-free/id408243555?mt=8"> MY Traffic Free</a>- Lite version (that mean Free version) to check out the traffic on major highway in Malaysia.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. <a href="http://dictionary.com/">Dictionary.com</a> - FOC. My favorite dictionary apps.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">B) Bible:</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/bible/id282935706?mt=8">YouVersion</a> - Great free app but need to pay for offline NIV (however NIV offline is free from today for 48 hours!). In order to write note, you need to be online.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id325955298?mt=8">NIV Bible By Tecarta</a>- I opt to purchase this apps because it allow me to keep my note offline. It also come with study note.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id455950774?mt=8">荒漠甘泉</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/proverbs-project/id414967195?mt=8">TheProverbProject</a> - Read from my previous posting <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/07-sept-2011.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/living-word!!/id371901054?mt=8"> LivingWord</a> - FOC for verse memorizing</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/theo/id447702191?mt=8">THEO</a> - video about faith. First episode free.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/wheres-jesus-hd/id422593190?mt=8">Where's Jesus</a> - puzzle game to find Jesus. FOC</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">C. Homeschool:</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Homeschool Magazine - hmmm...it seems like it is not available for MLY account. If you have oversea account, then try it out. It come with 3 free issues.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/common-core-standards/id439424555?mt=8">Common Core Standard</a> - FOC. Listed out the common core standard for each grade.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">D. Math</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/mathboard/id373909837?mt=8">Math Board</a> - Read from my previous posting <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/08-sept-2011.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/math-kingdom/id352705816?mt=8">Math Kingdom</a> - Fun but a bit easy math game. K2 to Grade 1. FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/mathwordproblems/id410964531?mt=8">Math Word Problems</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/imathematics!/id337535181?mt=8">iMathematics</a> - FOC. It give you almost all the formula and definition you need in mathematics. Way above Den's level but good to have.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id366247306?mt=8">Sudoku</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/nxtapp-4-kids/id441101974?mt=8">Nxtapp 4 kids</a> -FOC.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/oh-no!-fractions/id463343995?mt=8">Oh No! Fraction</a> - FOC. Above Den level, so we have not use it yet but looks like a good tool to use for learning fraction.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">E. Chinese</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/easychinese-topchars-hd-free/id458038504?mt=8">Easy Chinese - Top Chart</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Below are the list of animated Chinese books I find interesting. All are FOC:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id424173050?mt=8"> 动物百科故事绘本12合1</a> - One of our favorite</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/ryebooks-the-magic-brush-maliang/id416752607?mt=8">神笔马良</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">hmm...this is taking too long....ok, I change my mind and not going to list out all the Chinese books we use, instead, this is what you can do - Go to your iTune, then select iTunes Store (on the Left panel), after that on the Right hand upper conner, key in the company listed below one by one and it should give you lots and lots of Chinese books, some free and some pay. Check them out your self:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. RYE</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. Childhood Fine Art</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. QLL</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Please take note, many of this apps are bilingual(some even have 4 languages), so you can select Chinese or English (after you downloaded)</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">F. English Books</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/bartlebys-book-buttons-vol./id384841276?mt=8">Bartleby's Book of Button Vol. 1</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/disney-comics/id422295758?mt=8">Disney Comic</a></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">G. Music</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/note-goal-pro/id374011376?mt=8">Note Goal Pro</a> - Read from my previous posting <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/08-sept-2011.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/ear-trainer-lite/id398326427?mt=8">Ear Trainer Lite</a> - I did not purchase the full version. This is the FOC version.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/chord-picker-piano-chords/id315474381?mt=8"> Chord Picker</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/virtuoso-piano-free-3/id391994966?mt=8">Virtuoso</a> - piano, FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/praisehymns/id387810480?mt=8"> Praise Hymns</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/music-instruments-by-tidels/id450805312?mt=8">Musical instruments by Tidel</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/pluto-plays-music-hd/id426307893?mt=8">Pluto Music</a> - FOC fun game</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">H. Other Good Edu Apps we enjoy:</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/star-walk-for-ipad-interactive/id363486802?mt=8"> Star Walk</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/toontastic/id404693282?mt=8">Toontastic</a> - Making animation</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/spelling-practice-free/id463351295?mt=8"> Free Spelling</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/brainpop-featured-movie/id364894352?mt=8">Brain POP</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/solarsystemfun/id463466943?mt=8">Solar System Fun</a> - FOC in Chinese only</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id456935724?mt=8"> 中国史年表</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/picturebook/id429810668?mt=8">Picture Book</a> - FOC</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I. Puzzle and Board Games that we enjoy:</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/monopoly-here-now-the-world/id446277462?mt=8">Monopoly Here & Now, World edition</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/uno-hd/id364368518?mt=8">UNO</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/chess-knight-free/id389066545?mt=8">Chess Knight Free</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/chinese-checkers-hd/id448925465?mt=8">Chinese Checkers</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/checkers/id424863423?mt=8">Checkers</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/fantastic-4-in-a-row-free/id374170726?mt=8">Four In A Row</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/backgammon-deluxe-free/id393141690?mt=8">Backgammon Free</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/ant-work/id439228334?mt=8">Ant Work</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/monorail/id431435215?mt=8">Monorail</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">10. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/word-jewels-xl/id437516617?mt=8">Word Jewels</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">11.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/doodle-fit-full-free/id452681757?mt=8"> Doodle Fit</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">12. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/u-connect-lite/id369098938?mt=8">U connect Lite </a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">13. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/tangram-xl-free/id364592142?mt=8">Tangram</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">14. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id423274778?mt=8">Match Puzzle</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">J. Other games that we enjoy:</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/birzzle-pandora-hd/id432874406?mt=8"> Birzzle</a> - we downloaded the Lite version before we purchase the full version but now I cant find the Lite version any where. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/cut-the-rope-hd-lite/id394611607?mt=8"> Cut The Rope Lite</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. Cut The Rope, Christmas Edition - Dont seems to be able to locate this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/cordy/id447870643?mt=8">Cordy</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id395678242?mt=8">Talking Roby</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/baby-adopter/id425135290?mt=8">Baby Adopter</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/flower-garden-grow-flowers/id311265471?mt=8">Flower Garden</a> - FREE FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/jack-of-all-tribes-hd/id434833531?mt=8">Jack of All Tribes</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/my-horse/id421167112?mt=8">My Horse</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">10. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/id445301673?mt=8">Princess Party</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">11. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/make-me-a-princess-lite/id342138864?mt=8">Make me a Princess Lite</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">12.<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/saras-pet-parlour-lite/id444897587?mt=8"> Sara's Pretty Pet Parlour Lite</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">13. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/disney-fairies-fly-lite/id307851803?mt=8">Disney Fairies Lite</a> -FOC</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Please take note that a lot of the free apps come with In Apps Purchase, so make sure you don't give out your account password to your kids or else.....^^</span><br />
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<br />DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-6722106511220201862011-10-29T21:25:00.004+08:002011-10-29T21:25:54.346+08:0022 Oct 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My DH and I went to Cambodia for 5 days and left Den with my parents. I prepared a present for her for each day we are gone </span>(2 Thea Stilton, 1 Winx, 1 Sparkle World and 1 assorted board games)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. I also gave her study works to do each day:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Piano Practice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. iPad - Note Goal Pro and Math Board</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. TimeTable worksheets</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. Chinese 500 </span>(5 chapters per day and practice writing a new word a day)<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. 1 poem page a day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. 2 Brain Olympiad puzzles a day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After she finished her work each day, she can open her present and watch GoodTV. She did managed finished all the assigned works and I really like her poems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Below are some of her poems </span>(Words given in the worksheet are in <b>BOLD</b>)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">:</span><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Storm</span></u></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I feel the wind blowing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I see raindrop here and there</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I hear the storm going like this - BOOM! BOOM!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Time to go home!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes! Go home!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">RUN! RUN!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's raining! Oh! Help!</span><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hard and Easy</span></u></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Its hard to </b>do cooking (now)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>but it's easy to </b>do homework (now)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Its hard to</b> take care of baby (now)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>but it's easy to </b>read (now)</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Some things are easy, some are hard, some are in between. </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Some things are hard 'cause I'm </b>6+ <b>years old. </b></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They'll be easy when I'm seventeen.</span></b><br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Picnic In The Park</span></u></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I see </b>tress and grass</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I shoo away </b>bees and ants</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I munch on </b>butter on bread</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I eat lots of </b>cake and cream</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>We play </b>swing and sand</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>We play </b>ball and skip</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Darn-it's time to leave the park,</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">because it's really getting dark!</span></b><br />
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<br />DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-28361808598915956482011-10-04T01:20:00.000+08:002011-10-04T01:23:17.792+08:0003 Oct 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It has been a rather rough week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Getting to know some homeschooling families and even though I know I should not compared, I cant help but to started to question the way we had been homeschooling. Are we going to the right direction? Am I spoon feeding Den too much information and not enough practical? Have I been lazy and rely too much on the curriculum and not making enough effort to make the lesson interesting for Den? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We continued to school as usual but all these questions were at the back of mind and lets just said because of that I was rather restless and short temper. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">People always ask if it is difficult to homeschool. To me the difficult part is not the teaching it self. May be because I used to teach more than 100 kids in one session, so now teaching 1 is a lot easier. May be also because God has blessed me with a rather compliant child. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To me the difficult part of homeschooling is the mental struggle and self doubt. Since I grew up in conventional school system, how do I jump out of the box and school Den differently? How do I </span>(or should I)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> measure Den's growth? Am I doing enough? Am I doing too much? From time to time, I will lose sight and forget Den's future is in God's hand and not in mine and thus worry my self sick. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Of cause it won't help when the whole world is questioning you as well - how about socialization? How about Secondary school? College? etc etc. Yesterday, my dad just found out my intention to continue to homeschool Den instead of sending her to P1 next year. Saying that he is not pleased is an understatement. I did not argue with him since I firmly believe it is my right to decide on Den's education. But it is going to be another war to fight soon when he realize I have no intention in following what he said. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">God reminded me two weeks in the row with </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Nehemiah 8:10 "Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." </span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So for the past few days, I have been focusing in praising God. I choose a few songs in my mind and whenever I feel restless or depressed, I focus in praising God instead. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Another difficulty I have with homeschooling is Den is with me 24/7 and some time I fell like I don't even have the space to hear my self think. Especially now when my hubby is not with me and my mom is also away, there is no one to even take Den out of my hand for short awhile. This is one of the reason I sign her up for group art lesson </span>(instead of individual lesson at home)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. I need a breather. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since we don't </span>(and can't)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> do school everyday, I have been trying to squeeze as much study into the days we do school as possible. Because of wanting to squeeze everything in, I get very short temper with her especially when she dilly dally. Sometime I forget, she really doesn't need so much formal school. She need time to do her own thing, to explore on her own. That is one of the reason I homeschool her at the first place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So for the past few days, instead giving her lots independent works </span>(homework/worksheets)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> to do when I'm busy </span>(cooking/cleaning/resting...)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, I let her do her own thing. She happily reread many books from our library, playing piano, drawing, etc. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It has been rough and lots of up and down and shouting, but I also managed to do a lot of thinking. There are still more to consider and may be some changes in our way of studying. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is the summary of what we have done for the past one week:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Bible</b> - we continue <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/07-sept-2011.html">Proverb Project in ipad</a> (at Chp 12 now), praise and worship </span>(sometime I led and sometime Den led)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and a new verse:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hungry, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. ~ Roman 12:19-21</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den is getting very good in memorizing verses. This one only took her 2 sitting. I was a bit unsure if I want her to memorize the KJV or NKJV version </span>(without all the old English words like saith, thou, shalt, etc)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Learning KJV will help her in understanding classic like Shakespeare later on. So finally I decided to let her use all the thine, saith, shalt but change the last verse to NKJV </span>(because KJV doesn't sound right on the last verse!)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She also did the copywork for this verse. It is a long verse, so I broke it into two parts and let her copy in her journal and she also drew a picture at the side to illustrate the verse.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Science</b> - We almost done with the<a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/07-sept-2011.html"> 66 scientists video</a> </span>(9 more to go!)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and we've totally fallen in love with science again. Now Den says she want to be a scientist, just cant decide which field to go into! LOL! I learned a lot of new thing my self like Nano technology </span>(ok, I have to confess I have never heard of this word before this!)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, lung cilia, etc. 9 more to go, who know what other new things I'm going to learn with Den. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We finished Sonlight Science Week 22 </span>(mainly about what the scientist do)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and started a bit on Week 23. Haven't done Week 22 experiment yet because keep forgetting to buy the red cabbage! Does anyone know you can actually use the juice from red cabbage to test and see which things are acidic?!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den also did an observation on ant for her homework. This is what she wrote in her science notebook:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also had an impromptu discussion about Earth, Sun, Moon, seasons, day & night and New Moon, Full Moon, etc today </span>(We discussed this once when Den was around 4+, but she had forgotten all about it. No idea why the sudden interest, but I'm very happy to explain it all again. )<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>3. History</b> - We started Sonlight Week 23 today and read about different type of houses for the past hundred years or so </span>(we already did those before this past 100 years).<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I also found this wonderful wonderful book in MPH sales corner called Fatimah's Kampung </span>(I felt like I've strike gold! ^^)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. It is so wonderfully illustrated! It bring the readers back to the time of the old in Kampung and it also talks about how the kampung has gave way to the modern development and thus a lifestyle had been demolished. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was standing in MPH totally in awe of the book, but at the same time cant decide if I should spend RM45 </span>(after 30% discount!)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for a book. </span>(Don't ask me why I would be hesitated to pay RM45 for gold. Our budget for books has gone so far out this month....and BBW sales is coming this Friday!!! STL, pleas pretend you didn't see this...hehehe...you are not here to stop me!!! )<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Den saw me struggling and told me she would give me all her pocket money so that I can buy the book. Now what more reasoning do I need? ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We just started reading it. I am going to count it as history and social science study.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>4. Chinese</b> - As I mentioned before this year is our "Improve Chinese Year". So far I think we are progressing well. Den is close to learning to read about 100 Chinese words now and her listening has improved a lot too. When my Sister In Law is back, she will have someone to practice conversation with</span> (my SIL only speak Mandarin!)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. My urgent need is to get more level appropriated good reader for her to practice reading. I have a few from Odonate Publishing but it is not enough. Ok, I need to go through all those Chinese picture books again and hopefully can find something appropriate for her to read. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We have finished reading the comic book about Thomas Edison and now into Helen Keller. Den loves the series. She will even read through the pictures even though she cant read most of the words yet </span>(I was like "YES!!")<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. To know more about the comic series, read <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/08-sept-2011.html">here</a>. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">5. Math</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> - After playing the games from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large; line-height: 25px;">Peggy Kaye's Games For Learning </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25px;">(read <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/09-sept-2011.html">here</a>)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, Den is getting better in place value! So we continued on our Challenging Math workbook. Today she did the multiplication below 40. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>6. English </b>- We are listening/reading Dr. Doolittle now. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also did all the read aloud in Sonlight week 23. Today I let her start using Scholastic Instant Poetry Frame. It is much easier than writing journal, so she jump right into it. ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">CLP is getting harder and harder, so I didn't let her do the worksheet as often as last time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. PE - She swam 3 times this past one week and also the usual Ballet practice. </span>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-14923808511762267912011-09-23T01:54:00.000+08:002011-09-23T01:54:10.740+08:0022 sept 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today Den asked if we can have a book reading day- whole day reading books </span><i>(she read hers and I read mine) </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and no study. Since we have not had that for awhile, I said yes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There was another reason for me to say yes...the last time we went to the SG library we had a BIG argument and ended up with Den tearing up. We argued about two things- </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. How many book she get to borrow- normally we can borrow up to 8 books. To be fair, we have 4 books each </span><i>(we share an account)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. For the past few months I had not been borrowing much, instead I let her have my share. That day was a double your limit day, so we could actually borrow up to 16 books. So I told her I would like to get 4 or 5 books. She got upset and insisted that I should not borrow that many books. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That make me mad and felt that she was being selfish. I scolded her there and she started to cry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. What books to borrow- Den has been obsessed with Rainbow Magic Fairy and Magic Tree House recently. Im alright with both of the series however I disliked the way that she rejected everything else. Whenever I bring a book for her to read, if it is not from either of the series, she will says she is not interested. I felt she was not giving other books a fair chance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On that day, after our urguement, we went to the Jr. Reading Department and can only find 1 magic tree house and none of the Rainbow Magic. I, still angry with her, told her that I'm so glad she didn't get to borrow any of her favourt books </span><i>(I know, it was not my best moment)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, that off cause started the tears again. Finally she was so upset that she decided she would only borrow the one Magic Tree House book and didn't want anything else. So I ended up choosing another 13 books for her. Books that I think she would enjoy if she give them a chance. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We left SG before she had the chance to read any of the books. Today would be the perfect opportunity to test it out...since I knew she will read anything when she has nothing else to read!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She finished 10 out of the 14 books in 4 hours. She loves every one of them. </span><br />
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DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-50269486109119481522011-09-12T14:43:00.001+08:002011-09-12T14:43:10.738+08:0009 Sept 2011<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I started writing this last Friday! 09 Sept 2011. Was not able to finish until today.</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den spent the nite with my parents last night. She came home in her pj at 1030am. After lots of hug hug </span><i>(well...we haven't seen each other for the whole night, what do u expect?)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and breakfast, we started our study at about 1130am.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We stared with Bible Study using Proverb Project </span><i>(Read more about this cool iPad apps <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/07-sept-2011.html">here</a>)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. We read Chapter 6 and 7 and it talked about adultery and prostitute. I explained about the first one (</span><i>unfaithful to your husband or wife) </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and since she did not ask about the 2nd one, I just continued reading!! ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After prayer </span>(Den said, "Lord help us not to be like the bad women in Proverbs." )<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, we played another game from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Peggy Kaye's Games For Learning. I really enjoy her book. I especially appreciate her writing down why and how she use each game with her students. Today we played 2 games from her book. One for math and one for Language </span><i>(she meant it for English but I used it for Chinese)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. If you want to read about another math game we used from her book previously, click</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/07-sept-2011.html"> here</a>. Or check out the content and others comments at Amazon site below:</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Her challenge was to travel down the road. To make it, she had to read out each words. When she reached a words she cant read, ROADBLOCK. I would then read out the word for her and she would repeat it after me and she had to start the trip from the beginning again. She had 3 chances to reach the end of the road. If she make it, she win or else I win. Unfortunately I won. ^^ </span><i>(we had not been looking at all these words for the past 2 months!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. We will do this again and again until she can always make the trip, then we will change the words. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As you can see, it took some time to do prepare the game especially the math game. So while I was preparing them, Den wrote her English journal. She started this recently. She also draws for every journal entry.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since I took out the Scrabble set </span><i>(so that I can use them as marker in our math game)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, I decided to play Scrabble with Den. Half way through, I realized I actually didn't know how to play....I did try to google it there and then...but still had lots of question! hahah! STL! I need your help.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After lunch, we continued watching a few videos from PBS about Scientists </span><i>(66 current scientists,all of them in different fields of study/research! The link has short video for each of them to introduce their work and how they started and why they love science, link<a href="http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/scientists/index.html"> here</a>)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. 66 of them...we still have a long way to go...we try to watch like 6 per day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that Den practice Chinese reading using Chinese Basic 500 </span><i>(I wrote about this in my previous posting <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/03/past-one-week.html">here</a>).</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> We are still at Level 1 book 5....had stop since we went to holiday in NZ in June! Time to pick it up again.</span><i>(Have to remind my self daily...this is Improve Chinese Year...this is Improve Chinese year....)</i></div>
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DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-77901990811456404412011-09-09T02:20:00.001+08:002011-09-09T02:20:56.186+08:0008 Sept 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The more I read about the stories of the famous people, the more I doubt the wisdom of a so call "balance lifestyle". I mean we had been taught, well, I had been taught, it is important to have enough sleep (sleep early, wake up early), eat right, balance your work and church and family, oh and don't forget to exercise! but when you look at the stories of all those great men and women, how many of them lived a so called "balance lifestyle"?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Edison slept four hours a day...and not even consecutively! He took 1 hour rest when he was too tired and he only allowed him self to take 4 rest per day! Helen Keller studied day and night until she fainted because of exhaustion. This is the quote about Mother Teresa <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mother Teresa of Kolkata (Calcutta) led a life beyond balance. She had no secular career, no family, no apparent hobbies. She had an all consuming ministry to those completely abandoned by society. Founding and leading a religious order and expanding the work of the Missionaries of Charity, left little time for sleep, let alone rest and relaxation."</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span>How about our Lord Jesus? How much time do you think Jesus get to sleep? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Great achievement often come from great passion. Great passion often doesn't leave much room for things like sleep, eat or exercise. So now my question is, is it more important to have great passion or balance lifestyle? Or do you think they can be obtain simultaneously? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why am I asking this question? Because I find it a very important question to ask my self, as a homeschooling mom. When Den is interested in something, should I let her spend all her time in that particular subject/field or should I insist she has a more balance/well rounded education? Sometime when she is in reading mood or craft mood, she wants to spend the whole day/s reading or doing craft, should I let her be or should I insist on doing school as plan? Am I killing/suffocating her interest/passion by insisting she know a bit about everything instead zooming in into one area? Am I going too broad instead of deep?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These are just thought in progress...writing blog is a good way for me to organize my thought. So I have no ready answer. You are welcome to vote on that thought! Hahah! Im in voting mood!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Any way, as I said, those are just thought in progress, so please take them with a grain of salt. Remember also, this is from someone who has a rather dysfunctional sleep pattern and prefer to stay up til dawn and sleep til noon. One side note, Einstein claimed to sleep 10 hours per day and 11 hours if he need to work harder in solving the problem....because he said dream help him in problem solving. There! I presented two side of the coins! ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Back to what we did today. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den woke up at 10am. After hug hug in bed and breakfast, we did the sunflower seed math (read about this at my previous blog <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/09/07-sept-2011.html">here</a>) at the kitchen table...Den think it is a game, so happily (insistingly) played with me. After that we left the house for lunch in a mall and followed by Den's 2 hour art class. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She just started the art class about a month ago. She asked me to send her to art class since she was about 4 or 5 years old. But I kept delaying it because I'm a bit worry art class might kill her creativity - you know, being told how to draw, how to paint instead of just draw the way you want it that kind of thing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">However when I think back about my own experience, I loved drawing when I was a kid but I stop when I was a teen because I did not have the technique to draw the way I wanted it to come out. So I can understand her frustration when she does not know how to draw what she want to draw. When I found a school that is willing to let us pay on class by class basis, I decided to sign her in. She enjoys it so far and very proud of what she can do. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After the class, she played in IKEA smallland for less then an hour before we had to leave (to beat the rush hours traffic). I sent her to my parents house, so that she can play with dogs and her grandparents. While she was there, she used iPad to do two pre-assigned homeworks - </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/note-goal-pro/id374011376?mt=8">Note Goal Pro</a> - a music note reading program Den uses to practice note reading. Yamaha students are infamous for their poor note reading skill, so I'm trying to compensate for that. ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathboard/id373909837?mt=8">MathBoard</a> - I use this for math drilling. I pre program the apps and it will automatically generates 20 math questions (that suit her level) for Den to works on. When she is done, she can save the result so that I can check on them later. On cool tool is the black board at the side which you can use to do all the draft calculation that you need. This is really cool on a travelling day, no need to prepare extra draft paper. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes! I love iPad and I think it is really great for homeschooler! Im contemplating writing a whole posting about all the great apps we use. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We had dinner at a restaurant together. While the adults were talking away, I read a book that I just bought for Den today. Recently Den has shown great interest in comic. It started with Winx Club (Im still not sure if it is actually suitable for Den's age!), and later she discovered Calvin and Hobbes. So when I saw a series of comic featuring biography of famous people (in Chinese!童悦坊漫画名人堂) in Popular, I knew I need to get them for Den. I bought two of them - Thomas Edison and Helen Keller. I read them while waiting for Den in Art class and I love them! They are very well written. The story lines and the drawing are captivating. The language is simple .</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I decided to read Thomas Edison to her first since we just talked about Thomas Edison this week. At first she was a bit reluctant because it is in Chinese but when she saw that it is in comic form, she eagerly agreed to try it out. She loved it and was very upset when we had to stop (the adults were ready to leave the restaurant!). I'm going back to buy the other two in the series - Lincoln and Newton. I think they are good buy at RM16.90 each (before member discount).</span><br />
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<br />DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-69321692499780823292011-09-08T02:15:00.003+08:002011-09-08T09:48:08.647+08:0007 Sept 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know, I know, I haven't being blogging for sometime now...more than one person has reminded me that....I started one last night and gotten too sleepy and decided to go to sleep instead...you see, to blog, I have to sacrifice my sleeping time...most of the time....but then lesson preparation/researching, reading for pleasure, The Mentalist </span><i>(on my defense, that is the only TV I watch!...ok...may be also Bones!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> etc etc also eating my sleep-time away....I always wonder how does other homeschooling mom does all these and yet get to have enough sleep?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Another reason for not blogging? There were so much happened for the past four months, I don't know how to blog about them all...so I've been procrastinating....I have finally came to the decision to just simply ignore the past few months and start from TODAY! ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yesterday was a bad day....I planed a packed school day </span><i>(we don't study every day, so our school day usually are long - 2-5 hours)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, Den ended up taking one and half hour finished her lunch...that make me crazy and did all the huffing and puffing....and then later we were stuck at math. Took us 1.5 hours....and I realized Den is still confused about place value</span><i> (I'm very glad I found out about that though!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today was a good day. Everything went super smooth and had extra time for extra activities.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I woke Den up at 10am...this is something new that I just started about 2 months ago...I actually wake her up for study instead of just let her sleep in...^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After breakfast, I taught her how to separate the whites and colors and put them into washer. I also showed her how to run the washer and later she helped folding and putting the washed clothes back to closet. The only thing I didn't allow her to do was to put the detergents into the washer....after watching the thought provoking video from TED - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftalks%2Fgever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html%23.Tly3HfS_e_0.facebook&h=ZAQB2f_MUAQDfgXzCHDc4oZ0S-Ejh5kaES9KVL-I91c547g">5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do</a>....I am thinking now, may be I should let her put the detergents too...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I taught her how to fold clothes when she was about 3 or 4 years old. Now she can fold them better than me. While we were folding clothes, she told me when she grew up she wanted to be a laundry maid! Hahahaha!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We started our study with Bible reading. We have been on the book of Proverbs for the past month or so...detoured for awhile with <a href="http://www.missionindia.org/backinindia">My Passport To India Part II</a>, now we are back to Proverbs. We use a very interesting iPad app called "<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/proverbs-project/id414967195?mt=8">Proverbs Project</a>" to study Proverbs. Cartoonist Vern Herschberger illustrated every verse in Proverbs and it is such a treat to read them. Today we covered more than a chapter and Den was still bagging for more. These are some examples:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After Bible reading and prayer, we continued our Sonlight Science week 22. We had been on Week 22 for the past 2 weeks because of some of the very interesting internet links - we finally finished one of them yesterday about 4 famous scientists- </span><a href="http://archive.planet-science.com/outthere/index.html?page=/outthere/primary/index.html&page=/outthere/primary/index.html" style="font-size: x-large;">Marie Carie, Jagadis Bose, Thomas Edison and Galilea</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><i>(Yes! I can remember their name without checking! ^^).</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Another links we have been using featured <a href="http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/scientists/index.html">66 current scientists</a>, all of them in different fields of study/research! The link has short video for each of them to introduce their work and how they started and why they love science...Den and I LOVE it! We learned so many interesting things - Do you know cockroach can hold it breath for up to 45min?? LST!! That is why you should not try to drown the cockroaches! and Entomologist is the scientist that study cockroaches and other bugs! Most importantly, all these video make us feel like science is the best thing and we all want to be a scientist!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that, Den did a puzzle using Brain Olympiad Book 1. Today puzzle was a bit more difficult, she got it all correct but took her quite some time to complete.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">While she was working on the puzzle, I prepared a math game to play with her. Since I noticed she still having problem with the concept of place value, I looked into Peggy Kaye's Games For Learning and found a few good games to play with her. </span><i>(Wow! I finally figure out how to put the Amazon Widget in my website! Yes! Now you can just go to the link and see some of the pages inside the books and read comments!)</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today we play with one of the game. I prepared some Sun flower seeds, a few plastic cups, paper and pencil. We decided on a number </span><i>(Den chose 30)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, then I took a turn first to scoop up </span><i>(with a plastic cup)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> what I estimated </span><i>(no actual counting is allowed)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> to be 30 Sunflower seeds. I counted them and put 10 in each plastic cups. I filled 3 cups and had 8 seeds left, so I had 8 more than the expected. I wrote 8 on the paper. Then it was Den's turn. She did the same thing and filled 3 cups with only 4 seeds left. The closest to the actual number win and so she won the first round. We did that again and this time we were equal. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We are going to play this again and also some other games from the book until she get the idea of place value. I always love the idea of playing and learning at the same time and hopefully these games will help her learn the place value...or else I would have to find some other methods.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that she practiced her ballet steps before we had lunch. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den practiced her piano after lunch. We make a cake for tea after that. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We started CLP language art workbook 105-8 and Quiz 2 at around 3pm. Den make a few mistakes </span><i>(some careless)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> in one section of her Quiz and that cost her 12 points and she lost the chance to get a reward from the reward box. This was the first time since we started the reward box system, she did not get a reward and thus the 'water gate' was burst opened. The workbook is getting harder, I was wondering if I should lower the benchmark....but I think I will wait and observe it more first. </span><i>(To know more about the reward box, please read my previous blog <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/03/past-one-week.html">here</a>).</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We had tea after that and she watched Goodtv Chinese Cartoons </span><i>(Im counting that as part of the study - learning Chinese!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Since it had been a very hot day, she went swimming for an hour after that. Some of her friends came down and swim too and they had a very great time together.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At night, we finished making a small strip of clothes using her loom </span><i>(she has been very fascinated with loom since we study it in history)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and we also decorated it with gem stones. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have been thinking how do I actually count the homeschooling hours? Should I include all the piano/ballet practices, house works, cake making, craft, swimming </span><i>(PE!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> in it too? It doesn't seems fair to only count the sit down work, right? Besides, what kind of example are we setting for Den if we tell her only the sit down work are consider learning? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Should I add in the many hours of reading that she did everyday as part of the schooling hours as well? Hmmmm...something to think about. So take a vote!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She wrote her opening speech all by her self right after dinner. She also wrote the opening speech for the 2nd meeting as well! When I asked her why did she write the speech (I was very surprised!), she said, "my friends might not feel welcome if I do not welcome them properly." ^^</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Princess Club 1st meeting: The president Opening Speech</td></tr>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She also set the rules for the club:</span></div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She was indecisive on rules no 5</td></tr>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At first I thought my hubby help her out with the spelling and he thought I help her out. It turn out she wrote all these all by her self! I was very impressed!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She told me who to invite...I have to help her to narrow down...she would prefer me to just post it in FB and invite the whole world! ^^ </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She also plan the itinerary of the 1st meeting..I'm surprised she did not write it down:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>3:00-3:30 Arrival of guess; Start meeting with speech and rules</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>3:30-4:00 Make a Mother's day card</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>4:00-4:30 Tea Time</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>4:30-5:30 Movie</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>530-6:00 Play time</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Two of her friends cant make it to the 1st meeting. One of them called her up on 5th May to let her know she cant make it. Den told her friend she need to come earlier the following meeting so that Den can brief her on what she has missed on the first meeting!!!! (I was like!!! That sounded just like me!!!^^)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4 princesses turn up on 7th May (including Den) and they had a blast~! Very successful 1st meeting and everyone is asking when is the next meeting....it will depend on our unpredictable schedule!</span></div><div><br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Everyone worry Den has no enough socialization since she is the single child and schooled at home. From this experience, I would say she has shown very good social and leadership skill!</span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-48754883050550773092011-04-23T02:31:00.001+08:002011-04-23T02:31:54.619+08:00Chick Study Day Three<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">We finished the last two lessons about chicken from </span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Handbook of Nature Study </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333;">by</span></span><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"> Anna Botsford Comstock:</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Lesson 6: Feet</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</b></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;">-The functions of feet</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;">-Chicken are fast runners (didn't know that!)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;">-Compare chicken's feet with duck's feet.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Lesson 7: Chicken ways</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</b></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- Chicken communicate through different way of clucking, cheeping, peeping, etc - Never realized that! I thought they just keep clucking away without reason instead different way of clucking has different meaning!</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVRS9zgebqVwtvNeJnVME-dHHP1wqFmTcN8n-PvrI-g1y7v3d5WN-1ryVzpper-toM4Bnj2krYDgcq9qaRpTZD6lRH21gKdplAMxB3W1Y7xtY40rjKSXNusPsEa2eRwaEnaXLDvnx3cQI/s1600/chicken+study+different+breeds.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVRS9zgebqVwtvNeJnVME-dHHP1wqFmTcN8n-PvrI-g1y7v3d5WN-1ryVzpper-toM4Bnj2krYDgcq9qaRpTZD6lRH21gKdplAMxB3W1Y7xtY40rjKSXNusPsEa2eRwaEnaXLDvnx3cQI/s320/chicken+study+different+breeds.jpeg" width="273" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;">Besides using the handbook, I also found some interesting things from the net and I decided to make them into part of our Chicken study. Today, we look at some of the different breeds of chicken - there are over 100 breeds! </span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also study a little bit about egg today, we will continue this the next lesson and that led me to my GREAT DISCOVERY- I discovered yesterday through internet researching, <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hen doesn't need rooster to have eggs!</span></i></b> It is just that the egg she has without a rooster is unfertilized egg and will never hatched!!!! Eggs that we buy from stores are mostly unfertilized eggs! I never know that! And almost everyone I talked to, never knew that either! </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We put some of these info in a page:</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="addmd"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-She lays 1 egg at a time</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">I also printed out 4 short stories about chicken and let Den read to me one story a day. I get a lot of this idea from</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> lapbook page at </span><a href="http://www.homeschoolshare.com/chicken.php">http://www.homeschoolshare.com/chicken.php</a> but I decided not making a lapbook, just make some note pages and I will stable them together when we are done.</span></span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-37357115133785071812011-04-22T01:53:00.000+08:002011-04-22T01:53:09.116+08:00Chick Study Day Two<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is going to be just a short input. Tired...just came back from Maundy Thursday service...and it is 130am...but hubby will be around the next few days so might not have much time to update...better do it now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We didn't have time to really study on Wed but Den still get to spend 30 min or so playing with them. Today she played with them for about an hour and I asked her to pay more attention to their wings, eyes, ears, nose and beak. It was really amazing how much she observed by her self just by pointing her to the right direction.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We covered three lessons from the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"><b>H</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>andbook of Nature Study </b>by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="addmd" style="margin-left: 2px;"> Anna Botsford Comstock</span></span></span></span>....I learned so many new things today! To a point, I think homeschooling is to homeschool the mom and not the child!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- We talked about the function of chick's tail - act as rudder and also help to fly</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- We found their ears...we knew they have ears since Chicka Chicka and Boom Boom (their name) has been responding very well to Den's voice...come running to her whenever she calls...and they love music, whenever Den play piano, they will sing too...but we never knew where are the ears located...today we found them. ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- Den observed that chick has only lower eyelids.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- I saw the film lid that came out from the corner of chick's eyes and cover the eyes like a veil when they first arrived but I never knew what that was... today I learned....and found out even human has the film lid!! At the corner of our eyes near our nose, just that we can't move the film lid like chicks...any more...I need to find out what is the function of the film lid...Den and I guess - to protect the eyes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- Chick cannot see the same object with both eyes at the same time</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-Found the nostrils!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-Compare Duck bill and chick beak</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-Chick has no teeth and not much sense of smell.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den also identified different part of a chicken and color it:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">While discussing, Den asked me a few interesting questions that I had no answer! But with the help of the internet, we have discovered:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. The function of Comb and Wattles - (I thought they are just there for deco!!) is to cool down chicken's body temperature</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. How to tell the gender of bb chicks - the best way is to look inside the vent...which I am not going to do! So we settle with the latest way - tell by color of their feather - the lighter will be hen and thus we declare Chicka Chicka as a rooster and Boom Boom a han...the most interesting thing is Den already told me that on the first day they arrived! From their behaviour, Den told me Chicka Chicka is a boy and Boom Boom is a girl! Lets wait and see if we are correct!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There is another GREAT DISCOVERY (to me!!!) but I will leave that for another day.</span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-70599936567915513282011-04-19T21:36:00.001+08:002011-04-20T10:50:22.426+08:00Chick Study Day One<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den is getting a little bit bored with our usual schooling materials, so I decided it is time to detour. Last month I downloaded <b>H</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>andbook of Nature Study </b>by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="addmd" style="margin-left: 2px;"> Anna Botsford Comstock</span></span></span> from <a href="http://www.homeschoolfreebie.wholesomechildhood.com/">Freebie Of The Day</a>, I decided to give it a try since we have not had much hand on in nature study (Im very much a city bookworm...not the outdoor type...)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For Bird study, the author suggested to use a hen. The way I see it will be more fun to raise a bb chick than getting a full grown hen....and much easier since we are living in an apartment! After asking for help in getting chicks in FB, a friend volunteered to get 2 chicks for us from her hometown! We were overjoy for I have no idea where to get bb chicks in KL/PJ.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2 kampung bb chicks arrived at our place yesterday. We decided to put them in a box since we will only be keeping them for 2 weeks...as I mentioned it will be hard to keep 2 full grown chicken in apartment! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There were many things happened yesterday and we did not get to really study them until today. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today after her ballet class in the morning, Den spent 2 hours study/observe/play with the chicks. We took them out of the box and let them walked freely at our wash area. Den kept them company for 2 hours until I had to put a stop and asked her to come in for lunch. That's how she is, she really really likes animals and have lots of patient with them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After lunch, we discuss about different parts of a feather- Quill, Barb and Fluff; functions of feathers and why male bird's feathers is usually much prettier than female bird (I also printed out some pictures of other birds to show her)(Lesson 1 and 2 from the handbook). This is what she drew in her book:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since Easter is coming, we have been spending time talking about Jesus last week on Earth. Today we focused on the promises of Jesus from Gospel of John. Tomorrow we will focus on the parables that Jesus told. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">P/S: for those of you who are interested in reading the handbook online, you can go to <a href="http://books.google.com.my/books">Google Book</a>, then type "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;">Nature Study</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="addmd" style="margin-left: 2px;">By Anna Botsford Comstock".</span></span></span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-75889375003036513792011-04-04T01:44:00.000+08:002011-04-04T01:44:33.510+08:0003 April 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We started a few new things in our school last two weeks. Before we go there, lets talked about some of the 'normal' things we did:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. History - WWII (I haven't check out the internet links yet because I'm not sure I want to use them...after WWI experience...)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. Bible - We focused on two ladies that God used during WWII to do great things for Him -Gladys Aylward (from <b><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/booksforK">I Heard Good News Today</a></b>) and Corrie ten Boom (from both <b>Little Lights</b> and <b>Heroes For Young Readers </b>series, read about these two series in my <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/03/past-one-week.html">previous entry</a>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We stop using the <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/booksforK"><b>Word and Song Bible</b></a> since Den started doing daily devotion her self but I decided it is time to use it again. We listen to Ruth story yesterday and as usual we enjoy it very much.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. Science - We finished Sonlight Science week 20. In week 20 we studied about major organs in our body, blood and vessel, skin, bones, muscles, and digestion. No time for internet link yet. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since I make this year "improve Chinese language year", Den's speaking Mandarin has improved significantly. A few of our friends comment that, so I'm very happy about the direction we are going - lots of interesting Read Aloud, Goodtv Mandarin cartoon and always do Chinese lesson first (right after Bible, so that we will always have time to do it properly!)</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. CLP Language Art - She finished Workbook 103 (Total score 98!! Reward systems works wonder in this case!) and started the first lesson in Workbook 104. In 103, we learned about Question words, contractions (don't/can't), Was/Were, Rhyming words, Consonant digraph - CH, Vowel Set - ai, ay, ee and ea.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In 104 first lesson, we learned about Vowel set - ie and y=i and 5 consonant blends- bl, fl, gl. pl and sl.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. Math - She did a few worksheets from varies workbooks, a new sudoku book (she complained the last one was too hard...so I got her a new one Sudoku Basic RM4.50 Popular) and we also started playing Tangrams (bought a set from Times warehouse sales at RM15 that came with 200 puzzle and 2 set of Tangrams so that we can play it like competition).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. Calender - Another new thing we started last week. Sonlight K came with a calender kit but we had not used it until last week. I finally feel she can grasp the concept of months and this will help to make the concept even more concrete for her. We are going to do it month by month, we started at the end of March and we worked on the month of April. At the beginning of each week, we also fill in the activities of the week. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUnr4POPfPuo2kBiwKbed1BZTQ9vB6vpWbXNk1z_mucPHsvsdI2oOyCngKVYadVq0iI8U98wT2ksSiGuBD8oyMkFOEUWw-DjV9wGIN-NVgAQyLoIpHFgH5GmV_rEXN5K5pyFmrlG966vit/s1600/Calender_april+2011.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUnr4POPfPuo2kBiwKbed1BZTQ9vB6vpWbXNk1z_mucPHsvsdI2oOyCngKVYadVq0iI8U98wT2ksSiGuBD8oyMkFOEUWw-DjV9wGIN-NVgAQyLoIpHFgH5GmV_rEXN5K5pyFmrlG966vit/s320/Calender_april+2011.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A country is featured in every month. The month of April is Italy and so coincidentally that Den saw some Gondola at Marina Sand two weeks ago.We spent sometime talking about Venice, Rome, Pompeii, leaning tower of Pisa and I show her some of the photo, hubby and I took when we visited Italy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also spent sometime talking about Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter. We decided we are going to wear black on black Saturday. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. Sewing - It is rather ironic that someone who cant sew is trying to teach sewing!! Den has been asking me to teach her to sew. I think the normal needle is too sharp and too small for her. So when I saw this sewing kit in Diaso (RM5) I jump on it and brought the biggest needle I can find. So far, Den has not prick her fingers yet!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">some of this stitches are done by me and some by Den and you really cant tell which is from who...I dont know it is because she is really good at this or I'm really sucks at this! ^^</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how it is going to look like (hopefully!!) when it is done.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I think the most important "new thing" we started last week is we have set our study goal for this week together. This is the first time we did this. Usually I do the planning my self but I think she is old enough to do this with me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First we plan out how many days of school we are going to have this coming week - 3 days. Then we write down how many works we are going to do in each subject in this 3 days. This is our goal for this coming week -</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">p/s: Den was in drawing mood, so I updated some of the most recently drawing <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2011/03/dens-drawing-progress-part-iii.html">here</a>.</span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-31579062256736815882011-03-25T02:00:00.003+08:002011-04-04T01:52:30.804+08:00Den's drawing progress Part III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I realized I have not been updating Den's drawing progress. Believe me it is not because she stop drawing! Ive more than a whole shelve of drawing...and not to mention the one I threw away secretly...Shhhhh! The last couple of days has been rather stressful - Den and I had food poisoning, Den first ballet exam, etc etc and I need some cheering up. Her drawing always cheer me up, so here you go:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 2010 Girl in high heels</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 2010 Dancing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 2010 more dad & mom's wedding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June 2010 Our apartment on the 9th floor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 2010 Girl in veil</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 2010 Native American</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aug 2010 Tree of knowledge/Garden of Eden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oct 2010 EE dancing in KY's wedding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oct 2010 curly hair</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oct 2010 more wedding...I should start a new collection on wedding drawing!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">22 March 2011 My favorite - Den got a new pair of glasses that day!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">03 April 2011 Princess Den sing a song and bring a flower for her mommy Queen</td></tr>
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</div></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-65793990490149360602011-03-19T00:46:00.000+08:002011-03-19T00:46:58.431+08:00Lesson with 4 years old XE on 19 March<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I probably should have blog about what we did on Mon, Wed and Fri but I think there are more readers out there waiting for this...so I decided to do this first.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you read my blog from last year, you should be quite familiar with XE, the little one who used to come over to our house twice weekly whenever we were in SG. A few of you have responded and said you liked what I did with her in a series of lessons with a 3.5 years old (please see 2010 archives) and you when you used the same lessons with your kids, they responded positively. I am very happy to hear that. I hope those lessons can be served as examples and you can progress from there.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">XE turn 4 two weeks ago and she started going to kindergarten this year, so she is no longer coming over unless it is a school holiday like this week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We actually went to the Art & Craft Exhibition and the library 5th anniversary celebration together but she was very reserved in both occasions and did not want to participate. That make me a bit worry about today (19 March! It took me two days to finish this!!) lesson. I was worry may be since she had not been to our house for sometime, she might need times to warm up (is like starting all over again!). However, when she turn up at our apartment today, she was not shy at all and acted as if she has been here everyday! I was very pleased.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">XE was late today, so we did not get to do all the things I planned. However we had a very good time together. Our theme today is Pride. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(A)We started off with the memory verse. </span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Don't do anything out of selfish ambition. Don't do it because you are proud. Instead, be free of pride. Think of others as better than yourselves. ~</span> Philippians 2:3</i></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was not an easy verse to remember but added with actions and a few repetitions, they managed to remember most of it. I explained the verse and we prayed.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(B)We used the following videos from Youtube as Praise and worship:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JOOMnWcIGQ">Jesus Loves Me</a> (Go fish version. I love Go fish songs!)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nEtq28x5EQ&feature=related">Every Move I Made</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGYgJs7fPHQ">My Redeemer Lives </a>(Hillsong)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q444bzsehU">恩典之路</a> (The Journey of Grace -Den fallen in love with this song after she sang it in our MLY Sunday School)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As you can see there were lots of jumping and dancing, so by the time we were at the last songs we were all out of breath! But what a fun time to shout and dance and praise our all mighty God together! May be I should do this more often with Den.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(C) Story: Emperor's New Clothes - Since we are going to study this as a one off lesson, I decided to let them watch a Youtube Movie instead of reading from book. We watch the first one but may be you will like the second one better:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGDr69VOv6g"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Emperor's New Clothes Video 1</span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.education.com/video/speakaboos/emperors-new-clothes/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Emperor's New Clothes Video 2</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As mention previously, most of the lessons I did with XE were taken from <a href="http://www.lessonpathways.com/">Lesson Pathway</a> (if you haven't check it out, you really should!) Language Art. In its' Emperor's New Clothes lesson plan, it also include a few interesting links we did not have the time to use:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-MY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Read story <a href="http://bygosh.com/hca/newclothes.htm">here</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Read and listen to story <a href="http://content.loudlit.org/audio/clothes/pages/01_01_clothes.htm">here</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If I do this as two part lessons like I usually do, I will use the read aloud in the first lesson and only let them watch the video on the 2nd lesson.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After the lesson, we talked about out how foolish were the adults, all of them were so proud and would not want to be looked down by others and thus fallen into the trap. Only the little child said what he see! We prayed together and asked God to help us to see others better than ourselves.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(D) Lunch Break</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(E) Craft -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before we did our craft, we read about how the author of Emperor's New Clothes, Hen Christian Anderson like to do paper cutting! He carried with him a scissor everywhere he went. That is new for me too. The link is <a href="http://wayback.kb.dk:8080/wayback-1.4.2/wayback/20100107153228/http://www2.kb.dk/elib/mss/hcaklip/intro-en.htm">here</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So in the tradition of Anderson, we did paper cutting too! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I preprinted paper dolls and different hair styles for them to cut and paste (link is <a href="http://www.makingfriends.com/friends/f_pick_freinds_color.htm">here</a>). Den was cutting really well and I did not have to help her at all. XE was much better compared to last year, a few months can really make a lot of differences especially to a young child. I still have to help her to cut some of the more difficult part. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Both of them chosen the same hair style for their dolls (XE wanted to follow the big jie jie!).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that, I help them drew the dress and crown (according to what they wanted) for them to cut and color/designed. These are the final products:</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(i) Invisible Art from <a href="http://www.education.com/activity/article/speakaboo-mystery-paint/">http://www.education.com/activity/article/speakaboo-mystery-paint/</a> (I cut and pasted this fun activity here)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What You Need:</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">4 tablespoons baking soda<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">4 tablespoons water<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Small bowl<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Q-tip or cotton ball<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Sheet of white paper<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Watercolor paint<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paint brush</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What You Do:</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 19.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Mix the baking soda with the water thoroughly in the bowl.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 19.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;"></span><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit, serif;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit, serif;">Lay out the sheet of paper in front of your child and hand her a Q-tip.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 19.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Have her dip the Q-tip in the baking soda mixture and paint an "invisible" picture on the paper. In the spirit of</span><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;"> <i>The Emperor's New Clothes</i></span><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">, encourage her to paint a picture of the Emperor in his brand new outfit. Just like in the story, it's invisible!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 19.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 19.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Set the painting aside until it's completely dry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 19.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">Once dry, have her paint the picture with watercolors. Watch her eyes light up as the Emperor's clothes magically appear. Unlike in the story, these clothes turned out to be real after all</span></span><span lang="EN-MY" style="color: #444444;">!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> (ii) Read and play dress up game at <a href="http://www.emperorsnewsuit.com/game/11-dress-up-the-emperor">here</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hope you will have as much fun as we did!</span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-82430764803323926912011-03-15T22:09:00.000+08:002011-03-15T22:09:15.613+08:00School Trips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm not sure if it is good or not good for Den but she has a mom who think activities are equally (if not more) important than seat work, so we always jump to the chance for field trips and activities. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This week is school holidays in SG (and MLY), so there are more kids' activities. Through our SG homeschooling group, we get to know an interesting art and craft exhibition at Raffle City Shopping Center called "Children Of Asia". It featured about 20 artisans from Cambodia, India and Sri Lanka. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is supposed to have hand on activities but the press release never specified what kind of activities and to what age group it cater to. There is the problem with free programs like this, you have to go there in order to know if it is any good. We decided to give it a try last Sat (12 March) since we had nothing on that day. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There were not many hand on and the artisans at the fair though very friendly, had zero experiences working with kids and yet despite all these, we spent 2 hours there and enjoyed our selves very much. I think it has a lot to do with Den's attitude. From a very shy and reserved child, she has grew into a confident young girl. She tried her hand on everything she can, even on station that was for viewing only, she pester the person in charged until she let her tried her hand on!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silk Cocoons</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One of the thing I find most interesting in the exhibition was the silk cocoons. Den saw these and right away asked me if the caterpillar still alive inside. I asked the organizer and she cant answer me, so she asked around and came back and told me, these cocoons were from silk cocoons farm. After caterpillars changed into cocoons, the farmer sun the cocoons. The hot sun killed the caterpillar inside the cocoons.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boil cocoons and separate the silk fiber</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Den get to do it finally!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that, the cocoons were boil in hot water and the workers separated the silk fibers to make silk thread. Because of the hot water, this station is only for demo and not hand on but Den really want to try it her self. After going back to the station again and again and finally the Cambodia jie jie let her do it!!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggv7N5RcENuBpdHIDN2Hu8p7zBG3orEXYxQmzZ32B1IEeBLKnXlAdARIUwjNDmzLdmYNb06NhtHuOuB2q1a5tEsw8u_Id7z5axEUKab0RAKuD22eEozf6Ug3wV_nwUoDWoS0BRVG8xjdef/s1600/loom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggv7N5RcENuBpdHIDN2Hu8p7zBG3orEXYxQmzZ32B1IEeBLKnXlAdARIUwjNDmzLdmYNb06NhtHuOuB2q1a5tEsw8u_Id7z5axEUKab0RAKuD22eEozf6Ug3wV_nwUoDWoS0BRVG8xjdef/s200/loom.jpg" width="185" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that the worker used a loom to wave the silk thread into silk cloth. We studied about loom in our history but Den has never seen one in real life. In this exhibition, not only she get to see it, she get to work on it for a long long time. Not many children at the exhibition wanted the hand on activities </span><i>(I'm not sure why!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, so Den monopolized the loom for a long long time. The Cambodia jie jie in charged of the loom teasingly told her she can come and work in Cambodia. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After the cloth was done, it was dye into different pattern using natural dye. Den wished she can do this too but was told she cant! :(</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dyeing is a very tedious process</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These natural materials are used as dye</td></tr>
</tbody></table><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSO9SYH9k4VOrlvMhjovScHv49nxqfknGFbd3WqZ8tyA4UrvGZ13Zp3loHvRXDIaTyYBWYTUB2TRTg37oSQqXjadq4r-b7K5y5fl6B3epi5xyBYSrzAleP8Epjb63ieGGE4SjUokZzTHN/s1600/IMG_0530.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSO9SYH9k4VOrlvMhjovScHv49nxqfknGFbd3WqZ8tyA4UrvGZ13Zp3loHvRXDIaTyYBWYTUB2TRTg37oSQqXjadq4r-b7K5y5fl6B3epi5xyBYSrzAleP8Epjb63ieGGE4SjUokZzTHN/s200/IMG_0530.JPG" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In this exhibition, Den not only get to work on one type of loom but three! One of the hand loom was placed too high </span><i>(adult height)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, so she had to give up after a few try. But no fear, she went on to try out another type and this time the thread fiber was taken from plants!! And when the cloth was done, it could be make into wallet, handbag or other colorful and amazing product </span><i>(displayed on Den's left).</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In this exhibition we also get to see some other interesting craft like stone craving, wood craving, jewelry making and floor mat making.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">making floor mat</td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also watched some cultural dances at the fair. Before we left, the Cambodia jie jie working on the boiling cocoon station was so taken by Den that she gave her some cocoon to take home with her!</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizLg9F-XJTEL7btoP9e_tTudzSZNo8uxdPsutjrfEjSPHBw2BbYqY-2oBAcSu83jCgc0fdPR1xKGLY09dZVZIkPySmBSHHzmK1WUt2iaviAvvSjqAR6kLfPMN2pWPTfyXal2EvnhA6NaB9/s1600/I+got+a+silk+cocoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizLg9F-XJTEL7btoP9e_tTudzSZNo8uxdPsutjrfEjSPHBw2BbYqY-2oBAcSu83jCgc0fdPR1xKGLY09dZVZIkPySmBSHHzmK1WUt2iaviAvvSjqAR6kLfPMN2pWPTfyXal2EvnhA6NaB9/s200/I+got+a+silk+cocoon.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today, the library we always go to celebrated 5th anniversary. I was debating if we should attend the activities there or stay home and study...finally decided to go so that we can try our hand on Henna drawing. We learned about Henna in Sonlight's My Passport to India and now we were given the opportunity to have henna drawing on our hands!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henna on Den's hand when it was still wet. Have to wait til it was dry before washing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henna after washing, it will last a few days.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henna on my hand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stick on tattoo on Den's arm!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of the Origami craft program that taught us how to make a paper vase and it was just nice for our paper rose from the art and craft exhibition last Sat.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since school going kids have field trip, I decided these can be counted as our field trips as well! ^^</span></div>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785377159851555706.post-25949590006381251202011-03-08T01:29:00.000+08:002011-03-08T01:29:40.255+08:00The past one week<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It has been an unbelievably busy week and totally out of expectation, we ended up babysitting for 3 afternoons for a friend, saw two eye docs </span><i>(one eye Sergent and one eye therapy)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and went through a very long fitting for a pair of new glasses </span><i>(2 hours!!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Good news is Den get lots of playtime </span><i>(which is as important as sit down lessons in my book)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and eye doc think her eyes are going very well </span><i>(as far as her squint concerned. Thank you Lord!).</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Bad news is her eyes went from long sighted to short sighted in a year </span><i>(about 100 degree difference!!!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and thus were advised to get a pair of very expensive glasses that hopefully can slow that down. Another bad news...we did not get much time for study, so we just squeezed in some schooling here and there.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is the summary of what we did:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Bible - Den is very good with Matt 6:33 song now. We also managed to finished reading 5 stories from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I Heard Good News Today</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and thus finished Sonlight WK 19 history. At my previous posting, I blog about some of the amazing stories we read from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I Heard Good News Today</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, a friend wrote to me after she read my blog and asked where can she get books like these. Off cause the first thing I said is Sonlight! ^^ We read so many amazing Christian books from Sonlight Pre K and K. Having said that it is very expensive to buy from Sonlight if you live in MLY and not getting the whole core, so I also recommended the following, you can get these from local Christian bookstores like Canaanland:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(a) <b>Little Lights series</b> - I bought 4 books from these series - Corrie ten Boom, George Muller, Amy Carmichael and Hudson Taylor. David Livingstone and Helen Roseveare are coming soon. They especially suitable for younger kids (4+). One thing I like about this series is each book started the story when the famous Christian was still a child and that give a positive impression that all these famous Christian were just a little kid like us. It also imply that if we are willing, we can all do great thing for the Lord! RM23.90 each from Canaanland. You can read more <a href="http://www.childrensbibleclub.com/new_biographies/biographies_for_the_very_young.htm">here</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ywampublishing.com/images/PRODUCT/large/1265.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Close this window" border="0" height="200" src="http://www.ywampublishing.com/images/PRODUCT/large/1265.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(b) <b>Heroes For Young Readers</b> series - It has 25 books, I only brought 4 </span><i>(all female^^)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> - Corrie Ten Boom, Lottie Moon, Amy Carmichael and Ida Scudder. I would love to get my hand on Gladys Alyward but it was out of stock when I was at the bookstore. Very beautifully written in captivating rhyming poems. We love them. I read one of them to Den and her friend two Sat ago, even my 3 months old niece was listening attentively!! RM 19.90 each from Canaanland. You can read more <a href="http://www.ywampublishing.com/c-71-heroes-for-young-readers.aspx">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a) For conversation/new vocab lesson, I make up a song to teach Den some of the vocab about playground, she was having a hard time to remember all these new vocab but with the help of the song, she managed:</span><br />
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游乐场 游乐场 (playground, playground)<br />
滑梯秋千翘翘板 (slide, swing and seesaw)<br />
真是好玩 (very fun to play)<br />
我还要在去玩 (I want to go again)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b) Chinese Read Aloud - Ops! Only managed to read a book this week!! Not good! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>你很快就会长高</b> </span><i>(<b>You'll Soon Grow Alex</b> by Andrea Shavick)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> A very fun story about a boy who is very sad because he is very short despite doing everything he can to grow taller. Later, his very tall uncle show him being tall can be troublesome too sometime and teach him a very important lesson - choose to be happy despite his height.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: large; line-height: 28px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">R</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ecently I decided it is time to pick it up again but this time, I covered all the Han Yu Ping Ying because I realized even though I had never teach Den Han Yu Ping Ying, she has kind of figure it out her self and has been relying on it instead of memorizing the actual word. It takes quite an effort to block out all those Han Yu Ping Ying</span> <i>(I'm almost done with one book and there are a lot more to go!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> but I think it is worth the effort.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d) Chinese Copywork - she wrote 里(inside), 很 (very) and 两(two) - words that I realized she was not familiar with when she did her her reading in <b>Basic Chinese 500 Book 3</b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3)English:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(a) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>CLP Language Art workbook 103</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> - She did Lesson 2, 3, 4, 5 and Quiz 1. As I wrote in my previous blog, she make a lot of careless mistakes during quizzes and tests. When confronted, she told tell me since she actually knew how to do it, I should not worry about the mark!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have been cracking my head, thinking of ways to solve this...did not think punishment is a good idea in this case. Two Sat ago, her friend EE came and play. EE attend Homeschooling Center and she told me whenever she got 100% in her test, her teacher gives her a small present! That gave me the idea. I put some of the trinkets I brought for her </span><i>(I always buy any cheap and interest trinkets whenever I see them and keep them for "special occasions" - like when I need to have long conversation with friend or Im not well and no one can take care of Den- to bring them out and that can pretty much keep her busy and happy for awhile)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and put them into a special box. I told her if she can get 96-100% in her quizzes and tests, she can pick one item out from the special box. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It works! She checked and rechecked her quiz and got 100% mark! ^^ She chose a blow art kits </span><i>(RM2.99)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, we have not had the time to experiment it yet. May be tomorrow, hopefully.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(b) English Comprehension - she did 3 lessons from <b>Disney Princess Reading Comprehension</b> </span><i>(I blog about this previously, if you are interested, read it <a href="http://homeschoolingmomjournel.blogspot.com/2010/10/14-oct-2010.html">here</a>.)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> She finished the whole workbook except for the review questions. A years ago, this was still too difficult for her and now...it is almost too easy! How much she grew in a year!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(C) Read Aloud - We did 4 chapters of <b>In Grandma's Attic</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(d) Reading - I brought Roald Dahl's <b>George's Marvellous Medicine</b> for her </span><i>(and <b>Vile Verses</b> for me!!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> last Thurs, she finished reading on Friday. I really need </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">SG</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> library!!! Talking about SG library, we have access to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">SG</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> online resources as well and I downloaded </span><i>(legally!!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Roald </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dahl'</span>s <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Fantastic Mr. Fox</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> CD </span><i>(1hr)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Witches</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> CD </span><i>(3 hrs)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. We has been listening to </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Fantastic Mr. Fox</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and going to keep </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Witches</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for the long family trip coming up in May. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">b) We started using a workbook I brought quite sometime ago - <b>Mental Maths Strategies Year 2</b> </span><i>(by Synergy Media. RM8.90 Popular)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. It cover all the topics/concept a Year 2 students are supposed to understand. I find the workbook interesting and the questions are put in a way really testing if the student understand the basic concept well. She did parts of the Unit 1-4</span><i> (some sections are too easy and I let her skip)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> this week and from these, I realized, she still making mistake in naming the month of the year </span><i>(she misplaced October)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and even though she knew what is a "corner", she has problem when asked to differentiate shapes that has or has no corner </span><i>(she kept thinking circle has "corner" because her definition of corner was "where two ends meet"!)</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5) Craft: I found this series of amazing paper craft books from Daiso for only RM5 each. In each book, there are about 19-22 </span>pre<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> printed pattern to fold and cut. It is fantastic for eye hand coordination and kept Den occupied for hours </span><i>(especially for times in the restaurant waiting for food!!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. We only work on book 1 </span><i>(it get harder and harder)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and look at these fantastic patterns she cut </span><i>(I can feel my hands are itching! May be I will start cutting on Book 3!)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was a good school day. Den woke up early at 930am because she was excited about what we were going to learn today (will talk more about this later). I made French Toast for breakfast and while I washed up and cutting vegetables for lunch, she practiced piano.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We started school at 11:30am. We learned a new verse today, week 19 verse -</span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Seek Ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. ~Matthew 6:33</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I taught her a song of this verse we used to sing in church. She learns faster in song and the most important thing is she can remember song much longer than just memorizing verse. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is not an easy verse to explain, I tried but not sure I did a good job. The two stories we read from <b>I heard Good News Today </b>were good demonstrations. Today we read about Annie Funk, an American missionary in India who was on board on S. S. Titanic. She gave her seat on the life boat to a mother. She die when the ship sank. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Another story about Lucy Jamison, a Chinese Christian who was imprisoned for 20 years by the communists because she refused to denounced her faith. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When Den led the prayer later (we take turn), she prayed that we will be like Annie Funk, willing to give up our lives for others. So I think she is getting the meaning of the verse. ^^</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After Bible study and prayer, we watched 7 short science experiment episode about plant from <b>Discover & Do DVD</b> (Sonlight K Science week 17 & 19). We still have not decided if we are going to do the growing bean experiment because with our travelling back and forth, who is going to water our plant for us while we are gone?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After Science, we did review on Chinese. Den still confused about 五(five, she wrote five exactly opposite! mirror image!) and 九 (nine), so I let her wrote this two words as copy work. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also learn 里(inside) and 外(outside) today. She did some worksheets on these.</span><br />
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<a href="http://img10.360buyimg.com/n11/14448/7a4babb9-3d77-4f0b-8e4b-fde6ee95877b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://img10.360buyimg.com/n11/14448/7a4babb9-3d77-4f0b-8e4b-fde6ee95877b.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I read a picture book for her - <b>世界为谁存在?</b> (<b>Who is the world for?</b> by Tom Pow). Beautifully written but not easy for Den to understand because there are lots of descriptive words.</span><br />
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<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/book/2006-07/14/xin_56207031417278431162844.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://news.xinhuanet.com/book/2006-07/14/xin_56207031417278431162844.jpg" width="163" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last night I went through my bookshelves looking for books for her to read today...</span>since she finished the two we got from SG library<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">...and I found Shel </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Silverstein'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> books from my own collection. I never shared with her before because I think it was not suitable for her then.</span><br />
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<a href="http://simania.co.il/bookimages/covers69/699307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://simania.co.il/bookimages/covers69/699307.jpg" width="162" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I choose to read a few poems for her from Shel Silverstein's <b>A Light In The Attic</b>. My book is actually bilingual. So I read the poems in Chinese for her first then I reread in English. She loved them and she tried to "steal" the book from me so that she can read all the poem in English her self. I refused to give it up because once she read the poem in English, she will not let me read in Chinese for her!! Instead, I gave her another Shel Silverstein's book - <b>A Giraffe and a Half. </b>Since this one is only in English. I told her she can read after she finished her homework. She did. Her commented after she read, "this author is just like Dr. Seuss!" Since she loves Dr. Seuss, so I supposed she loves Shel Silverstein too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After Chinese lesson, we read <b>Mother Goose</b>...we are kind of behind on this (</span>but very much ahead with <b>The Llama Who Had No Pajama</b>, so you can tell which is our favorite!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">).. so we played catch up today and read 6 pages. We also started on<b> Come Look With Me - Animal In Art. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that, I introduce </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>CLP LA 103</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-Lesson 1 to her. It was quite easy, just learning question words like could, would, etc. I let her worked on the worksheets her self (and Yamaha homework) while I cooked lunch - rice with 2 dishes of vegetables. No meat for lunch since we are going to have lots of meat at dinner.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After lunch, we did a very interesting project - </span>the reason for Den to woke up so early and being so good with all the homework and schooling, so that she would have enough time to work on this project before her ballet class<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> - she was going to be a paleontologist today!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxJMcXTCeGfuKgrYip08itamg8oWJChcElJyRkZEiH3AdneIsEFMPLgju4EyiquKxguECqAAaUAhqyHlx_orzcTpLXguvoHNLS0xWxsKKKuLYFCxUnXDKn7iXyfYUZ7Mt9yetB7X8L_Ag/s1600/IMG_0436.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxJMcXTCeGfuKgrYip08itamg8oWJChcElJyRkZEiH3AdneIsEFMPLgju4EyiquKxguECqAAaUAhqyHlx_orzcTpLXguvoHNLS0xWxsKKKuLYFCxUnXDKn7iXyfYUZ7Mt9yetB7X8L_Ag/s200/IMG_0436.JPG" width="150" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I brought an Excavation Kit from ToysRus for less than RM16 </span>(after 70% off, I felt like a paleontologist finding hidden treasure already! ^^) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Den was super excited about this and cant wait to start on the project even though she knew she wont be able to finish it today. I told her she can work on it if we finished school early today. We did. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The kit came with a plaster pyramid </span>(with treasures hidden in it - a mummy coffin and 4 Canopic jars)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, tools </span>(Chisel, hammer, brushes)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for digging the hidden treasure and 5 tiny pots of paint for coloring the coffin and jars after you dig them up. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was not easy to chip away the plaster pyramid, after working on it for about 45 min (with some help from me with a real hammer and chisel!), she finally managed to excavated one of the Canopic jar (but not the cap) and she also managed to broke the pyramid into half and the coffin and the other 3 jars are visible now. All four caps are still missing in action. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes! Found the first jar!!! Then the next!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I had to put a stop on this at 330pm, so that we can clean up for ballet classes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After class, we brought duck for dinner </span>(left over will be for the super nice duck porridge! Yum!)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and since it was a quite night in and she had not watch any TV for the last two days, I promised to let her watch a cartoon DVD of her choice tonight. She choose Tinkle Bell. I did some house chore when she watched.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cp1897.com.hk/bookinfo/image/100/9624882088m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.cp1897.com.hk/bookinfo/image/100/9624882088m.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After movie, she did her devotion and got ready for bed. I read a chapter of <b>绿林小子</b> (<b>The Everygreen Wood</b> by Linda & Alan Parry) for her. It is an adaptation of the <b>Pilgrim's Progress for children</b>. The language is way too deep for Den but she just loves that book, so we have been going through a chapter a night (I have to paraphrase and explain almost every sentence! So a chapter is the most that I can take in a night!!!)</span>DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734338701215799219noreply@blogger.com0