Den going to 'school'

The number one question I get asked whenever I tell anyone I'm homeschooling my DD is "how about socialization?"

Especially when they found out I only have one kid!!

Den used to be a very shy kid when she was 1-3 years old. By not pushing her, slowly she learn to push her own boundary and came out of her shell. She is still not the most outgoing girl around but she is getting there ^^.

The month of June is school holiday month in SG. There are lots of school holiday programs organized by various organization. My DH and I decided to enrol her (along with two of her friends) in a speech & drama camp at the CC (community center) near our apartment.

It was a 4 days camp and ended with a class performance on the last day of camp. This was the first time Den go to any classes without mommy (except for Sunday School). I was a bit anxious about it. I was very sure she was going to enjoy the class once she settle in but I was not sure how long would it take for her to settle in since I heard so much about 1st day of school jitter.

It took her 1 min! ^^

I sent her to class, I kissed her good bye, she asked me am I going to stand outside the class waiting for her, I told her no, she looked a bit worry but did not beg me to stay, so I just turn around and left.

The teacher later told me she has no problem to participate in the class, in fact, she was selected to introduce the play even though she is one of the youngest in the class! I'm so proud of her!

There were 3 kids staying with us last weeks. From what I can observed, she has no problem to socialize with them. She can give and she can take. She prepared her two most treasured princess pyjamas for her friends to wear. She does not act any different from the 3 school going kids....may be one thing different...she has no idea what is a machine gun or laser gun when her friends mentioned them...^^

30 April 2009

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Reason for not updating my blog: SICK! SICK! SICK! No worries, not H1N1. Anyway, this is backdated to last Thursday:

We had a very short lesson today but still doing much better than I expected.

We were supposed to go out with my friend SY at around 12:15pm.

We were ready at 11:45am, which gave us some time to study. We did not do any Phonic, my sour throat plus the noise from the unit downstairs had pretty much make it an impossibility.

We read 3 Mother Goose rhymes, and 2 pages of Eric Carle's "Animals Animals" and finished one of our favorite " Things people do". We were kind of sad because we finished the book. But quite looking forward to the new book next week. I think it is the "Stories from around the world". I will tell you more about it when we read it next week.

Right after we finished, my friend arrived with her very cute 1-year-old boy.

We went to the curve because the noise in my place make it impossible for any quality conversation. Anyway, we had a good time chatting. Will tell you more when I have the time.

After my friend left, Den and I went to Borders. Den "read" in the children's corner while I looked for books nearby. I overheard her making a conversation with a jie jie. The jie jie is around 8-9 years old.

She said "Hi" to the jie jie and drew the jie jie into a conversation. What was even more amazing, she got the jie jie into reading for her!! hahaha! Who said homeschooling kids have problems in socializing?