Children's Day Celebration

Vincy's childcare brought them to The Kids Kampong yesterday for Children's Day Celebration. According to the teacher, Vincy held a mouse by it's tail there. She came back with a bag of fish.


In the evening, we went to Clarence's childcare centre. The school was holding a potluck cum lantern walk in the neighbourhood as part of Children's Day Celebration.
Poem recitation by the pupils to kick start the evening's celebration.

After the games and potluck session, we took a walk in the neighbourhood with our lanterns. Lazy mummy did not light up their lanterns. My 2 kids just held on to the unlighted lanterns throughout the walk. Vincy was fantastic yesterday, she held my hand and walked round the neighbourhood without asking me to carry her and it was definitely not a short walk. I am glad that both of them enjoyed themselves last night.

When I saw some of Clarence's classmates at the event with their maids only, I really felt very grateful for the fact that I can be with them on all these special occasions.

Vincy's Observation Report (Sep 2010)

Received Vincy's observation Report (Sep 2010) yesterday.
Physical (Gross/Fine)
Vincy is still working on both her gross and fine motor and has developed a certain degree of attainments which allow her to master some self-help skills such as putting on her shoes. She is also able to walk up the stairs independently by holding the handrail and landing on both feet after hopping.

Intellectual/ Cognitive
Vincy has good recognition over objects or pictures that were introduced. She is able to identify them by pointing. She makes good effort to pronounce a vocab if she knows.
She works relatively well with individual puzzles and capable of simple problem solving.

Social/ Emotional/ Moral
Vincy has started to become very vocal about her wants and needs. However, as she is not yet fully capable of expressing herself clearly, there are times when she will encounter conflicts with her peers. Vincy is very responsive in class and participates actively during circle time. She likes talking to the teachers and enjoys reading books and particularly loves story-telling time.

Overall comments
Vincy is a cheerful girl with a bright smile who loves having her photographs taken and enjoys story-telling and reading. She encourages her friends to follow instructions and sets an exemplary example for the others to follow. Vincy gets excited and is very enthusiastic when it comes to learning new things, and her curiosity to explore greatly helps in her overall development.


华文评估
颖希在表达方面有明显的进步，她在课堂中能听懂简单的指令，并主动回答老师的提问。懂得整理个人物品。

Singapore Flyer

Clarence drew the F1 race cars with the Singapore Flyer as the backdrop. The flyer was actually made from a paper plate. They cut a hole in the paper plate and put paper fastener on the paper capsules so that the capsules of the flyer can be turned. Quite innovative, I won't be able to think of such ideas for art.

Everything was nice except the bat. I had no idea why Clarence must draw a bat there and spoil the whole picture. According to him, he said bats come out at night, so he drew a bat. I could not help but peep his classmate's piece of work, no bats.
Wonder if he is creative or he simply refuse to follow instruction?

I asked Clarence what was the yellow object. He told me the yellow object the first car driver was holding on to was a trophy for coming in first.

Cycling

We went cycling at East Coast Park on Sunday. Vincy was my pillion passenger.


Clarence did not know how to cycle yet so initially we wanted to rent one with a pillion seat but he was over the weight limit. So we rented a tandem bike for him and daddy to cycle together.
I thought it was such a good idea, he could cycle along too.

BUT, look at his legs:

His legs were not the pedals at all. Faint!

Downstairs

We went downstairs to play with Clarence's new flying iron man toy. We tried flying it at home but it kept knocked on the ceiling and crashed.

Not better downstairs too:

Mei mei played with the scooter:

After a while, we suggested daddy to go upstairs to get bicycles for the kids. While waiting for the bicycle. I got them to pose for the camera.


2nd bicycle riding lesson for Clarence:





Clarence still needs more practice!

She got it right

Vincy surprised me just now by coming out with Barney in her arms and said "Barney" loud and clear. She used to call Barney "wear wear" but she got it right today.
She also manage to call me "mummy" instead of "mama" just now. I have been trying to get her to pronounce "mummy" but she ends up saying "mimi" so she always call me mama. I am so glad she finally got it right today!

Note

Yesterday, I left Clarence's 听写纸 on the dining table and wrote him a note to ask him to study cos I have forgotten to revise with him the night before. He woke up before I left for work so I reminded him to revise before he go to school.

When I came back home in the afternoon, I saw Clarence's reply on the 听写纸：

This is the first time my son leave a note for me!

中秋节

Mummy brought the kids downstairs to carry lantern. To my surprise, there was a Mid Autumn Festival celebration and they provide free popcorn, drinks, fries, nuggets, bee hoon, nasi lemak, balloons, bouncing castle. Unbelievable, all free!

I bought the traditional type lanterns for them this year, dun really fancy those battery operated ones with noisy music.
Superman for gor gor and Barney for meimei

Both of them carried their lanterns and walked round the little park.

Surprisingly, nobody's lantern was burnt. I sort of expect their lanterns to be burnt, especially meimei's. Meimei was very cute, she would come back to me when the candle in her lantern went off and tell me "no light".

Met some of our neighbours downstairs and gor gor got to play with free sparklers.

She made this

Vincy made this Bee lantern in school.

Done from recycled bottle

Think she painted the bottle orange and the teacher printed and bee picture for her.

Spin stop

It has been quite some time since I last update Clarence's inline skating progress. It is because mummy is always chit chatting with his classmates' parents instead of watching him. Felt a bit guilty hence I took some videos of him learning spin stop yesterday. He was practicising Mohawk too. Seriously I do not really know the difference between the 2 cos they were both turns.

Getting ready

Vincy was holding a sweet when I picked her from school yesterday. The teacher told me she gave Vincy a sweet because she danced well during the practice in school for the year end concert. Mummy asked Vincy to dance for me to see before I opened the sweet for her.

Wonder if she will dare to dance on stage on the actual day?