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Friday, June 19, 2009
GUG - 1st term
Darling has completed her 8 classes at GUG.. An update on all her classes and performance =P
1st class - Q
This being the first class, darling was overwhelmed by the veri enthusiatic teachers and cried when teacher Russell came too near =P Daddy was not able to join us for our first class (need to work) and so mummy went through with darling for the entire 1.5hrs. Today's alphabet is Q and darling's first piece of art n craft work is playing with cling wrap, glue and glitters. The cling wrap was pasted on a paper and glitters were sprinkled all over it.
2nd class - R
Today darling was very excited by the rabbit soft toy (from the ZOO bag) and she hugged and kissed many times =D No art n craft was done today. Instead they played with cereals n jam, sticking cereals to paper plates with jam. Hee...darling prob enjoyed eating the cereals more than anything else!
3rd - S
Darling continued with her love for the "animal" from the ZOO bag.. and she kissed .. Sammy the Snake today! HEEE.. and well, as teacher Wei would say, only Sammy Snake is kissable, the other snakes that we see outside would be too dangerous for kissing =P
Today's art piece - "S"TAR
4th - T
There was a story telling session today, about the little cat who wanted to be like a tiger, growling/roaring/jumping around!
Today darling played with poster colors.. teacher wei showed the children how would mixing the colors RED and YELLOW gives us ORANGE. Some glue was mixed into the colors so that the black stripes of the tiger would stay on =D
5th - U
No art n craft today. Instead the class had their first encounter with flour, what a mess! buckets of flour and shreds of crepe paper were placed into tubs. Little animal toy figurines were 'hidden' in the tubs and the children was asked to dip their hands in to find the figurines.. darling ended the session with her hot pink socks turning white with flour!
6th - v
Today's animal was vincent the vampire bat.. who did not come out from the ZOO bag.. instead it was hanging from the ceiling like most other bats would. The class was asked to 'find' him =D
Vegetables painting - Carrots and Cucumbers were used
7th - w
When we reached the school today, we realised the BIG GUG bear was missing from the front desk .. something's wrong?
The session started rather differently, with art n craft done during the first session (its normally done at 2nd half).
See darling's watermelon art piece, green was colored using the paintbrush which darling still hasn't learnt how to hold properly.. :
2nd session was the BIG BEAR HUNT! Now we know why is the BIG bear missing at the front desk! It started with story reading of a book titled "The Bear hunt" .. in the story, the children waddled through the rivers (tubs of water was prepared in the classroom for the children to waddle in!), under the trees (streams of green crepe paper were pasted on on the door frame and the children walked under them!), crawled through tunnels (there was a tunnel in another classroom which the children have 2 crawl through to get to the BIG bear!) .. darling went through all the obstacles.. hee.. except the last .. coz she saw the BIG bear in the room and ran straight at it, skipping her last obstacle course!
This is mummy's favourite session so far =D
8th - v
Today's art n craft involved painting Xavier Fox and pasting his tail .. we dun ve the snapshot of it coz its still in class =D
1st term review:
Hee.. darling should be graduating to the parents n tots class for the 2nd term coz she is past 18mths.. but when mummy called the sch to query, we were told that darling's whole class would be 'retained' .. haa.. cant promote to the tots class!!! Reason being: teacher wei and teacher russell thinks the class is not ready for tots class, they would prob need another term to learn to settle down in class n listen to instructions =P Furthermore the tots class students would be exposed to reading of 3-letter words!.. darling haven master her 26 alphabets yet =P So mummy's ok to let darling stay in babes class ;) And mummy thinks darling loves teacher wei and teacher russell after all these 8 classes.
Verdict: sign on another term ;) and pray that the same teachers would be with us .. =D
1st class - Q
This being the first class, darling was overwhelmed by the veri enthusiatic teachers and cried when teacher Russell came too near =P Daddy was not able to join us for our first class (need to work) and so mummy went through with darling for the entire 1.5hrs. Today's alphabet is Q and darling's first piece of art n craft work is playing with cling wrap, glue and glitters. The cling wrap was pasted on a paper and glitters were sprinkled all over it.
2nd class - R
Today darling was very excited by the rabbit soft toy (from the ZOO bag) and she hugged and kissed many times =D No art n craft was done today. Instead they played with cereals n jam, sticking cereals to paper plates with jam. Hee...darling prob enjoyed eating the cereals more than anything else!
3rd - S
Darling continued with her love for the "animal" from the ZOO bag.. and she kissed .. Sammy the Snake today! HEEE.. and well, as teacher Wei would say, only Sammy Snake is kissable, the other snakes that we see outside would be too dangerous for kissing =P
Today's art piece - "S"TAR
4th - T
There was a story telling session today, about the little cat who wanted to be like a tiger, growling/roaring/jumping around!
Today darling played with poster colors.. teacher wei showed the children how would mixing the colors RED and YELLOW gives us ORANGE. Some glue was mixed into the colors so that the black stripes of the tiger would stay on =D
5th - U
No art n craft today. Instead the class had their first encounter with flour, what a mess! buckets of flour and shreds of crepe paper were placed into tubs. Little animal toy figurines were 'hidden' in the tubs and the children was asked to dip their hands in to find the figurines.. darling ended the session with her hot pink socks turning white with flour!
6th - v
Today's animal was vincent the vampire bat.. who did not come out from the ZOO bag.. instead it was hanging from the ceiling like most other bats would. The class was asked to 'find' him =D
Vegetables painting - Carrots and Cucumbers were used
7th - w
When we reached the school today, we realised the BIG GUG bear was missing from the front desk .. something's wrong?
The session started rather differently, with art n craft done during the first session (its normally done at 2nd half).
See darling's watermelon art piece, green was colored using the paintbrush which darling still hasn't learnt how to hold properly.. :
2nd session was the BIG BEAR HUNT! Now we know why is the BIG bear missing at the front desk! It started with story reading of a book titled "The Bear hunt" .. in the story, the children waddled through the rivers (tubs of water was prepared in the classroom for the children to waddle in!), under the trees (streams of green crepe paper were pasted on on the door frame and the children walked under them!), crawled through tunnels (there was a tunnel in another classroom which the children have 2 crawl through to get to the BIG bear!) .. darling went through all the obstacles.. hee.. except the last .. coz she saw the BIG bear in the room and ran straight at it, skipping her last obstacle course!
This is mummy's favourite session so far =D
8th - v
Today's art n craft involved painting Xavier Fox and pasting his tail .. we dun ve the snapshot of it coz its still in class =D
1st term review:
Hee.. darling should be graduating to the parents n tots class for the 2nd term coz she is past 18mths.. but when mummy called the sch to query, we were told that darling's whole class would be 'retained' .. haa.. cant promote to the tots class!!! Reason being: teacher wei and teacher russell thinks the class is not ready for tots class, they would prob need another term to learn to settle down in class n listen to instructions =P Furthermore the tots class students would be exposed to reading of 3-letter words!.. darling haven master her 26 alphabets yet =P So mummy's ok to let darling stay in babes class ;) And mummy thinks darling loves teacher wei and teacher russell after all these 8 classes.
Verdict: sign on another term ;) and pray that the same teachers would be with us .. =D
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Liwen's wedding
14 June 2009 - Sunday
CONGRATULATIONS Liwen!!! Its finally here.. and over... All the busy preparations all for this important big big day. Mummy used to say its actually a 'wayang' session.. haa.. for the elders, relatives to 'watch'..
The day started in the morning with the typical gatecrashing, 8 xiong dis and 9 jie meis, ultra crowded! haa... the Groom had to go through "pit stops" which includes the QnA with sour/sweet/bitter/hot as punishment, buying of clues, picking beans with chopsticks, running around the compound (good exercise in the morning!).. a little misfortune was one of the jiemeis were injured at the last "pit stop" when the xiong dis decided to bulldoze themselves into the bride's room..
After the fun gatecrashing session, its the more serious praying and tea ceremonies at both the groom and bride's place. And the bride n groom went to the hotel for their rest before the nite event..
Hee.. some fotos from their album to share (hee... do i need to pay for copyrights for posting these?)
The wedding dinner reception is at Swisotel (clark quay), splendid location for us.. hee.. NELine =D We got there slightly before 7pm and went to the bridal room to look c look c =D
Mummy took pictures with the pretty bride .. hee.. shirui darling too!
Shirui darling and geral played with each other for a while .. hee.. hugging, catching, chasing, kissing each other! so fun to c them play =D and liwen's mummy kept commenting that darling has lost weight!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Poor charmine wasn't oo used to the big place, the big crowd and did not get into the ballroom the whole night. Mummy brought darling out of the ballroom, looking for Charm and when we did find them, charm was 'overwhelmed' by darling's advances too (despite being the same generation).. hope she would grow to adapt to such situations soon =D oh ya, and charm has been signed up for the same GUG class (slot) as darling! Charm, cya at GUG this sunday =D
When we got home that nite, mummy realised we din take any other photos, hmph! Mummy was busy with shirui darling the whole nite.. hmmm .. Hope the PG took some pict of geral n sr playing together .. hee... so cute.
CONGRATULATIONS Liwen!!! Its finally here.. and over... All the busy preparations all for this important big big day. Mummy used to say its actually a 'wayang' session.. haa.. for the elders, relatives to 'watch'..
The day started in the morning with the typical gatecrashing, 8 xiong dis and 9 jie meis, ultra crowded! haa... the Groom had to go through "pit stops" which includes the QnA with sour/sweet/bitter/hot as punishment, buying of clues, picking beans with chopsticks, running around the compound (good exercise in the morning!).. a little misfortune was one of the jiemeis were injured at the last "pit stop" when the xiong dis decided to bulldoze themselves into the bride's room..
After the fun gatecrashing session, its the more serious praying and tea ceremonies at both the groom and bride's place. And the bride n groom went to the hotel for their rest before the nite event..
Hee.. some fotos from their album to share (hee... do i need to pay for copyrights for posting these?)
The wedding dinner reception is at Swisotel (clark quay), splendid location for us.. hee.. NELine =D We got there slightly before 7pm and went to the bridal room to look c look c =D
Mummy took pictures with the pretty bride .. hee.. shirui darling too!
Shirui darling and geral played with each other for a while .. hee.. hugging, catching, chasing, kissing each other! so fun to c them play =D and liwen's mummy kept commenting that darling has lost weight!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Poor charmine wasn't oo used to the big place, the big crowd and did not get into the ballroom the whole night. Mummy brought darling out of the ballroom, looking for Charm and when we did find them, charm was 'overwhelmed' by darling's advances too (despite being the same generation).. hope she would grow to adapt to such situations soon =D oh ya, and charm has been signed up for the same GUG class (slot) as darling! Charm, cya at GUG this sunday =D
When we got home that nite, mummy realised we din take any other photos, hmph! Mummy was busy with shirui darling the whole nite.. hmmm .. Hope the PG took some pict of geral n sr playing together .. hee... so cute.
Our 1st in-house playgroup
13 June Saturday 1630hours
YEAH! its finally here and mummy's more excited than darling over the session..? hee
It started out with an ambitious group of 9 kiddos (3 over 3yrs, the rest are born in 2007). However some mummies and their little ones couldn't make it and in the end there were only 3 children, including darling shirui..
Jiawen and mummy were on time and YUM YUM YUM.. HEE .. Jiawen's mummy baked cakes! soooo talented.. the orange flavoured cake is something new and refreshing.. thumbs up
Zhixin 'overslept' for her afternoon nap.. haa.. so she came over with mummy Wan oni at ard 5. Brother de wanted his dearie beauty sleep in the afternoon and hence was not here.
Our session started with the kids and mummies in darling's room for sing-along and story reading time. Toys were put into a big white bag and all the tots had a go in getting a toy out from the bag. For each toy out of the bag, a song related to the toy was sung. We sang the "BINGO Dog", "5 Little ducks" and "Fly fly butterfly" songs.
After the first round of ice breaker, we all 'jumped, walked, swinged' ourselves to the ZOO, singing along to the "We'r going to the Zoo" tune. Mummy read "Elmo goes to ZOO" book which introduced animals like Ellie the Elephant, Zeke the Zebra ...
Den its Art n Craft time! Vegetables painting! Mummy and sweetest daddy prepared the vegetables before the 'class' started (while darling shirui was napping in the early afternoon). Hee.. pictures of the veg after the session:
Colors used were RGB - the primary colors - Red Green Blue.
Take a look at the art pieces and our little artists at work =D
Lastly is the makan session.. yummy cakes
Jiawen ...
Zhixin ...
Finger sucking good huh Zhixin?
Stay tuned for our 2nd session!
YEAH! its finally here and mummy's more excited than darling over the session..? hee
It started out with an ambitious group of 9 kiddos (3 over 3yrs, the rest are born in 2007). However some mummies and their little ones couldn't make it and in the end there were only 3 children, including darling shirui..
Jiawen and mummy were on time and YUM YUM YUM.. HEE .. Jiawen's mummy baked cakes! soooo talented.. the orange flavoured cake is something new and refreshing.. thumbs up
Zhixin 'overslept' for her afternoon nap.. haa.. so she came over with mummy Wan oni at ard 5. Brother de wanted his dearie beauty sleep in the afternoon and hence was not here.
Our session started with the kids and mummies in darling's room for sing-along and story reading time. Toys were put into a big white bag and all the tots had a go in getting a toy out from the bag. For each toy out of the bag, a song related to the toy was sung. We sang the "BINGO Dog", "5 Little ducks" and "Fly fly butterfly" songs.
After the first round of ice breaker, we all 'jumped, walked, swinged' ourselves to the ZOO, singing along to the "We'r going to the Zoo" tune. Mummy read "Elmo goes to ZOO" book which introduced animals like Ellie the Elephant, Zeke the Zebra ...
Den its Art n Craft time! Vegetables painting! Mummy and sweetest daddy prepared the vegetables before the 'class' started (while darling shirui was napping in the early afternoon). Hee.. pictures of the veg after the session:
Colors used were RGB - the primary colors - Red Green Blue.
Take a look at the art pieces and our little artists at work =D
Lastly is the makan session.. yummy cakes
Jiawen ...
Zhixin ...
Finger sucking good huh Zhixin?
Stay tuned for our 2nd session!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Vim's wedding... our first Indian Wedding
The Bollywood Girl Gang!
Shirui and Jingen
Family foto
Mummy with aunty Xuiling
with Nat
Adeline
Margaret
@ the temple after the traditional ceremony
Shirui with aunty ade
Close up of the Girl Gang (or issit aunty gang =P)
Shirui and Jingen
Family foto
Mummy with aunty Xuiling
with Nat
Adeline
Margaret
@ the temple after the traditional ceremony
Shirui with aunty ade
Close up of the Girl Gang (or issit aunty gang =P)
Sunday, June 7, 2009
D'story
We went for a trial class at Pat's on the saturday that just passed. It is the last part of our project to find sr a cc which would include NI-K2. Earlier in the year mummy n daddy had already QC thru a few choices ard popo's area.
Sat's class was at 915am and we were told to b there 10mins earlier for temperature taking etc. When we got there, there was only a mummy and her daughter.. wat a surprise. Anyway by the time the class ended, there were only sr and 3 girls. The class was supposed to be 6 students, apparently 3 din turn up?!
The class 'schedule' runs as follow:
- Free play (its actually waiting for the other students to arrive) which the teacher (looks very young, prob in her early twenties) let sr and the early comers (or rather arrived on the dot?) do some drawing.
- Fastrack which is a story telling/song/music and video watching segment. A book on the nursery rhythm - 10 fat sausages, was read and the teacher went through the rhythm. A video (from YOUTUBE) on a teacher doing the rymthm at class was screened lastly.
- Cooking your own french toast for breakfast. Everyone had a go at beating the eggs, soaking the bread in the beated egg and lastly putting the bread into the frying pan. It was darling's first time and well, its an eye opener =D
- Outdoor play at the playground
- Singalong
Verdict: mummy n daddy appreciated the outdoor play and the cooking session. The rest of the lesson was ok... and so we decided we shall stay on with sr's current class at gug ..
Sat's class was at 915am and we were told to b there 10mins earlier for temperature taking etc. When we got there, there was only a mummy and her daughter.. wat a surprise. Anyway by the time the class ended, there were only sr and 3 girls. The class was supposed to be 6 students, apparently 3 din turn up?!
The class 'schedule' runs as follow:
- Free play (its actually waiting for the other students to arrive) which the teacher (looks very young, prob in her early twenties) let sr and the early comers (or rather arrived on the dot?) do some drawing.
- Fastrack which is a story telling/song/music and video watching segment. A book on the nursery rhythm - 10 fat sausages, was read and the teacher went through the rhythm. A video (from YOUTUBE) on a teacher doing the rymthm at class was screened lastly.
- Cooking your own french toast for breakfast. Everyone had a go at beating the eggs, soaking the bread in the beated egg and lastly putting the bread into the frying pan. It was darling's first time and well, its an eye opener =D
- Outdoor play at the playground
- Singalong
Verdict: mummy n daddy appreciated the outdoor play and the cooking session. The rest of the lesson was ok... and so we decided we shall stay on with sr's current class at gug ..
