Reading a book with missy

As many have told me that fo children studying in Spore, there should not be any worries on their English language. they are constantly exposed to English language in school/enrichment classes.. the most spoken language, even at home her "kantang" daddy is speaking mostly this language and i was influenced but him. we speak english mostly at home.even maid picked up the language.

beside speaking, we want to ensure she loves to read. we have started reading to her since. she has sort of graduated from ladybird Grade1/2. these are stories by lady bird books according to difficulty of reading, from lesser words to more words.

Just for my record on the books that were familiar by missy

Lady books series(these are books read by LGG when he was younger, all still in good condition)

Grade 1:
1. The elves and the shoemaker
2. The three little pigs
3. The gingerbread boy
4. The little red hen
5. The princess and the pea
6. The sly fox and the little red hen
7. The three billy-goats gruff
8. The enormous turnip
9. Goddilocks and the three bears
10. The magic porridge pot
11. The old woman and her pig
12. Hansel and Gretel

Grade 2:
1. Sleeping beauty
2. Puss in boots
3. Rumpelstiltskin
4. Rapunzel
5. The wold and the seven little kids
6. Little red riding hood


Grade 3:
1. Cinderella
2. Jack and the beanstalk
3. Beauty and the best
4. Snow-white and the seven dwarfs
5. The pied Piper of Hamelin
6. The magic Paintbrush

We read other books too, whivh are from other series/authors lik Mr series, etc.

Happy reading and we hope by reading all these books to her as a routine, will help her to like reading and make this lifelong habit. She has picked up many vocabularies from the stories she read. and she needs the before-bed time reading no matter how tired she is. which i guess is a good sign.

Ballerina my missy

I have waited since Dec 2010 for weekday evening ballet class, after one term, they still do not have it, so i decided to go ahead with weekend class.. there goes our ONLY FREE sunday afternoon, for missy ballet class.

The class is on 3 months as a term. the ballet costume costs almost 80% of the cost fee. haaa.. but i guess all is worth it, when see her enjoying herself and having some "exercise" in dance floor.
I hope she will hav bettr posture and graceful as a ballrina her teacher, is very graceful and good posture.



for this age group, no grading yet, they are just picking up on the posture, coordinating and ryhthmic. the songs are played by live piano.


Missy favourite snack.. Doughnuts. we have some cently.. yummilicious. but very heaty cant eat too offten



missy was down with oral ulcer last week, she was at home or the whole week. fever on the first 2 days, highest 39.7deg, doc has to put suppository to bring the fever down. That was just few days aftr didi's fever session. the scariest part being parents is when kiddos fall sick. stressful and worried like mad.

Chinese Learning @ home

lil missy speak mandarine with anngmo slang.. it's like a caucasian kid is speaking chinese.. we are quite worried as she refuse to use mandarine in conversation except to talk to my mum.. but this has improve ever since her China-chinese teacher took over that she seems to speak more mandarin.. with slightly china-slang..mm..

she has been able to read chinese words from her school chinese lesson, as at this stage, she is capturing/remembering via image snapshot. the basic "ba, ma, ge, jie etc" she is able to recognise. I have been putting in some home practise for her chinese too, as knowing chinese is very important, as chinese, we must at least know/can speak/can read the language (this is my father philosophy, tt was why i was sent to chinese primary school) it's always good to know more languages.

i've been discussing and getting tips from other mummies online on this topic, many suggestions and ways are done to get their child to like and be better in thi language. one of the books that i'm glad i've bought 2 weeks back is the basic chinese(5 books in the initial set)




i have been doing the home practise with missy one lesson (recognise 1 word) on daily basis ( besides days when she was sicks last week)..she i picking up fast, we are already 6th words.. after each word, it will combine all the words learn into a sentence, which missy is able to read the whole sentense. *good job*

There is one more set of books, which are highly recommended and bought by many .. si wu kuai du, which they ordered from china website dang dang


but the ordering/delivery is a hassle.. they take weeks to get it..im still considering.. one expert told me unless i can commit to teach daily (like SM flash cards)else the effect for siwukuaidu wont be that great.

for the time being, i'll continue with basic chinese 500. i'll be elated if missy is able to pick up all the words by thi year and i shall buy 5 more books(second sets)

beside ths, i use the SM on poem recital to get missy to recite/remmeber chinese poems. my col gave me some home practise chinese books, i use these to practise with missy. hopefully, she can pronounce mandarin words properly.



I plan to enrol missy to berries (chinese enrichment) next year. let people teach is better than i ownself teach , as i feel my chinese also not very good, later teach the wrong ones, it'll be the blind leads the blind..