Strawberry Shortcake live

there are many live show during xmas season for children in Spore. if you have time, you can bring ur child to these live show at diferent location, they have sesame street live, barney, care bears, strawberry shortcake, dora, yogi bear etc etc.. usually you need to be there 1 hr before to queue and get chance to go into the front row, which u may be given passes to take photos with your "idol".. this is too troublesome for me.. imagine the waiting time and crowd.. i cant imagine !

However, since they are having strawberry shortcake live at the mall near our home, so i though, ok la.. we shall drop by to have a look, we leave home 1/2 hr before, reach there within 10 mins and already the crowd was amazing.. we stay in second floor to see..so crowded.. the show last abt 30 mins.

We brought didi along too, he is just interested with moving things like when they are dancing but not when they are talking..

missy enjoyed the show as she refused to go home, not until i gave her some cheese bread then she sit on her push car and we brought her home.. haa..

puzzle me

Missy never seem to show interest in puzzle pieces.. i started with 2 pieces puzzl with her long after she started Shichida.. but she just refuse to join me.

last week, during her sick leave at home, she suddenly bring out her 2-piece puzzle and put all correctly. I was deeply surpised and beaming ! wow.. so she actually observe what i've been showing her.. now she just did it all by herself.. she is ready.. haa

this encourage me to get more pieces puzzle for her.tollder never stops surprising their parents.

Weekday Activities- 1st week of July

Half year gone..fast. neeway, missy is growing very fast too. she now talk in 2 sentence words. she will say bird sleeping.. mummy eat.. papa get up.. popo shishi(when mum in toilet) etc etc. i really lost count of how many words she can say..

This week, we revisit the matching game which missy is not interested last time,. this time round, i just showed her once and she got the hint of how to play. i gave her only one board with "fruits" to match. she did it all by herself and surprised me by getting all correct.. i somehow tot.. mm.. by chance la.. ask her do again.. she is very cooperative and did it once more all correct.

but, today when i change the topic to attire /clothing, she is not so intersted now.. maybe we will revisit this game.

I let her do it on her own, she is interested.


after she is done, i checked, wowo.. all correct, my little smarty. the orientation of the picture may not correct but the fruits matches the shadow. Great effort my missy ! at 21 months it's a good achievement. somehow i think could it be Shichida method ? whatever it is, i m glad to see such result.




Then, we wont miss our arts session. this round, i jst lay the mahjong paper on floor and let her play with the water colours.. she need not wait for my instruction and just splash.. brushh.. sqeeze.. splatter.. so concentrating.. until i have to tell her.. ok.. time to go to bath...

next round, we shall play with crayons and water colour.. great combination..


She filled up the paper with my help..master piece..


Great week. shall do some stringing next week.to train her concentration and of course im lacking on my linkinh memory. sigh got tot starttt..

Missy weekday activity

Mummy been busy. missy's activities have been more to Free & Easy this week. but we still manage to do our flash cards daily. I just completed the new set of 200 new cards for July. Phew.Lucky make it in time.

Mum may need to go for cataract ops soon. so i guess i got to take long leave. my project will start in July. dunno how la. all the wrong timing. but life is always unpredictable. Else, it'll be boring right !

Missy is able to put in the shapes onto the picture. but, she is not good with triangle yet. always turn wrong side *Grin*



Good motor skill games !



This is how missy looks like when i let her have her own peanut butter bread. stick all over. *cute* But, i like to see her mess up , cos when she explore, she learns.

Happy June 2009. We are heading to July Next week !

Weekdays Activities -2nd week of June

This week, we skipped one day of card flashing (mummy raise white flag to flu ), but, we still did a lot of scribbling..colouring.. i try to get her to connect two similar objects together with straight line *matching*.. she did more zigzag and circling now instead.



Some matching games for her.. to darw straight lines to connect two simialr items.. with lots of guidance from me of course.


She can match the ikea coloured plate/bowl/cutlery set by colours now.. she can say red, yellow, blue.. but she does not really know which colour is which yet..so i introduce one more game to missy. fishing !

self-made game. get fishes of primary colours, cute them out, paste them on cardboard, then clip a paper clip on them. use a wooden chopstick, stick on a magnet on the tip, which will be the fishing rod ! brilliant isn't it ? cost = zero. effort = lots of love...

Missy loves to take the fish out and in and out and in.. in all the wrong bowls.*sigh* but hey.. so long she enjoys it. im prety satisfied already. the concept of colours will coem eventually, as when she fish, i will keep telling her the correct bowl the fish should go !



we did few times of fishing this week, missy is getting expert in using her rod to fish *grin*



One last game for this week, yet, another simple hand-made game and good training for fine motor skill. print out a cat, then pasted on cardboard. ask your child use the clothe peg to make the cat's whiskers.. cool right !

missy still cant open up the cloth peg, it's a bit tight, so we shall revisit this game ! maybe i should print more like lion , animal with whiskers.. maybe use paper clip.. missy has no problem with paper clip !




okok.. enough updates on missy's weekly activities.. im still lagging on the linking memory games.. got to catch up and also prepare for July's 200 flash cards with new topics.. time's catching up and i feel like im sleazing like sloth.. oh mine !!

This week we read books on "Happy" & "Good night Tale".

Weekday Activities - paste & colour

Today, we did our weekly worksheet by SM. I cut the snake into two, then missy do the pasting, which include applying the glue, then we colour the snake.

There are many things i wanted to do still, which i find myself too exhausted last week (stupid migrain attack). got to gear up and prepare some fun activities for missy.. introduce her things like heavy/light, Big/small (taught in class on Sunday) before i forget and lost track on these..

Some of the books we borrowed from library on sat, i like the itsy bitsy spider, but missy does not seem to enjoy the story.

Missy knows how to sing "xiao chu" & "twinkle little star" now, not the whole songs, but the first phase and all the last words. very very cute when she sings, shall video it next time.

This week we read some books on animals in zoo.

June Weekdays activities

We are entering mid of 2009 now.. phew.. what have i done so far ? mm. actually done a lot of things with missy.. hee..



We did some farm animals matching.. i show her a farm animal, she choose one among all farm animals which i prepared on ice-cream stick , choose the right one and tab on the picture i show her.. I must say, missy did a splendid good job here.. she can match all 100% correct !! really is showing me she is growing up now.. no more baby.. her eyes and hand coordination is very good now. we shall play more of these games with fruits and other subject.. preparation work is a lot cos i need to print the pictures then paste it on cardboard then paste the picture on ice-cream stick. but, seems like a fun way to learn new subjects besides flash cards

Then, we had a new toy, the little tikes piggie torch, it can make oink oink sound, i play these with missy by swithcing off lights and hide into the tent.. and see shadow.. she loves it.. and i use this to let her colout pig.. she is not so interested on that day..prefer to explore the piggy torch instead.



Then we had our stacking games again (revisit activities), she is not interested with stacking for some time, but i always leave these games (stacks, ring, cups, puzzles) in open area that she is accessible. she now can stack all the colours and shapes. i am very proud of her skill. sometimes i think children observes and they just one day do carry the thing and do it, shocking their parents..haaa.. i even video it for memory.




Today, we has our water colour for the very first time, with brush. I bought this from popular, faber-castell again, i prefer this brand cos it's washable. ELC ready to use colour is convenient but non-washable. that's the headache part. so, i just squeeze some on the plate and missy knows right away to use the brush and splatter on her easel ! haaa.. my little artist ! see how satisfied she is




Missy's masak masak now evolved to using real pot.. she demand for one.. so mum gave her one small one .. *shake head*.. the book she flip is the eric carle "slowly slowly slowly said the sloth" very colourful and she always recognise the snake..heee

Our weekly activities updates

Seems like the easel we bought is really useful. Missy can do her scribbling comfortably without the need to bend and all. Still a proper gadget should be used for children's activities..



I let her scribble and scribble.. and i started to notice besides straight lines.. she can do wavy lines..i shall take a closer snap next time..Yesterday when we did the drawing, i did one thing different,i bundle up few crayons with rubber band and let missy hold and scribble.. * pick this idea from a mummy* but missy prefer to take it out.. the rubber band simply fascinated her.. *eyes rolling*



We did some finger painting too and some felt games. The end product of this week as posted.. heee..



some snaps for my bread.. like model like that.. this week i baked three bread actually, one wholemeal, two milk loaf..i want to make kaya this weekedn too.. lalala..love to bake..

Activities @ home

Last week, while im busy with housework and try to keep misys occupied, i let her play with my piles of clothes that need to fold. Im amused by the way she self-entertain with our clothes.. she just wear them on.. some really funny ones which i didn't captured on my phone.. some taken while she is still playing and "exploring " the clothes which including my swim wear, under garments.. my dress.. muahaha



Today, i started the photo memory on the matching portion. She still not showing much interest esp on linking memory sigh.. i've got to keep on trying. cos most 2 yo has this problem.. and now she is always with the "no no no" or "bu yao bu yao bu yao" her complete terrible two is surfacing..



Some of the games we played at home. MAtching different bowls. she is to se the picture for abt 1sec-4 sec then i will take it away. then she is suppose to match them into the empty box in correct sequence. with guidance from me. i will give her two picture each time to choose the right one. One more i played with her is linking memory where i tell her a story and she is supose to arrange the key word picture in sequence. she always refuse to complete the game even in class *frustrating mummy* this is very important game to help her to have good memory ! Mummy got to work hard to get her interested.

while going through the photos, i saw some taken yest in Ikea restaurant with mum & missy.. cute..

Weekday activities - May

This week we had some more activities that keep missy busy and learning at the same time..



(1) Potty training
Missy just refuse to tell us when she needs to go pee pee or poo poo.. so i let her read the My big girl potty. she likes this book and even make the poo poo sound when read the book.. * anticipate some improvement*



(2) Threading
I let missy try out a new activity. threading. she seems interested for just that first 5 minutes. after that, she just ignore this game. She even torn the bear into half..*sob* anyway. shall revisit this activity.



(3) scribbling
This is s must activity which missy never tired of doing. but, i let her try out something more structured as in to connect two similar items from one side to another.. and colour pictures which has a story line..remember.. shichida .. *input input input*


Will do our BFIR first activity next week with the first book - Goodnight Moon.

This week activities @ home

Usually week day evening will be at home doing some activities with Missy such as arts & some collage/pasting etc..

This week we had some activities that involving fine motro skills such as pasting stickers on specified location such as animals' eyes or vehicle's window/wheel..

we had the flower in straw games too..

Besides that, we did some tracing of lines and alphabets..

all these are activities we learn in sunday class that i try to repeat at home with missy ..

this week, we are flashing 200 cards per day and dots daily.. *im getting expert*

How i wish i can be baby again.. it's so much fun !

Weekday Activity -felt game

Today we started out felt game. Missy is quite fascinated by this new game.She imitates me to stick the felt onto the background. Some new game to add into her daily activity.

After the felt game, we had our swimming session again cos super hot day.

AFter shichida, we have done some daily activities which im still trying to be more organised. we done some photo memory games, Intuition game and energy ball. HAve yet to start the flash card. got to buy this weekend to get the ball rolling. No more procrastination !!!

Will start her 65 days dot programmes too once i got the materials.

Being parents nowadays simply challenging ! but im interested to see the result. 0-3 years is just input input input. shall see and hope to see the result after that !

Splash @ Home

It's been awhile since we had our last pool fun at home. weather is rather hot recently, so decided to let missy have some pool fun at home.

She fit nicely into her swim suit now, no need to fold up the straps :) how my missy has grown.



She enjoys it so much and refuse to come up even.

After our splash fun in the pool. we have some arts session. i gave misy my old lipsstick , channel brand some more . but long fogotten lipstick. so let missy scribble and just one time,.the lipstick all finish up.

I guess i should go and dig out more lipstick ? we never able to finsih a lipstick anyway.



Fun weekends begins.

Weekday activities @ home

Well, i try to introduce more games/activitiesto missy as possible as she is now at the stage that she can absorb fast and most.

she is very playful and she interacts with us vpretty well now. so, shall not miss out these precious moments.

Missy seems fascinated by our hoem curtain, i guess all children loves to play hide and seek with curtain ? she just curl herself up into the curtain and sit down waiting for us to find her. cute isn't it ?







Then, i try to introduce more arts work to missy. usually, we will just scribble on paper on the floor.. now, i pasted the drawing blocks onto our glass door at the balcony and let her scribble there .. a good starting point to practise before i get her the easel.

my drawings with flower and butterflies.. heee.. like go back to school like that. so long never really draw things..

when she is bigger we shall have water colours.. with hand/foot prints..maybe shall do it outside our corridoor.

More weekends activities awaiting us!