All About Your Child

Today is the Last Day of the one month long School Holidays, Yippeee!!!! Finally, my life can be back to the more predictable routine, instead of squeezing my brain for new stuff to do with them day in, day out.

You see, during school holidays, they don’t nap because they wake up really late. Then the question of “Mommy, can you play with me”will come right after they had their morning milk and this will continue to wee hours like 1am! Their energy level is unbelievable!

This mid-year school break WAS really fruitful, especially for my preschool Keatkeat. Finally he is able to spell from 1-20, know the days of the week through the song I created, improve on his motor skills, which is still a little behind his 15 months younger bro in some ways, recognise almost 10 car brand logos, paint at home for the very first time, help to cook too, etc….

So on this last day, I tested him with this…. which my hubby thinks was too CONFUSING for a 4 year old. What do you think? Too confusing? Too tough on him?

But he scored really well, without any prompting or assistance, remember, its a Test. I wasn’t too harsh on him too, I gave him a chance to look through his answers twice before handing the worksheets back to me.

I’m glad I did gave him time to check over, ‘cos that’s when he noticed some mistakes he made, as you can see the signs of stuff being erased and rewritten over.

 Though he may not have scored full-marks for this last one, I’m happy with the results. He used to be much worse off.

My hubby still thinks that it was too tough for him…..hmmmm

It’s funny how the old feeling of giving tuition to other kids, in my younger years, comes right back as I put every red tick on each correct answer and (as usual) give lots of stars…..Keatkeat wanted 39 stars and I granted his wish. *smile*

This June has been great so far! Lots of excitement and lots of achievements for the kids.

Keatkeat finds it hard to remember which day comes after which. So I created a Song using “My Darling Clementine” tune.

In case you think I was smart, nah, its a habit. I just pick words from the air and throw in new lyrics to tunes that the kids are familiar with, most of the time, its for the fun of it, rather then for educational purposes.

But this time was meant to help my little 4-year-old remember the sequence of the days, which he became so good at it now, after it was made easy with this catchy new song. Now my 3-year-old can sing it too! LOL

Well, over the years of teaching in Child Care Centre, I realise that to make kids remember ‘Anything’, turn them into songs.

So the lyrics goes like this:
Monday
Tuesday
Wed-nes-day-
Thursday
Friday
Saturday.
After Saturday is Sunday
And then Monday comes again.

In case some of you may not know the tune, I’ve attached it below.