Friday, November 25, 2011

Parents-Teacher Meeting

25 Nov 2011 (Fri):

Little Footprints has its parents-teacher meeting this am. And in return, we received our child's academic cum enrichment progress report.

This certificate of graduation was presented to Lionel for completion of K2 programme in year 2011.

Rachel's Term 4 Developmental Milestone:

Language Arts
Rachel is able to undertsand the themes taught in Term 4. She is able to name some transportation & occupation. She enjoys interatcing with her peers.

Math Concepts
Rachel understands the concepts of numbers 1 to 20. She is able to name some colours like orange, purple, brown, white and black.

Chinese Language
在第四学期的学习里,谢佳璇能够用流利的华文和小朋友交流并且能够认读很多华文字了,非常好, 要继续努力哦!


Daily Activities
Rachel has improved in her fine motor skills. She can form letters with ice cream sticks

谢佳璇能够认读学过的华文字,并能进行快速指认, 非常好,要保持。

Lionel's Assessment for the Year 2011 ( Semester 2)

English
Picture Talk 10/10
Reading 10/10
Written 70/70
Spelling 10/10
Total 100/100

Mathematics 100/100

Chinese
Picture Talk 10/10
Reading 10/10
Written 68/70
Spelling 10/10
Total 98/100




His Developmental Checklist:

All 1s from Motor Development, Gross, Social/Emtional Behaviour, Sensory & Thinking Skills to Language & Social Skilles.

1 - Good 2 - Satisfactory 3 - Fair

His Term 4 Development Milestones

Language Arts
Lionel is an extremely motivated student & is always applying his highest effort into all of their classroom assignments. He continues to build a slod bank of common sight words. He predicts story events and is able to provide reasons for the prediction he makes. He is also able to express relevant idead in group dicussions. He accurately assesses his abilities to listen and clearly responds to other ideas and point of views. As the term has progressed, he has become a more self-motivated and self-directed learner. I wish to congratulate him on his positive start in primary 1.

Math Concepts
Lionel has matured nicely this year, academically & socially. He is enthusiastic when it comes to participating in class. He demostrates an understanding of addtion & subtraction to 20, using objects, pictures & numbers. He understands the concept of mathematics using money. He easily classifies a number as even or odd and usues ordinal numbers to twentieth with ease. He has also the ability to identify fractions. His positive attitude towards learning is evident in all subjects areas & greatly contributes to his academic success. I just want him to continue learning and he may have a great year in Primary 1.

Chinese Language
在第四学期里,我们主要以交通工具和职业为主题。志聪对这些主题都感兴趣。在学习的过程中,他对主题的内容理解得很好。华文语言能力强,在做组词成句写作中,能根据老师提供的词语,组成正确完整的句子。 汉语拼音方面,复韵母和声调的标法方面都掌握的不错。最后,老师希望你在新的一年里, 新的环境中能够快乐的成长,学习更多的知识。 加油

Daily Activities

Lionel is able to apply the basic elements of line & colour to produce drawings and prints that communicate thoughts, feelings & ideas.

志聪的华文理解能力强,在数笔画写作中,他能够正确的数出汉字的笔画,很好。

Congrats to both Lionel & Rachel. You did well.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Chinese Martial Arts Grading

20 Nov 2011 (Sun):

A back-dated post - 13 Nov 2011 (Sun). Lionel had his chinese martial arts grading at Toa Payoh CC this afternoon. As i was doing some other errands, my sil offered to send Lionel over. As it is, her daughter was also having her grading done. Both of them were in the same level.

Below shown were his results. He passed all stages & was awarded the green belt - level 4.

His grading: 长拳与短拳, 拳掌加连打(全套), 脱手法(第一到四武)- all passed.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Primary One Orientation

18 Nov 2011 (Fri):

At 130pm this afternoon, we attended Lionel's P1 orientation @ Yishun Primary. We did the registration & proceeded into the hall where all the 2012's P1 students were grouped into their respective classes. Lionel's name tag was included inside his orientation kit & we were told to pin the tag onto his shirt.

A hip hop dance performance were shown by the upper primary & the principle, Mrs Chan gave a speech. All P1 students were taken on a sch tour where they were orientate on the school grounds. Mr David Huang gave a talk on the usage of ipod touch & iphone as part of the students' learning device.

After that, all of us proceeded to purchase textbooks, uniforms, school socks & shoes. I spent $250 just buying these basic neccessaties. OMG!!

It was raining heavily but thank goodness, the sch has a sheltered walkway to the bus stop. Upon reaching home, i got Lionel to change into the full set of uniform, including sock & shoe. Bingo!! I have a P1 student ready to move on.





There's also another note given to all parents stating all the items that would be collected by the FT on the 1st 3 days of sch so as to reduce the weight of the child's schoolbag. Such a nice gesture!

The only question i have in my mind is: What time to report for sch on the 03 Jan 2012??? The principle, Mrs Chan did announced that PM session starts at 130pm but the website indicates otherwise. Guess i have to call the sch to double check. But uh-oh... its the sch hols, will there be anyone working??

Sunday, November 13, 2011

" Make Over " Done

13 November 2011 (Sun):

What's supposed to be completed in a matter of 4 weeks were all completed today - the bedrooms, living room, storeroom & bathrooms. ( Hey, come to think of it, it was all done within 2 weekends - 6 & 7 Nov followed by 12 & 13 Nov. )

The common bedroom has been ordered to transform into a child's room. That room has been completely emptied except for a long cabinet, stretching from 1 end to the other end of the wall. It comes with many mini drawers & cabinets; perfect all many stuff the kids would packed into it in the future.

We bought another 4 door cupboard to accomodate all the kids' clothings & stuff. It is only less-than-half filled at this moment but soon, it would be fully occupied. Now only the bed left - need to decide what kind of bed to buy to accomodate the remaining floor area. Bunk beds are out cos whichever kid sleeping on the upper bunk would defintely roll off the bed. I felt that 2 separate mattresses, without a proper bed base would do, coupled with 2 pillows & a blanket each for the kid.
So the kids only need to get the mattress laid on the floor when its time for bed & bring it up against the wall each morning after they get up. Thinking....

Sitting back to admire the totally transformed house, I am very happy with the make-over. Now, i only need to maintain the order & cleanliness. A mug of ice cold root beer will do for a perfect relaxation.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Spring Clean

06 Nov 2011 (Sun):

Early in the week, my mum called to inform me that herself & my aunt were coming over to do a " make-over " in my hse... erm... make-over?! I remember myself exclaiming out loud.. Yes. i heard it right...

Before u get it wrong, this make-over thing is not referring to a make-over on the adults but on my house... yes, u heard it right... a make-over on my hse..

Starting from my kitchen, those 2 ( my mum & my aunt) are gonna THROW watever stuff they get their hands on & find them useless or un-neccessary... they are gonna buy new shelves & cabinets to accomodate more new stuff; things they rather i have & will be needing.

And so, the 3 of us, armed with huge trash bags begun to trash away all unwanted items or in my mum's word, items that are an eye-sore to their eyes.. And can u believe it, we actually threw away more than 5 bagful of trash... oppss... goes to show i am truely a hoarder... aka garang guni... kekeke..
We washed, fixed, cleaned, hanged & bascially transformed the whole kitchen. We worked from 1230pm till abt 8pm. Family members who walked passed our unit in the afternoon & knew that we were doing a thorough spring cleaning, came to see the major change in our kitchen later that evening... some joked that they needed help with theirs as well...

Following Saturday, we will deal with the living room. My mum ordered a new TV console, 2separate shelves for the kids & 2 cabinets, each for myself & Daddy. I saw the invoice - $800 in all... gulp!

Once we were satisfied with the kitchen & everything is in place, we begun trashing stuff away in the living room... so that when the delivery man comes next week, it will be easier for my mum & aunt to nagivate the stuff ard.

I will be working & will only be home at 3pm earliest, so for the beginning 2-3hrs, they will be left on their own.

Once we are done with the living room, the next task will be the bedrooms & the storeroom... estimated completion 1st week of December..

And now for the matter, i am wondering hw much more stuff my mum will be ordering & paying for it... She wouldnt take no for an answer. I am feeling so bad about it... Thanks mum!

I will have more updates on the living room make-over next week.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Desaru Ostrich Farm

05 Nov 2011 (Sat):

We bought my mum & aunt to Desaru Ostrich Farm for a visit. We arrived at the farm abt 330pm & were given the opportunity to witness the process of laying an egg of an ostrich. Managed to capture on video (shown below). The guide mentioned that an ostrich usually lay an egg in the late afternoon to early evening.

What welcomed us first sight was this female ostrich.. smiling for the camera..

Another female.

This is a male.

What big round eyes!!

Put them together.. what do u get? A pair.

Shy..

A day old ostrich.



A week old ostrichs.



A month old ostrichs.


Fully grown ostrichs.



The kids feeding the ostrichs.


The newly layed egg, still warm with a layer of membrane.

We bought this ostrich egg; the number shown on it indicated that this was the 14351th egg layed since the start of this ostrich farm business.

Lionel balancing on an egg.

Rachel's turn.

My mum.

Menu in the cafe.

We tried the ostrich omelette.

Ostrich satay.




Process of an ostrich laying an egg.


Feeding the ostrichs.


How to crack open an ostrich egg.
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