The coming two weeks will be a busy week for our family. As we live with my FIL, a lot of relatives will be visiting us during CNY so we have to ensure we have enough goodies to serve the guest. I also have to ensure we have enough food to bring us thru till Tuesday.
For this week, I still manage to squeeze out some time for learning. I wonder what will be our schedule like for next two weeks.
We have not been playing educational toy. I finally included them into the “planned curriculum”. Going forward, I will like to ensure Yvette will get a dose of learning toy with me every day. I am still interested in setting up Montessori tray for learning but I have to hold back this idea till after CNY.
Getting Yvette to learn and read are two important areas I need to work harder. She doesn’t seem to be keen in learning nowadays. I certainly hope that it will be just another phase but it doesn’t seem to go off quickly.
If you will like to find out what we did for the past week in details, click to continue.
Theme: Travel & Transport (2hr lesson)
Course Content for Lesson 6: 红色 (Red)
-> Give a Name Tag for identity
-> Free Play Time
-> Good Morning Song introducing everyone and including some exercise learning body part
-> Craft Time
-> Free Play with educational toy and learning of word from word card.
-> Some music & Movement (very short, think about less than 5 mins)
-> Story Telling using puppet
-> Outdoor Play @ Indoor Playground
-> Brunch Time: Sausage, Honey Dew and Biscuit
-> Free Play with books (Reading) and revising the word learnt.
-> Music and Movement saying goodbye
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It’s a lousy morning for us. I waited bus for 20 minutes and still no sign of it. I have to switch to MRT as we were already late for class. We were late for the free play and the class started shortly. (Can’t complain much as we have world class transportation system here. Ahem!)
Today Teacher Lee commented Yvette was finally adjusted into the class. Not much of tantrum and more participative. And she had shown improvement too. She read every single word on the word card and the teacher was so surprise. I did made word card for Yvette to revise those word she learnt. Probably that helps to revise.
Yvette loves craft. I like the way she work on craft too.
The red Lantern
The red apple
Outdoor play was always fun and I found this new toy today.
Snack time was over run as one of the mums was busying chatting with the teacher on the topic of China.
Music and movement was rushed thru then.
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After class, we went Macdonald for lunch.
I received an unexpected sms from a mum whom we had just exchanged our number days ago.
And it goes like this:
A: I really admire how you can manage a house plus a kid wif out a maid. My maid’s day off today, can die man!
SF: Haha. Cos I don’t like maid. And hubby willing to help too. I am sure you can. Woman very strong in managing such situation.
A: Lucky you. My hubby dun help. He woke up at 12 plus. I handled son the whole morning while he was snoring away.
SF: Poor you. I hope your son will be more obedient. Cheer up
Yes, I am lucky. At least I have a hubby who is more willing to hand on to take care of Yvette with me. Now he could bathe Yvette, go out with Yvette so that I have some “Me” time in the evening after dinner, he even cook for Yvette too. He can take care of Yvette while I shop, while I browse book for Yvette in the library, etc. As such, we can live without a helper.
Let me be honest, I do, I wish, I have a helper to help me. Sometimes I really run out of hand when I am with Yvette alone. But I am glad we manage to do so without them. Although it has been agreed between us, in any situation we really need one, we will have one. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t need to help anymore. Helper is there to do housework and not to take care of our kid!
I have pen down some thoughts months ago and this sms bring me back into such thoughts again.
Do men really think that after they provide their wife with helper, they really don’t need to help?
I am sure they don’t want the maid to take care of them when they are old but why they are not helping now?
This left me wondering, seriously.
As for maids, I always don’t feel safe if I will have to leave my kid with them. We do have a helper to take care of my disable dad together with my mum and Yvette sometimes is fearful when she came too close to her. (Sometimes the helper will try to help if my hands are tight.)
I would say; the kids will never like them if they have parents who care and take care of them. And with so many reports on maid abusing the child, I will be dreadful.
Let me hope I can enjoy my life without them as long as possible!
yvettewang
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