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Ever since we introduced her Snake & Ladder, she indeed easily falls for board game. I brought this a year plus back from Growing Fun and finally I could take it out and play with her.

The game – To be the first player to fill a trolley with the items on their shopping list.

To play is easy.

• Each player takes a trolley and chooses a shopping list. The shopping item cards are spread out, face downwards, on the table.
• They youngest player begins by turning over a card.
• If the item on the card is shown on the player’s shopping list, the player puts the card in their trolley. If the card is not on the player’s shopping list, it must be returned to the table, face downloads.
• Play passes to the person on the player’s left.
• Play continues until one play has collected all the items on their shopping list and filled their trolley.

The winner is the first player to fill their trolley with all the items on their shopping list.

This learning game introduces 32 type of items in the supermarket. This game can play up to 30 to 45 mins as the cards are all facing down. As such it helps to train patience of the child to fill up the trolley.

We been playing this game every night since day one when I passed this box of game to Yvette.

《食在好源头 II》 Food Source 2

I got to learn about this programme – Food Source 2 @ channel 8 by chance. It is really a gem!

Occasionally, I will switch on the TV to watch 爱. Yeah I like this show too but to be honest, I hardly watch. I just read the synopsis from the weekly magazine I buy every week.

And then on one Wednesday, I keep the TV on and “forgotten” to switch them off. (I don’t why I subscribe my cable TV from Starhub, I have Mio-TV too. They are really under “un-utilised”. We can keep our TV off for entire month.) When I was back to the screen, I was struck. My eye ball was glued to the TV and never want to leave my sofa till it was break for commercial.

This documentary is about the host sets off from Singapore to locate the “source” of the ingredients of the food which is commonly eaten in Singapore. In each episode, the host introduces 3 to 4 ingredients in great details and depth.

I started to watch this programme when Pornsak was in China. From this show, I have learnt so much about sea urchin and 黄花鱼. Currently, (today), he is in New Zealand, I have learnt so much about Manuka honey, kiwifruits, cod fish, snapper, ostrich, cauliflower, cabbage, pumpkin; and I have deep impression about ostrich.

I never know these facts about ostrich and I learnt them all from this programme.

• Ostrich has no teeth.
• Ostrich has to eat stone to aid their digestion and has 1kg of stone in their tummy.
• Ostrich is about 110kg to 150kg and it height is 2m to 2.5m.
• Ostrich egg can be eaten and can feed 5 families and will take 1.5 hours to cook into hard-boiled egg. And it weighs about 1.5kg.
• Ostrich is timid.
• Ostrich can lay 2000 eggs in their lifetime.
• Ostrich can run 60 to 70 km per hour.
• A darker colour feather ostrich will be male. And female is lighter feather.

(Read more about Ostrich here.)

Isn’t learning all these interesting? I know there are many such documentary show on National Geographic Channel, but, I am proud of this is a local production.

It is really a good programme, moreover it is in Mandarin, to watch with Yvette. Plus Yvette can be Auditory, Visual and Kinaesthetic learner, she has picked up many knowledge thru watching this programme with us.

Tune your TV on on Wednesdays 8pm to 9pm. (Catch the past episodes here.)

Maisy

She loves Maisy, well not as much as toward Peppa Pig. She still loves them. Whenever she caught hold of any books about Maisy, she will beg me to buy for her. (She has outgrown most of them.)

I brought the book below recently. (In Aug) She beg me to buy.

Anyway, while searching Peppa Pig in YouTube, she found Maisy by chance.

She was delighted and thrilled.

This post was updated on 11/12/2011. But this event happened in late July. She was not keen anymore now. (I have never seen her watching Maisy anymore. Perhaps she has forgotten. Maybe I should remind her.)

Peppa Pig

About a year ago, I blogged about Yvette doesn’t find YouTube fantastic. This statement doesn’t valid for now anymore. I won’t say she is addicted to YouTube now as she doesn’t ask for it everyday nor I will give it to her but then sometimes if I need to buy time, this will be a tool for me to trade with her at time.

It’s also because we have iPad (so convenient), plus she is able to read and spell (she already memories those key words associate to the video she likes) , she could use the YouTube application to search for video she wants.

And Peppa Pig is one of the culprit.

It started with these 3 stickers book that brought by my sister for Yvette long ago. These 3 sticker books were a hit to her. Why? It’s about pig and it a sticker book.

I didn’t pay much attention to it till I manage to find two books about these characters on the book shelves at Times Bookstore when I was seeking treatment on my own. (I have no idea the existence of these pigs and their friends at all.)

Yvette is hooked, so am I.

I really like the content, the words that are used in these two books. I am curious and like to find out more about them. To my surprise, Peppa Pig is a British animated television series and I found many videos about them on YouTube.

Cool!

They are award-winning preschool children’s TV show. Each episode is approximately 5 minutes long. The show revolves around Peppa, an anthropomorphic female pig, and her family and friends. Each of her friends is a different species of mammal – their first name starts with the same letter as the type of animal they are. Peppa’s friends are the same age as her, and Peppa’s younger brother George’s friend Richard is the same age as him. Episodes tend to feature everyday activities such as attending playgroup, going swimming, visiting their grand parents, going to the play ground or riding bikes.

To me, Peppa is a loveable, cheeky little piggy who lives with her little brother George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig. Their series/books teach good value, about family and it is in British English, I see no harm further introduce to Yvette.

(one sample of series here)

I started to show her how to use the YouTube application on iPad and she was “hooked” The addiction over the show kicks in but then she doesn’t need to watch everyday. Sometimes she only watch once in 3 days.

I also search for the book series and glad to find out a seller is selling one of the popular series via Motherhood Forum. (ops I lost the thread.)

Fast forward to today, I finally received the books in few hours ago and was impressed after reading them.

There were 10 books in this series and their titles are:

1. Daddy Pig’s Old Chair
2. Nature Trail
3. School Bus Trip
4. Daddy Pig’s Office
5. Tooth Fairy
6. Recycling Fun!
7. Tiny Creatures
8. Peppa Goes Swimming
9. Dentist Trip
10. Sports Day

There is no age range for this set of book but I guess it will suit 4-6 yo. It does introduce some difficult word like “liquid”,”convinces”, “excellent”, “hilarious”, “intercom”, etc.

They also introduce some science knowledge. In Tiny Creatures, it explain the process (in a very simple statement) how bee collect nectar fro the flower and then fly to the hive to make it into honey.

Sports Day is all about “Sportsmanship”! – “Competition is not all about winning that matters but the taking part.”

I really really love reading to Yvette this set of books everyday and Yvette really loves them very much too. We are all hooked.