Bilingual PlayClub @ Evans – Lesson 15 (Make- up Class)

Theme: Travel & Transport (2hr lesson)

Topic for Lesson 15: Train; 火车

A week ago, Hubby informed me he will be working on today and so I arranged the long overdue make-up class for Yvette. Usually when we have make-up class to attend, I will arrange in Evans to enjoy something “new” for Yvette.

We were early today. So I let Yvette to have some fun in the playground before the class starts. With such a big playground and she is the only kid there, she indeed have plenty of room to roam around.

After playing there for about 10 mins, I decided to go in the class and we were happy to meet Little Kai Kai and his parents. I have been reading their blog but recently, his mum started to work and lack of time updating the blog. I love her sewing project. It always never fails to capture my heart for her work done.

Anyway, I expected a big class but never expect to be such a BIG class. I think there were around more than 15 toddlers around. So with 15 toddlers and 15 adults plus another 4 teachers…. Hmmmm… I never attend such a big class before. (Even Playnest that I have attended with Yvette when she was younger, was not as big as what this class.)

The class started with Free Play as usual and then Saying Hello both in English and Mandarin. Then it will follow by Craft Time Demo for both in English and Mandarin too. Today, she did a Train wheel and a train using paper cup.

The Magic Box Time is in Mandarin and the Drama Town is in English. I find both sessions is so short (as compared to the time duration we have in the normal class) that the kid kindly have the time to appreciate what is being taught. Before Drama Time, they have Story-Telling in English for today lesson.

Before Snack Time, the kids got to crawl thru the tunnel as it was part of the Drama Activity. I think Yvette is the 5^th Child to crawl thru the tunnel. Then I brought her to wash her hand.

Today, they have papaya, cheese and biscuit. Little Kai Kai was just sitting beside Yvette. I have a nice chat with his mum during their snack time.

After snack, they have fun in Outdoor Play. Yvette loves playing the sand and she never stops until I have asked her so.

I realised they have longer outdoor play time and shorter Song and Movement. But well, the attraction point in Evans is their outdoor playground. It isn’t surprising if the lesson is arranged in such manner.

I am very thankful the kindness given by Little Kai Kai’s parent. They gave us a ride home after class despite this is the first time we met in real life.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

P/S: In the car, Yvette kept utter “Kai Kai”. Now she is so into “Kai Kai” nowadays after meeting Baby Jacob. On coming back home after visiting my mum, we bumped into one neighbour with a toddler boy, Yvette kept uttering “Kai Kai”.

Hmmmm.. so now to her.. every little boy is “Kai Kai”?

Some Decisions #1

Shall I buy this kitchen set for Yvette for her second birthday?

Hmmmm…. any sponsor? (Hint, hint!)

(oh, I have some family members reading my blog.)

It will cost me around S$219 with free delivery. The toy is made of wood and all the accessories shown in the picture are included. I am keen in getting Ikea Kitchen Set but after reading Lazymummy spending so much time in making the toy nicer for Chloe… (great effort at her end…) I decided to give it a miss. Too much work for us. (I am lazy but  Lazymummy, you are not lazy at all… 🙂 )

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Thanks for some mummies leaving encouragement comments on my homeschooling entries. Thanks for spending time reading them too. But these entries always take up a lot of my time. So instead of doing book review on the other blog of mine, I have decided to incorporate into the entry. I have also decided to publish them on Wednesday instead of Monday. Going forward with this change, I hope I have lesser back-dated entries to catch up.

Farms Visit @ Seletar West Farmway

Hmmm… our plan is to visit The Animal Resort and then Punggol Park but we ended up visiting another 2 Farms. (errr… we passed by two farms and were not welcomed by the dogs in one of the farm. –.-!) And Yvette dozed off on our way out. So we have to give the park a miss.

Anyway, at 2 plus, (we wanted to leave at 2pm but ever since we have Yvette… it’s so hard to stick to planned timing.) we took a cab from our doorstep to The Animal Resort and arrived shortly. And when the time we decided to leave the resort…. unfortunately… it’s shortly too.

I have read many good experiences from the blog sphere before decided to come here. I am not saying we had encountered any bad experience but our first impression for the resort was, this place is lack of manage. It’s really not worth the effort to make all the way here if you don’t own a transport.

But still, it’s a place where we could get closer to the animal. It has more kampong feel as compared to the zoo.

Yvette was excited to see the rabbit and wanted to put her finger thru the cage to touch the rooster. She did pull back her finger when the rooster came closer to her and after hearing us telling her the rooster will bite.

We saw some exotic birds, rabbits, geese and a “weird” tree. There was a pond of fishes too. We can feed the animal by buying the animal food there but that didn’t come across my mind.

As I will be doing letter H with Yvette next week, I asked hubby to bring Yvette closer to the horse. Hubby didn’t bring her very near, about 2 arm lengths away, because he read from the site, the horse might bite.

We didn’t stay long. We left after spending good 20 minutes there.

As it was still early, and almost impossible to get a cab there (unless you call for one), we decided to walk out and visit two other farms we saw on our way in.

I think we are used to walk under the hot sun as we always been out at this timing now. Luckily there were plenty of trees around and making our walk easier.

About 10 mins away from the Animal Resort, we reached Mycofarm but we were not welcomed by the dogs. Apparently, this is not a place that accept public visit.

Summer Koi Farm is another 10 mins away from the Mycofarm. The admission is free and no one stop us from going it. My mum and Yvette were particularly excited to see the fish. Especially Yvette, she roamed around freely to see the fishes.

As it is a largest collection of Jumbo Koi’s in Singapore, it an eye opening for us to visit this farm by chance.

Again, we spent another good 20 mins there. We did pass by another fish farm selling Tropical fish but we only pop in for less than 5 mins. We headed home after walking all our way out to the main road.

Term 2 @ Marsden Swim School – Lesson 8

She been cranky for the past two lesson when there is a need to swim to the instructor. I thought it was a phase but she really doesn’t like to swim toward Pam.

Hmmmmm

She wasn’t behaving in this manner for the past 5 lessons. I wonder why there is a change.

Today is Baby Z last day. His mum is due soon. Thumb up for his mum who is 34 to 35 weeks pregnant now and still bringing her son for swim!

Baby Z, he is so handsome in my eye

One deep impression I have for Baby Z is, he is able to communicate with Yvette and tell her where are the sweet. And now, Yvette will walk forward to the table to reach out for sweet. (I always wonder how they could communicate as both of them is still lack of vocabulary  now.)

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Waiting for shutter bus back home