DOODLING TIME

29th October 2010, Friday Afternoon

 

Doodling time after watching DOODLECHAMPS! on TV.

Art is important becuase it encompasses all the development domains in child development.  Art lends itself to physical development and the enhancement of fine and gross motor skills.

Art activities help children's social and emotional development.  It helps them build self-esteem.  It is an opportunity for children to make a personal statement about their uniqueness through art while allowing them to express happiness, joy and pride. 

Art is important because it allows children to be CREATIVE.  Each piece of artwork is individual and original to each child.  Children have their own thoughts and ideas of how things should look and they come to art with their own unique experiences. 

It is important to make art activities open-ended.  Open-ended experiences are success-oriented because there is NO ONE RIGHT WAY to do something.  Open-ended art acitivities are motivating for children of all development abilities.  They build feelings of independence, confidence and an eagerness to learn.

All children really need to draw/doodle/scribble are:-

1) a blank piece of paper

2) a writing instrument (pencil/pen/crayon)

Zhen's doodle

Min's doodle

TEA PARTY

25th October 2010, Monday Afternoon

It's tea party time with their teddies & friends.

ZHEN'S ARTWORK

8th - 10th October 2010, Friday - Sunday

While I was in Penang, holiday-ing... my elder daughter, Lee Zhen, drew these few lovely drawings to pass time...

A happy family goes to a party & telling people how old they are.

A little girl goes visit the crab, the fish & the worm on a rainy day.

 Lee Min wanted her sister, Lee Zhen, to draw a her a house.

Lee Min was very happy after Lee Zhen drew this picture. 

A visit to the pet shop that has a parrot, a bird, a cat, a dog & a rabbit.

A garden on a sunny day.

SO LONG, FAREWELL... "The sun has gone to bed..."

11th October 2010, Monday Night

The sun has gone to bed and so must I.

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

SO LONG, FAREWELL... "I'm glad to go..."

11th October 2010, Monday Night
I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie.
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly.

SO LONG, FAREWELL... "cuckoo... cuckoo..."

11th October 2010, Monday Night

There's a sad sort of clanging, 
From the clock in the hall, And the bells in the steeple too,
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird, Is popping out to say "cuckoo"
Regretfully they tell us, But firmly they compel us
To say goodbye ..... to you.

BRIDESMAID

12th October 2010, Tuesday Night

Lee Zhen was watching my wedding VCD just now.

She asked me, what's a bridesmaid?

I told her, bridesmaid helps the bride to do stuff, like carrying her bag.

She said, you mean like a 'kakak'?

KETUPAT

9th September 2010, Thursday Afternoon

 
Tomorrow is Hari Raya Aidilfitri and while we were at the "pasar pagi" this morning, we saw some stalls selling the "daun kelapa".
We bought some, as our maid is going to teach us how to make the ketupat.

FROG

 21st July 2010  -  Froggie in the house

HAIRDRESSER

 

25th June 2010  -  Min, the hairdresser.

SQUINT EYE & LAZY EYE

5th September 2010, Sunday Morning
Min has squint eye, it is more obvious when she is tired.  A visit to the Orthoptist yesterday confirmed that she has squint eye as well as lazy eye.  She prefers to use her left eye more than her right eye.

The Orthoptist wanted us to patch her left eye, everyday for about 2 hours until her next appointment in November.  She was unhappy when we patched her eye this morning.

RAYA GREETING CARDS 2010

3rd September 2010, Friday Morning

It will be Hari Raya Aidilfitri next week.  Zhen did 5 Raya cards for each of her Muslim classmates.

MAGNETS

3rd September 2010, Friday Afternoon

Zhen & Min enjoying a game of "fishing" with magnets.

(R) Zhen likes to arrange her

      magnets this way while..

 

(L) Min likes seeing the magnets

sticking together.

HOPSCOTCH

2nd September 2010, Thursday Afternoon

Zhen & Min enjoying a game of hopscotch, after reading Lat's "Kampung Boy, Yesterday & Today".

JIGSAW PUZZLE

1st September 2010, Wednesday Evening
Min is getting better at her jigsaws nowadays.

CHOCOLATE MUFFINS

24th August 2010, Tuesday Night

 
Zhen & Min "helping out" in making chocolate muffins.

JIGSAW PUZZLE

1st September 2010, Wednesday Evening

When I thought Min to build this piece of jigsaw puzzle, I told her... "See, the papa is sitting in front, driving."

She came to me today with this piece of jigsaw puzzle and asked... "Why papa driving?  I want mami driving.  Papa sit at the back."  :D

RAYA CARD 2010 & ZHEN'S ART

23rd August 2010, Monday Afternoon

It's another 2 weeks to Hari Raya Aidilfitri.  Zhen drew a Raya card for her kakak.

This is a drawing by Zhen, when she started nursery, in 2008.

Her colouring at her nursery's colouring competition.

The wall of Zhen's room at the end of 2008.

FLOATING EGG EXERCISE

FLOAT & SINK EXERCISE

"PUASA" (FASTING)

16th August 2010, Monday Afternoon

It is the Ramadan month of the Islamic calendar.  It is the month of fasting, in which Muslims refrain from eating & drinking from dawn until sunset.

Zhen's 6-year old friends in the kindy are also fasting for half a day.  Zhen wants to try fasting too.  She went to kindy today after taking her bottle of milk.  She don't want to bring any food or money for tea break.

While driving her home from kindy, she told me, "Mummy, some of my friends, they are  tipu-ing... because they shared food with other friends... they are not puasa-ing."

BHANTE

14th August 2010, Saturday Afternoon 

As usual, we were at VBG, Temoh (http://www.vbgnet.org/) for dana on a Saturday afternoon. 
 
Zhen:  "Mummy, how to become a bhante?"

Me:  "Well, they go to a monastery for meditation and stay at the monastery."

Zhen:  "I don't want to become a bhante.  You know why?"

Me:  "Why?"

Zhen:  "I don't want to shave... my hair."

(Bhante (Pali) is the polite particle used to refer to Buddhist monks in the Theravada tradition.  Bhante literally means "Venerable Sir.")

WHAT'S A CHILD'S WORK?

THE WORK OF A CHILD IS PLAY!
The importance of play . . .

• Play helps children weave together all the elements of life as they experience it.
• It allows them to digest life and make it their own, an outlet for the fullness of their creativity.
• It is an absolutely critical part of childhood.
• With creative play, children blossom and flourish; without it, they suffer a serious decline.

The nature of play . . .

• a natural part of the make-up of every healthy child.
• the child's love of learning is intimately linked with a zest for play.
• for a child, no distinction between work & play!

PLAYDOUGH

8th May 2010, Tuesday Afternoon 

Made some homemade Play Dough this afternoon.

My 2 girls just love it.  Zhen said it is much much nicer than those bought from Supermart.  I say, it is much much cheaper!  :D

COUNTING 1-10

22nd April 2010, Monday Evening
Min already knew her 1-10 but she simply do not want to say it, when asked.

During bed time, she would ask me to sing 'ABC'.  I would then ask her to say her '123' first.
She would go, "1, 2, 3".
When I asked her, "Then?".
She would go, "Then?".

Today when her father gave her some coins to be put into her piggy bank.  She sat by her piggy bank, counted her 1-10 quietly while putting in the coins!

"MEMBINA AYAT" (BUILDING A SENTENCE)

16th April 2010, Friday Afternoon 
I was going to my sister-in-law's place, and my younger daughter wanted to follow.  She turned to the maid and said,
"Kakak tak payah,

 kakak tak payah jalan-jalan,
 kakak tak payah jalan-jalan Koo Mah" 
(Koo Mah = aunt, father's elder sister)

JUMPING JUMPING

30th March 2010, Tuesday Night 

Zhen wants me to capture her jumping a jumping.  This is something she had been seeing some guys and girls jumping a jumping during a recent trip to Kellie's Castle, Perak and asked me "Why those people kept jumping in front of the camera?"

EARTH HOUR 2010

27th March 2010, Friday Night

Singing for Haiti in conjuction with Earth Hour 2010.

Zhen helped in the candles preparation.






 







Zhen sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" & a chorus from "Birthday Wishes".

DEFINITION OF LIFE

26th March 2010, Friday Afternoon

Zhen asked me "What is life?" today.
My explanation was... "A person, from being a baby until he/she grows up, being an adult, then old, that is his/her life."

Her explanation... "Is it like last time, I, zero (0) year old, then I grow, grow, grow and then up, up, up... is it like this?  Is it life, mummy?"

What say you?

from OSTRICH to CHICKEN EGGS

6th March 2010, Saturday Evening
Zhen asked me what's an ostrich this evening... and from ostrich, we went on to ostrich eggs... then we continue to the comparison of ostrich eggs with chicken eggs... and it goes on to the development of a chicken egg to the hatching of a chicken!

WET MARKET

28th February 2009, Saturday Morning
It was the first time Zhen followed me to the wet market.

All she did was crying "This place is so smelly, like 'berak' place!  Mummy, it's hot here... blah, blah... blah..."

Later in the afternoon, she said to me "Mummy, can you next time don't go to the wet market.  We can also get our things from the supermarket, right?"