FISHY LESSON

9 August 2012, Thursday

I was in the kitchen, cutting up a fish for the very 1st time.  I've never done this before.  It has been the fishmonger's job all the time.

I might as well teach my girls a fishy lesson ~ parts of a fish.

At the mouth of the fish, we saw a small fish in it.  Well, it's a "fish eat fish world"!

STANDING EGGS

5 February 2012, Sunday

Min trying hard to stand the egg.

It was Lichun (立春) yesterday.  It is believed that one can 'stand an egg' at mid day on Lichun.  A few friends of mine were posting photos of their 'standing eggs'.  As I wanted to prove that this game of egg standing can be done on any other day of the year, I bought some eggs back today to play the game.

My experiment on the standing eggs game, 2 years back... "standing eggs - myth busted".

Zhen managed to stand an egg, after several attempts.

TOUCH-ME-NOT (含羞草)

2nd October 2010, Saturday

The first time, my girls were introduced to touch-me-not.  They had great fun touching them.

MUSICAL GLASSES

27th March 2011, Sunday morning

Tried 'Musical Glasses' experiment with Zhen.  I showed Zhen 3 glasses of water, with different amount of water and explained to her that each of the glasses will have a different tone when hit with a chopstick.

Min wants to play some music too!

I left her with 8 empty glasses, 2 small bottle of water for about 30 minutes, to 'invent' her  muscial notes.  When I returned, she had lined up all the 8 glasses, fill them with different amounts of water.  The first with just a little water while the last almost full, and the ones in between slightly more than the last.  HEY, SHE'S GOT IT!

She even sang a few songs with her musical glasses!

TEAMWORK

3rd December 2010, Friday afternoon 

Zhen & Min saw some ants carrying a dead fly, on the floor...

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.

FLOATING EGG EXERCISE

FLOAT & SINK EXERCISE

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!

FART

29th November 2009, Sunday Morning

Zhen: "Mummy, why is it when I 'poot poot' like got bubble come out?"