Date: Jan 21, 2016
Both Jay and Kay are ready for their grading next Month after they come back from Chinese New Year.
Kay will go for his Red Tip grading (Currently Blue Belt).
Jay will go for his 2nd POOM belt. (Children black belt 2nd dan I think). 加油 加油！
Date: Jan 26, 2016
Children need to be given duties at home. Even if you have a domestic helper, you should assign your child something to do or to help with.
Teach them how to make Ice Cream (without using the Ice Cream maker)
Make their hands dirty.
Their job can be as simple as taking a scissors and cut the home made macaroni.
Instead of letting them watch TV or play games by themselves.
Make them do work.
Hey, see what Kay Kay has prepared for the playdate dinner.
This is the great age to assign them to do things. Even playdates can help out.
Simple task like decorating the CNY decors.
This is a job for children. Not a job for domestic helper.
Kids will be happy to decorating the house.
They feel a strong sense of ownership of our home.
The make the home looks lively.
At the end of the day, lazy parents will clap their hands and say Thank You!
During weekend. It will be this fellow job to prepare breakfast.
See he just wake up. His hair still standing.
Don’t be afraid to make him fry eggs.
It is the most easy task. You know after he mastered this skill. He can cook his lunch next time. hahahaha
Cook rice, cook egg, put a bit of soya sauce, and that’s it.
Of course, thru out the time, he will learn more dishes.
This is the Sunny Side Up he make for all of us.
And then, he will set the table and call all of us to come and eat.
Although it is simple meal.
But this meal is prepared by my son.
And he is only 10 years old.
This week. My Sunday breakfast. Of course, Cucumber not cut by him. He still need some time to handle knife.
This was last week one. With home grown cabbage.
Three weeks ago. He tries his first ever scramble egg.
This is his very first attempt. Which is 3 weeks ago too.
Some times ago, he also prepare these. We prepare and cut the beef for him he just cook with everything in it. Watch the fire, and that’s it.
He felt so proud.
(The beef curry is a bit hard, I think control of fire not so accurate. But still edible. Next day, mommy cook another 1 hour to make the meet soft)
(Stif fry beef is nice)
(Tofu is simple)
Don’t forget Monkey see Monkey do.
So, the young one also take parts in some activities.
He make these cookies. As you can see, not all cookie the same size.
And yes, sometimes there are injury happen.
Like last week, Jay got oil burnt on his fingers.
But hey, that’s cooking. So, what is cooking if you don’t burnt your hand some time. hahahaha
this will only make the kids more careful next time handling cooking.
Date: Jan 19, 2016
Programming is to learn how to solve problem.
I strongly believe that if the kids can learn how to solve problem thru Robotics, he should be able to solve problems in a structured manner.
Anyway the government wanted the nation to become a smart nation, so, kids will have to learn how to program from young.
So last school holidays, I sent him to two Robotics camp.
This is Kay Kay with his exoskeleton amor programming using the EV3.
Of course, he went to the camp together with his brother Jay Jay.
They learned how to do team work and build the rocket ship.
And all of them completed the Space Invention Camp. This is Jay’s 3rd Space Camp. And it is Kay’s first one.
Then, when we come back from our vacation, we sent both kids to Lego Vs. Minecraft Robotics Camp.
Kay Kay learned how to program the Wedo robotics kids from Lego. He is still young and he needs to go thru sometime to learn the concepts of programming using the Wedo. He looks very happy!
And his brother Jay will be programming the EV3.
And he completed the course.
All very happy learning how to program using Lego.
This year, I finally managed to sent Kay Kay to WondersWork Robotics class.
He is the one who ask for it. And we let him learn.
He is actually learning Robotics lesson together with his brother Jay and Jay’s friend, Riyandi & Conrad.
This is his robot dancer project when the sensor detected movement, the arms will move.
Date: Jan 6, 2015
We have been waiting for this day for so long. Finally, Kay Kay has entered Primary 1.
There is no problem for him to wake up at 6am on the first day, because we slept 8pm the day before.
By 6:10am, he already brushed up and eating his breakfast.
It shall become a daily (on weekday) routine for him.
No problem wearing his own socks and shoes.
I think the bus air con will be a bit cold, so, we let him wear a jacket to school.
He is quite small build. So, we keep reminding him to eat more, to grow taller and fatter (not like his brother, moderate will do).
Especially when he put on his bag at his back. The bag is almost 1/2 of his weight may be (or lesser, 1/3). So, when you got pushed by people it is easy to fall down.
Here is a nice shot with his brother, Jay Jay. Jay Jay will protect Kay Kay in school for the next 3 years. But it is unlikely they will see each other during recess as the timing is different. But to go to school together with his brother is one of the things he is looking forward to.
Here come the bus. This is Kay Kay’s first time taking School Bus to school.
After picking up the boys, the school bus goes directly to school. So, Kay Kay will be in school quite early. So, he has plenty of time to do some reading.
More students gradually came. He is a bit shy on the first day. So, you can imagine me and his brother trying at home to teach him how to break the ice with other classmates. “I am Kay, what’s your name?” or “My name is Kay, what’s yours?”. “Where do you stay?” “ Do you take bus to school?” “ Which pre-school do you go to?” It is great tactic and he actually follows. The second days onwards, he comes home and tell story about “Grace” and “Wayne” whom he makes friend with.
Kay is still shy talking to classmates. But he tries chatting with teachers. A good sign.
Then. parents attending the talk on P1 matters, etc.
And he survived the first day. With no problem. Very excited. A bit too shy to talk to classmates. Give him some times, he will become the same Kay we knew in K2.
A very happy kid coming back from the school bus.
Very happy indeed. The first day of his P1. He is going to spent the next 6 years here.
Day 2.
So, same routine. Read books and wait for others to come.
Jay and his prefects friends all have been tasked to look after the P1 during assembly time. Make sure every one take out books and read.
In fact, there will be 4 prefects (Brayden not in photo), Jay, Lukas and Aiden who will be looking after Kay Kay in school. These are his playmates since Lorna Whiston day.
Day 2, Kay is still shy in front of his classmates. But he is starting to get more familiar with the teacher.
National songs and pledges.
Time out, so, need to talk to him and encourage him to interact more with other classmates.
And there he goes along with his class back to their class room. May the force be with you!
Well, I said it way too early. An incident happened.
Kay was playing with a P1 girl from another class at the Bus waiting area. The girl keep pulling his bag, and he asked the girl not to do that. And the girl not happy and kick his leg. And the next thing you know, he fell down to the floor face down. And hurt his nose, and cause some nose bleed. Poor kid.
Jay uses a slightly strong word, i.e. “bully”. But I think we have to teach the kid the right way of dealing with this.
1) He was playing with the girl. So, they were playing and accident might happen.
2) Some students they need to learn, If you ask them to stop and they do not listen, they need time to learn how to listen.
3) Especially when Kay fell down, and the girl saw the nose bleed. Imagine how the girl feels. She might feel terrible. So, she might not foresee this happening, but I am sure it scare her a lot seeing the blood. It might have a chance that the girl will never do this again, and will treat him well.
4) Teacher came and sort out the matters. And teacher has already recorded down the other student (the girl’s name). So, adults know about it.
5) Students will need to sort this out among themselves too.
6) The girl still take the same school bus every day, so, Kay will still see the girl. So, I asked Kay to say Hi the next day when he sees her. And encourage her to continue to play with her. Tell him that accident happens.
7) And I communicate with the form teacher, and asked the form teacher to talk to Kay as well to award him a “star”.
So, Kay received a medal +1 point for Bravery. Thanks Mrs. Woon for awarding him that.
So you can imagine his face when he reads the word “Bravery”. Makes him proud too.
He is so happy although the bruises actually take form today. Become darker colour.
Some more can teach people to play chopstick in his Taekwondo class. Hahaha
After yesterday incident, already recover become happy boy.
Oh ya… we received Kay’s year book. You can tell he is very happy kid. Enjoy!
