Yippee, it’s the school holidays! The older kids have been learning to pack their own travelling stuff. Last year, Vee forgot to pack his underwear for an entire trip. Good natural consequence — now he remembers it every. single. time. So for the upcoming trip, I just had to tell the older boys how many […]
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Hubby made a day trip to Singapore and returned with a small box of 3D puzzle for Jae (4y4m). We got round to fixing it, amidst little El who was a handful. There were 80 pieces. We started with the single digits, so Jae had to fish for them, with a bit of my help.
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While the older kids are at school, little El (2y4m) finally gets some one-to-one special time with Mummy. Here’s what he’s been up to: – morning sand play: finally brought this out after a long time – pouring water while mummy’s baking – cutting with scissors: he’s doing this almost every day Initially he held
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Practice, practice, practice… This is what I remind my kids to do if they wish to get better at something. It’s about developing grit. Kids learn best from our actions (instead of words only), so I’ve been showing them through… Baking muffins! For the past 2 months, I’ve been baking healthy kids’ muffins nearly every
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4+yo Jae is learning about musical notes, so I adapted this idea from Vee’s previous teacher. A4 card stock: cut into 8 pieces each write note on each card, using thick rounded-tip black marker pen (you may use red too) make 2 or 4 of each note so that you can play games (clap /
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My kids love stickers and maps, so this sticker atlas is an excellent fit for them. Covers world flags, animals, space and dinosaurs. With encyclopedic info as well. Got it some time back. Can’t remember which bookstore though. Pls refer to the ISBN in the last photo. Happy weekend! ~ MieVee MummysHomeschool.com P.S. Check out
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7yo Vee & I read the Young Scientist magazine yesterday and it introduced magnets. I dug out our 2 Daiso magnets and a bunch of paper clips. Some simple activities: explore how like / unlike poles repel / attract see how many paper clips we could link try rubbing and magnetising paper clips My mum
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Today, I’m going to touch on helping my child deal with negative peer influence in school. There’s a Chinese saying “近朱者赤 近墨者黑”, which means one takes the behaviour of one’s company (or friends). My eldest, Vee, was homeschooled until 5.5 years old. Before that, he mainly interacted with adults, his siblings, cousins and family friends.
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#2 Jae is 4y2m old and in a Chinese school K1 class. Every day, he gets a small page of writing homework. Though I’m not a fan of writing homework for little children, we just have to go along and I try to make things as easy as possible. Prior to this year, Jae has
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We’d noodles for lunch and Jae (4y2m) requested to use chopsticks. Some time back, I guided him once. He needed more time to be ready, so we didn’t revisit the activity. Today, his spontaneous request surprised me, given that he was rather cranky just before lunch. I took out the junior chopsticks and guided him
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