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10/24/2009

Flashcards

We brought Alicia for a trial class at Baby Jumper Gym last Saturday. We were expecting a gym lesson so we were kinda shocked when we were led to a classroom instead. As usual, we were late for class so the teacher had already told a story (fortunately, that was the only segment we missed out on). When we first entered the class, it was already flashcard time. We were SHOCKED at the speed at which the teacher flashed the cards! I mean, I was aware that flashcards are flashed pretty quickly but i really had no idea it was that fast! Anyway, I think Alicia was shocked too... haha.. Photography's not allowed in class so we couldn't take any photos or videos during class. Not that we could have had a chance anyway since the class was jam-packed with short 5-minute activities (except for the gym segment where they had a bit of freeplay for awhile).

The teacher actually after flashing the cards to the class, went round to each individual toddler and asked the toddler to point at the flashcard she asked for. We were stunned and speechless that Alicia got them right! Well, she didn't get all right, she only got the first one wrong coz i guess she didn't know what the teacher wanted and she was new to flashcards. I only introduced flashcards to her after the class upon witnessing the power of flashcards on the toddler's mind! But anyway, it was really stressful coz we kept worrying that Alicia would answer the questions wrongly coz the other 2 boys in the class seemed quite used to flashcards. At the end of the class, we realised that Alicia was placed in the wrong class! She was placed in the Walkers 2 class instead of Walkers 1. No wonder the 2 boys seemed more advanced... haha... oh well, it's hard to be a parent these days!

Anyway, we bought 2 packs of flashcards from Borders: one for numbers 0-20 and the other for alphabets. Alicia is simply amazing coz i only started on the alphabet cards 2 nites ago and when her daddy was just casually playing with her last nite, she managed to pick the right flashcards when she was asked! And it wasn't just a one-off thing and actually my hubby made it quite difficult by asking to choose among 4 cards and not just 2 (which is what the teacher did in class). A toddler's brain is simply awesome!
Below is an attached pic of alicia's favourite flashcards from the alphabet series:



Alicia will make eating noises when she picks up the pictures of food! And somehow she thinks all animals go "moo"! She used to only go "moo" when she sees pictures of cows...

In love with Ronald

Been meaning to post these cute pics of alicia on the blog but just couldn't find a chance to. These photos were taken at Changi Airport when we went there for an after-dinner walk. :)

See her fascination with Ronald McDonald!









Doodle Art

I have been very keen to let alicia start on some form of art coz she has be doodling on her doodling board for quite a while. I thought that it might be fun for her as an activity and possibly fun for me too to see what my little darling can come up with.

I started her on her first art piece last Sunday at my mum's place. Passed her a baby paint brush with a bit of water colour and just let her doodle on the paper. The water colour and brush are from a children's book we bought from Borders which actually has step by step illustrations of how to paint some really simple pictures. Actually I wanted to wait till we got Crayola's nontoxic fingerpaint from a supplier (cheaper than at the stores!) but I was so excited that I decided to just go ahead with the book's paint. Hehe.

Here's a pic of the book:


And here's the first work of art. Ok, those wiggly lines and all were done by me when i was bored as alicia went off for awhile but the random strokes are all hers. I helped her sign off since she doesn't know how to do it yet. hehe....




Finally, I got the nontoxic fingerpaint and crayons from the supplier last night so I got Alicia started on the crayons first. Went to buy drawing block from Popular last night too... haven't bought drawing block for the longest time! haha... Anyway, here's her masterpiece (she broke the pink crayon when she threw it and got smacked for that) and the art materials that i got for her. I haven't started her on the fingerpaint as hubby says that he can't imagine the mess so i'm just holding it back for now... heheh...












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