C's homework last week:

C has to read short passages and then do simple comprehension questions by ticking the correct answers.

Her take on clozed passage. There are helping words where she can refer to.

And for Math, she has moved on to doing subtraction which requires "borrowing" from tens.

More practices on number bonds. Now, C has to write her own.

She is able to recognise that if the numbers exchange their positions, they still add up to the same.

Some weeks ago, C took her swimming test and passed it.

It must be a big thing because C got a certificate and a badge for it! :) She was mighty proud of herself ... well, Daddy and I were too. 

Cheryl is now learning to do another style now.

This is the second week of the new term and this evening, C was particularly excited because she told me, "I have homework to do!" Ha ha! This was because she hadn't had much homework to do in the evenings except for the reading of her log book.

She exclaimed loudly that she is learning number bonds and doing more exercises in class.

Nicely done!

For English, C is learning about singular and plural nouns. I also noticed that her handwriting has improved. :)

For Culture, C is taught to care for Earth. She talks about pollution and recycling all the time now. 

C is now under Coach Yeo and she is enjoying his lessons a lot.

Today, he had her relaxed herself and stay afloat on the waters.

This book was bought like 2 weeks ago and it was C who wanted to get it. She tends to go for books of her favourite characters like Dora and Mickey Mouse and some times, the words are a little too difficult for her to pronounce. 

C could read this with ease and she was mighty pleased with herself.

We knew that a test was coming up but we hadn't the slightest clue when it would take place. Besides, C had taken a break of close to 2 weeks because of our trip to England. Daddy and I were worried that she might have forgotten her strokes and kicks.

This afternoon, C did take a while to get back into form. Then almost at the end of her lesson, her coach instructed her to sit at the edge of the pool and got out to speak to another. Our hearts skipped a beat when we learned that he was approaching Uncle Yeo and asked him to come over for an assessment of C's progress and readiness to move on to the next stage.

We didn't think C knew what was happening. Then she had to plunge into the pool and swim!

Uncle Yeo nodded his head and said yes and she was now ready to move on to the next level. Well done, Precious! :) Daddy and Mummy are extremely proud of you!

It's review time at Josiah and this morning, just before I headed off to work, I dropped by to pay Ms Novelle a visit. This year, Ms Novelle returned some of C's completed work and updated me with C's progress over the half a year period.

C, clearly enjoying herself in class. She loves the beam!

Learning Corner, another one of her favourite places in the classroom. She usually goes there after she has completed her work. 

Craft ...

Math...

Story book time...

and Chinese.

Where she learned about the Continents...

and landscape.

and then...

Ms Novelle commented that C is good with her English and in fact, she is one of the best in class. However, she advised that we continue to do whatever reading and exercises nightly. She also said that we should reinforce "Nouns" and "Verbs". Ms Novelle gave me a projected syllabus of C's English curriculum and said that "Prepositions" will be taught in term 4 but she thinks C will make enough progress in term 3 for her to bring forward her syllabus.

"Great job, Precious!"

I took a video of C's reading this evening. This is just one of the many reading passages she has to do diligently. It's good news that she enjoys reading them.

A writing task on identifying nouns and the different types of nouns.

I flipped through C's music book this evening and realised that she is almost nearing the end... at least for Book 1. Come to think about it, C has been learning the piano for 1.5 years under Teacher Sophia and her progress has been good so far though Teacher Sophia comments often that she wishes C to practise more.

C tells me that she does play on her piano during the afternoons so I feel hearten. 

Although I know music myself, I still need time to figure out the notes. Ha ha! That's because I have become rusty and often when I sit with C to listen to her, I have to ask C to read the notes to me.

3 months ago, C started her swimming lessons and although only once a week, she has made good progress. C was unwell 2 weeks ago and she had to do a make-up lesson last Saturday.

The coach this time got her to swim the entire lap. For a 5 year old, I thought it was remarkable she was able to do it. But she did comment after the session that she was beat.

Cheryl has moved on to learning about nouns. She has been tasked for this evening's homework to identify the different types of nouns and to put them in the right categories.

And C has been putting her spelling into good use too.

The pictures at the side are to help her with the words that she needed to spell. C read out the words and using the sounds of the letters, spelled out the missing nouns. Good work, Cheryl!

妈妈每天都准备我们喜欢吃的食物。

有我喜欢吃的三文治也有我喜欢喝的牛奶。

有爸爸喜欢吃的炒饭也有他喜欢喝的咖啡。

有姐姐 喜欢吃的香肠也有她欢喝的橙汁。

我们都喜欢吃妈妈 准备 的食物。

C is definitely more fluent. :)

I almost forgot that C has this set of worksheets. I printed them so long ago, I had clearly forgotten about them until I was doing some packing this evening.

Didn't know C would be so enthusiastic about revising her short vowels. 

Or doing reading of simple and short sentences. :)

Writing sentences in English and counting has become a daily thing for C.

This evening, as C did her English homework, we decided to do things a little differently. Previously, she had always read the sentences out aloud before writing them down in her exercise book. This time round after her reading, I removed her list of sentences and read out very slowly the words and C would spell the words she heard.

Phonics is great!

After her writing, we did Math. She easily picked out the largest number as instructed and I learned that this was how it was done.

First, she looked at the tens. If they were the same, she moved on to examine the ones and quite effortlessly, her Math homework was done. :)

C is usually reluctant to show us how she has progressed with her piano playing. We may coax but she hardly gives in to our requests. Lately, I have been reminding her to practise and since we started on our list of "dones", she has been more forthcoming with her playing.

This evening, we asked that she play a little something for us and she did.


See that shrug at the end? Ha ha!

Teacher Sophia, C's piano teacher, commented that she has improved tremendously and is ready now for a longer session with her. :) Excellent news actually!

Counting till 100 is a breeze for C now and her regular Math practices from school also reinforce these numbers. In the past, I tried to teach C to read time but the reading of the minutes on an analogue clock proved to be quite an uphill task because it was not easy to add in the multiples of 5.

So we got her a digital watch instead. 

She took forever to choose because there were so many different ones and then, initially, she was rather reluctant to get herself a digital watch and preferred an analogue one over this. But after she realised she could read the numbers off this one, she was very pleased.

These days, she has this watch on her all the time and is ever so often hurrying me with, "Mummy, it's ........ (Fill in the time)! We are late!" Well, she also went to Ms Novelle, her teacher in school and thanked her for teaching C numbers because now, "I can tell time."