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This PR4 blog is a mini parenting resource on its own. It is a cyber filing cabinet of parenting articles and links. A place to find links to children's favourite sites, online games, craft ideas plus a place of discussion on childcare and other parenting
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What to do with those old flash cards
The kids have outgrown their flashcards. They still look quite new. I don't think they used it very much as a learning tool. They probably used it more like a throwing tool. Throwing it all over the living room for me to pick.Yesterday we took them ...
His Report Card
This is the season for concerts, exams and report cards. Yesterday I collected the boy's report card.The teacher said that he did well for all his subjects, all accept for....... why... Mandarin Chinese of course. Oh dear. He scored full marks for mo...
End of the Year Report Card
We collected the report card for my girl recently. I can't believe that she has almost completed her Standard 1. Time flies. She was 4th in class and 20th in the standard. Hmmm.... That means that even with an average score of 96.95 she will be aroun...
Craft Ideas for the School Holidays
Here's another craft which we did some time ago. It is a picture made of paper crepe. You can try it during the school holidays.The girl learned it at school and wanted to replicate it at home. So she taught us how to make this paper crepe craft.This...
More Origami Fun with Rainbow Origami Paper
Recently we bought some Rainbow Origami paper from a stationary shop. The origami papers are double sided ie both sides have different colours.We also bought some shiny and glossy Origami papers but they cheated on that one. The packet had shiny pape...
Make Origami Stars Craze
At the moment, we're into the Make Origami Stars Craze in our house. It all started because my girl wanted to buy some origami stars at her school fun fair but she was disappointed because someone took the last batch.So, mummy said, don't worry, we'l...
Over Confident
I've always maintained that the level of English in my girl's Chinese school is pathetic. So for her year end exams, I didn't bother to help her with any English revision.I had passed on my views about the English level to her inadvertently by making...
Fun Fair at School
Recently my girl had a fun fair day at school. She asked us for some money to buy coupons to be used for buying food and playing games on that day. Each coupon book cost RM10. Hubby was very reluctant to give her the RM10. I persuaded him otherwise b...
Sick on Concert Day
His sister had a stomach virus a week before his concert. She was vomitting and had to be given a suppository to stop the vomitting.Each day I worried that he would get it too. I tried to be careful. I wiped and clean the toilet seat whenever she vom...
Negotiation Skills
The other day the kids were fighting over a piece of coloured stone. We had collected this stone from the beach during Chinese New Year. I laughed when I heard them arguing over a stone. The older one looked at me in surprise and asked "Why aren't yo...
Paper Aeroplanes
My kids love to play paper aeroplanes. All you need is some paper. You can use coloured paper and stickers for decoration if the fancy strikes you but really, all you need is some rough paper.My kids prefer the coloured paper with the stickers, natu...
List of Publishers for Educational Children's Books in Malaysia
I love to shop for books. At the moment, my current "love" is shopping for Educational Children's Books. When shopping for quality children's educational books, I think that the publisher is very important.Here are some publishers of children's educa...
He, She, I ..........
He........has to practise his lines for introducing his class act at his kindy concerthas to memorise his Malay Ejaan for Friday has to memorise his Chinese Spelling for Mondaywants to play swordfighting with me (because his aunty gave him some hand ...
More Reference Books for Primary School Children
Annie, here's some more books I can recommend to you. :)Title: Science Picture Dictionary SJK (C) KBSRPublisher: Cerdik Publications Sdn BhdWebsite: http://www.cerdik.com.my/Price: RM14.90Description: Science Picture Dictionary SJK(C) KBSR Level 1 is...
Good Reference Books for Primary School Children
I am constantly on the look out for good reference books for my primary school girl. That is because I am her tuition teacher. lol. Actually, I enjoy teaching her. I don't enjoy teaching per se but I do enjoy teaching my own kids.I remember when I wa...
Kids Love Contests and Competitions
My girl is always bugging me to allow her to join those colouring competitions that she sees going on at the mall. So far, we have not managed to register on time for any of it. Bad mommy.To make up for it, I encouraged her to participate by drawing ...
Traditional Card Games for Children
After reading in Little Chumsy's Blog about the Donkey Card game, all the childhood memories of how much fun I had playing with the traditional children's card games like Donkey, Old Maid, Snap and Happy Family came back to me. So I went hunting for...
Playing with Fire
The children had been looking forward to Mooncake Festival for a few weeks. The girl was not feeling so well and was off to the doctor in the morning but she kept on asking hopefully. "Can we play lantern tonight?"So, although it would have probably...
The Kids Love Mooncake
The kids love mooncake. Any sort of flavour will do. They love most of them. When daddy comes home with a box, they will crowd round eagerly to see whats in the box. :)Especially the little one who loves food. Yesterday he was grumbling about not hav...
His and Hers: Drawing and Coloring
I can see that my 5 year old boy's drawing and coloring is improving. They do look rather (not surprisingly) like his 7 year old sister's. Both of them do not attend any art class. They draw from their imagination through exposure to stories and book...
Mr Men and Little Miss Series
I love the Mr Men and Little Miss series of books and cartoons. The cartoon is really adorable and there is usually a little moral behind the stories with titles like Little Miss Fickle, Little Miss Shy, Little Miss Chatterbox, Little Miss Late, Litt...
ABRSM Grade 1 Piano Test Results
Coincidentally, after I wrote the piano post on my own blog, my girl's teacher gave her the results for her first ABRSM Grade 1 Piano Test Results. So now we have even more reason to be happy over the piano.The girl passed with a Distinction with 13...
Little Miss Reward Chart Pack
Someone asked me to post up pictures of the Reward Chart I am using for the kids. Here it is. This is the Little Miss Reward Chart Pack. It comes with the Reward Chart, stickers and tokens plus it is an activity book too. There are two sides to the c...
Teaching the Kids English Grammar
I never learned grammar in school because I was not taught grammar in school. So I do not know my nouns and verbs and adjectives. I didn't even know what these words meant until recently!My girl who is now in Primary One is studying in a Chinese scho...
How to make an origami box
After I told the kids that I was going to let them pick out goodies from a box like in a lucky dip when they have accumulated enough tokens or stickers from their challenges using the reward chart, the girl started to pester me to make a box.So, we w...
My Challenge
The kids are still excited and being good about the challenges they have been given to earn stickers and tokens as reward.Some of their challenges include:Do things fastEat yourselfDo things yourself including homework, pack school bag, get ready for...
His Happiness is My Happiness
He woke up early. He was very excited this morning. It is his end of the midterm kindy party day."Mummy, what shall I wear?" "Mummy, don't forget to bring the vitagen today.""Mummy, I love school. I like to go to school." "Mummy, teacher said no need...
My Mother Said......
My girl told me that the girl sitting near her puts her bag in such a way that when she stretches out her leg, she kicks it. So, the girl told her......."If you kick my bag, you watch it!"I told my girl to stop kicking the other girl's bag. "If it is...
Little Love Notes
Remember his two girlfriends? Well, I had been too lazy to post up pictures of the little love notes but I thought I better get round to doing it for keepsakes. Haha. So that I can show it to him next time for a good laugh.Here they are:Here comes th...
Parenting Challenges
I find that there are more and more parenting challenges to face when the kids go to school. Each day, I have a new set of problems to deal with."Mummy, today we were taking photos and the boy standing behind me vomitted all over my hair and clothes....
