hi serenade!
the ocean topic was one piece of homework L's son was tasked to do. And apparently, mommy had fun doing it with him too. I think her children are now in an American school... gotta check with her. But i've been since asking my son after school everyday, if he's asked a good question.
btw, L's younger son just turned 5. And he's already doing addition with negative values! ooooohhh... no kumon lessons, and he hates kumon worksheets.his mommy did try some old worksheets from the brother on him.
i've actually been sending K to bed earlier in the evening so that I can have more time with B for learning or playing cards. Not becos we're excluding her from all these fun sessions, she's simply too exhausted from school and she needs her 12 hours sleep at night. might start including her when she gets into routine better, and perhaps maybe when she starts fighting sleep. at the moment, we also spend time with her now during dinner and after dinner. hmmm, come to think about it, both my children do alot of learning during dinner... coz that's the only way to distract them from food and get them to open their mouths and feed!
recently, we've been doing something we used to do everyday with B when he was almost 2 years. Well, we're now some months behind the kor-kor's schedule, but we're still having fun. We have this book of first 1000words and we like to play "A Hunting We Will Go" on each page. Then we had to first let B know what we wanted him to look by pointing to the little pic and word by the side and he would find it for us in the bigger pic. That's how we expanded his vocab within 3 months. But with K, we just basically skipped the teaching part. We're just testing what she knows... and boy, was I surprised! She knows the difference between shark, dolphin, fish! At that time, B only knew dolphin and fish! Of course, I was smiling to myself when she found me seahorse, crab, octopus, starfish etc! I've been testing her for many days now. Think it's time she starts learning new things too.
btw, silly K likes to pretend that she's Mommy and asks me back questions too, e.g. pointing to a pic, she asks, "What's this?"
