Motor Skill on Hand

All the while, he gets to cut the paper. So his cutting was based on his liking. This round mummy gave him a task. He needs to cut out the object from the paper. Last time he thought that cutting is easy now he gets to taste it.

First, mother wanted him to color all the objects on the paper. After finishing, he needs to cut all the objects according to the dotted line.

It was a bit difficult for him to cut accordingly to the dotted line but he had to practice it.

After finished cutting, is time to glue all the objects on the rucksack.

Gluing is an easy job for him.

Tadaa finished it.

Asked him whether he still want to do this kind of practice. "Yes", was his answer.

Teaching time

Reading the digital clock is no problem for him but analog clock posts a bit of a problem. Today his maths worksheet needs him to read the time under the analog clock. So mother needs to teach him how to read the clock.

Actually on and off he will read the analog clock hanging on the wall, only that we do not really take it seriously to teach him. Sometimes, he reads it correctly but sometimes need our help.

So mummy uses the help of the plastic clock we bought in "Popular Bookstore" to help him understand it. Need to teach him the 1 is equivalent to 5 minutes which states on the clock. But the one mummy thinks is no good is that the clock does not state 0 and it only states 60 minutes. Knowing it was right but it should show 0 or 60 when it points to 12. Mother told Ethan that there is no such thing as 3.60 when we read the time but he said the clock stated that it is 60 printed on the plastic clock. Haa, in the end, mother had to use another digital clock to show him that when the minute counts to 59, the next one is 00. Then he only let it go.

Maths worksheet

We did not expect that Ethan can finish the worksheet so fast. He can finish one book in one week. Now he already finished the three books and one of them is for K2. Recently he started on another two maths books which mother still hesitated whether wanting to let him do. Mainly because in the book there are a lot of questions like ? + 4 = 9 or ? - 6 = 2 . Mother is afraid that he gets confused especially when subtraction need to convert to addition in order to get the answer. But after he had no problem in doing it for the K2 book so mother just gave him a try. Surprisingly he can accept.

We cannot say that Ethan had done all the worksheet by himself. On and off he will come and ask us if he is not sure of certain answers. Other than that he will do them by himself. All he wants is mother to mark his worksheet and he get the "Stars" on it. Sometimes we even have to stop him from continuing to do it until too late at night. In this situation, he will bargain with us. He really loves to do maths.

The book above was requested by him to buy when we were at "Popular Bookstore". We don't know why but we respected his choice.

Public library in Balik Pulau

Wah, this is the comment that mother wanted to give to this library. It is big and the books are so new. Mother can find the same book in the Bayan Baru area but a bit worn out. Here, it seems like a brand new one. Mother told daddy that he should bring us back again as mother ran out of book to be borrowed in the Bayan Baru library. It is really true as mother already borrowed more than 100 books for Ethan and the remaining one are either too easy or too difficult for him.

So it is time to switch to this new library but the distance is quite far.......

New colorful toy

We actually bought this toy long time ago but we only stored it in the room. Since, we have not much toy for Ethan to play so mother went to bring out this toy to occupy his time while we were busy with our work. He loves it or not? Of course he loves it but he does not really know how to form an object and he simply connects them together.

When mother formed a square for him, he immediately requested for more. Mother asked him to try by himself and he did but not really successful. So in the end, he needed mother's help.

Another new beach

We had a surprise when we found this beach while we were wandering around in Balik Pulau. The beach was nice and clean. Found that a lot of people came to the beach for fishing. Since this was unexpected so we did not bring water or cloth to clean up our legs. However, we still can't resist going down to the sandy beach. So just let it be sandy feet.

This time, Ethan was a bit brave to walk towards the sea and let the wave soak his legs but still holding on to adult's hand. By himself, no way as he is still very safety conscious.

Asking his daddy to follow his post

Holding daddy hand to soak his legs with the sea water

Before we wanted to go back, mother asked daddy to bring Ethan to wash his legs in the sea water. For adult, we just let use our hand to get rid of the sand. When we were heading back towards the car, daddy said "hi" to one of the hawker uncle there who was setting up his store. He told daddy to wash the legs in the drain. According to him, the water in the drain is from the mountain. We washed it before we went back to our car. Ah, we should take the photo of the drain. The water was so clear....

We will come back again to this place and the next round will be more prepared or maybe it is a picnic again.

The swollen eye

We don't know what happened to him as he woke up from his nap with a horrible swollen eye. He cried non stop and made the situation even worse. We asked him whether is it his eye painful or what, the response was continual wailing. In order to stop him, mother asked whether he wanted to watch the CNY MTV in the youtube. He loves the music video and he nodded his head and stopped crying.

After a while, we bathed him and asked him not to rub his eye. The photo taken was after his condition had became better but still can see a bit swollen surrounding his right eye.

We actually wanted to attend the CNY celebration nearby our place. However, seeing Ethan's condition, we just brought him to the playground and let him enjoy before we go back home.