Is he ready for it...?

Mother did consider to teach Ethan the multiplier since he loves maths so much. Some people will think that mother is the "kiasu mother" but I don't think that I'm the first mother to do so. Mother has this idea mainly due to Ethan's poor memory. Taken longer time to teach him and it might stressed him up.

Mother did plan to teach him to memorize one table in one month. So 12 timetables should be taking 1 year to complete it. It is very painful to remember the 12 timetable in a short period which mother had experienced before. Now the problem is will the school teaches memorizing like the old way or followed the recent print out. Last time we memorized like 2x1=2, 2x2=4, 2x3=6 .... but recently the print out seems like the arrangement is like 1x2=2, 2x2=4, 3x2= 6 and .....So not really sure which arrangement to choose but probably will choose the old method because it is easy for mother.... Ha

Will he be ready or not, let's try first. If cannot then postpone until he is ready for it.

Memory

Tell you. Ethan is very poor at memorizing things.
Seen some articles described the kid's memory is good especially when you read the same book over and over again for few times. The kid can remember the book's content and even corrected adults when wrongly read to them. The situation is the same with songs.

BUT

We did not see any such sign on Ethan. So far he only remember the "Twinkle Twinkle little Star" which this one he had memory of it when he was about age 2+. Other than that, he did not remember any whole song even though we tried to teach him the song " Row Row a Boat" which the lyric is so short but he still cannot remember all. He will miss a few words or sentences. Emm... Recently, he did show us that he knew a few songs which he learned from school but he still only can remember the few first lyric of the song.

Since he cannot remember the lyric of the song so that we did not expect him to remember or memorize the content of the book. So far he did not memorize any books mother had been reading to him. He only remember that the books had been read before to him. This had been proven when mother took the whole stack of books from library shelve. He told mother which books had been read to him before.

Too much

Today, mother only realized that Ethan got a lot of stationary. Not that we bought a lot for him. He actually inherited most of it from us. Where do these things came from:-

i) We get some of them from the hotel stay
ii) Provided by the school
iii) Inherited from mother's side of the family. Grandma had to dig out all those pencils she saved when mother was in the school that time
iv) Of course we bought some for him especially the color pencil. Some of the color pencil provided by Singapore airline, some from mother side...

He really got a lot of stuffs so we need not buy for him for ages...

Mother think that ae still some hiding around the house besides the above

Not a good start....

Ethan had been sick during the CNY . Don't know is it because of the hot weather or not? He still cannot completely recover from the cough and some more the flu attacked him again when the holiday nearly ended. Mother did not plan to send him to school on Monday and let him rest for another day since that day is a sharing CNY cookie day and play. So skip one day will not affect his study.

Shown some willingness

Lately, Ethan on and off will pick up an English story book and read by himself. He insists that he reads it by himself after mother told him that the book may be too difficult for him. Mummy doesn't want him to loss his confidence just because he cannot read it smoothly. Mother offered him to read the books like "Peter and Jane" which are easy and the words are repeating but he rejected it.

Why mother does not really willing to let him read the book from library because the stage and level that mother chooses is for the primary kids. Just used his ears and eyes to look at photo while mother read them to him should be Ok for him. But he wanted to read all by himself. Mother would say it is too early. As the book got a lot of short cut words like "We've, can't , we'll, didn't " which is seldom found in the "Peter and Jane" book.

As last, he listened to mother persuading him to try to read the Peter and Jane. Yes, he can read it but he is only interested in reading a few pages then said will leave it for tomorrow. Mother knows that there is no tomorrow for this book. He still does not find any interest in that book.

First day of CNY

This year CNY we were just in time to let Ethan witness the lion dance by himself. All the past years we always miss it. Mainly because they come to grandparent's house in the morning while we only go back in the afternoon. In Penang, so far we never meet it before, maybe is the timing problem as you can hear the drum sound from far away but you never know whether it is coming to your house or not .

Daddy managed to bring Ethan to capture the photo with the lion

After so many days of CNY then only realized that we did not capture many photos. We did not change Ethan to wear Cheongsam and take his photo and also the family photo. Maybe it was too hot weather so after the morning celebration then everyone quickly changed back to to usual clothes.....

We just treat it as normal day to us.....

Cat and dog

Both of them are just like cat and dog. They like to compete for the same object especially Ethan. Don't know how to solve the problem....Luckily both of them did not stay under the same roof if not everyday surely can hear yelling or crying sound...