"MONEY" is our topic tonight

From previously played shopping supermarket, mother noticed that Ethan does not really understand the concept of money even though we let him pay the money every time for us. Tonight Ethan picked up one of the books which consists of money and asking mother how to do the exercise. The idea flip through the mother's mind and thought of why not play a money game to teach Ethan.

The game is very simple.
i) First mother asked him to arrange the money according to the book which is from smallest to the biggest value. Told him to recognize the value of money.

ii) Teach him to use different combination of coins to form MYR1. Like combination of 5 "20 cent coin" add up to become MYR1. Mother was pleased that he picked up very fast. Guessed because of his basic adding skills is strong.

iii) Mother drew simple things like apple, orange and wrote down the value and asked Ethan to put how many coin needed in order to buy the fruits. He had done it correctly in the first time. He continued asking mother to draw the objects for him to arrange the money.

At last mother had to stop the game and he requested to play it again tomorrow.....

Arrange the money and using the coin to form MYR1 value of money

Photo of the day...

Mama, what is this?

Mother replied him that this thing is used for washing the window when he asked. He immediately used it to wash our house's window which he washed the mosquito net inside the window part. Seems he likes and in order to make him understand the function of this stuff, mother went and gotten one red bucket of water and asked him to wash the outside window. He did it and he thought it was fun.

And what you see in the photo is him seriously washing the window. The funny part was he even went to pull the stool and stood on it so he can wash the upper part of the window.

His first song

Finally he knows how to sing and remembers the lyric of the song. The kindergarten had taught the kids how to sing a song according to the the words that they learned. We were surprised when we heard Ethan singing the song. We think that we had made the right choice of putting him into this kindergarten since he is very happy. Once in a while he will surprise us constantly with what he had learned.

Registration for Standard 1

Time flies so fast. This month of March, it was time for Ethan to register his primary school. We have chosen the school nearby our house.

Mother told him that we will register a new school for him today, he was afraid that he will need to change his current kindergarten. He said "no" to it and we have to explain to him that this school that we are registering is for his standard 1. He still can enjoy his current kindergarten for another one year plus. We told him that after the age 6, he will not be in kindergarten anymore and he is a big boy.

We came to the school at 1pm plus but the security told us that the office only open at 2.00pm. So we went to the supermarket to buy some stuffs before we came back again. Daddy needed to fill the form and passed over to the admin office and it took about 30 min to finish the whole process.

More sticker for him

Mother made more stickers for him since he likes it so much. Then he very kpc to help mother to cut it into small pieces. His cutting was terrible but it was like another training for his hand so just let it..since the sticker for him to use and not mother....haha...

Mutiplying project

Well, Mother did not anticipated that it was so smooth sailing on teaching Ethan on the multiplying.

From the conception of the idea until today, mother had been cracking the head on what method to teach him. Using the ready product in market like buying the CD or flash card and etc.. Or download from the internet the timetable but found out that only have up until 9 instead of 12 timetable. Mother even thought of recording mother's voice reading the timetable and playing it back. In the end, mother homemade the timetable and no recording. Why no recording because the recording cannot stop and wait for the kid to follow and repeat the words. Mother read aloud with him is more flexible depending on his speed.

Where and when mother teaches him? Well, mother only teach him on the way while mother drives him to and back from kindergarten. Normally there was a bit of traffic jam on the road so mother asked him to follow what mother said and he did. Then before his nap time, mother asked him to follow mother reading the timetable again. Surprising, it only take one day for him to memorize the timetable of 2. Of course mother only teach him one timetable since the target is one month per one timetable.

In order to let him understand what is the purpose of him having to memorize the timetable, mother had printed out the worksheet for him to do. Mother's opinion is if he did not constantly practice on timetable surely one day he will return back to zero. People may think mother is cruel but this is the fact.

He was a bit slow when doing the worksheet but he had tried his best to calculate by himself and get assurance from mother. Today he just finished 6 pages of worksheet from 0 - 2.