How he learn the spellling

Today, mother let him write on some exercise book since mother got it from Popular Bookstore promotion. After he finished writing the number in words suddenly the question mark flipped through mother's mind whether Ethan knows how to spell the words after he had written it?

Mother just simply asked him, can he spell the number one in word. He surprised mother. The mother continued to test him for the subsequent numbers in words. He amazed mother again. Mother asked is it that he learned to spell in the school ? Yes and he sang part of the number song to mother. Yup, he learned to spell the numbers in word through singing. Mother was pleased to know that the kindergarten teaches the kids to learn through playing game and singing a song.

Way up up up the kite!!

Seeing the wind was so strong, we thought like this was the good chance to fly a kite. Unfortunately the the wind was so inconsistent. Sometimes got wind but sometimes no wind at all. It was more difficult to fly the kite compared to at QBM. Besides that grandparent's house is surrounded by trees.

In the end, we decided to drive to the Stadium inside the Taman. Daddy tried to fly it but it was so difficult because of the inconsistency of the wind. Ended up daddy's kite got stuck in one of the trees. Daddy tried to pull it down and finally the kite came down but the stick to hold the kite was gone.

This time mother got chance to bring Ethan to the platform stage. Previously we always miss it because it was too hot and sun shone directly towards this area in the morning. Ethan also gets to see the Malay kids practiced playing the football game in the field.

Youth park fun

Since it was still early, we dropped by the youth park for a while. We let Ethan have some fun before we headed to Gurney Plaza to have our lunch. It was hot even though there were trees surrounding the park.

We asked him to take photo with the mini tram car. He and daddy post an action according to the statute.

Penang Orchid Exhibition

Since we did not visit any places during Ethan's one week holiday so daddy took the opportunity to clear his leave. We brought Ethan to the Penang Orchid Exhibition. At first we thought that the exhibition is inside the botanical garden like previous year. No, we were wrong. Luckily daddy asked the parking attendant before we entered the parking space.

This round the exhibition was small and we walked through every stalls to view the flower. Mother loved the orchid plant but did not take action to buy it after considering the fact that we don't know how to take care, no place and no time.

Ethan was the happiest kid as he gets to walk around the place after being stuck inside the house for nearly one week. He post a few cheeky postures in front of the camera. The security guard there laughed at Ethan when he post a funny act.

Fake butterfly on one of the plant

The plant like "Insect eating plant" also can become a house plant nowadays. So weird as last time this plant was widely growing in the mountain. We told Ethan that when you put your hand inside the plant, the cover of the plant will close it and eat your hand. He was so afraid and held on to his daddy tightly when we asked him to take photo with the plant. At last, we told him that we were kidding, the plant actually eats the bugs or insect instead of people.

After viewing all the flower, on our way back we headed to Youth park since the park was so near....

He did it on timetable

Mother has set an objective to teach Ethan the 12 timetable in a period of one year. But this fellow had surprised us with his ability. He memorized all of them within half a month.

He really shocked us when he read aloud the timetable until 12 to us in one day because we only taught him until 7. Guessed he was secretly self learning by using the timetable card mother done for him. Even though he cannot perfectly 100% memorized all as sometimes he will forget 3 or 4 out of 12 timetable.

We did not simply asked him to memorize the timetable instead mother did explained to him that the multiply is the shortcut of adding. For example, 2X3=6 is the shortcut of 2+2+2=6. So if he forgets about the answer of the 2x4=8 so mother will ask him to add 2 to 6 to know the answer since he knows the 2x3=6. Now when he forgot about the answer, he will use his fingers to add up the next multiply answer. This is the way we let him learn the multiply and of course he loves the math or else he would find it boring.

We were really proud of him when he found out his mother's mistake on the timetable card on "9" as the print out is 9 x 1 = 8. At first, mother thought of printing again the correct one for him but later seems that he had corrected it by himself by gluing the correct figure on it. So just let it be so he can remember it by heart.

Since he knows all the multiply, now is time to let him practice so he can remember it instead of going back to zero.

"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

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