So sorry...the family was down with flu...

So sorry for not updating, we have planned to updated our progress and work once a week but the family came down with an episode of flu.

Kai was running a fever for 4 days and his temperature is really high for the first 3 days that we were dead tired sponging him through the night even with medication. We are thankful that it is fully over and grateful to God that during those couple of days, he was still able to eat and drink lots of fluid.

New Schedule

We have came up with our new schedule and have been out for walk more frequently. And this schedule, we will follow through till late January.

Though we will still be doing alot of homeschooling activities, Kai will be attending school with the rest of his peers for kindy at a school about 15 minutes near our place as he has requested and that will provide him with extra time for socialising and playing with peers his age.

In fact, we have met alot of these kids at the playground and also a couple of them will homeschooling like Kai.

As I find that I need alot of time to prepare the homeschooling materials, I have decided that I will only blog once a week from now on as Kai is also using the laptop for his reading lessons in both English and Chinese.

Taking a break from blogging

Hi all

I will be taking this week off from blogging as we do some reschedule and review on our work for the past 2-3 months.

Will start blogging again when we come up with our new schedule next week.

We are at g, k, h and j, q, x

Kai is pretty good in Hanyu Pinyin and he is doing far better than I am. In fact, he could read out the sound of each of the consonants for me. And teaching him Hanyu Pinyin together with the chinese characters that are of the same sound and different intonations are paying off. He is able to recognise them and read out the words instead of depending on the Hanyu Pinyin.

So far it has been rewarding, he is able to recite quite a bit of children's poems in Chinese. I am waiting for the weather to pick up that we could walk to the photocopy shop to print out some writing practices for Kai to teach him to write chinese characters.

I have compiled a list for each different set of Hanyu Pinyin he is learning and this list helps me in guiding him in pronounication and also at the same time aids him in identifying more chinese characters and reading chinese stories.

Story Sums, Problem Sums

Kai loves story sums and he enjoys working on them using his concepts of number bonds as well as counting forward and backward to help him solve the story.

And so fast, he has grasped the concepts well though at times, he would be careless with his calculations. I am beginning to notice that he is counting without using his fingers or even drawing and that he would pause and think using his head. And some answers just came straight from him from his head instead of counting.

I am hoping to teach him the part-whole model later today and through next week to aid him in his learning and a skill for him to solve problem sums.