2015 CNY Day 1

This is Jared's biggest achievement in the year of 2015..making his own & meimei's bed.
He is assigned to fold his own and Kaylen's blanket. He actually complained a bit why he had to mei's blanket, but I explained that Kaylen is too short to fold the blanket.  As both of them are still not using quilt, it made blanket folding really difficult. And the mattress also appeared to be heavy for Jared, which he took a while to get used to bring it up..But hey, after some weeks of practise he finally can do it all by himself..although it might take quite some time.



















Out of eagerness, I actually cut off Jared's lower eye lashes, it made his problem of eye lashes sticking to his eyes worst. So he had to be taped the whole day ..and he was ok facing relatives with his face like this!

CNY Reunion 2015

Kaylen went to school in her QiPao..while daddy and me were on leave preparing the dishes for CNY reunion

We had about 10 dishes this year..but forgot to take the picture of the curry..
1. Bao luo wan you..Mum cook
2. Fried noodle..Me cook
3. Roast duck-bought, roast pork-Daddy cook rcp from Noobcook
4. 18 Luo Han Chye-Me cook rcp from Noobcook
5. Sea Cucumber-MiL cook
6. Steam fish-MIL cook
7. 8 bao fan-restaurant bought
8. Steam prawn-MIL cook
9. Curry chicken-daddy cook



The roast pork tasted so yummy, but it actually took really a lot of effort to do as we have to take out the pork to pok many holes every half an hour..so it felt like we spent whole morning to get the whole slab work. But everyone said it is very very tasty..it got the special yum, after eat.. This should only be the CNY dish in future..





Baked 2 cakes before dinner starts..amazing and efficient me..together with washing toilets, preparing so many CNY dishes..so I eventually knocked off before 11pm that night..hah..

Grand Marnier Fruit cake..the 3rd time I baked this since I received the Grand Marnier wine in Dec '14...showed how good is this cake.


The good Ole butter cake, every year must bake

Gifted..

​http://calgaryherald.com/life/swerve/gifted-children-are-frequently-misunderstood

I read the article...and have found some answers for Jared's weird behaviour

Gifted children might express heightened physical sensitivities to light, touch and textures. Parents of some gifted children have to cut the tags out of their kids’ clothing, for example, or buy specially-designed socks with no seams.

Certain thing I just couldn't figure out for him, simple task like:

Swimming-when all others can put their head in water, he couldn't, when all others can jump into the water, he couldn't

Swing/Slides- when all other kids can just hop on and enjoy it, he couldn't

Making friends- he had no friends for P1, P2, only learnt how to mix with others at P3

All these tasks are a breeze to Kaylen, who can do it 3 yrs ahead of koko.

At the family dinner table, Morgan rambled on about how she learned about pi. About Archimedes. About the pay system of the ancient Incas. “It got to the point that my parents said ‘You need to stop and let everyone else talk about their day as well.'”

​Yes, Jared would also go on and on telling us what new stuff he learnt from what he read. I usually cut him out.  But this story left a deep impression in me. And he especially like pi 3.142 and speed of light. He thinks that if anyone can go faster than speed of light, he will be able to travel back to the past.

When we go to East Coast Park, he saw the water was having high tide, and continued to say cos the moon was up, the gravity of the moon cos the water level to increase.

They know a lot of things from their own reading and can remembers them.

Janice Robertson agrees: a congregated gifted program may well have saved her son’s life. Janice had long been concerned about Mark (both their names have been changed). He was an exceptionally smart kid who taught himself to read by the time he was two years old. But a darkness always hung behind Mark’s brightness. “He would say things like, ‘I’m just going to hurt myself,'” Janice remembers. He used to bang his head on the floor and once, when he was three, pointed to a digger on a construction site and said, “I’m going to ask that digger to dig a hole and put us in it and bury us.”

Jared do occasionally  talked about bad stuff like this..

On the contrary, Kaylen who writes better, reads better at the same age, but she just don't show up the giftedness. She is a happy child that fit really well everywhere.

​She don't talk about the chim chim stuff..she's not interested to read more to gain knowledge..But she does her work really well.. I will not be disappointed if she not going to make it to GEP in P3.

One month into P1 & P4 school year 2015

The gal got selected as monitor together with her partner Kayden. Cos their names sound alike...

So I asked her what did the monitor do?  She said take care of the class when there is no teachers..She go around and tell the children to take a story book and read.  When there's announcement on the PA system for monitors, they have to go PN collecting point.  They have to ask around  a few people to find the PN collecting point.


Jared

Almost everyday without fail I will ask this question to Jared, so, when can go back PeiChun?

The maths worksheet are harder..

The assignment big (social studies family chart), small (English flowchart, newspaper reflection, Book review) ..although all have reasonable deadline, but the feeling wasn't really good to need to constantly checking him out on the quality of work and plan out the milestones to meet weekly.

Everytime I will feedback, I can't tolerate this anymore..and He's reply is ...You just have to get use to it.

I'm so used to feed him with my work all the time to make sure he do enough exercise to have strong foundation..now the feeling really wasn't right not knowing what to expect in the test/exam​

Grand Marnier fruit cake 2nd attempt

Taken by my xiaomi..refer 1st attempt

I also did not use any mixed fruit now..i followed tableof2's recipe exactly ..but cut down the sugar further ~abt 10g.

Changed to an 8inch tin..it is taller now...N i have to cut it after put in fridge to get such nice shape..

My swim babies

All of the 3 of them Daddy, Jared, n Kaylen can all swim now..

Jared is not the competitive type..so he refused to join in the compete.

And everytime Kaylen can win daddy..she now swim as fast as me!

Daddy also acquired the skill of swimming by watching their coach teaching the kids..Our daddy is amazing, he has learnt skating, violin and now swimming by watching them..heh.





Kaylen  swim face up...its like fish got into water, immediately enjoyable for her


1st lesson on face up swim, which Jared had a hard time drinking so much water..

2015 Week 2 of school

Jared:
He was swarmed with homework after homework, that he would do till 10pm+ inclusive of violin. That left very little amount of time I have with him to do our own practice like Chinese compo or oral. Not even anytime to read story book or watch tv.  And the daily math worksheet are definitely harder and required thinking. For Chinese while I'm wondering why never touch workbook, and he was suddenly asked to do 12 pages. Also have a English journal about himself and 1st social studies assignment which we didnt have time to work on it at all.  N with tingxie and moxie..really not easy feat.

He still have learning lab homework to do, which he had drag it for the whole week.

Yet, he is still enjoying school.

Upcoming challenge, 1 CCA day for string and 1 Computer skill...2 days coming home late..




Kaylen:
She still been coming home late at 8.30pm. With the current focus on coming violin exam, she cant really have time for any other stuff.

And for me, I really found not as secured as before, for not able to guide both kids with extra work from me...


Jared with his tie...he preferred us to wear for him before he go to school as he wasn't sure how to do it by himself. Only need to weat tie once a week during assembly.


First time bringing his violin out all by himself..


Kaylen was enjoying her every Tues MacD after ballet class before school..


Her new purple ballet attire for exam.


Her normal routine of school bus waiting..doing the abacus..She no longer attending the abacus lesson due to her sch crash with it ...now its on home study..

2015 First week of school

Day 1 2 Jan 2015 Fri

Jared: Smooth sailing with games and snack, happy to see Teck Yong

Kaylen: Confused when going home, causing whole school bus to wait for her, and in the end arrived home 7.50pm

Day 2 5 Jan 2015 Mon

Jared: CCA Screening for aesthetics (String, Chinese Orchestra, Modern Dance), still no class yet, He saw the CO gave him 4 star, seemed very interested in him

String asked him to bring violin to play a song for teacher the next Mon.

Kaylen: After multiple reminder, & extra test during weekend for route to school hall and school bus..she arrived home 7.05pm

Day 3 6 Jan 2015 Tue

Jared: CCA Sport Screening (Basketball, Volleyball, Softball, Choir) –all fail, and he can’t be bother..

Kaylen: Longest and most challenged day for Kaylen with ballet class, Pei chun sch and learning lab make up class in line. So whole day started from 9am to all the way 9.15pm, terrible.

I had known the day since we missed the make up lesson in Dec..so had decided to go through the day hand in hand with her. I took the whole day leave, left home at 8am with her to Thomson Plaza, and bring her to MacD for brunch, followed by short time in library and PSG for her class from 12pm to 5.45pm..and bring her to united square for dinner and waited for class to finish then we took daddy’s car home together.

When I was almost so tired, she was still happily and excited about her day.

Day 4 7 Jan 2015 Wed

Jared: CCA Table tenis screening-can’t hit any ball, fail. Time table started running today. But still nothing much taught yet.

Kaylen: Bad jam on way home, so she reached at 7.30pm..terrible. And she had to go violin class, so finally she got back home at 9.30pm again!

Day 5 8 Jan 2015 Thurs

Jared:  Time table start running..Got back social studies 1^st family tree project

Kaylen: School bus was late, 11.30pm then come..and came home late again 7.30pm..was told this will be the new timing for her school bus

Day 6 9 Jan 2015 Fri

Jared:  1^st home work for Chinese.

Kaylen: Daddy picked her up after school! She was a happy gal

That marked the 1^st week in their school…it was happy 1 for both kids..no one want to stay with mummy home school. Jared is even not looking back at PCPS..

Kaylen Day 2: I gave up expecting her to buy, so its ta bao all the way..taken by PSG Cynthia





Jared Day 1:
A class size of 24 pupils only compared to main stream 40.

A Brand New School Year for Both Kids

Year 2015...



Jared started his P4 GEP Journey @ Catholic High in the AM session

Kaylen started her P1 Journey @ Pei Chun Public in the PM session

Since both kids are with their new school, so 2nd of Jan, was really busy for me. I was at CHS for parents briefing, rushed home to watch Kaylen take her brunch, then sent her off to school bus..and finally rush to PCPS to do my PSG Volunteer work till 4pm.

First day for Jared was wonderful, 1hr recess, no school, only games and won some snacks , with P5 buddy..and with a bowl of fish ball noodle, he was a happy boy when got home at 2.45pm.

While Kaylen was the other way round, she had to take a 1hr school bus, and she got totally blur at going home time, and told teacher she doesn't know how to go hm..In the end, teacher brought her to the canteen, daddy rushed to school, and whole school bus waited for her for 20-30 mins..But daddy still decided to send her to take the school bus home. In the end, she reached at 7:52pm. However she did not cry at all, and was full of energy to tell all her stories from school.  Her queueing partner Kayden...so it made Kaylen and Kayden...

And this year, I also had a few whataspp group setup for both kids class...so can get more info better..






Just noticed, in general GEP kids were with glasses!




Recess time, I sneaked out from my duty class, and visited Kaylen at the canteen, as expected she did not go and buy food. She was having her emergency lunch box of wang wang..and I rushed her to buy food. She changed her mind on prata, and decided to just get a sunny side up...


Class activity-interaction with P2

More on 2015 New Year Celebrations

Spent the evening at our favourite mall- Kallang Wave Mall



Popoyes after water play..Kaylen had full appetite for her drumstick..She simply loves to eat her drumstick this way. Koko also took quite a bit of chicken

Full Beginning of 2015

We started 2015 with a full breakfast at Food for Thought at Botanical Garden with Ah Yi family..



With the good weather, we managed to cover a big part of Botanical Garden..




Vanda de Joaquim, Sg national flower


Selfie time!

Sweet Ending of 2014

Random pics along Orchard Road for Xmas Lightings ...we made it on the last day of 2014!








Pit stop for sour cream and onion fries @ EWF
















We ended 2014 with deletable sweet dessert at Marche...