Home Teaching - The Song That Never Ends

Png Png likes SpongeBob very much.   He picked up the book "The Song That Never Ends" during our weekly visit to the library.    After reading the book a few times by himself, he requested me to do lapbook with him using this story book as the literature.

Our lapbook cover.

We did the following activities
Spot the difference from http://www.kindergartenteacherresources.com/spot-difference/

Compound words

We also read up non fiction books to learn about squid.   This is the book that I like most among the books we read about squid.

Questions about squid extracted from the book above.

Squid anatomy from http://mistercraiks.blogspot.sg/2011_04_01_archive.html

Vocabulary

We did an experiment to find out absorbent and nonabsorbent materials

Recipes for making friends

Word search from http://nickalive.blogspot.sg/2013/08/nickelodeon-news-round-up-issue-6.html

Keyboard competition

Chen Chen got into the final of the Ossia Music School keyboard competition.

He played the songs Patricia and Old Grandfather Clock.

The finalists on stage

Chen Chen's keyboard lesson teacher Mdm Pong with her students who got into the final.

Mdm Pong and the trophies her students received..

Chen Chen got the first runner up.   That's the best birthday present I received on the eve of my birthday.

Hort Park

Hort Park is one of the place we frequent for leisure.

During this visit, my boys enjoyed running around the exhibition gallery and blew bubbles.

Beautiful orchid at exhibition gallery.

The weather was very warm.    We went to an air-conditioned room at the exhibition gallery area.   In the room, there were exhibition of potted plants to beautify home.    In the kitchen area, there was an organic pest control formula.

There was a type of special plant planted in the form of a picture on the wall.   We touched it, it was wet and felt like sponge.   It didn't feel like a plant but it was a real plant.   I didn't get the name of the plant unfortunately.   

Chen Chen wanted to pull some home to plant.   I told him no.    Look at what the doll say.

The boys were thirsty.  Share a drink.   

I Light Marina Bay 2014

I LIGHT MARINA BAY 2014, Asia's only sustainable light art festival, themed Light+heART was held at Marina Bay Waterfront from 7th to 30th March 2014.   There were 28 innovative and environmentally sustainable light art installations from around the world.   The artists incorporated the use of recyclable materials and adopted energy-efficient lighting to create their stunning light art installations in order to promote an environmentally-responsible behavior for a sustainable future. 

I LIGHT MARINA BAY   conducted the "Switch Off, Turn Up" Campaign where stakeholders in and around Marina Bay were invited to switch off non-essential lighting and turn up air conditioning temperatures during the festival period.

We went to Marina Bay Waterfront over 2 weekends to cover as much light art installations as we could. We covered Route A on 22 March and Route B on 29 March.

The light art installations that we covered 

The Wishing! Tree from Singapore.   

Visitors were given stripe of plastic with tiny bulbs on the 2 ends.   Visitors could write wishes on the plastic stripe and hang it on The Wishing Tree.   The amount of wishing plastic stripe to be issued on 22 March were fully issued when were there.    The staff was very sweet to give the wishing plastic stripe to my 2 boys on exception.   

Hubby and boys tossing the wishing stripe onto the wishing tree

Lightscape catcher from China

Happy Croco from France

We Heart Light from United Kingdom

Joujou_ours from Taiwan

Floating hearts from Spain

Insert caption please from Singapore.   

The guardian angels from Greece and France

No Gold buried here - we told the story 此地无银三百两 to the two boys.   My boys were very interested in the story and kept asking questions about this story.

The Pool from USA

Go Fly Kite happened to be at Marina Bay Waterfront.   The beautiful kite attracted a crowd. 

Sit on light balls to take a rest.

A Land of Reverie from Singapore

Celebration of Life from Singapore and Switzerland

A few motorcyclist uncle in brightly lighted motorcycle playing loud Hokkien songs

Digital Wattle from New Zealand.

Cloud from Canada
There were big crowd of visitors queueing up to enter the enclosure to pull the bead string to turn on and off the light bulbs that formed the cloud



















3D Tic-Tac-Toe
My boys had fun playing it

Scribbledribblequibble  from Singapore
A fun name and fun play for my boys.   They kept playing till the light art was closed for the day.

Happy 7th birthday to my prince junior

This was the last year Png Png celebrated his birthday in Carpe Diem.   Next year, he will be in primary one where no birthday celebration is allowed in school.

As usual, I baked cup cake for his birthday celebration in Carpe Diem.   I was in cloud 9 when I took the cup cakes out from the oven.   This was the first time that I bake cup cake with even top to the brim of the cup cake holder.   YAHOO!!!!

Cup cake after decoration.   I love this decoration.   It is easy to decorate and the end product is very cute.

Being the birthday boy, Png Png was the center of attraction.   He was very shy to be the limelight.   He put his fingers in his mouth and refused to change to his favourite Minions pants that my sister in law bought for him as birthday present.   

Chen Chen was very helpful to help me set up the cup cakes and distribute cup cakes and agar agar to the children before he rushed off to his tuition lesson.

Png Png enjoying his cup cake.

It was fun seeing Png Png chatting with his classmates and chatting with his classmates myself.

I gave out two story books as birthday goodie.   Png Png had fun distributing the goodie to his classmates.

In the evening, we celebrated Png Png's birthday in Sakura International buffet restaurant in SAFRA Tampines.

Everyone of us had Alaska crab for the first time and we loved it.

The birthday boy and Alaska crab for show only.   His favourite is still sushi and jelly.

Chen Chen performing naughty act behind the birthday boy.

Birthday boy and his birthday presents.