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今世因果

Posted by: serene13 on: September 30, 2010

In: About Parenting | Some Thoughts | What I've Read
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Girls,

This is what mummy came across and would like to share with you. I don’t know how to prepare you for the up and down, good and bad of the life, but this is what mummy believe in, something that gives mummy a booster jab when mummy is very very very down.

专科医生 in English

Posted by: serene13 on: September 29, 2010

In: What I've Read
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Something I found very useful to me and my family, Chinese educated,Chinese speaking and not so good in English people.

Tags: Languages, Medical

Property Disaster

Posted by: serene13 on: September 28, 2010

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I like this article by 鄭丁賢‧房事難 (click the link to read the article in 星洲日报).

Totally agree that it doesn’t make sense for the property prices here to be rocket shooting high these two years.

“馬來西亞不是地小人多的香港和日本，不是經濟飛騰的中國和新加坡，不是爛船也有幾噸釘的美英歐。”

Ku ku bird

Posted by: serene13 on: September 27, 2010

In: Kids Talk
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At kindergarten, the teacher is explaining about animal to my 3 years old nephew Lawrence.

“You see Lawrence, dog has tail. We don’t have, right?” asked the teacher.

“Ya, but I have ku ku bird.” answered Lawrence proudly.

… hahaha…

British Council – (3)

Posted by: serene13 on: September 27, 2010

In: About Parenting
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Ling has completed her first term in British Council Young Learner English class.

Since end of August this year, a newsletter will be sent out to the parents’ email after the class.

Just sharing of the last one I received this week. One thing I forgot to mention previously is that in the class, they have some listening exercise as well. So far, luckily, Ling enjoys the class.

Tags: Languages

Some BM picture flash cards (10)

Posted by: serene13 on: September 22, 2010

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Some more BM picture flash cards: (please click the link to download).

It’s in A4 size, to be printed double sided and cut according to the blue line.

BM Picture Flash Cards example 10 (A4)

Kumon Reading Workbook

Posted by: serene13 on: September 21, 2010

Bought the Kumon Grade 1 Reading and Grade 2 Reading books from MPH for the girls. They love it.

Grade 1 Reading Workbooks

It slowly leads the girls to reading, starts from single words, short vowels, long vowels, rhyming words, vocab, then slowly short stories.

Some more the book uses a lot colourful pictures, just nice for their age.

And this is the first book with scores (every lesson 100 points) for them, and every time they are so eager to mark their own paper. Guess they are having fun in a way.

One thing to note is that, on the book cover, it claims : “Aligned to States Reading Standards”. mm…

Here is a sample page for Grade 1: