Community Garden Opening Ceremony

Finally there will be a community garden in my neighborhood. Today is the community garden opening ceremony and tree planting day. 

While waiting for the ceremony, we saw this caterpillar, but I do not know what species was that. It is climbing on the wall. There are a lot of the same species of caterpillar at the nearby plants.

My kids and daddy were helping to plant a pot of herbs into the soil. 

Kids had so much fun digging the soil and watering the plant. It is a good experience for them since there is not much open space in Singapore for them to plant.

Go to Science Centre & SEA Aquarium

A friend and her family came to Singapore for vacation this week. Thus, I brought kids to go out with them. 

We went to Singapore Science Centre and the temporary exhibition - Titan of the Past. 

There are detail information about Triceratops and tyrannosoraus. There are also some other dinosaurs exhibit there. 

This is about t-Rex eating triceratop. 

The next day, we went to SEA Aquarium at Resort World Sentosa. This was the first time we went there since opening. Kids love this place a lot. But due to school holiday, there were a lot of people. 

This is leafy sea dragon. 

Moonlight jellyfish.

This is very interesting, they are upside down jellyfish. 

There are also sharks - white tip reef shark, hammerhead shark, nurse shark. (I didn't take nice pic of sharks, so didn't post here).

Origami instructions are given for us to try out.

Slide at home

School holiday already started. The kids are at home and asking me,"what can I do today?" Hmmm... I decided to put one of the mattress to lean against the bay window to make it like a slide. 

After kids saw the new "slide" they are so happy. Y quickly climbed on the bay window and slide down. FF is trying to climb up of it. They are having fun. 

Counting and alphabet order

Time to do some homeschooling with kids today. 

Y can master numbers from 1 - 100. So I decided to let him skip counting by 2s. I got this from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Initially he doesn't know how to do it, after explain to him, he found the tactic to  count by 2. He already master it well. It seems a bit easy to him, maybe I should try counting by 3s onwards for him to try. 

For F, she is doing counting from 1 - 10 using lucky stars. 

This year, I managed to teach F letters from A to Z and the phonic sound. This exercise is a review for letters that she had learnt and alphabet order. This material is free download from Montessori for Everyone