Tuesday 30 August 2011
Reading a book
Cute video of Josh reading his caterpillar story book which I took a few weeks ago...
Monday 1 August 2011
33 months
Our dear boy has turned 33 months, just 3 more months from his 3rd birthday. I haven't thought of what to do for his birthday, other than doing a celebration at his school. And it will be just after the full month of his baby brother, who is arriving in Sep. Guess I will have my hands full in the coming months - new baby, confinement, getting keys to new house, renovation, full month party and Josh's birthday...phew!
At 33 months
Weight: 15 kg
Height: 95 cm
Milestone: Can read quite well. His favourite book for the moment is the Little Einstein Picture Dictionary, which he will bring to me every night to read together. At first we were wondering if he was just memorizing the sentences or really can read, so we tried new books and he could read them as well.
Every morning he will also take the Today's papers and look at the TV listings for the day or pretend to read.
He's now learning the names of the countries and loves to look at the world map. It's tough to teach him at times as I can't pronounce many country names, esp the Middle East and African countries are quite a mouthful. Surprisingly he has no problems rattling off long names like Azerbaijan, and can remember the countries names well by the starting alphabet, eg A for America, B for Brazil, C for Canada etc.
I am planning to set up a new blog when our 2nd baby is born and blog about our boys there instead on continuing on Joshton's Little World. This blog will be kept for Josh, so that he can read about his younger years next time.
At 33 months
Weight: 15 kg
Height: 95 cm
Milestone: Can read quite well. His favourite book for the moment is the Little Einstein Picture Dictionary, which he will bring to me every night to read together. At first we were wondering if he was just memorizing the sentences or really can read, so we tried new books and he could read them as well.
Every morning he will also take the Today's papers and look at the TV listings for the day or pretend to read.
He's now learning the names of the countries and loves to look at the world map. It's tough to teach him at times as I can't pronounce many country names, esp the Middle East and African countries are quite a mouthful. Surprisingly he has no problems rattling off long names like Azerbaijan, and can remember the countries names well by the starting alphabet, eg A for America, B for Brazil, C for Canada etc.
I am planning to set up a new blog when our 2nd baby is born and blog about our boys there instead on continuing on Joshton's Little World. This blog will be kept for Josh, so that he can read about his younger years next time.
Babe Magnet?
We were pretty amused by the attention that Josh has been getting from some little girls recently. Few weeks back, we attended my colleague's baby full month at Starbucks. My colleague's niece seemed to take a liking to Josh, even thou she is older and much taller, and kept trying hard to get him to play with her. She might have better luck with another colleague's boy who is 5 years old, but didn't seem interested in him. Josh as usual, preferred to play with adults and totally ignored the poor girl, who was very persistent and tried to hug and carry him but he just refused to go along. As a last resort, she grabbed his hand and dragged him away, and poor Josh had to go along as she was much stronger than him! He was finally 'released' after the girl's daddy scolded her.
Josh rejecting the 'advances' of the little girl
Never-give-up attitude!
Cheeky boy relaxing on the couch
At school, Grandma said she saw one of his classmates touching his face and following him around. Haha heart breaker next time when he grows up?
New school
2 weeks into the start of the new semester, I changed school for Josh from Little Wings to Creative Thinkers, where he attended holiday classes. I was quite upset with Josh's developmental assessment rated by the teachers at Little Wings. It was a long list of assessment in 6 categories like Self & Social Awareness, Creative Arts & Expressions, Discovery, Listening & verbal skills, Fine motor skills and Gross motor skills. Poor Josh was rated 1-2 in all, with 1 being inadequate and 5 is advanced. The problem was that he did not participate in class, except for storytelling time, and the teachers would leave him alone to play at a corner. Without engaging him, I wonder how did the teachers rate him, even saying that he can't recognize his name or count 2-3 things.
I was also upset by the grammatical errors in the remarks written by the teacher:
- ...has adapted classroom setting....??!!
- ...needs to develop his independent skills and learns.....??!!
I would expect proper English even from a nursery teacher!
So now Josh is attending Creative Thinkers, which has a 3-hour curriculum. Although Josh still does not join in for sing & dance, there will be a teacher sitting with him to encourage him. And Josh seems to like the painting sessions during art & craft. So I am keeping my fingers crossed that he will adapt to this new school well.
I was also upset by the grammatical errors in the remarks written by the teacher:
- ...has adapted classroom setting....??!!
- ...needs to develop his independent skills and learns.....??!!
I would expect proper English even from a nursery teacher!
So now Josh is attending Creative Thinkers, which has a 3-hour curriculum. Although Josh still does not join in for sing & dance, there will be a teacher sitting with him to encourage him. And Josh seems to like the painting sessions during art & craft. So I am keeping my fingers crossed that he will adapt to this new school well.
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