Abacus & Mental Arithmetic

JD (柞希) going to be 4 next year. I'm planning to send him to CMA for learning Abacus & Mental Arithmetic with KV and KV has been studying in CMA since she was 4.

To enroll in CMA, the child who need to understand, read & write from 0 to 9. They don't have age limitation. If your child is 3 and he/she fullfill their requirement, then you can enroll he /she anytime. From my experience, it is good to learn when they are small. Since JD(柞希) is learning Maths in Kindergarten, understanding & reading from 0 to 9 are not a problem but his writing skill needs to be improved.

Before he can enroll in CMA, now I'm start teaching him some basic of mental arithmetic and to train his writing skills. So that he learn some basic before start the class.

KV & JD(柞希) are doing homeworks together.
This is JD's homework. Last time, I used the same material to teach KV. If you look at the question, do you know the answer? Actually it is simply. Next blog, I'll explain it to you. These are KV's homeworks. The questions are more difficult.

Madagascar Escape 2 Africa

Last Saturday, after KV finished her CMA Mental Arithmetic class, I brought her & JD to McD for lunch. I bought the Melman(Giraffe) headband for KV and the Melman toy (including in Happy Meal) for JD. Actually JD wants Alex (Lion), but the toys were sold out. He had no choice and took Melman.

Nabillah told me that this is a hit movie and every show is full house, even she couldn't buy the ticket last week. So I'm planning to bring my kids to watch this movie next week, if possible on weekday, hope that it will easily to get tickets.

Quantum Of Solace

Finally, I completed the Cars of Bond Collection. The last car released last week for this collection - Aston Martin DBS.

Colouring

All this while JD(柞希) likes colouring and I did bought some colouring books for him but he doesn't has patience to finish one proper colouring page.

Last weekend, after the incident (drew picture on the wall) and with my encouragement, I felt that JD is more interested in creative work - colouring. Now he manages to complete 3 colouring pages in one time. After completion, JD(柞希) was happy with his colouring pages.

Creative

Do you know what is the picture below? This picture was drew by JD (柞希). When I got back from office and i saw this picture on the wall. Then I asked around who drew this on the wall? JD (柞希) answered me immediately without thinking "It's me". Then i asked him, what is this picture, and he told me this is a 'TORTOISE'.

At first I'm very angry because he simply drew on the wall, but after I thought deeply, actually he is very honest (he admitted what he did) and creative too. So I didn't punish him and I told him next time draw on the paper instead of on the wall. He nodded his head.

I have adjusted the contrast of the picture, so that you can see the picture clearly. Lets put in your imagination, it's really looks like a tortoise. The head is on the right-hand-side with two eyes and a long neck. The body & shell on the left-hand-side but no legs. Ha ha haa.

Collections of Cars

My Collections of cars - James Bond 007 collectible cars. I hope to get the final car ASTON MARTIN DBS from QUANTUM OF SOLACE on 6 Nov 2008. Then my collections will be completed. I didn't plan to buy the customised secret agent briefcase because not worth it and some more later on my collections will become JD's (柞希) toys... Sigh.
JD's (柞希) collections - CARS from animated feature film produced by Pixar. I bought this set of cars from Pavilion Parkson last week. He loves it very much and always carrying them wherever he goes. You can see, he's so happy with the cars. This is so called 笑到见牙不见眼 or Cantonese said 笑到四万o甘口.

Steamboat Dinner

Yesterday, we had a steamboat dinner at my sis's house. My mom bought all ingredients from morning market like fish balls, fish pastes, vegetables, tofu, noodles & seafood.

Preparation for the steamboat dinner.

After dinner, kids playing Nitendo Wii. Even I joined them to play too. I felt that Wii is more exciting than PS2, because I just need to use one hand to control Wii instead of two hands. When I play Wii tennis or bowling, it's just feel like playing a real tennis or bowling (really like exercising). Finished the game, I'm felt very tired and sweated a lot. I think I may consider to buy one so that I can exercise and playing game at the same time, lol.

The kids having their own game and chasing around in the house.

They using their fingers to show their age. (From left to right 6, 10, 3 & 4)