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Made up stories - deciduous

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As you know, I like to spin stories during bedtime reading in request to his request for more stories even after I off the lights. Today was no exception. Given the cold weather after the rains, I decided that the theme would be seasons. And so my story goes: Once upon a time, there's an Ant and Grasshopper who like four seasons. This is because they like to see the leaves change colour and the temperature change. For instance, in Summer, the leaves will be green and in Autumn they will turn yellow or orange. In winter, they will all drop off..  "Yes, these are deciduous trees, not evergreen trees , " he interrupted .  I was surprised. Deciduous ? Haven't heard this word since Geography class in secondary school, "where did you learn it from?" "FasTrack.. (This is one of his classes)," he replied, sounding very bored as if I should know.  This is really very fast track I think. Looks like my fictional stories better be as fact

Play & Intervention

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Brought the two boys to this fairly new playground at Amara hotel. It was a small  space but suitable for kids under 3. Good thing is that crowd is small even during peak hours (<15 kids). Cayen made a few friends at the playground and hence, he was able to play for extended periods using simple props like the balls and the slide etc. It was good as he had seldom played extensively with other kids like catching and devising their own games . Think the small setup made it easier to make friends. Anyway, the friendships weren't without any trials, he had a shouting match with a three year old before they started playing and decided they were best buddies. Then, he played with a six year old for about 3 hours and in between, they had a tussle over the exercise ball and he tried to bite the kid because he said he got to the ball first. But later on, after he calmed down, he went over to apologise and they resumed friends and were best friends again. They also admitted another c

First Day in K1 - Picasso

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Tuesday was first day of K1 for Cayen. While his classmates haven't changed, his teachers, classroom, shoe rack and even toilet have all changed. Hence, I was a little nervous as to how he would take to all these changes.  Caught up with teacher today and was glad that he had behaved well and engaged yesterday, and also played well with his friend A without conflict. Music lesson was smooth too. Only thing was that he didn't want to eat vegetables so teacher fed him the last bit. He also managed to nap eventually which is good as he really doesn't like to sleep.  The new form teacher is also firm and looks very experienced thus far. I have a great feeling about 2017! We even saw two snails in the morning (this is an idea I have been using to motivate him to walk down the path himself instead of carrying. He can spot the snails better if he walks and he knows he has higher chances on a rainy day. Yesterday we saw two side by side, a really rare sight!)  Unfortunately the goo