Board books -gift from Yee Yee

Ordered these two board books online from the Homelibrary. It's suppose to be birthday gift from missy's yee yee.

God Night Moon:


Our all-time favourite. i used to borrow from library. since sis said ask me to choose books for missy, so i decided to get one instead. board book is smaller in size, and easier to flip for little hand. Good buy. we can bring it along when travelling too. Missy is asking for thie book every night. and she starts to say good night to things in room. cute.

The Hungry caterpillar


Missy used to like this book when i borrowed from library. But this round, she seems to have less liking to this book. mm.. but, it's a good book to tell her about how a small ceterpillat evolve into a beuatiful butterfly and also day in a week, and food the caterpillar eat daily in increasing numbers.

I think i may get another board book, The bear hunt, which missy loves a lot whenever i borrowed from library.

Happy reading ! Good habits start young i guess.

SM: Greeting songs

We have been singing this sayonara songs since term1, which little missy is quite familiar with it now, also the greeting songs where she now will bow whenever we reach the Sensei ohayo-gazaimasu.

Here are the lyrics:
Greeting songs:

Kyo-mo Genkini Goait satsu
Today also healthy (fine), greetings

Tanoshii Tanoshii Asa-ga Kita
Enjoy (fun), here comes the morning

Min-na Soro-te Genkiyoku
Everybody, be in good health

Asa-no Aisatsu Itashimasyo
Please practise morning greetings

Sensei Ohayo-Gozaimasu
Good morning to teacher

Minasan Ohayo-Gozaimasu
Everybody, good morning

Goodbye song:

Sensei sayounara
Teacher, good bye

Tomodachi Sayounara
Friends, good bye

Mata mata Aoune
Again, we will meet

Sayounara-ha Mata Kondo-no Oyakusouku
Good bye, Again we make appointment for next time

Sayounara Sayounara Mata Kondo
Good bye, good bye, meet next time


Thanks to jia for giving me the translation :)

My Little Honey Bee

Sunday's SM lesson's preten play is about being a little honey bee, picking pollen and keep into bee hive. SO, my little misst has turned into little cute honey bee.. haaa.. so cute.




The bee, comes with two little wings too. the teacher is so creative. This week, all children are behaving themselves in the class.. giving full concentration to sinsei. Happy lesson i must say.

Missy still need to enhance on her LM, she just refuse to arrange the cards. wonder why.

Shichida Method - Term 3

Term 3 9Oct=Dec'09)

We just started this term, so far, image play is quite interesting and most love by children. Flash memory evolve to become teacher flashing cards, read it out and children to read it loud with each card’s being flashed. Nothing specifically new introduced yet so far.



Image play

4th October 09
little missy and friends are little chick picking up corn from field. little missy is a cute little chicky i must say.




11th October 09
little missy and friends are octopus with 8 tentacles,picking up clams as their food. The story is abt the octapus of the name oliver living in the deep sea, eating clams, and being chased by shark.. heee my little cutey octapus



image play and pretend play not only train their motor skills by picking up things as instructed, and then they can imagine they are the character being described like chicky, octapus..

*to be updated*

Shichida Method - Term 2

Term 2 (July-sept'09)


Missy turned two at the end of this term

This term, mummy was preggy with little brother. Thus, nothing was done for home practice for almost whole of term 2.

This term, some of the additional things done in class such as blocks, playdough, new Shichida musical, image play and flash memory.

Blocks: each child is given 5 cubes, they are suppose to arrange the blocks/cubes according to the picture, either stack on top, arrange horizontally with one block on top etc

Playdough: each child is given one tin of playdough, they are suppose to roll the dough in snake-likes shape, then outline the snake-liked dough on pear or apple.

Flash memory: teacher flashed 5 cards two times. Then each child is given 6 cards, they are suppose to pick out the card that is not flashed by teacher.

Image play: teacher will tell a story using flash cards, then child is suppose to pretend play to be certain character , etc. little chick, wearing chicky hairband and wings, picking up corns ..

photos taken during her image play as a guardian in Happy Island.. cute. well, you just cant expect a little toddler to stand still and guard and island right ?



some of the art works did during term 2. with some (perfect colouring eg the ice cream, done by the father)

Shichida Method- Term 1

I wanted to update in blog for so long, never get around to do it, so, today finally i find some time to record some of the activities we did in SM.

Term 1 (Apr -June09)

This is the sequence of activities done in class during term 1
1. Welcome song
2. Energy Ball
Child is asked to rub both hands together and make the action of gathering all energy around them and make a big ball then:
a. Shout “Whoosh” to release the Energy downwards
3. Eat the energy down into tummy and say “armh..” and rub tummy
4. Hug & say “I Love you”
5. Breathing exercise : Blow candle and do a hi-five
One feather stick onto a stick and children are asked to blow the feather as if it’s a candle.
6. Hot card
Two cards – one card is empty, one card with a blue colour circle in the middle
Children are asked to touch the card with blue circle and teacher said “It’s hot”, and then put the two cards on the table face down. Shuffle it and ask the child to pick the “hot” card.
Mummy to hug their child tight and say they love them
7. Colour
Match colored cups with colour spoons (spoon can slide into the cups)
8. Opposites
Children are given a picture with one side fixed pictures, and then children are given a stack of pictures with opposite meaning of those in the picture. With Velcro to stick it on e.g. high/low, in/out
9. Photo Memory
a. Children are given one picture with 3 bowls of different colour/pattern, see for 1 min. then children are given pictures of 3 bowls and ask to arrange in the correct sequence as seen earlier
b. Children are shown a picture of a parrot for 1min. then teacher took out 2 parrots picture and ask children to choose the parrot they ‘ve seen just now. A slight different in colour
10. Linking Memory
a. Tell a story with 6 flash cards with pictures:
Parrot wearing a crown watching TV in a hotel, then a crab fall down and walk out of the door.
6 pictures are given: ParrotCrownTVHotelCrabDoor. Then children are asked to arrange the pictures in the correct story flow/sequence
11. Numbers
Children are given pages with one kernel in a page two kernel in second page etc .Children are to paste (Velcro) the puppy into the kernel. One kernel one dog
12. Songs & action Songs
Welcome songs/goodbye songs in Japanese. Some songs in mandarin / German. Some songs with actions.Sawako ( mandarine. English)

13. Finger play- Beehives
Here is the beehive, where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch and you'll see them out of the hive,
one, two, three, four, five.
Buzzzzzz

14. EPS (Extra Sensory Perception) Telepathic
Teacher said she is passing signal on what she is thinking in her head. Children are shown a picture of a tree and teacher asks what tree is this? IS it a Orange tree or a Durian tree? Children pretend to get the signal and choose the right fruit.
15. Speed Flash cards
Teacher flashed cards of different topics in high speed.
16. Phonics – A to Z
17. Tongue Twister
a. She sells seashells by the sea shore
b. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
c. How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
d. The swan swam over the sea. Swim swan swim.
18. Speed reading – It’s bedtime. , slow/ fast
It’s Bedtime:
It’s bedtime. Can you read me a story?
It’s bedtime. Can you tuck me in?
It’s bedtime. Can I have a glass of water?
I love you
I Love you too. Good Night


After-thought:
Little missy just turned 18 months when we started SM. She is more on absorbing than giving result. But she is rather attentive when teacher is flashing cards and LM.

Home practice: we have done quite a fair bit of home practice on card flashing with 200 cards daily and some of the ESP games.

more molar

missy's milk teeth is filling up. one more second molar popping out on her top.

Muak.