Drawings - 3years 11months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (30th March 2012)

We borrowed a drawing book from the library and had a try on the Steam Engine Train.

A closer look at Zo Ee's work. Zo Ee followed the steps shown in the book and this is the closer look of Zo Ee's Steam Engine. How amazing, that simple steps can do wonder in guiding small children to draw.

This remark is solely Zo Ee's idea and work. She even added degrees and percentage in there, plus some naughty remark at the end....Hok! (Crashed sound) and it crash!

28th March 2011

Zo Ee's view of the City. Most probably influenced by being back to Singapore with its many high rise buildings.

Zo Ee's Update - 3years 11months old

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (22nd March 2012)

Zo Ee has been very interested in helping me doing house chores. One that she has mastered is at folding clothes; neat and proper way. Cutting is her favourite past time too, cutting and cutting many hours daily. As usual, she is more active and very confident and agile in physical movements comparing to kids her age or a year or two elder. She has been pestering me to sign her up for Gymnastic classes which I’m still considering.

Assembled this last week.

Cut out this heart shape with free hand.

I think this is cute too. Zo Ee cut a hole to fit it onto Piglet's head.

Handwritings – Recently, since she has stopped schooling for many months now, I’ve started requesting her to pen a line each day as her handwriting practice but she’s always penning more. This was completed over 3 consecutive days. I’m not particular at the content; it’s all solely her work. Occasionally, she asked to confirm her spellings on a word or two. Usually she is able to notice misspelled and self-correct. Once she has the idea in her head, it doesn’t take her long to write one sentence, usually less than half a minute.

COGNITIVE STUFF:

In merely 2 months, she advanced from not a gamer(not expose to any) to an I-phone Expert gamer on many Adult version games. Scoring mostly “A” for the Edge game up to level 13. (video) From talkative to super talkative girl since back to Singapore. Everything she has a say, a reason too etc. Whenever she wants something, she has them think and plan thoroughly; before suggesting it to us with all her reasons and her plans and precautions to make sure everything will be ok and as planned. She talks non-stop to herself and soft - toys for hours, so pretend play has been back into the house recently. Puzzle solving games are still her favourite, her latest love is Pete’s Spike age 8+ though she loves Rush Hours (bought both recently). Super fast at solving those memory games; matching two similar cards from Brainpop.jr.

ACADEMICS:

Still an avid reader as usual; reading 4-5 hours/daily by herself. Most days; 80-90% of her readings are on fact books while the remaining are fiction books. Although we just moved back to Singapore, and has no access to public library for the past 2 years, I found that I couldn’t find her any fact/reference books at the Junior section (age 5-9) anymore. Age 10+ reference section fits her alright now. Since my last update; she has read the SAT Cartoon Vocabulary I and II for the 3rd time and Idiom books for age 9-15 twice. Once she was out reading one in the stroller, and the 2 commuters in the train trying to figured it out whether is she really reading it or merely looking at the pictures. Math: I’m seeing that she is interested in Graphing-made me a few past weeks, money and their value, and using Metric units. When I asked her what is the temperature in a typical tropical country? I was expecting an answer - hot all year round but she said it’s 95 degrees Fahrenheit. When back to Singapore (2 months ago), Dh has been so busy with the move and new job position and has not time to read any Chinese with her since last October. I didn’t want her to forget her Chinese so I’ve bought her a children Mandarin songs karaoke (84 minutes). After watching less than 5x, she remembered all the songs and could read all the 800 characters, even telling DH some similar characters which have different meaning and read differently, comparing those found on this DVD to her previous reading. For the first time, DH is finding her daughter is smart. (?)

CREATIVE OUTPUT:

Zo Ee wrote me another silly poem this month, a better one this time, unfortunately I couldn’t find it any where now. Most probably she has cut it into pieces and throws them away.

According to Zo Ee this is a strange animal with a big snout.

One day, I found this in the living room which I think is cool. Yes. She has been experimenting with folding and cutting. I did show her once many months ago, and she’s trying them out by herself.

Map with many sign- 3years 9months old


An origami aeroplane from Zo Ee, completed with drawings for turbo engine and parts inside the plane.

Zo Ee’s collage – the caterpillar(Zo Ee), Daddy and Mummy the butterflies ( somthing to do with caterpillar life cycle).

I found this the other day, from her ex-school drawing book. – 3years 7months old. The many lines in circle shows fluttering movement of bees.

EMOTIONAL ISSUES:

Winning a game has becoming very important to her.
She is still my funny, loving and happy girl. She is still worrying about dying and didn’t want to grow bigger and older because she didn’t want to die. She worries about others violating the laws or misbehaving and their safety.

SCHOOL UPDATES: Still reluctant to go to school, got extremely upset upon hearing the idea of going to school.

EDGE game and talking - 3years 11months old

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (15th March 2012)

Today, I took Zo Ee to the City, using the long MRT train route approximately 45minutes from my place since this is the less crowded route and we'll definitely have seats all the way to the city center. Going - Zo Ee read all the way in the train. She was sitting in the stroller reading a 5th grade book. She was too engrossed about others looking while I just pretend not to see. It was not too bad.

We left the city a little earlier before the mad rush hours (after work), still the train was quite crowded. To keep Zo Ee occupied, I handed her my hp. She played the EDGE game on my handphone (mine is not her favourite like DH iphone ), as it has 2 games which I don't play. Within 5 minutes, many heads were above my phone. I don't think they were interested at the game but they were excited seeing a little girl playing it so well and Zo Ee played all the way to LEVEL 13 or 14 before she gave up.

When Zo Ee spotted an empty seat, she moved over, Looking out of the window; She was talking non-stop to herself for another 15minutes; talking about everything she spotted; including the "dirty river" and pollution etc. The lady sitting next to her heard everything and was smiling at me. Just before she alights, she asked for Zo Ee age, and when I told her that she is going to be 4 next month, She was in shocked while telling Zo Ee, "Wow! you sure can talk very well." She must has expected her to be much much older.

Zo Ee's new bookcase - 3years 10months old

Zo Ee at 3years 10months old. (4th March 2012)

We are still unpacking. Zo Ee's new bookcase just arrived today. It's 222cmx72cm and its almost full. I believe we still have some books somewhere in the house. two of the fully occupied shelves are her encyclopedia and references collection. So in less than 2years (almost 2years) in India, we had bought her so many books and most amazingly, she has read them at least once, mostly twice/thrice or some endless time within this period and my little one is still three. Sometimes, I still cannot comprehend that she has actually read all these books and not forgetting the 1000+ library pre-school reference books that she read before we left for India 2years ago. For the past 1 1/2months back here, she already read 100++ library books. Now you understand why I say that Zo Ee is a reading machine!!!

And we had actually bought her the whole series of Harry Potter Collection (good bargain in India) for her 4th birthday (next month). Yesterday, I bought her two new Idiom books (age 9 -15) and she finished them yesterday itself but at 3am. She is asking me for book 2,3 of each series. Thank goodness that we are back here, with library, we don't have to spend a fortune on books. Here is a photo of her bookcase.

Zo Ee's new bookcase - 3years 10months old

Zo Ee at 3years 10months old. (4th March 2012)

We are still unpacking. Zo Ee's new bookcase just arrived today. It's 222cmx72cm and its almost full. I believe we still have some books somewhere in the house. two of the fully occupied shelves are her encyclopedia and references collection. So in less than 2years (almost 2years) in India, we had bought her so many books and most amazingly, she has read them at least once, mostly twice/thrice or some endless time within this period and my little one is still three. Sometimes, I still cannot comprehend that she has actually read all these books and not forgetting the 1000+ library pre-school reference books that she read before we left for India 2years ago. For the past 1 1/2months back here, she already read 100++ library books. Now you understand why I say that Zo Ee is a reading machine!!! And we had actually bought her the whole series of Harry Potter Collection (good bargain in India) for her 4th birthday (next month). Yesterday, I bought her two new Idiom books (age 9 -15) and she finished them yesterday itself but at 3am. She is asking me for book 2,3 of each series. Thank goodness that we are back here, with library, we don't have to spend a fortune on books. Here is a photo of her bookcase.