Zo Ee's Poem - 4years 1month old

Zo Ee at 4years 1months old. (20th May 2012)

Re-typing Zo Ee's poem here:

The Cat Sat on a Maat.
And then, a Pan fell off.
the Pan fell oFF a dog!
A bat fell oFF a Chiangsos!
Something fell off a thing.
Oh no! MO! Oh!Help! Help! Help! HElp!
HElP!

Ow!!!

Ouch!

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ow! Ow!

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ouch!

Creativity - 4years old

Zo Ee at 4years old.

Drawings;rabbit,rat and bat - 4years 6days old

Zo Ee at 4years 6days old. (17th April 2012)

 Too much of fairies books lately, thus her flying rabbit and flying rat.

Life Portrait -Mr Bean - 3years 11months old

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (9th april 2012 )

 

Life portrait of Zo Ee's new love - Mr. Bean

Drawings/Writing/Creativity - 3years 11months old

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (9th April 2012)

I can see Zo Ee's huge improvement in her drawing skill and creativity lately, most probably another growing spurt just before she turned 4.

I like her idea of the bird/chick standing on the rock.

"Mummy! I made Buster(toy) a baby quilt. "Instead of using cloth, which she doesn't have, she creatively used some colour papers instead. I am really impressed with her idea and work.
By the way,can you spot the bird robot?

These are the few chinese characters that she is able to write by heart.

I'm very impressed with Zo Ee's handwriting, as she is still 3 years old.

Baking craft:Fish - 3years 11months old

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (8th April 2012)

It was raining and we couldn't leave the Mall this afternoon. While waiting for the rain to stop, I decided to let Zo Ee tried on this baking craft available there. Of all the designs, Zo Ee decided on a fish which I thought to be rather simple and boring but surprisingly Zo Ee creatively turned it into a lively one. Even the craft person at the shop praised her beautiful work and creativity. DH was impressed too and I think he will not hessitate for her to bake another one in the future. It's not difficult and it's a lot easier than it look, or maybe Zo Ee made it look easy since other kids were really careful and slow with their work while Zo Ee finished hers fastest among all the kids. She was fast in filling up the mold with the colour material provided and she didn't follow the picture sample provided (bottom right). She told me that she wanted to make a colourful fish which she did. We decided to stick the finished rubbery fish on her room's wall with blue tac and she is really happy and proud of her fish.

Dentist Room - 3years 11months old

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (2nd April 2012)

Two days ago, Zo Ee spent a great 2 hours drawing and drawing nothing but just variation of the scene in a dentist room. Yes. She drew more than 20 such pictures in one sitting. Sharing a few here.

The only one that is different is this one - Wacky Brushing Teeth Machine.

Creativity & Drawings - 3years 11months old

Zo Ee at 3years 11months old. (2nd April 2012)

Zo Ee's Monster Face Mask a combination of her Cutting skill plus a little of imagination.

More drawings from the library book, Fire-Engine and Engine Train.

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.

Funny Rhymes - 3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (10th February 2012)

Zo Ee is full of FUNNY make up rhymes which I couldn't remember at this moment, these are the latest two:

"If you have some scramble egg, please feed it to your leg."

"Your rumbling tummy is so smelly."

Bean Art & craft - 3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (4th February 2012)

To Zo Ee to the Singapore Esplanade to participate in the free Bean Art event. We arrived at 12.30noon and there's one on going session which started at 11.30am. We registered for the next available session. Zo Ee impatiently waited till 1.30pm. After a brief introduction of Bean Art with a few artist examples, children were allowed to start their own masterpiece. 6 beans , recycle box, papers and glues(one for paper & another for beans) were supplied to each child. Zo Ee decided to make a ship. It was a 90minutes session but Zo Ee was done in less than an hour; 40minutes after deducting the introduction etc. The above was all her work, I only helped her to squeezed out the glue initially but eventually Zo Ee even refused my help at all.

Comment:

The freeland artist whom I got to know, actually works at many school for art projects around Singapore. Schools actually invite and pay her and her friends to teach art and carried out art projects. This person told me that Zo Ee was actually very good at it and her fine motor skills are extremely good for her age. She even asked me whether Zo Ee likes crafts and did Zo Ee has lots of craft experience. Well actually, Zo Ee is good at cutting and collage skill is very limited to her own exploring at home with junk papers. Since we just came back to Singapore, I took this opportunity to ask her about art classes available for kids. And I ended up showing her Zo Ee's lastest creation of Moby with her recycle toy box which happened to be in my hp. Her immediate reaction was really shocking; "That' s very good. Wow! It's very good." She wanted to know whether it was all her work and where did her get the idea from. I explained to her that it all started with her new toy box. She was cutting it and sometime later, she showed me her finished Moby on the table. Frankly speaking, I was impressed too that's why I gave her the idea to glue it onto a paper so that we could file them. Her remark really strike me that her work is very good.

Moby - 3years 9months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (24th January 2012)

As usual, Zo Ee' is keen on cutting and she had wanted to cut her new toy box. I allowed it since she wouldn't need it anymore. An hour later, she showed me the above Moby (from her memory) which she had cut and arranged on the writing table. Although I know that she is obsessed with Moby ( a robot from brainpop website) but her details work really surprised me. I gave her the idea to glue it onto a paper so that we could file it up.

Writings & Drawings -3years 7months old

Zo Ee at 3years 7months old. (7th December 2011)

Zo Ee loves to write lately and she wrote & drew these today.

I'm most surprised by her drawing on the bottom left. She claimed that she's drawing Harry Potter. Harry Potter in a skirt...huh???? I've never told her about Harry Potter and neither we have any books yet. This is not the first time, she talked about Harry Potter, she did roughly mention it 2 months back. When I asked her about Harry Potter, she said that we don't have any Harry Potter books yet and nothing more. Just wondering where did she get that idea. Book shop?

Poem for Mummy - 3years 7months old

Zo Ee at 3years 7months old. (6th December 2011)

Another poem from Zo Ee. This time, a poem for Mummy. So I must be proud right? ; ) but I don't really understand it; partially maybe but I can't expect much from a 3years 7months old, right?

When I asked her to read it to me, it sounded like this.

Yellow yellow evyre(ever) owchoo aplethees

As a man

Is bella good?

yes and soost.

Shoo! the bee stinged Mummy.

And my Mummy sheeshabch

What a gap fomed(formed) owch!

Is at mnoocch!

And a shoes and ch!.

Chatty Zo Ee - 3years 6months old

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (29th October 2011)

I was pretty mad at Zo Ee for messing the house. She did some craft work, and pieces of papers are all over the dining hall, together with her stationeries - colours, pencils, containers to hold her cut out pieces, toys etc. Just a Mess. I told her to tidy up or else I will pick them up and throw them into the dustbin. She started picking up a little before telling me this, " Mum! Mum! You shouldn't throw my toys and stationery into the dustbin. They are not waste! You only throw waste into the dustbin. It will be a waste to throw them away. We shouldn't waste food or anything at all. "

I don't really remember when she started saying something like this (I'm guessing since 3 years 3months old.) When I told her that she can choose only one drink from the menu while dining out, this is her usual reply. " Mum, I'll have mango milkshakes and you will have ice lemon tea. I think you will like the Ice Lemon Tea. Then, we can share. You will have some of mine and I'll have some of yours." This happened to food too. She will ask us to order two or three of her choices, then DH will be included in her list.

First Story - 3years 6months old

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (23rd October 2011)

I think it's cool to see Zo Ee's first writing. Is this a 3.5years old spurt? I have yet to see any sentences from her and she skipped wrting sentences and straight into her very first story. She did ask me to spell the words knocking, blasting and sound for her. The rest are her own work. We have not talk to her about ghost as such, and when I asked her what is a ghost, her reply - A ghost is a scary thing. And If you know her, Zo Ee is a fact person, reading books on facts rather than fiction. So I didn't really expect such a story from her.

Speech & Drama Class - 3years 6months old

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (15th October 2011)

Zo Ee attended her speech and drama class for the 2nd time today. She had a blast and loves it. Picking her up, I asked her teacher how is Zo Ee doing in the class, she replied me that she is a very creative girl while raising her eyebrows! So I asked Zo Ee about today's class, she said that she told the drama teacher that she wanted to be king Arthur, and her friends will be Kay, Sir Ector, Merlin, etc while raising one hand above her head with an imaginary sword, pretending to be Arthur. Ok. this is a drama class for 3 -5 years old, I wonder how many would understand what she 's talking about.

Maze-a shorter solution - 3years 5months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 5months old. (9th October 2011)

I'm surprised that there is a shorter solution solved by Zo Ee for this maze. After not doing any maze for 3-4 months, today, I'm also seeing that Zo Ee's maze solving skill has improved so much. Another growth spurt!

Given solution

Drawing for Grandma - 3years 5months old

Zo Ee at 3years 5months old. (1/10/2011)

Today, we intend to send grandma a birthday card. Zo Ee has this drawing especially for grandma to be send together. Six big candles and 3 little ones = 63rd birthday. There is a small heart next to it. Wondered when the hearts drawing started...she filled the cards with them. A caterpillar and an internal diagram of our body. Not sure what grandma will say about that! She wanted to label them and asked me to spell for her.