6 letters word - 3years 3months old

Zo Ee at 3years 3months old. (10th August 2011)

While having a yellow gummy, little Zo Ee surprised Mummy with her "Mum! Mum! Y E L L O W spells yellow." This is the first time, she spells a word with more than 5 letters as currently Mummy noticed that she is at the stage of spelling 4 - 5 letters words. I guessed this is how her spelling skill improving gradually. She started showing the ability to spell most 3 -letters words at 25 months old. And Mummy didn't notice any longer words till 3 months ago, where she moved on to 4 -5 letters instead. And hopefully, today incident will move her another step forward.

Home - 3years 3months old.

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

I like Zo Ee's home, with the house number. But I wonder why most children draw windows this way; a cross inside a square? I have never taught her to draw like this. Hmm...wondering?

LEGO - 3years 3months old.

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

Mummy bought her a new small set of LEGO (3 in 1 creator). We co-build this boat last week. She needed some help with the tiniest pieces and guidance in reading the pictures illustration steps.

A week later, Zo Ee has wanted to build the helicopter instead. This time round, she needed no help from Mummy in fixing the pieces together. Her fine motor skills improved loads. She needed less help from me in reading the steps. She knows the correct pieces and where to fix them. Unfortunately, the illustrations is definitely too small for her since this is actually for age 6 - 12.

Cutting skills - 3years 3months old

Zo Ee at 3years 3months old. (4th August 2011)

Just about a month ago, Zo Ee started enjoying cutting with her new pair of scissors. Look at her skill now, she is able to cut out pictures quite accurately, which is very impressive for her age. So the trick is to let them learn with children safe but real sharp metal scissors with supervision. Zo Ee noticed that she will not be able to cut properly with her plastics scissors, that's why she stopped using them totally.

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Then
3years 2months old - Cutting with a pair of scissors

Playing keyboard for 30minutes - 3years 3months old

Zo Ee at 3years 3months old. (26th July 2011)

We arrived home on Monday night after two days of travelling between 3 connecting flights; Melbourne -KL, KL- Mumbai and Mumbai - Goa and another 1hour road journey. The next day morning, Zo Ee immediately sat at her keyboard for about half and hour playing all her songs collection; one after another. Mummy could see that she was so happy to be reunited with her keyboard again. This is actually her longest time span playing all by herself comparing to her usual playing about 5 minutes a day, some days a few different occasion, much depending on her own mood. She has wanted to read musical notes directly from song book like her cousin sister which is very good sign to Mummy meaning Mummy can move her one level up.

While in Australia, she did play at her cousin's piano once and she didn't have problem playing although they isn't any notes stickers on the keys. This is because she has been playing /experimenting at different part of her keyboard, playing her songs at the bass end or higher end where there isn't any stickers on them. Even her music teacher noticed that she actually understood and knows her keys well; she knows that there are 8notes in an octave and different octaves in her keyboard and thus different C, D, ...notes in each octaves.

Reading Sydney map - 3years 3months old

Zo Ee at 3years 3months old. (20th July 2011)

After a few days in Sydney city, little Zo Ee was able to read the city map well. She could recognize those important landmarks easily without me telling/explaining to her, where we were staying, places we went and the routes we took. This is her first time reading such a detailed map comparing to months ago, she was only reading map between towns where we were traveling in Goa.

Australia - 3years 2months old

Just came back from our 4 weeks holiday in Australia, thus the quiet time in this blog. Will upload some photos soon.