Mooncake - 3years 5months old

Zo Ee at 3years 5months old. (16th September 2011)

We didn't have any Mooncake last year. This year we were lucky to receive some from a visiting colleague from Singapore. Zo Ee was all excited wondering what is a mooncake. After we cut it, she said "It looks like our earth...this is the crust, mantle and core. : )

Necklace - 3years 5months old

Zo Ee at 3years 5months old (15th September 2011)

Zo Ee drew a necklace and herself on the white board.

Easy & Hard Quizzes - 3years 5months old

Zo Ee at 3years 5months old. (13th September 2011)

Out of curiosity, I had Zo Ee answered the multiple choices Easy & Hard Quizzes from Brainpop Jr. She has never try any yet and my thinking was why not. We never do Q&A session after reading. To me, reading is to impart knowledge. But as Zo Ee gets older, she started to ask questions here and there while reading but not the real Q&A. On a few rare occasions, I may ask her a question but its really rare and it happens only when I have doubt in her understanding a big word etc.


I chose her favourite two; Solar System and Digestive System. Since she is quite new to this website; as it has been only introduced to her about 10 days ago and it has approximate 230 videos, I noticed that she has watched these two videos the most; 5x and 4x respectively unlike the rest, mostly 1x, a few 2x since she has wanted to cover all the video clips systematically. She has completed about 90% of them thus far. I am very impressed that she diligently finished each videos in every sub- topics and topics before moving on to the next. Ok. Maybe this is her second nature; huge appetite for knowledge and is interested in almost EVERYTHING!

Zo Ee was very quick at answering most questions; she spilled out some answers spontaneously even without looking at the multiple answers provided, especially from the Easy Quizzes. Here is her result. For Solar System, she correctly answered 4/5 from the Easy Quiz and 4/5 from the Hard Quiz. 5/5 from the Easy Quiz and 4/5 from the Hard Quiz for Digestive System. She breezed through the Easy Quizzes and paused to read the longer answers in the Hard Quizzes, but she still managed to answer the longer questions in less than 30s each. Nevertheless, its unimaginable that she is capable of answering even the Hard Quizzes well too. Sometimes, occasion like this really proof to me that Zo Ee 's capabilities are beyond words, at least to me. I think this is pretty advanced for her age if my guessing is not wrong; Am I right? Please forgive me on this, as at many occasions, I don't really know what is norm and what is not anymore.

The Solar System
Easy Quiz
1. Which planet from our Solar System does this picture show?
Saturn

2. Which planet has thin rings and a storm called the Great Dark Spot?
Neptune

3. Why is Mars called the "red planet"?
Zo Ee got this wrongly. She chose because it has a Great Red Spot. The answer should be because it has reddish dust and rocks.

4. What is the center of our solar system?
The Sun.

5. Which planet is a gas giant?
Neptune.



Hard Quiz
1. Why is Venus the hottest planet in our Solar System?
Its clouds trap in a lot of heat.

2. How is Uranus different from the other planets in our Solar System?
Its spin on its side like a rolling ball. Zo Ee spontaneously answered this even without the need to look at the multiple choices.

3. How are the planets in the Inner Solar System different from the planets in the Outer Solar System?
The inner Solar System planets are warmer.

4. Why is Pluto considered a dwarf planet?
Zo Ee answered - because it orbits around Neptune instead of the Sun. The correct answer should be because it is smaller and its orbit around the Sun is different.

5. Which sentence is true?
The sun is the closest star to Earth.

Digestive System
Easy Quiz
1. Which part of the digestive system does the picture show?
Stomach

2. Which is a long tube that connects your throat and stomach?
Esophagus

3. What happens to food AFTER it gets broken down in the stomach?
It goes to the small intestine. Zo Ee answered this spontaneously without looking at the multiple answers given.

4. Where does digestion starts?
In your mouth

5. An organ is a body part that does a special job. Which part is an organ?
Stomach



Hard Quiz
1. What happens in the small intestine?
Nutrients in the food get absorbed.

2. Which happens LAST?
The food moves into her large intestine.

3. Which sentence is FALSE?
Zo Ee chose - Exercise helps keep your digestive system healthy. The correct answer should be -Your esophagus absorbs different nutrients in food.

4. What do gastric juices do?
They help digest food inside the stomach.

5. You MASTICATE food to help break it down before you swallow. What does MASTICATE means?
To chew.

Zo Ee says - 3years 5months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 5months old (11th September 2011)

This was taken last week, during our visit to Hampi town, India.

Zo Ee saying a lot (everyday event) but here are a few that really captured my attention. I just wanted to pen down a few today; marking she turned 3 years 5months old today.

Zo Ee saw Mummy adding some salt into the pot..... " Oh! Salt is a type of mineral."

"When you eat, the food go through your mouth, then esophagus, into your stomach, then small intestine, big intestine and finally out from you anus as waste. "

Zo Ee saying to Mummy, "Vagina is a small opening between your legs. This is where you past through we you were born."

"Mum! Do you know who invented soap?"

"Mum! Who actually invented hairband?"

" Mum! How do things get rot? How do human get rot"

" That's the algae in the pond."

" Heh Mum! That's cheating!"

" How do bad people snatch things? How do they snatch away your piggy bank?"

Armed with a long ruler, Zo Ee trying to measure our book shelf , " Mum, I'm trying to measure how tall is this bookshelf, what is its width?"

" Mum, our kitchen top is made of stone. " while knocking at it with her little hand.

And her favourite of all is " Mum! I am doing some testing. Oh! Look! " and then sharing her results spontaneously with Mummy.

Mummy asked her, "Zo Ee what is an inverterbrate?" Zo Ee, "Animals without backbone. (pointing to her backbone.) I have a backbone."


Mummy, "What would you like to buy at the toy shop later? " Zo Ee, " I do not have enough money." It's true that she has not enough at that moment, she is currently saving her reward money to buy her choice of toy.

"Oh! Look at this powder. Look at this! (while touching it), look ! it was grinds from rocks into this powdery form."

Brainpop Jr - 3years 4months old

Zo Ee at 3years 4months old. (10th September 2011)

I heard a lot about Brainpop website for months now and have been reluctant to allow Zo Ee to explore it just yet until recently. Even recently, Mummy introduced her to it with the idea that it will keep her occupied for certain period during our recent trip to Hampi while in the long 8 hours day journey. No doubts, Zo Ee immediately fell in love with it.

Since we didn't sign in as a member, Zo Ee finished 80% of the video clips in the 5 days trial. If it was not due to Mummy restriction, kicking her away from the PC, she easily finished everything within that trial period. From the moment she awakened, immediately she wanted to watch brainpop. Mummy limited her watching to one hour each session and as many sessions as she likes provided she gets some break in between. She diligently going through the clips in a systematical order; she wanted to watch each clips in each topics before moving on to another without missing any. She finished Science, Health, Social Studies, Maths, Arts and Technology and partial of the Reading & Writing. A few clips she watched twice, mostly once for all the rest. There are a few more clips that she needs to cover but am very amazed as how systematically she watches and explore Brainpop Jr. (K- Grade3) Mummy has yet to introduce Brainpop (Grade 4 -Grade 12) to her and foreseeing that Zo Ee will definitely enjoyed it better than Brainpop Jr but Mummy didn't want her to skip (Mummy knows that she will definitely do) instead has a clearer understanding of those basic concepts first although she has been reading facts books at much higher level, even into the adult level for sometime now. Mummy especially like Brainpop Jr.'s explanation on each new concepts or words. We will sign her up to Brainpop UK when she is bored with Brainpop Jr. since all Commonwealth countries are following UK syllabus mainly. I foreseeing that this will happen very soon because once she understood and absorb all information , she will not want to watch them again. That's pretty her nature since young. She may want to watch them after a year a part or so but definitely not in the next few months.

Landscape - 3years 4months old

Zo Ee at 3years 4months old. (9th September 2011)

Zo Ee with one crayon in her hand was very excited looking for something while calling out to me, "Mummy! Mummy! I'm going to draw. I want a piece of paper. Mum! Mum! Where is my paper?" When she got one piece, immediately she started on this. She was fast as if she was trying to capture her flow of thoughts... (that's what Mummy is guessing) and within 5 minutes, above is her work - A landscape?

Cutting craft - 3years 4months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 4months old. (9th September 2011)

We saw this folding and cutting idea in a book, so we decided to do the same; folded some colour papers, Mummy drew the shapes and Zo Ee cut them out.