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.

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."

New Book - The Elements -3years 9months old

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

Went to the biggest bookstore in Singapore and found Zo Ee a new book after an hour of searching, The Elements, The building blocks of the universe by Dan Green Nowadays, it's really hard to find new books to add to Zo Ee's huge encyclopedia collection. Zo Ee and I went through this book and she fell in love immediately and resists to sleep.

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.

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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.

Prime Numbers - 3years 9months old

Zo Ee at 3years 9months old. (25th January 2012)

For the past 2 weeks, Zo Ee is obsessed with math again; she's been asking loads of math questions and is interested in negative numbers; doing negative subtraction and simple division and money. Today, she showed me 5 and 6 coloured pencils in each hands while telling me, 5 + 6 = 11. Then she handed me those 5 pencils while telling me 5 is a primary number and then handed me 6 pencils while telling me 6 is a secondary number. Ok...I don't think there is any primary number or secondary number. What sheis really trying to tell me is primary = prime numbers and secondary numbers = composite numbers. She is linking from the colour concept ; primary and secondary colours. You mixed two primary colours to get a secondary colour. So the same concept applies to numbers.

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.