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Julia Gabriel PlayClub (Term 2 Week 3)
Alicia was relatively well-behaved during Saturday’s class… Anyway, during the previous lesson, the instructors gave the children grapes to eat as part of the teaching of the letter ‘g’; this week, to teach the colour ย ‘orange’, the instructors gave them carrot juice to drink! ๐ And so the kids were made to queue up to collect their carrot juice and had to say ‘orange’ before the cup was handed over (well, of course even if the children didn’t say it, they still got to drink it!). Alicia had two small cups of 30ml each… yes, she queued up twice… but there were times she just wanted to be part of the queue, even before she finished her first cup. The instructor said she just loves to be part of the queue… lol.
For snack time, the kids were given raisins, watermelon and biscuits. As usual, Alicia was the last to finish but this week, she refused to give up on the food so the instructor moved the table and chair aside so that the class could move on to the song and dance segment. And so, Alicia was the spectator for the day… every time the class danced around the classroom and when they walked by the table, they’d laugh at Alicia – still eating! sigh… and in the end, she finished everything only after the song and dance segment was over! During that segment, Alicia would do the actions of songs that she likes then carry on eating… LOL.
For art, they painted a ‘carrot’, and used a comb to make squiggly lines to make it look like a real carrot. But we didn’t get to take the carrot home as it’d be included in the graduation booklet. Here’s the other piece of art she did. She was given a balloon filled with some water and that was the painting medium for the day!
The Letter C – Literature
The days sometimes just fly past and before I know it, it’s the end of yet another day, and sometimes I feel that I haven’t done anything very constructive with Alicia for the day… I wonder if anyone else feels the same way… I guess for me, it’s mainly Alicia’s super slow eating that’s the obstacle to the many other activities I could have done with her. I can only hope that she will progress and get out of this phase.
Anyway, yes, we’re still on the letter C mainly because of Alicia’s eating.
I’ve not covered the literature for the letter C and I decided that this week’s the week to do so! And we can hopefully move on to the letter D soon…
Here are the books we read!: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (borrowed from Julia Gabriel’s Bookroom) and Just like Jasper!
Alicia just loved the little holes in The Very Hungry Caterpillar book and she kept poking her fingers into the holes and she’d move her hand over the page just to feel the different texture created by the holes. And she kept meow-ing when we read Just like Jasper!
There are quite a few activities to do with your kid if she’s older… just google “The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities” and there are free printables and lesson plans to go along with the book!
For Alicia, I decided to just read the book with her as I don’t think she’s mature enough to handle the activities suggested… well, except for maybe the eating bit… if only she can eat like the caterpillar… oh well, never mind… ๐
And here’s the other book which we read earlier before and she was crazy about: Hermie: A common caterpillar…





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