More School Work
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008It was another hour and half of work for the kids and me this morning. I bought a new box of paints last night so the boys were bugging me right after breakfast to do some painting. We had not done painting for a long time now because we ran out of paints, so they remember that it was loads of fun…
I started them off with a drawing of a car each on an A4 paper and they had to paint it. It turned out pretty…er ugly…because the paint brushes were all out of shape. I need to buy them new ones… (mental note..buy buy brushes…)
Here it is, I guess you can figure which one is Ethans.

After painting cars, we did paint leaves and “chop” on the paper. Ethan really liked this, he kept trying new colours and ended with a paper full of different coloured leaves. Aaron is just plain bossy…he wanted to do everything himself, he was like “I wan doo, I wan doo… , Aawon doo”
Here’s Master Bossy doing his cheeky smile and Ethan doing his leaves.

Ethan and I went on to make a mask while Aaron got bored and left to watch Barney!
I brought out some old paper plates from Ethan’s first birthday party and Ethan drew eyes, a nose and a mouth on it, then coloured it a bit. I then cut out the eyes and mouth with a pen knife and Ethan took a picture of me in action.

Then I cut some hair from newspaper and we even added a beard, LOL… poor mummy is already running out of ideas on day 2. Anyone with craft ideas or suggestions of activities to do with a 4 year old, please post them here… PLEASE!!!!
Here is Ethan wearing his mask after he attached all the hair himself.

That was the morning session - 9am till 1030am. They had a mentos each then watched Elmo Wild Wild West, which is hilarious by the way not to mention super entertaining.
After Aaron finally decided to nap at 11.30am, Ethan and I played word games using the flash cards. I have to find many new ways to teach him his words as 4yr olds have super short attention span. So we started of with flashing the cards, me to him then he became the teacher and flashed them back for me!
Then I laid out 3 words a time on the floor and read out a word each time for him to point out. We also reversed roles for this “game” too, where he laid out the words and he read out one and I had to pick it out!!Very cheeky way of getting him to read them… kekeke!
I even resorted to letting him throw the words like a frisbee towards the sofa and I must say he is really beginning to read most of the first 12 words.
Here is our last game (Aaron woke up) where we had to pick out the word and place it in the basket. I took this picture with Aaron on my lap so you can see his little legs in the picture. The camera was facing us and the picture was a little blur because of this.

This is real different from all my online google work … kekeke…boy am I glad that tomorrow is a public holiday! Yes, I do follow the Selangor gazetted holidays!!!












