September Moment - Random Happiness

The family had a great time during the September school holidays shopping & eating in JB City Sq, Tebrau City & also spending a good 1 night stay at in-laws place in Permas Jaya. Always enjoy shopping and eating across the causeway once in a while and most of all the great hospitality extended to us by the in-laws.

Term 4 begins the last lap of 10 weeks to close the year of great learning journey for 2010, the theme Transport bring much excitment to the kids as they get to visit the Changi Airport for their first outing on the 2nd week. It was another successful outing altogether, though my little STAR had to cope with some surprise which can be challenging to him:- One happened when the MRT came but the "Do not board sign" came off and left again, he starts to get upset. Another incident took place during snack time in Burger King. My little STAR had requested to eat burger but cannot finish in time while the teacher transit the group for the next program to take the sky train. Again he is upset that he was not allowed to eat while sitting the sky train. Luckily he only limited to crying but enough to attract attention from others.

September also marks the birth month for our little STAR and this year is a special inch stone as he turn 5 years old. It was another weekend of eating, circle time with our immediate family.

We had lunch together near my sister place, held his cake cutting at her place before proceed to Science Center. Another memorable experience for all!

We had constructed 2 sorting exercise for his independent work, he has since practising well and able to categorize them consistently among animal/transport/cutlery/ball/shape/transport, we will remove the pictures and leave the word of each category behind to make him recognize the spelling as he recall the sorting again. The month close with the celebration of Children Day, and our little STAR was delighted to receive gift of token and blessing from his teachers and enjoying playing them.

There are some emerging behavior challenge as our little STAR grows and learn, had shared with his OT and also feedback to EIP Tr for mutual learning in collaboration. Hope is all we have with some action put in place to re-direct and manage them collectively.

Winners Statement:-

"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." ~Ram Dass

E Time Sharing & Learning Updates Of My Little STAR

It has been quite a while since I last posted a blog for my little STAR, I have been quite busy lately at work but this special walk and advocate for my little STAR on his learning journey never stop for a moment, it is 24/7 with the help and support of my Mrs.

His Term 3 has just ended and was an eventful 10 weeks for him and all other childrens in school getting to appreciate Animals. They got to enjoy 2 outings for the first times in a term with visit to Singapore Zoo & Kids kampong Animal farm, offering an opportunity to promote interest to the kids on different types of animals, understand on its whole & parts, sound and action as well as learn some of the vocabulary associated with the Animal Theme. Kudos to all the EIP Teachers for doing such a great job and create positive impact to the children in this special communities


We are very happy for our Little STAR to have come this far in his learning journey and what is important he still enjoying every bit of it, he is our pride and joy. His weakest link has always been due to his lack in proper sensory integration and hence we have engaged more to elevate his learning via sensory approach to compliment his main core of learning at EIP. His weakness in Art & Craft has always been a challenge and we are determined to improve him by working with his special educator on his foundation for writing and drawing skill development to compensate this lack. Hand-eye co-ordination, line/curve tracking, visual and finger co-ordination & colouring within boundary are some integral part of this fine motor learning. We hope to see some frutiful results in Term 4.


Before end of term, our little STAR also has the previledge to take his blesing in giving thank you card to his teachers and others which I shared via email in appreciation via video msg from my little STAR, we are indeed very fortunate to have a special education team which are working and creating positive impact to Fabian & other children in continuous progress.

His ST has been doing great with more resources provided in variation to elevate his expressive language in sentence construction and working on different pictures comprehension to cover more of the 12 aspect of learning mentioned in my early post. Some of the concept development provided for such as "Bubble", "Water", "Slide", "Ice-cream", "Apple & Banana are also useful for him to understand and generalize the concept with Yes/No and also Wh & How questions after that.

On the literacy front, he has learnt new song "Little Peter Rabbit", also been work on quiet reading & story telling, with "look & listen" 2-part instruction, form sentence relate to what, colour, function,action and feeling, what he love to do & why etc..?

For numeric, using 2 parts instruction look & listen to introduce ordinal number of 1st, 2nd, 3rd to 6th, concept of more, less, fewer & many. Continue with money value 10, 20, 30 cts. Doing addition worksheet within 10, writing homework fr 1-50, problem solving using "How many altogether". Time telling in half hour interval.

He is enjoying his kindermusiz as well, learning to listen & follow, imitate action, socialize and doing co-ordination work on passing object like egg shaker with music(ie take from one hand & transfer to the other hand before pass to his peer next to him, with slow and fast passing in variation), improve his body joint co-ordination such as tip toe or walk on heel which he has greatly benefitted.


He is currently in his 3 cycles of disc 5 week 1 on the sound therapy.

My Mrs & I had attended the PCN for end of term just few hours back and found the session very enriching & fun especially the warm up team building game, inputs were shared for mutual acknowledgement and all parents naturally understand how each parents like us are feeling: some days hope is what we need, other days hope is what we have, we must continue to walk on this life long journey with love, and love without fear. Every challenges there is always a solution, it is how we think and act positively that matter.


Look forward to new Term 4 and also to make thing happen and possible for my little Star on first day of Term opening to ready next year challenge.


Winners Statement:-



Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better'' (John Updike)