New Year & New Start Of Another Learning Journey

The family had a good start for the year 2014 with a morning exercise, New Year lunch follow by play time with cousin at Bishan Park towards the late afternoon.

My little hero started off his new school term smoothly and was adaptable to the new school routine, we are thankful that the school bus arrives earlier than before and was very punctual almost to the dot.daily.

Within 2 weeks, he was able to recalled and tell me all his other 11 classmates in class not forgetting his form teacher and teacher assistant.  He was elated to complete 2 sticker charts thus far for cool behavior and follow teacher's instructions.  We were all so proud of him and rejoice with him in encouraging him to do better in the next opportunity.

January is also a month when his mom was borned, a simple celebration with love was organized after dinner with a cake cutting.  He took the lead to sing the birthday song for his mom and also rush to blow the candles for her after the song. I made a card for the children to pen a few words for their mom.

We had our Lunar New Year reunion dinner 2 weeks in advance, was a great occasion to dine together in a family, before we adjourned to my sister place to catch up further. It was a joy to see how he interacted with his cousin in a game of minecraft and taking turn to share experience. He is slowly opening up verbally in his expression and we need to follow through with the right sentence construction, correcting him and encouraging him to say in right context and socially appropriately.  Still there are challenges too, we can only go with the flow and over come them as each unfolds from time to time.

On the eve of Lunar New Year, we had BBQ dinner at home, where he pretended to be chef to cook for parents and sister for real.  He also went to the temple with us on the first morning of lunar New Year to offer his prayer of good health and fortune, great prosperity and happiness for himself and family.

This year we decided to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Singapore with my parents instead of travelling to my in-law home town near KL, unlike the past few years. Surely we will miss the different atmosphere at the in-law place but the change also help to maximize his awareness in this Chinese tradition through welcoming guest or visiting relatives and friends to wish them Cong Xi Fa Cai, Xin Niang Kuai Le with the simple pleasure and joy of receiving Ang Pow.  He truely enjoyed himself in each of the activities that we went through with him not forgetting the Lo Hei for Prosperity and Good Luck.

Simple moments of meeting up with his cousins and friends were some memorable time that matters to him as he begins to seek social to apply his expressive and receptive skills.

We are just thankful to have the opportunities to maximize his learning from these day to day during the Lunar Holidays

Aside from the festive moment, there are also time to do his school work and time to have fun on his own playtime.  Sometimes he will also like to kick soccer ball around and I can feel that he is developing his leg power from strength to strength with his kick when I play with him during weekend.

Always believe that this Horse Year is gonna be another awesome and energetic year of learning in progress for all of us walking with him.

While we continue to embrace more of what he is strong generally on the left brain focus, we must be prepare to teach him the goodness of right brain attributes which matter. Only then he can walk out of it slowly and surely to understand and integrate with us or society at large, more at ease and naturally.   we are into the Feb month and soon Mar will come, before we know it, Term 1 PCN, is around the corner. Look forward to more cheers while pathlighting forward.

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