LOVE is Patience LOVE is Kind.

Not long after I posted my last blog in Mar, the inevitable happen, we received the news on the passing of our founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew.  Though he may not express the sense of grief like neuro typicals do but he soon came to know about him through school and media report during the week of nation mourning.

Get him to extend his respect during the Youtube live broadcast from home instead, to be grateful and resilience in living and improving life.

He had his school sport day on 1 April, I attended with his grandma, though the weather was burning hot but glad that he enjoyed his team relay race while I took part in the parent-teacher race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvmppq_yLFA&feature=youtu.be

He had his first visit to the bird park in April, also take opportunity to expose him to science on Diversity:- Animal/Birds.

Mother's Day was another annual occasion to thank and honour mothers within our family, we had a family dinner and house visit to my sister place nearby the eating house.

Random moment of his ME time at home, a bliss to watch when he loves what he does.

Term 2 learning had seen many challenges unfold more on social and work habits for academic results as demands went up, a good problems and an opportunity for parents and teachers to intensify collaboration in problem solve them together for the children progress going forward. It is a cause for concern, as it is affecting how much he can learn, and we know that he is capable of much more! With good detective work from the form teacher, he is now able to have better control with praise and rewards system for good behavior. Teacher had committed to continue to use and monitor it moving forward to Term 3, Fabian & classmates now look forward to doing things right and some behaviors have also been mitigated too in continuous learning and improvement.

It is always calibration in progress as we journey on to learn and relearn with him.

His in-class work is usually not rushed and he is able to get the correct answers when he reads and gives careful thought to his answers. However, during the exam, he tends to rush through to finish his paper, and does not follow the work habits that is taught in class and displayed by his in-class work (e.g. reading and underlining keywords in the question). Checking his work is still an issue for him – he currently checks for completion (especially quickly during exam time), but is unable to check for the accuracy of his answers. I have learnt to let go to elevate his work habits and step up his mindfulness for answer accuracy with more practice to do work independently. To rebuild his test paper taking stamina, we start off with doing a few questions like 3-5 at a time where he is more successful, then later combine few question into few pages with short break in between. By doing so, we can see he is more successful in achieving his target for the right answers. His writing skill still has room for improvement, to be tidy and consistent.

During the June holidays, we had registered him for 3 school programs namely Trikke exercise, Stomping and percussion and lastly Street Dance. He enjoyed attending to them all and happy to return back to his school. To coincide with 28th Sea Games held in Singapore, we wore red to show we are RED to lend our support to the Team Singapore !

Another break through achieved in June holiday was to catch a movie at cinema for the first time with the family, a state of flow we have been looking forward for a long time.  With this success, we can then embark on other shows be it cinema or live show like Hi-5, Barney etc...

Some random blissfulness...........

Home economic:- He enjoys the Hey Chef , and will some times request to help up in cooking, we start off with simple dry noodle or fried noodle to go with his flow or interest.

Food review: Japanese food and chicken rice are his favourite on top of Western or Italian sphagetti 

Brought him to IKEA to explore science topic on material

Lately, he is close to Barney and friends waching it on youtube, I also brought him to watch the live show in City Square Mall and was also amazed at how his interest can elevate his interest in drawing which he normally hates.

More drawing...

Got this sharing when I attend his sister school parent communication night, truely we must not over protect our kid and even assure them of the support. At time, we have to learn to let them fall a bit and learn to help themselves. 

But this is also a dilemma for parent with SN kid, who we have been told with the right support and training, we can celebrate their abilities.  Whether the kid is SN or not is so crucial, because by accepting and acknowledging their traits, we can then apply the appropriate support and expend our worth while effort to grow and improve them.

He is excited to return school for Term 3, when I asked him who do you miss, he just say he misses all of his friend in his class.   Whether in actual school and space context, does he really means what he says remain to be validate, count on his teachers then in good faith.  Walk on son and ... !

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