Category: Kids/Children

Kids/Children

Surviving Pri 1 registration phase 2c balloting

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Thank God Em got into P Pri school through phase 2c balloting. 120 registrants for 81 seats. God is faithful. God showed Mr Eio 1.5years ago that Em will get into P. We bought our current place 2.5 years back without thinking which sch to enroll em. We just want a place nearer mrt. 1.5 years ago, when we are praying about which sch to enroll em, around the same time Mr Eio dropped his hp after we all get off the taxi. (We don’t have a car then). An old lady found his hp but dunno how to answer his sumsung hp. (See pic for the number of missed calls!) 

Cut long story short, they manage to arrange to meet somewhere. Aft retrieving Mr Eio’s hp, he took a taxi home but somehow the driver make a detour & pass by our new place & a road sign that show P Pri School. Mr Eio even took a photo in the cab & showed me.  

(See picture taken in Jan 2014) I asked him if I should sign up as a parent volunteer since God showed him P Pri sch. As a teacher, It’s more likely for me to get through the interview for pv. Mr Eio told me trust God & not to spend my time this way. 
The reality came this year when we wanna register El to sch & didn’t get into the Pcf nearest to our new place due to dragon year babies even though we registered her last year. The center told us to try again next year 2016 & they also somehow lost our form. It’s divine when the center call us in April this year that there’s a place for El when we planned to shift to our new place in May. So timely! And the best thing is that El’s pcf is just next to P Pri school. 
Last night, Mr Eio told me there’s no need to go P Pri sch to witness the balloting. Just call the sch at 11am to confirm that em is in the sch. I said if we all sleep beyond 8am, (which is usually the case for the kids to wake up around 8.30am) then I’ll not go. But this morning somehow em woke up at 7am!! So, off we go to P Pri school after having breakfast at a coffeeshop. Frankly, when I stepped into the sch hall, the atmosphere is very very tense. There’s many parents & some brought their kids. I thought ops!!, I should not have brought em here. Can see some parents rubbing their hands & grabbing their hand bags tightly etc. 

  
Em sensed the stress & he prayed to Jesus to help him. Thank God we didn’t have to wait too long & can exit from the hall in less than half an hour after seeing that his number is drawn. 

     

 This wait is not so easy though I tend to forget about this enrollment issue most of the time in my busyness & as I try to entrust it to God, plus there’s nothing I can do. I’m not suppose to be a parent volunteer as instructed by Mr Eio. We have to miss the phase 2A1 registration early this July at Mr Eio’s alma mater. The intensity heightens when friends & neighbors with kids registering for Pri 1 starts panicking & asking me questions etc. (while my hubby is totally cool about it.) At times I wonder should I just register Em elsewhere as we heard there’s some discipline issues in P Pri sch & all students have to study HCL which means more work & stress for em & me right? I was sharing that if em don’t get into P Pri school, I’ll just try to enroll him in any other primary school near my place. (Well.. That will be for the next 9 years as El will enter em’s sch) Thank God em got into a sch nearest our home. P1 reg would be easier for El (the dragon baby) in 3 years time. His revelation to us come to pass. I know this is a beginning for all of us, especially for Em. I’m not sure what is in store but I know in all situation God is with us! God knows how this mommy lacks faith & hence told us 3x that her 1st born shall be named Em- God is with us! All glory be unto God!!!

Education, Kids/Children

Sharing book care pointers at Em’s school

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Mrs Eio was asked by Em’s school Vp to share about book care & act as a librarian to issue out the library books to Em & his classmates. Hmm… Come to think about it… Em’s vp has great confidence in Mrs Eio that she can engaged the K2 kids? Heehee… Will the K2 kids be running around in the classroom when she’s sharing?? Lol. 

 
Mrs Eio intended to share 7 pointers on book care with the children. These are the materials that she prepared. 

1) a board (recycled materials. Heehee) with the 7 book care pointers (save the time for mrs Eio instead of writing on the spot)

2) half done book marks (the children are to decorate it during the session) 

3) A label for herself (librarian)

4) treats (halal chocolates) 

5) stickers & coloring materials for the children to decorate their book-marks. The session will be conducted at their tea-break area, mrs Eio’s not sure of colouring materials will be readily available. 

    

 

After greeting the students, Mrs Eio explained on why she’s here today. Em’s very excited. 

   
Mrs Eio set 2 ground rules before starting the “lesson”. 1) Everyone must listen attentively to their friends when they are answering questions. 2) Mrs Eio has prepared little rewards (chocolate snack) for children who can answer questions correctly. Children who have gotten the chocolate snack must give the chance of answering questions to their friends. 

 
Mrs Eio asked the students some introductory questions before sharing the 7 book care pointers with them. Mrs Eio brought with her one of Emmanuel’s book & his book mark made during his CL lesson to show his classmates. 

   
 
Q&A time! The kids were very enthusiastic in answering questions. Everyone has a chance & all of them have gotten their “reward” including Emmanuel. Mrs Eio tried to reinforce their good behavior by reminding them of the “virtue flower” practice from their form teacher. 

  

Some of the children said their classmate doesn’t understand English & another classmate can’t talk. Em did highlight this to Mrs Eio back at home. During Q&A session, Mrs Eio silented the class & encouraged these 2 little boys to speak up. We are all pleasantly surprised that they can understand her sharing. One of them answered the question softly but gave the correct answer. Another boy needed promptly & a little more help but he did well at the end of the day. 

   

Activity time. The children are very excited to decorate their book marks. 
 

Time to borrow books…

   
 
 

As a librarian, Mrs Eio issued out the books to the children. At the end of this “lesson”, she reminded them of the due date & thank the children for a wonderful time together. Thanks to Mrs Eio “PA” (her sister for joining her & taking photos.) 

   

Before leaving, Mrs Eio was approached by the Vp & em’s Teacher again to be involved in the school’s SG50 lesson next week…
Err… She really need to check her schedule as she’s running late in fetching El… We shall see.  😊

◄ Matthew 19:14 ►

New International Version

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Kids/Children

Em’s Primary School experience. 

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Today’s Em’s experiential learning trip to Chong Zheng Primary School. This is his second visit to a primary school to find out more about what’s waiting for him next year. 

 Mrs Eio went with Em again, but this time round El tagged along too. 

   
 Mrs Eio is very impressed with the student leaders in Chong Zheng. Once the parents & K2 kids were settled in the foyer, the student leaders handed out bottled water & their school newsletter (though dated 2014) to her.  
Mrs Eio is glad that she’s able to join Em for his “canteen experience”. 

  
This time round, the buddy-k2 student ratio is not 1:1 but 1: 3 so the K2 kids seems abit lost. Mrs Eio is trying not to interfere amidst the chaos. Lol. 

 
Aiyah… The buddy led Em & his friends to the snack stall. Yes this stall has the shortest queue but eating tidbits (aka junk food) is really not what Mrs Eio wants Em to have for his morning break time. Control!!! Control!!! Don’t interfere…   

Got Em a cheapo wallet online. Will “upgrade” next year Jan so that it’s easier for him to get his coins. 

 
Em gotten himself “pillow snacks”. Oh gosh… 
  

Mrs Eio & El’s hungry so let them “show off” to Em their food. French fries & spaghetti!! Em saw & salivated. Lol. 

Mrs Eio thinks the food is rather expensive. The French fries is S$1. The spaghetti excluding the side orders are $1. Initially, Mr & Mrs Eio thought of giving Em 50cents per day for recess & prepare sandwiches etc for him to bring to school. Err… Might review this amount. 

  

Em requested to his buddy to let him go for a second round of buying more food since the queue is shorter now. Good move! Not sure what he’s getting…

  
When Mrs Eio turned around after taking the shot above,  she realized El is still happily eating her spegetti. Self service…

 
Someone’s back from hunting…   

Oh gosh… Em’s gotten french fries. Well… This is better than “Pillows”. Nevermind…

 
Wondering whose having canteen experience. Em or El. She’s still happily eating my spaghetti. 

  
The students gathered at the foyer & the HODs led the parents for school tour.
The student leaders did presentations about the exhibits at the Solar Haven. Mrs Eio is impressed!  

 
Em totally excited with their science experiment set ups.    

    
Frankly, this is not the first time Mrs Eio’s here in Chong Zheng. She was here many years back to set up a booth & exhibits with her colleagues & students during the East Zone Recycling Day. She probably just got married then.  

  

Chong Zheng’s P shared about the 21st century competencies. Oh mine… This is what Mrs Eio’s school has been involved in piloting before she left for No pay leave. This framework is imprinted in her mind… Nice lady, a teacher at heart. Mrs Eio has gained some tips from her sharing. 

  
Well… Chong Zheng has shown great hospitality by sending their HODs to bring the parents for school tour & their P6 prefects/ student leaders to be the presenters. No doubt this might not be the first time these prefects are presenting about their Solar Haven but this shows how much the school leaders pay keen interest in things that they are engaged in. 
Even if this is to “wayang” to the public, Mrs Eio thinks that it’s still very well done. Anyway, she don’t think Chong Zheng needs to “wayang” to attract more students as their phase 2C for Primary 1 Registration is always oversubscribed & required registrants to go through balloting process. 

Err… But the Eios are staying more than 1km from this school. So… Not possible at all. 

Kids/Children

Updates on Eio plants

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Btw, just to update on Eio kids’ plants since we are at the balcony. We have a new addition to our Eio plants family (drum roll!!!!!!!!!) – Aleo Vera!   

Getting em to spot the differences in their leaves & identify the smell for basil & lemon balm. 
   
   

 Our onions are finally growing to become spring onions. The basil, Chilli Padi & lemon balm are all doing well. 

   
 The labels for the plants are done up using the left over materials from making thanksgiving tree & rock of salvation. So the shapes are kind of odd. Em wrote the EL names for the plants. 

   
 We used the basil leaves that we grow to marinate minced beef overnight. Added fish sauce & other seasoning. The next day, thawed the beef & stir fry with long beans. Taste good. 😊

Education, Kids/Children

Em & Science (Solid-liquid-gas)

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Em loves this Encyclopedia. It’s one of the books that Mrs Eio thinks it’s a good buy. She bought it at a discounted price in Popular bookstore when El is not even born yet. 

  
Em’s been asking my sister to read this book for him & he’s been asking her thousand & one questions. He’s currently interested in the  states of water. So Mrs Eio takes the opportunity to show him a simple experiment on how water change from Solid to liquid & gas. 

  
Mrs Eio has been collecting egg containers recently. She’s still unsure what to do with them. For painting… Art…  Well… She can use one for this experient now so that she don’t have to wet the floor. 

  
3 ice cubes. Waiting for them to melt & by tomorrow disappears from the containers. Using post-it to get em to participate. 

  
Mrs Eio thought if she should set up a control experiment. But she just wanna do a simple experiment without much hassle. As long as she achieves her objectives & em understands, who cares… Haha! 

Education, Kids/Children

Putting on His Armour! 

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THE DAY has come! We did the implementation of “lesson plan” last night. The kids were all excited to start decorating their armour. At the end of the day, Mrs Eio hope the kids can have fun & be able to identify at least one item of the armour. In addition, the kids can decorate their armour, put on the full armour & take a photo. The photo is to help them to recap this topic with their parents back at home. 

   
There’s altogether 7 children in our midst last night but Mrs Eio will try to post photos of Eio Kids as it won’t be nice to post the other children’s photo without their parents’ consent. As the children join the activities at different timing, Mrs Eio amended the flow of activities. Some of the children started to work on the helmet, Breast plate & shield while waiting for the rest to join in. After doing 3 pieces of the armour & everyone has arrived, Mr Eio took over to teach the children, the different parts of the armour & the significance of them. After the children worshipped with 2 songs, Mrs Eio did a recap of the items that they had done during the 1st half of the session.

   
Part 2 started with the children decorating & labeling their belt & shoes. By then, the children were so excited that they already started putting on their belts, followed by breastplates. Mrs Eio is so thankful that there’s helpers around to assist the children to put on their armour. 

Mrs Eio & the other helpers gave out the helmet, Shield & breastplate after the child was ready. Assessment of learning: The children were only able to receive their sword & take a photo in their full armour after identifying on of the items in the armour verbally. 

  

    

Challenges😓

There’s a few challenges while executing the activites last night.

1) the children are of different age group. (2-8 years old) . Hence, only children above 4 years old are able to identify the items in the armour. Nevertheless, the children are very cooperative. 

2) some children join in the activities at different timing. Mrs Eio are thankful to the capable helpers who help them catch up & also lending a hand to the younger children. 


Things preempted 👍

There’s a couple of things Mrs Eio thinks she did correctly

1) the armour consisted of 6 items. The items were collected from the children after their have completed their task & redistributed to them at a later stage. 

2) the children were extremely excited to receive the sword. Mrs Eio is concerned that they will be distracted or worst still is to start hitting each other after getting it. So the sword was given at the end of the session & given as a reward for identifying one part of the armour (for 4 years old & above). 

After all the children had taken a photo of themselves in His full armour, Mrs Eio led them to close in Prayer before the children could have their refreshments. 

Mrs Eio thinks there’s always room for improvement. She’s now toying with another idea but not sure if Mr Eio will approve her proposal. Lol. 

“Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6:13-17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Education, Kids/Children

Preparations to put on His Armour!

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Mrs Eio wanted to try this out since a long time ago. Hopefully, all the kids can turn up & they will enjoy learning about His Armor tomorrow.   
Mrs Eio included the use of some recycled materials. Eg. Using 2012 Tampines town council calendar as backing & holder for our shield.

  
 
A sense of nostalgia… Feels like Ms Chin waiting to execute / conduct the lesson after writing lesson plan & preparing worksheets/ materials for her students.    

  Are you able to guess what are all these for? 

 
Well… Travel back to the present. Mrs Eio is excited. This time round the class size is smaller, the kids’ age group is much much younger & the venue is at home. 

Sandals making in progress!    
Getting El to try out…

    
   
Of course, Mrs Eio’s target audience includes the Eio kids. Getting all the children to decorate & label their armour. Hope everything turns out well tomorrow. 😊  
“Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6:13-17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Education, Family, Kids/Children

Alive Museum

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 Mrs Eio bought some discounted tickets to Alive Museum weeks ago so the Eios better visit this place before the tickets expired.      

Interesting place to go with older children to teach them about illusion & 3D/ 4D art. 

  
    
This is El’s favourite “station”. She loves to be a mermaid. 😄

  

  
 
Eio kids got the idea & are able to pose accordingly. 

  
Mr Eio is having fun too! 

    
 

Something “dramatic” from Mrs Eio. Lol!

  

Em enjoyed the process. After taking 2-3 pictures, he is able to know where he should stand & what he should do to achieve certain effect. 

    
  

There’s an arrow to indicate where one should stand to take photos & pictures to show how should one pose during photo taking. 

  
    
    
    
    
    
    
 

El is too young to understand. In fact she knocked her head & tripped on a stairway as she thought she can continue to climb up the stairs when there’s a mirror reflection in front of her. Lol.   

After that, she became more wary of the surrounding. Well… She learnt. 😊 The museum is not crowded when we visit. So we are able to try out all the “stations” & truly enjoy ourselves & have fun. 

  

http://alivemuseum.sg

Address: Suntec City Mall #03-372 (between Towers 3 & 4) • 

  
Parking information for Suntec during NDP & Rehearsal Period. 

There’s also free access to the Fountain of Wealth at allocated time slot.    

    Eios have fun!


The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.” (‭Luke‬ ‭24‬:‭5-7‬ NLT)

Education, Kids/Children

Giving Thanks & HIS names

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Since our Thanksgiving tree & Rock of Salvation are up on the wall, it’s time Eio kids can make good use of them! (For our project, please refer to previous post on the Tree & Rock)    

   
El didn’t get to display her “drawing” on the rock, so Mrs Eio encouraged her to write words on the Rock using an Alphabet template. This is better than holding El’s hands to write as she can write more independently & Mrs Eio can take this opportunity to teach her to recognize some alphabets. 

  
This blue template is older than Eio Kids as it belongs to Mrs Eio. She used it during her Primary school days.  

   
   
 Good stuff (好料！）given out by Senior Pastor during last Sunday Church Service. Mrs Eio told Mr Eio that these are useful materials for Eio Kids so they have kept it beyond their reach for the past few days. 

  
Mrs Eio & Eio kids started of by singing “I will enter His gates with Thanksgiving in my heart.” She then cut out the “Give thanks for the bread & cup portion”. Em read out loud what’s on the paper, Mrs Eio did some explanation & Eio Kids paste them on the tree. Further re-enforcement of learning & explanation will definitely be necessary as Eio kids might not have comprehended everything in totality. Nevertheless, it’s a good start. 😊

Moving on, Mrs Eio & Eio Kids sing “Rock of Ages! ” https://youtu.be/aJXSk8jvotI
   
 Mrs Eio cut out the “Redemptive Names of God” & “Truth of our Position in Christ” into smaller pieces according to the pointers. Breaking up these topics will make it more palatable & digestible for Eio kids. The learning of these 2 topics & the 2 songs above will probably continue for the next 2-3 weeks.

  
Today, Eio kids learn on 2 “Names of God”. They get read out one name each & paste them on the Rock. Mrs Eio have to explain the meaning to them. Otherwise, the reading makes no sense to these kiddos at all. Of course, their true understanding comes from the One that HE sends. 

   
 
◄ John 14:26 ► (New International Version)

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.