Thursday, April 22, 2010

安白课业小结

表演课:
上了三次课,安白终于很放松了。上第一次课时安白又是强忍泪光,恐惧陌生环境,不过还是坚持了下来。现在安白已是很喜欢,只是不愿承认。

粘土课:
除了第一二次课,安白都是自己在做粘土,但就是需要爸爸陪在旁边壮胆。妈妈上阵和安白谈了几个回合,安白终于答应独立上课,把爸爸解脱了出来。现在安白已经不用人陪了。安白还很有创意的做了一种变色土.

变色的栏杆

武术课:
赢得一条黑线。第一次考试时要在大家面前表演,安白怯场没上台。回家后妈妈督促天天练习,第二周的武术课上,妈妈没上自己的健美操课,帮安白坐阵壮胆。还好,课后总结表演的时候,安白上台了。安白很紧张,又是摸头又是摸耳朵,花拳绣腿一番,算是撑下来了。奖励了一包Vending machine 的Fruit snack.

安白现在也开始独立上武术课了。

中文课:
考试得了A+。作业完成得也不错,一等奖。认得一些字,还算有兴趣。可以自己用拼音读简短的故事了。

游泳课:
最近爸妈都在读paper或是玩iphone。不太知道有多少进步。(今天这些字就是在iphone上码的)感觉进步不是很显著。

画画课:
还是一如既往的喜欢。闲下来最喜欢做的事除了看电视就是画画了,编他的storybook. 这个周末安白在学校画的画会在white flint mall展览,全家准备去观展助兴。妈妈趁此去退去年网购的东西。





阅读和写作:
每周妈妈drop off 安白去上表演课后,就去图书馆还书借书,兄弟俩最近看了不少书。安白最爱的The Berenstein Bears, Germantown 图书馆有的都看完了。安白开读magic tree house, A to Z series, 他很喜欢。 妈妈也给他借了些轻松的图画书,调剂一下。最近放学回家后电视看得少,常常抓起书来就读。

写作,安白有很多话要讲,很多细节,但是组织的不好。不会点标点,老是忘记句首字母大写。字迹潦草。

数学:
安白的数学进步很少,虽然学业报告回来都是Proficient in 1st grade level. 现在学看时钟,算钱(以前preschool 学过),还是稀里糊涂的。加减法还是不愿意做。就当他数学开窍晚,缓缓再说吧。

篮球:
爸爸嫌安白回家太早,于是征求安白的意见报课后体育班。安白选了篮球和Lacrosse。估计上次看到Brant 打篮球的身手,小子动心了。沒想到Lacrosse 又只有安白一个人报名就取消了。下周一开始,安白去上篮球课,算是接触一下teamsports,也是让他再次独自尝试新环境。

身体:
长高了,爱吃萝卜爱吃菜。懂得健康饮食,虽然还是想喝饮料。也爱吃美食。不爱costco的pizza,爱California pizza kitchen 的Neopolitan pizza, 爱吃炒鸡丁。

其他:
安白很关心弟弟,担心弟弟什么都不会怎么办?安白很想念最喜欢的爷爷奶奶,对外婆也比刚开始时亲近了。去韩国超市看到红薯要让妈妈买,因为外婆喜欢吃。当弟弟嚷着坐爸爸的车,安白就会乖乖来坐妈妈的车(其实安白也想坐爸爸的车),只是不想让妈妈太难过。妈妈很高兴安白有这份孝顺和同理心。

安白颇有些自知之明。会表扬班里的Allen聪明又follow the rule,写的字很整洁,算是他的榜样。还有一个聪明的Eric会做除法,但老是捣蛋被timeout。Anbo said that's not appropriate.

安白一天天长大,变得更懂事,虽然有时还是会让妈妈抓狂,狮吼。安白的自信心,对妈妈的信赖也在慢慢增加。像每个父母一样,爸爸妈妈对你很用心. 虽然爸爸妈妈有时意见不一,就算让你早点接触conflict management 吧。

安白,把你的手放在妈妈的手,让我们一齐磕磕碰碰往前走吧。

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

春假


安末和小弟
六个小子

海冰阿姨推荐的书

海冰阿姨读书很多,包括小孩教育的书。妈妈一有教育上的疑难问题就会请教海冰阿姨,海冰阿姨都会一一详细答疑。妈妈常常觉得自己很幸运,有各式的好朋友可以彼此信赖,学习,分享。

最近海冰阿姨推荐了一些小男孩适合读的书,妈妈觉得很受益,特摘选海冰阿姨的电邮如下,与大家分享。

As for chapter books, I think the best one to introduce them to is the "Magic Treehouse" series. Yo-Yo started to read them when he was in Kindergarten. It's simple, well written, fun, fantasy type but full of non-fiction facts as well (history, geography, culture, ...). The three classic books by E.B. White are very good, especially "Charlotte's Web" (Yo-Yo started to read it in Kinder too, then I took him to see the movie at the end of his Kinder year). If they like detective stories, you might want to try the "A to Z Mysteries" series. Roald Dahl's books are pretty good (most famous "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "James and the Giant Peach"). Other series that Yo-Yo likes: "Chronicles of Narnia", "Boxcar Children", "Secrets of Droon", ""Horrible Harry", "Nate the Great", "Junie B Jones", "Beast Quest", "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", "TinTin's Adventures", and a lot more. I used to read what he read, but I can't catch up with him now. And of course his favorite is "Harry Potter", but they are long and not as easy as the other series. He also likes those books that all boys seem to be attracted to, but I kind of frown upon -- Pokemon, Yu-Gi-O, Transformers, Star Wars, Captain Underpants ... They may not be too bad, but I just don't like too much violence or toilet jokes. Yo-Yo reads a lot, but most of the books he picked are fictions, mostly from the above series. I hope he can read more genres, so I often check out non-fictions, biographies, art, simplified classic novels, or poems from the library. He does read them, even Shakespeare, when he runs out of his own favorites to read. But he does not think of these books when he goes to a library.

Thursday, April 01, 2010

安白安末爱读的书

终于找到安白喜欢并自己能读的书, 趁妈妈没忘记,赶快记下来

Captain underpants, 读了两三本。

The Berenstein Bears, 读了二十本吧,准备把系列都读完。

Dr Sessus的无厘头书

安末爱读的书:

Richard Scarry's busy busy town.
Visual dictionary
西游记(走迷宫)
好奇心故事