Crafts: August 2012

This project was a school assignment that had to be handed in for Ian's Show-and-Tell session in October.  The theme was sculptures of places of interest in Singapore.  Hence, we decided to make the Singapore Flyer, the Esplanade, and Hubby used the leftover plasticine that we bought specially for this project to make a sculpture of the Marina Bay Sands.  For the landscape, we used up 2 cans of expired playdohs (too sticky to be used).  I mixed the blue and yellow to make the green land, and blue for the river.

Ian helped with rolling up the paper strips to make the capsules, and attached them to the flyer with the sticky dots from my scrapbooking stash.

To finish up the project, I made Ian write out the names (with my help, of course) of the sculptures and labelled them.

Little Graffiti Artist

I gave her a bath crayon, and there she went, doodling on the glass table top...

Activity Book Completed In August 2012

Recently, our progress in doing worksheets had been slow.  Ian always appeared tired after school and after finishing the homework from phonics class and music class, we were left with lesser time for home-prepared worksheets.

This was a book that we had just completed today, which took about a month or so for Ian to complete.  He loved doing the exercises in it, as it included stickers and interesting cartoons.  It taught the basic concept of addition.  

Even after completing the book, Ian's concept of addition was still weak.  I had to help him visualize by drawing bars on top of the numbers so that he could count them.

The Famous Chicken Rice

Thanks to a deal site, I purchased a $40 voucher to dine at Chatterbox, with only $12.  We finally had an excuse to try out the famous chicken rice.

The presentation was excellent, but we had to wait a bit for the food to be served.  The chili sauce was a little on the bitter side instead of the usual sourish types that we could find in coffeeshops and hawkers.

Verdict: Hubby and I both agreed that we still preferred the hawker-styled chicken rice.  But it was a good experience to dine there.

We ordered 2 plates of chicken rice, and the total bill after deducting the $40 credit and adding GST and service charge, turned out to be $23+.

Endless Joy

Thank you to Hubby for these!

A pair of running sneakers for Ian from Pediped, 2 pairs of Stride Rite (step 2 and step 3) for Isabelle, and a pair of Crocs for myself.  A good thing about the Pediped Flex series is that they come with extra insoles that will make the shoes about a size or half smaller, so that they will last longer before the child outgrows the shoes.

I let Isabelle try on the SRT Slow Motion pair immediately upon arrival. They were still a little big, but she could walk around on them and she seemed to be attracted to the shimmery bling on the shoes.

All for USD$137.29, shipped from USA to SG within just 4 days!