Children don't expect reward.

We teach them expecting it. 

Stop it!

This girl is funny.

Meet DD.

My Gene

Iris is four, will reach five in a few months. However, she talks like forty.

Scene 1
Nek Ma teased her on her weird fashion sense. Iris layered her t-shirts and wore socks in the middle of the afternoon with a temperature of 36 degree Celsius. She knew Nek Ma teased her.

Iris: Iris tak akan cakap dengan Nek Ma selama-lamanya.

Oh. My. Girl.

Scene 2
Bapak scolded her for sleep late. Bapak gave a light pat on her foot.

Iris: Bapak tahu tak, Nabi pun tak pernah buat macam ni kat anak dia. Bapak paham tak? Iris kecik lagi, baru 5 years. Bukannya 6 years old lagi.

Oh. My. Girl.

Scene 3
I kept on delaying to make her bedtime milk.

Iris: Tolong-lah buat susu Iris, Mummy. Iris ni tak pandai lagi. Fikir-lah sikit.

Oh. My. Girl


I'm surprised with her great vocabularies. It is obvious that she got all the words from the books I've read to her. But how she knows how to precisely apply them at the right time and at the right place? I guessed it's in the gene.

Well, my gene. :P

Easy Masking Tape Art

 We need these.

Randomly stick the masking tape onto the paper. 

 Then paint. This is Iris's work.

This is Iesha's.

Read aloud: The Human Body

This book shows main parts of our bodies. It covers the brain, the respiratory system, the digestion system, bones and muscles and many more. It has a 3-D close up which make the reading even more interesting. Another good buy from BookXcess.

Learning Simple Anatomy

We were still in 'Me, Myself, and I' week. We did simple activity with old photos and magazines. We cut out the face from the photos and matched it with cut out bodies from the magazines. Finally we had mixed-up faces and curvy bodies, yaww! 

Stack of old magazines and photos

Iris's work. Spot the tiny faces? That was Anya; the butterfly.

Iesha's work. Kelakar kot!

Read aloud: Cheeky Charlie!

It was a boring day for Charlie the monkey. So he went around mocking and teasing the other animals. He mocked the ostrich. He teased "slower" tortoise. He annoyed zebra by saying "Nice pyjamas" on the stripes, and measles on leopard. He even mocked his own brother, Furly-a red butt monkey. In order to get Charlie stop his cheeky act, Furly gave him a tough love; telling him the truth. Charlie was so ashamed of himself having the red butts he hid behind the bush all day long.  We enjoyed this book so much. This happens to be the girls' favorite book for now. We discussed on bad attitude of Charlie, that we should not tease others on their looks, and no teasing at all. I need to find another book by Ben: Who Flung Dung?

Arch, whorl, double loops or simple loops. Which one is yours?

Last week we learnt on fingerprints. All we need were stamp pad ink and paper and oh, fingers. First, traced the fingers. Second, stamped the fingerprints. The activity sounded easy, but the following Q&A session wasn't easy at all. I repeat, at all. I explained we have unique fingerprints. Neither of us have same prints. And then they started to ask "Kenapa fingerprints kita spiral, Mummy?", "Kenapa kat fingers kita je ada fingerprints?". Well, I assume that we have both unique fingerprints and toeprints. I still can answer and try to answer those science-based fact questions. But when it came to "Kenapa Allah buat fingerprints?", "Syaitan dan malaikat ada fingerprints tak?". Then I was clueless and tried to escape with "OK, Mummy nak basuh pinggan." 

Worries end when...

...solat begins.

The Showdown

GE 13 is around the corner. And the flags war is about to begin.

Iris: Bapak, kenapa Malaysia flag dah jadi colorful? Ada green. Ada blue. Ada light blue?

Bapak: Oh, tu bukan Malaysia flag. Tu flag parti politik. 

Iris: Parti politik?

Bapak: Ye. Macam Mummy dan Nek Ma suka green flag yang ada bulan tu. Bapak suka yang biru ada gambar dacing tu. Nanti Iris besar Iris kena suka yang gambar dacing tu ok?

Iris: Tapi Iris suka yang light blue tu.

{lol!}

Selamat mengundi semua!