Playgroup Graduation....???

I think today education is kinda rushed. Everyone is sending their children to school in an early age and therefore schools are opening in every corner. If like this, how can they get business? Promotion? Maybe one of this is like this?

Look at the smile.... what a fake smile right... ^^

Dave @ Little Lamb Holiday Class

I decided to let Dave join the school holiday class so that he won't feel bored to just stay at home during his long holiday. It's a five days class.

The first day was visited Mc. D and from this time onwards, he always requests to go to Mc. D for french fries and ice cream. I didn't have the idea that the first day was going to be the field trip. Otherwise, I might have worried for all day. ^^
Actually nothing to worry about, but then as a parent, you will always have this "worry" in life...^^

The activities during the holiday class are summarized in this paper bag... ^^



The House
Science class... I did this when I were primary 6... he's turning 3 in October... ^^

Another Fortunate of Dave...??

Yes... another surprised from Dave... Again he has the first rank at school. This has been the second year; as he had the same rank last year. Well, as I mentioned before, I won't take this as a guarantee that he is going to do well in his primary. Overall, what is important is luck and good timing. However, maybe we can use this as a motivation when he gets older and doesn't do well at school... ^^


With his present from Little Lamb


Some presents from Little Lamb



Another random pic of Dave, trying to do SPLIT...??

Dave's Last Day at PG A

Today is Dave's last day at school and he's having mild fever early in the morning. He still has to go to school as it's the exam week. He's been doing the exams for the whole week and the report is given on next Wednesday. The so called "exam", which I don't have to worry yet until he's in his primary 1. Based on his teacher's reports on each day of the tests, it seems like Dave is doing quite well in most of the fields except arts like folding or pasting.

So far, his activities at home are things related with numbers. He's very into numbers since he was a lot younger and now in his 2 years and 8 months he is able to read from 1 to 110 perfectly and do spelling of the words. Absolutely this won't be a surprised as everyone will know how to spell if they know alphabets. Other achievements from him are the ability to write 1 to 10 by himself except 5 and 8 and count properly.

Numbers written by Dave


I understand that those achievements are nothing at this age as the succeed in the later age is not determine from now.

However, he is still reluctant to mix around and he always complains that he does not want to do gym in the morning. During the gym in the morning, he just stands there. However his teacher said that when he's alone, he's able to do all the movements. He just simply does not like crowd. Again, this worries me a lot.

I would think that Dave is totally a left-brain person. This won't be good in the long run as I believe that the mixture of the left-brain and right-brain are always better than the dominance in only one part of the brain. Thus, I would love to introduce Dave to some instruments in his early age. Hopefully this will work out...

At this age, Dave always asks questions like why Mommy has to go to school and teach? Why don't mommy just stay at home and play computers? and things like that... ^^
Pretty much... lots of "why" questions.

Dave's the Owl...

I heard voices from the other side of the room... It's dark and I looked at the clock and it showed 3.30 in the morning. It's Dave voices. He's awaken. I thought he's going to sleep again later, so I just ignored him and let him played by himself. I felt asleep. When I woke up again, it's already 5.00 and he's still very conscious. I thought he's hungry, thus I made milk for him and he felt asleep for 5 minutes then he woke up again. What is wrong with my baby..?? I really have no idea. His body was a bit heat, so I thought he's having fever. I measured the temperature, it's just fine.

Then I decided to wake up and accompany him. As usual, it's school time. We leaved at about 8 o'clock and he slept all the way to the school. When he reached school, he's still very sleepy. ^^

Hand - Foot - and Mouth Disease

I were quite shocked when I picked Dave up from school last Saturday. His hands and feet were very cold, so I thought it's the air-con. Then I felt his forehead, and oh gosh... fever... The last time he had the fever were in March, so it's about 7 months ago. I hate it when he's not feeling well...

Then I gave him paracetamol and the fever is not that high anymore. However, his appetite was gone. He normally eats a lot during his lunch and can finish the whole bottles of milk (200 ml) 2 times before bed time. That night, he only drank for about 100 ml and didn't want to drink anymore. Well, I thought the fever and lost appetite were from the molar teeth growing...

On Sunday, I suddenly checked on bottom lips and it's full of ulcers. I remember a friend's once told me that it's the symptom. Then I checked the buttocks, but no ulcers there. So, I thought it's the heat from inside. He's still reluctant to drink. Later on, in the afternoon, after all the attempts to make him drinks, he's still not able to. We decided to go to the doctor. The doctor said that he's having hand - foot- and mouth disease. Poor baby...

There are symptoms of the disease that you can find further from the following website. Dave might have shown the symptoms earlier, but we just didn't notice. In Indonesia, it's called as Singaporean Influenza. The doctor said that it's in trend. In a day, there were at least 5 patients with these kinds of symptoms.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease/DS00599/DSECTION=symptoms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

Or you can just simply go to uncle Google and search for it.

Hm... another unpleasant earlier birthday gift for Dave....

Well, we are not sure where did Dave get this from. It might from the school or the wedding party on Friday that we attended. If it's from the school, again do you think early education is suggested?

Early Education

Is that true that early education will cause traumatic or stress for the children...?? A friend told me that issue, he claimed that he read it from a book. Well, I didn't find anything like that though. Then, I link this back to Dave's behavior that is still reluctant goes to school after a week. Every morning, when I am about to help him change his pj to uniform. He'll cry and say no...

I assume that he cannot take long break. Every time after the long break, he is unwilling go to school. He'll cry and try if by crying it can make him free from school... He's just doing fine on the way to school... and when we reached school, he'll cry again. At school, he's back become a good boy again.... ^^

Well, what I wonder is will that cries in the morning cause him stress that will lead to other effects...???

Btw, Dave is having his second molar now. The second molar should come out in between 23-31 months. He's just in time...

Dave's Social Life...

A person characters can be seen starts from toddlers. Today, Dave's school has early celebration for Indonesia's Independence Day (17th August). Apparently, her teacher said that he was unwilling to join for the whole activities except to have the balloons (they used balloons for part of the activities). Finally, the teacher accompanied him in the classroom with the balloon.

He just excited when the games were over and it's meal time. ^^
Thus, I kinda worried with his social life. Will he be somebody that is going to isolate himself with his own interest...?? Very hard to make friends...?? Or can just blend in the society...??

Well, it might be too early to worried about this thing... but so far... he really doesn't like to play with other kids yet... Or maybe it's just not the time yet....???

Dave Still Reluctant Goes to School...

It's surprising to find out how smart is a toddler. Dave jumped up from the seat and said no to me at the corner of Methodist Hospital (around 100 m to his school), when I were about to make a turn. Coincidentally, I turned off the tape at that time, so I thought it's the music that he wants to hear. So, I turned on the tape again, and he still said no, and started to cry...

Ah hah... I just realized that, he actually recognizes the school. He still doesn't want go to school. This is what he does, cries in the morning, and reluctant to go home in the noon. The question is, should I send him to school again?

Dave Felt Grumpy at School

Toddlers change all the time. Unable to predict their behaviors. Same as Dave. School was fun for him on Monday, but not on Tuesday. Well, the reasons was quite simple. Yesterday, after he finished his soup, he still played around with the small bowl, the teacher took away the bowl as they were so messy and dirty on the table. He cried and reluctant to stop for almost an hour. He still cried when I fetched him at school.

Today, he showed that he didn't want to go to school. He reluctantly wore the uniform. I had to persuade him for quite sometime. At school, he didn't want to enter his classroom. ^^
After some persuasion, he wants to stay at school.

It's not easy to handler toddlers right...??

Dave First Day Back to School

Dave was pretty excited to go back to school after two weeks holiday. Sometimes at home, he talked about miss, swim, etc. All are related with schools. ^^

First Day at school, quite surprising. Dave willing to say Goodbye to me and did not cry at all. It seems like he is just ready to be left alone without mommy and daddy. He even kissed and waved goodbye. ^^ He's almost 21 months old.

Well, I am kinda worried as her previous teachers are no longer there. Most of the teachers are changed. So, not sure if Dave can adapt well with the new teachers. Oh yah, he's in Playgroup A now.

Dave's Holiday

His holiday... My mess...
It's a never ending movement from him that makes me unable to stop chase him around... He's just too active.. but again it's better than passive kids...
2 weeks holiday... I have to go through this.. and his nap in the morning was about 30 minutes only.... I suggested Mr. to let him go for a holiday in another school.. but Mr. was not agree with that... Holiday class in Little Lamb was last for one week only... It was ended last Saturday...
School starts on 13th July...
Geez...

Attached are some pictures taken by Dave's teacher at school. I really appreciates them for taking those pictures...


Classmates...


Do you think Dave likes coloring?


Trying to say good with the thumb up, but he just cannot do that...


Am just good in stacking fruits... ^^


With Ms. Dewi and Ms. Fella (his teachers in Little Lamb)


Holiday Class (Field Trip to market)... He must have no idea that Anlene doesn't suit him.


Don't feel like studying...


Last Day at school....


Baywatch


Love it...

Dave's Rank ...

LOL... Sometimes I feel that it's just silly to have the ranking things at school. In another way, it's a good thing to have a ranking system in order to compare one students with another. Tell the performance of a person and change it to quantitative points. Besides that, some people just need other people to boast them up.

Long story short, it's Dave last day at school for this year school term. He's going to playgroup later in July. So, he's just in baby class and there are about 6 other students in the class. Apparently he's the youngest in the class. His marks were actually the same with one of his classmate, but the teacher decided to give him the first-rank because the teacher said that his ability to understand things are faster. The school gave him some presents for the achievement. There are lunch box, simple puzzle, and pencils.





Way to go Dave. Hopefully, he is going to maintain the performance later in his life. Thousand miles of journeys starts from a single step. Maybe this is the single step.

Are we proud? Yes, but this is still long way to go... ^^

Playing with water...

Does all kids love water? Well, my baby loves water so much. Today, the school had swimming lesson for the class. Maybe it's not a swimming lesson, it's pretty much playing with water... At the back of the school, there is a so-called swimming pool. Water filled with balls...

According to the teacher, in the beginning, Dave was scared to go in the water. Still hold tightly to the teacher. Once he entered, he and a cousin, Louis, were the last people to come out from the water. ^^

Hm... too bad.. no picture...

Grumpy Dave..

I have been doing this for a few days now... Leaving Dave at school without his knowledge. Well, he keeps crying and does not want to get down from the car. So, I have to bring him down and bring him inside. After that, I have to let him play, let him adjust himself. Then, I leave the place. The teacher said, sometimes he will cry, and sometimes he will just follow the lessons.

Some say that he's still very small to go to school. He's only 15 months. In my opinion, this is the critical phase as he is able to absorb and learn things very fast. Well, he'll just walk here and there if he stays at home. So, what to lose if I send him to school...??

Actually, he's quite a boring type. He loves to stay in playground but dislike to go inside the classroom. What a kid...
Again, sometimes I think that he's just sleepy... if he gets enough sleep... then he'll be fine...

Anyone experience the same thing..??

Dave's first day @ Little Lamb

Dave is a bit grumpy today. Not enough sleep. Couldn't sleep well at night as he kept look for his dummy. It has been two days that I took away Dave's dummy. I am trying not to feed him in the middle of the night also.

Well, as usual, he wakes up at 6 am. Normally, he will get some sleep at 8 after the breakfast. Today is the first day for him to go to school. He didn't want to change clothes, cried a lot, etc. At the end, we succeeded to change him.. and... he looks good in the uniform... ^^



He's about to sleep on the way to school. It's pretty close, about 5 minutes driving from Yoserizal. When we reached Little Lamb, he was still sleepy. So, we walked in the school and there are a few kids already. At first, Dave was still blur, then he saw the mats on the floor and started to grab the mats and walked with that. It took only a few minutes for Dave to adjust himself in the school. He's good... ^^

I stayed till 9 am, then I have to leave as I had morning class. I didn't say goodbye to him also as I scared that he will turn grumpy. Later, at about 12 pm, I went to the school to pick him up. The teacher changed his clothes as he just finished poo... :D

Pretending to sleep... He just loves this...


Walk around and holding the mats...




He's totally tired and fell asleep otw home. No lunch for him, as he's too tired to have that. After slept for about an hour, he cried. Yeah... hungry... Well, won't be able to feed him with rice, thus just drink milk.

I think he will lose weight very fast... ^^

Dave @ Little Lamb

Two more weeks to go. Goodbye year 2008 and welcome year 2009. Little Lamb had its Christmas party today. Btw, what is Little Lamb? It's a national kindergarten school. Cousins children are studying there for a couple years already. Now it's Dave's turn.

Mr. and I went for the registration this afternoon. Free registration as it's a promotion (have been told like that), thus we just paid for January school fee and the uniforms (2 pairs). School fee is Rp. 350.000 and 2 pairs of uniform cost Rp. 200.000. Today rate 1US$ = Rp. 110000. The school schedule is from Mon-Sat from 8.30 to 11.30. Saturday will be free activity.

Will it be too early for Dave to go to school? I have no idea also, but then I guess since Dave can already walk. He will turn 15 months by that time, January 8. Maybe it's a good timing for him to go to school and get to know friends. Maybe this will help his vocabulary?

Why I choose Little Lamb? First it's recommended by cousins. Second, it's just close to our place. Third, the principle is my ex. student. Such a coincidence.