Sights Words to Reading

Recently, I am pondering on how to teach my son to read. Then I met a friend whom daughter is the same age with Peter. She taught me to teach Peter to memorise sight words, although I did not tell her that I am planning to teach Peter on reading. But when I teach Peter the sight words by asking him to write one word for ten times each day and do flash cards for him to test him. I find that he can read out the sight words when reading. Reading is an important part in life as such I would like to encourage you to do whatever you can to encourage your child to read. This is because reading opens the mind. You may like to check out this useful website for sight words listing and teaching strategy. http://www.sightwords.com/sight-words/lessons/

Peter practising the sight words

My DIY flash cards

Cupcakes Decorating Demonstration By Phoon Huat

Recently, I visited Phoon Huat Pte Ltd store located at Buona Vista MRT. I think this store is Phoon Huat Pte Ltd biggest store. I thought to myself that this is a baker paradise because everything u need for baking can be found inside the store.

When I am shopping in the store, I noticed that a lady was demonstrating on how to decorate cupcakes using various materials such as gum paste and butter cream. She invited me to see the demonstration and I joined in for awhile cause I got to rush to another place. After seeing the demonstration, I learnt quite a number of skills on how to decorate cupcakes such as using toothpick to hold the decorations onto the cupcake and to mix alcohol with gold dusting to make the gold colour richer when applied to the gum paste. It was an eye opener because I never see such demonstration before and I learnt some skills. Plus it was free, that's why I thought to blog it down. Then I got interested in such demonstrations as such called up the store to check if anymore of such demonstration. Then one of the store personnel said that I have to call during office hours to their main office to check for these demonstrations.

Motivated to work hard

Last week, my husband and I brought my elder Son, Peter to shop for groceries. Once or twice a week for we will shop for our groceries as such we will buy quite a number of things per trip. During this trip, we bought pears, Milo, pumpkins, milk, luncheon meat, button mushrooms and some other things that I can't remembered.

While we were shopping halfway, Peter asked me a question that actually expecting him to ask. He asked "Wow we need to buy so many things ya?". My respond to him was yes, we needed to buy. And I took this opportunity to educate him that all these things need money to buy. Money from working hard. I told him that for now he needs to work hard by studying or any other responsibilities that were given to him.

Actually I learnt to take this trip as an opportunity through my husband. Cause he actually saw what his family was going through (the need to meet basic needs such as paying of bills) that motivated him to study hard, scoring all the As in order to find a good job and earn money for his future family. This is really a strong motivation from within and not because of outside stressors which can be easily fade away when circumstances changes. Thought it was just a simple shopping trip that night but I think it rang a bell in Peter that he needs to be responsible by working hard.

Gardenia Tour

Yesterday, I went to a Gardenia Tour at 224 Pandan Loop Singapore 128411. It was organised by a school committee about 25 people participated in. When we reached the factory, we were brought to a room. There was a presenter presenting to us on the company background, different types of Gardenia bread, how their bread were baked and transported to the shops. 

Then the presenter brought us to a bridge that allowed us to see the bread making process from a bird eye view. I believed that this was to make sure that we do not go near the bread for hygiene purpose and disruption of their work process. 

After seeing the bread making process, we were served with refreshments made out of different types of bread with fillings like tuna, cheese and butter. They were all so delicious and we were also encouraged to packet back the leftover as they had prepared a generous amount of refreshments for us. They also gave us mineral water to drink. 

While having our refreshments, the presenter gave each of us a goodies bag that contained two different flavours of cream rolls. My son likes their cream roll very much. It was about time to go home and before we boarded the bus, we were given an opportunity to buy their breads at wholesaler price. We bought a California Raisin Loaf and Super Fine and Soft Wholemeal Bread.

Through this tour, I am able to know that Gardenia produces lots of different type of bread. This encouraged me to try out more varieties of their bread. I could understand how their bread being baked. This tour all in all was a meaningful, fun and knowledgable one.