July 2009

Nina can read three letter words

July 25, 2009 Nina's Diary

Nina can now read three letter words using the phonic technique she learned at school. Yesterday, her mommy wrote these words for her and she read them all correctly except couple of them. She would spell the letters using their phonic sound one by one and then combine them all together to read the word. [...]

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Learning Math

July 25, 2009 Nina's Diary

Nina has started learning math at her school. She actually started couple months ago with simple math of addition. She started learning simple subtraction recently. Do you remember how you first learn math? This is how Nina does it for subtraction. She was taught at her school to take the smallest number of the two [...]

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Nina – 21/07/2009

July 22, 2009 Nina Photoblog
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Three Birds by Nina

July 20, 2009 Art by Nina

Nina said the three birds were Mommy’s bird (left), Nina’s bird (center) and Daddy’s bird (right).

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Sleeping alone … not quite

July 20, 2009 Nina's Diary

Nina: “Mommy, Nina wants to sleep alone tonight” Mommy: “OK” Nina: “But only tonight yah?” Nina: “If I want to poo poo, I will wake mommy up” She then asked her mommy to go and she  closed the door. Few minutes later she came out of her room to look for her mommy and said [...]

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Kabur and Busyet

July 20, 2009 Nina's Diary

Nina’s ability to speak in Indonesian is getting better, while at the same time, she maintains her ability to speak English with me too. Hopefully she will pick up Chinese soon. She has started learning Chinese at her school for almost a year. Yesterday, I heard her telling her mommy: Nina: “Mommy … tian qing [...]

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Peace ! :)

July 12, 2009 Nina Photoblog

Nina was playing with her clip-on earings and necklace yesterday morning and asked her mommy to tie her hair too. She wanted to be a princess … but she was still in her pyjamas though. Thus, I think she can only be the Sleeping (in pyjamas) Beauty.  :)

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