On Saturday, Bailey and I went with Mummy to the American School. Daddy went there, too. He rode there on his motorbike.
First we bought coupons for the playing. Mummy went to a room to look at books while Daddy brought Bailey and I to look at the games there.
We decided to go rock climbing. It was quite scary but I managed to go at least halfway up the wall.Once I was swinging on the rope that they attached me on because I fell off the wall. I almost kick somebody's head. He was a tall and strong helper who was there to catch the legs of swinging kids. Suddenly he looked up and the next thing I knew he was holding my leg. He pushed me back to the wall to continue climbing.
The West Indian Locus Tree is a tree that has a fruit called the "Stinking Toe". It's very very very very very stinky, but people like to eat it because it's very very very sweet. It's flower is pollinated by a Nectar Drinking Bat. People use a liquid that ooze out of the trunk, called resin for a lot of things like violin varnish. The wood from the West Indian Locust Tree will not be attacked by fungus and termites so it can be used to make things. Sometimes when you are walking around some where with a West Indian Locust Tree you will see bats pollinating the flowers at night. You may also notice holes on the tree. These holes are made by woodpeckers.
On Wednesday, Grandad came to pick us up from home to go to Johor Bahru orphanage because one of daddy's biking friend organized a trip to Penyabong beach with a group orphans. On the car, it was a tight squeeze because daddy also came.
When we reached the orphanage, the kids were already lining up to go into the bus. We talked with the pastor before we went into the bus. He is the one who takes care of the children in the orphanage.
On the way to Penyabong, some of Daddy's friends were playing and singing some Christian songs. After a while, I slept so I didn't know much of what was happening around me.
When we reached the beach, all the kids were eager to play including me. But we all had to eat our lunch first. LOL!!!
After we finished eating, we started our fun. We took out our sand play toys and shared it with the other children. Some children dug a big pit in the sand and fill it with water. A few children helped to carry sea water using a big plastic bag we found on the beach. I helped too.We also buried our friends in the sand. I had a fun time burying one boy.
We played in the water. I played water polo with Bailey and another boy.
At first I played soccer with a few other boys. After that, almost all the children joined in. My team lost because many of the good players in my team quited half way through.
We played some interesting groupgames.We played a few types of game like master mine we played it by drawing squares on the sand. One group has a clip board with a paper of the same number of squares. They use a magnet to plant bombs in certain squares. The people from the other group will not know where the bombs are. They will try to get to the end without stepping on any bombs.
We also caught some crabs nearing the end of the day.
After that we went to bathe then walked on the sand bars.
This is the Chartres Cathedral. It is in France near Paris and is built in 1220 AD. It's a church honoring a saint. The first Chartres was burnt down. It was built another time. After that a lightning strike made another fire and the Chartres Cathedral was damaged. The church had a special tunic. People believed that the tunic was worn by Mary, Jesus' mother. Many people that worship Mary go to the Chartres Cathedral. During the second fire, some people saved the tunic. The Chartres was quickly rebuilt. The Chartres Cathedral was famous for it's flying buttresses and stained-glass windows. The picture on top is a paper model of the Chartres Cathedral I made with Bailey's help.
These are the other paper models from the same book. The book is called Mouse House. The models in the book are supposed to be houses for the computer mouse. I got this book from Aunty Minna as a Christmas present.
Narrator : Look at this Pirate. He looks like he's up to no good.
Pirate : I'm going to see who I can disturb... Hey! That silly guy there looks like an easy target. Let's get him. There he is. We can sneak on him. Let's do it now or he'll run away.
Gentleman : Hey that Pirate looks awfully disgusting. Let's get out of his way.
Narrator : Oh no! What is happening here?
Gentleman : ARRGGHHH!!! I surrender! I surrender!
Pirate : Haha Haha!!! I want to create more trouble. Who should I disturb next?
Hello everybody. I know how to write my name in Greek. Do you? The picture below is my name.
I wrote this myself!
Guess what this other one says.
It says "Read my blog"in Greek.
I know this because I have a history book that we borrowed from the library. It has a page that shows the Greek alphabet. Do you know what letters are alpha and omega? Do you know who said "I am the alpha and the omega."? They are the "a" and "z" of the Greek alphabet! And it was Jesus who said that.
Today I went to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve with my usual homeschool group, mummy and Bailey. When everybody had reached, we walked one of the trails in the park. I saw many Golden Web Spiders in the middle of their orb webs ...
... and a few Monitor Lizards basking, crawling, sleeping and swimming. I even went up close to one of the monitor lizards. I was just an inch away before I could touch it! But I couldn't go closer because it scrambled away.
We walked, talked, played games and drew. I drew one Great Egret and a Cotton Stainer Bug in my notebook.
Last night, Mummy was in the balcony and found some Guppy fry. We were very excited because we have never seen a Guppy fry before. Daddy also came to see. We saw the fry hiding under a rock. Later, we found more fry.
We separated the fry from all the other bigger fishes. You can read more about what we did that night in Bailey's Basking Bay.
We didn't know how to keep them alive so Mummy went on the Internet to check this out. This morning, I read the information she found and tried to answer some important questions. Here they are.
How to know that a female Guppy is pregnant? It's belly will be big and it will have a gravid spot on it's abdomen.
How to know that a female Guppy is going to deliver? The female will try to find a hiding place, or stay around the aquatic plants in the tank. It will rub it's head up and down on the sides of the aquarium. The female may have difficulties swimming and also will not eat much. It's Gravid spot will be darker than usual.
How often does a female Guppy give birth? It will give birth about once every month.
How many fry is delivered at one time? 8 to 25 fry may come out at one time.
How big are the fry? The fry is about 7mm when it is born.
What should you feed the fry and how often do you have to feed them? We should feed the fry crushed fish flakes or cooked egg yolk mashed with water. Feed them about 4 to 5 meals per day.
On Christmas day, we went to Gong gong's home. We had a Christmas dinner at his home. This year he gave us a remote control helicopter for Christmas!
I was so excited that I pulled the plastic-bag off the box straight away. It was not wrapped up. Inside the box there were two helicopters. One helicopter was for me and the other was for Bailey.
When I reached home, I was too excited, but I was also too tired to look at my helicopter. I went to sleep immediately after I did all my night routines. In the middle of the night I couldn't sleep because, I was very excited. In the morning I finished my chores very fast so that I could charge the helicopter but we had to pack to go out.
On Saturday afternoon, Mummy allowed me to take out the helicopter. She read some of the instructions. When we finished charging and getting all the things ready we went downstairs to play. When we were downstairs at the big field below my block. I switched my helicopter on and started to play.
After less then 5 minutes Bailey's helicopter got stuck in a tree!
We tried to get it down but the tree was too tall for even mummy to reach. Mummy went to the second level and looked down at the trees, but she couldn't see anything. We went up to try to find a long stick. Mummy went to the balcony and found a bamboo pole which was used for hanging laundry. She also looked for a binoculars and looked down at the trees from our balcony.
We went down to look some more but we still couldn't find it. And now we gave up because we couldn't think of a way to get the helicopter down and also because it was time for dinner and we were very hungry. We spent one hour or more looking for the helicopter. That's why I call this post "Bailey and His Helicopter".
When I was sleeping, Mummy and Daddy went down to look for the helicopter using a torch. Daddy was looking at the bushes and around the trees and Mummy was feeling around on the ground. Suddenly Mummy saw a little sparkling thing and picked it up and found that it was the helicopter that Bailey lost!
The next day Bailey was surprised to find his helicopter back in its box.
After breakfast we played almost the whole day. Here is a picture of me flying my helicopter.
I control the helicopter to go upwards by pushing the throttle up and move side ways by moving the joystick that controls the direction.
Here is a video of me flying my helicopter that my mother helped me upload.
Thank you Gong gong. I like the helicopter present a lot. I like the way it moves. It can move like a real helicopter but not so fast.
Last Friday, my brother, mother and I went to the fish shop to get some fishes.
We walked around the shop which was at Clementi. My mother saw a pail of water that had fishes in it. She saw Guppies in it. I liked the Guppies because it gives birth very often and it looks very beautiful.
We bought 4 Neon Tetras, 2 Black Tetras, 5 Male Guppies, 3 Female Guppies, 2 Black Mollies, 2 other fishes (that we didn't know the names and that we accidentally caught) and 4 more that were caught by mistake (they looked like ikan billis). So we have 22 fishes altogether.
A few days later, one Neon Tetra died. We thought it was because there was still too much chlorine in the water. Today when we were taking photographs to put in this post, we noticed that a female Guppy died. We were so sad. Now we are left with 19 fishes.
I'm hoping that the female Guppy that was pregnant would give birth so we will have more fishes.
One day, when I was at the zoo, I drew a gnu. Here is a picture of it.
The gnu that I drew was the fattest of all the gnus in the enclosure. It was very difficult to draw the gnu because it kept moving and turning around from side to side. It was also very difficult because it was all black so it was hard to see. But I did it in the end. I used my mummy's watercolour paint to paint it. I succeeded the first time!
Last Friday, I was at the Zoo. I went to Kidzworld then we went to see the animals. On the way out it happened to be goat feeding time. The zookeeper tied some Jackfruit leaves and branches on a stick beside the goat pen. The zookeeper said that these goats only eat Jackfruits leaves and branches.
At first I only fed the goat leaves, but later I noticed other people feeding the big branches, too. I tried to feed some branches. The goat stuck it's big pink tongue out and slurpped. When it could reach the branch, it bit the branch, but it didn't chew. It pulled the branch into the fence before it chewed and ate up the branch. Then it dropped the branch just in time to butt it's horns in the neck of another goat who was trying to snatch the branch from it. It didn't take the branch back to eat but instead, it went on a rock and didn't eat anymore!
At the end when the zookeeper came to take the branches away, one goat wanted some more, but it bleated something like "EEEnOUgh! EEEnOUgh!"
To that the zookeeper shook his head and replied,"Ya. Ya. Enough!"
One Friday morning, I woke up very early to go for a camp atSungei Buloh!
I went to the train to Bukit Gombak MRT station. My friend's mother gave us a lift to Sungei Buloh. He was also attending the camp.
When we reached Sungei Buloh, we were divided into four groups. I was in a group called Blue Wolves, my brother in one called Orange Orang Utans and my friend who brought me to the camp in a group called the Pink Panthers. The last group was called Purple Dinosaurs but none of my friends were in it. After awhile another of my friends came, he happened to be in the same group as me!
First we played a game called Hunter, Fire and Tornado. It was very fun. After awhile they gave us breakfast. I enjoyed the part of the camp nearing the end when we made a clay mudskipper. I also enjoyed making a Tailorbird's nest. Too bad, I lost both of them!
Points were awarded during games and quizzes, and also for finished worksheets and for spoting animals ourselves.
My team had the most points so I was very exited because we could win prizes. My team was really the best so we got a goody bag! Bailey's team was the second but I was surprised that the prize was the same! After that we went out side to take pictures. My team was the last to get our photographs taken because we were the best. We got four badges and a certificate. Here they are.
I really liked this camp so much that I would want to go for the same camp next year!
It was very fun. What an interesting day out with nature.
One Saturday morning, my brother, mother and I went to my friend Jabez's birthday party.
We played and had a paper airplane competition, it would be very fun if your plane is very well folded and you get a prize. One of Jabez's friend got the prize.
We went downstairs of Jabez's block and had a competitionto see whose plane could fly the furthest. Jabez's plane went the furthest but since he was the birthday boy he didn't get the prize because he already had so many presents. So the second boy got the prize.
We had lunch at Jabez's house, I ate:1 pizzas, 2 nuggets and 3 sausages, they where very nice and yummy.
I enjoyed myself a lot. I liked the food and the games. Thank you Jabez.
One afternoon, I was surprised that I was going to go out with my father on his motor bike to buy lunch. This was unsual because we normally go on our bicycles. This was my first ride on a motor bike!
We went to the car park to get his bike. He told me some rules before we wore our helmets. He sat on the bike. I sat behind him. Then my father started the engine so we could go.
It was cooling when the bike moved but hot when it stopped. At first it was a little scary. I heard the engine. It was very loud. I could smell the fumes from all the vehicles around me. I had to hug my Father's waist so that I won't fall off. After a while I felt quite brave.
When we reached the market my father bought three packs of chicken rice and a pack of fried Kwei Tiao.
Pythagoras met a builder. His name was Neferhephersekeper but people called him Nef. Pythagoras saw a lighthouse that Nef built and asked,"How did you make that lighthouse so straight?"
"I used a magic rope." he said and lifted his hand to show the rope that had twelve knots on it. But Nef didn't want to tell Pythagoras the secret to how this rope was used. Pythagoras found out that he had to put 3 knots at the bottom, 4 on the wall and 5 slanted from the wall down to the floor. That gave a right triangle.
Nef helped Pythagoras and his father carry some tiles to the shore because Nef bought the tiles from them. He said, "Let me get the money to pay you."
Pythagoras' father and Nef went to deal with the money. Pythagoras wanted to play with the tiles on the floor. He saw a triangular base made of stone. He arranged three tiles on one side of the base and two more rows of three to make a square. On the second side he did the same but with a square of four. On the third side he did the same but with a square of five.
He found out that (square of 3) + (square of 4) = (square of 5). When we square a number, we mulitply a number by itself. He found out that this works for any right triangle. If you know the length of the two shorter sides you can find out the length of the longest side. Pythagoras is very clever because many people don't know this - even his father!
It helped his friends and his father do their jobs. He helped his frends by making their ladder long enough to reach the top of the temple they are building. It helped his farther measure how long it was from their island to Crete.
I like this book very much because it is a true story.
Cora Frear was once a little girl. She was 10 years old and her dad was a doctor.
One day, Cora was coming back from Sunday school. She saw her father preparing two horses and a buggy. She knew he was going to go out to treat his patients.
She quickly ate her bread and jumped on the buggy before her dad set off. They were in the middle of a prairie when they heard a loud noise. They thought and thought until they knew what it was. A prairie fire! Cora's farther had a very good way of keeping themselves alive.
If you want to know how they survived the fire, you'll have to read the book yourself. The book's title is Cora Frear by Doris Ettlinger. This is a true story. It happened in 1887-1985. I love to read about real people and their stories.
I really like this story. I wish I owned this book. Then I'll be able to read it many times!
In the class, we were put into groups of three. I was with my brother and my friend Jabez. Each group had a robot to work with. We attached an arm to our robot. It was used for dropping balls into a hole.
On our robot was a sensor that helps it see the track that it was going to go on. There was a light at the end of this track. When our robot started to move, it went quite well.
We made three different types of robots. The first one wasn't so interesting. It had a chain in front of it. We put two balls in our robot and let it go. When it reached the end of the track, it dropped its ball and stopped because it sensed the light.
The second type of arm was a bit more interesting. It looked liked a bulldozer's shovel that was used to hold and drop a ball. It went off on the track and when it reached the end, it dropped the ball like before and stopped.
I enjoyed the robot with the third arm the most. It could shoot the balls out instead of dropping it. When our robot reached the end of the track, it shot three balls one by one and stopped.
After we finished all three robots the instructor gave us three bookmarks for finishing all three tasks. On one side of the bookmark there was a question. On the other side was the answer to the question.
We had just one last task. It was to make our robot shoot seven balls at a time by joining all three arms together. When our robot moved along the track, it reached the end and almost finished the task. But when it was time for our last ball to shoot, it shot too far that it didn't aim the goal!
After we had done all the packing up, the teacher gave us a badge as a reward although our last ball didn't aim.
I like this day so much that I'll never forget it!
I started this blog when I was 7 years old. I am homeschooled. That means my mother is my teacher.
I have a twin brother. His name is Bailey. He was borned 10 minutes after me.
I like to play K'nex. It is a set of toy that you can click sticks on joiners to make all sorts of fun things.
In this blog, I am going to tell you about things that I do.
We decided to go rock climbing. It was quite scary but I managed to go at least halfway up the wall.
Once I was swinging on the rope that they attached me on because I fell off the wall. I almost kick somebody's head. He was a tall and strong helper who was there to catch the legs of swinging kids. Suddenly he looked up and the next thing I knew he was holding my leg. He pushed me back to the wall to continue climbing.
