I'm a full-time mummy

Was planning to go grocery shopping and decided to turn it into a teaching and learning moment. Got our 6 years old boy a piece of paper and pen for him to write down MY grocery list hehehe...

As I said out the words, I paused and wait, making sure he knows how to spell the words and writing it correctly.

Now why this falls into the 'Teaching & Learning Moments!'?

* I get to expose and teach our kiddos to help out with some housechores.

* I get to teach our boy to practise their handwriting skills.

* Our boy gets to practise his listening skill.

* Our boy gets to practise his spelling.

* I get to instil a sense of responsibilities in our boy as I entrust the list to him to strike off the items we managed to get during our grocery shopping trip.

* I get to boost his sense of accomplishments for being mummy's little helper!

Win-win!

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Our first kiddo officially started his 3 weeks long holiday and first day of the month I was really really busy, as I need to process claims for April and May, chasing our clients for pending payment, issue invoices, issue purchase orders, assign software licenses, on top of keeping 3 kiddos busy and prepare soup and cook for tonight's dinner.

I've still got some items pending to do : change bedsheets and iron 3 weeks worth of working clothes. Gaaaaaaaa... anyway, took a few minutes off to gently guide our 6 years old boy to do the following. I printed out this piece of paper (source from Internet) which consists of 12 yellow circles with the minutes figures inside) and 2 leaves with hour and minutes printed on it and a stem to stick the leaves on.

I told our 6 years old boy to cut out the shapes according to the outline and helped him to double-side the shapes onto our Ikea wall clock. Currently in his kindy, he can tell the time by the hour and half past hour. Example, 10 o'clock or half past 5. But he can't yet tell me things like the time now is 'five forty five' or 'eight fifteen'.

Now why this falls into the 'Teaching & Learning Moments!'?

* I get to expose and teach our boy on how to tell time by the hours and minutes.

* Our boy gets to practise his paper cutting skills!

Win-win!

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Was so busy with housework and rushing some paperwork for hubby's business and at the spur of the moment, decided to get our girls to help out. I was making lunch at that time and gently instructed our 3.5 years old to help me unload the washed laundry into a basket so that I can carry out to hang and dry them on the clothesline later.

Our girl hesitated initially as she was scared of the washing machine. I told her gently that the machine is off and will not move at all, so she can just slowly pull out and drop the clothes into the basket. Easy task right? Within seconds, she gathered up her courage and began pulling the clothes out faster and faster.

Then out came our 1.5 years old girl toddling around wondering where her big sis is and she saw her unloading the clothes and decided to follow what her big sis does. So I ended up having our 2 girls helping me out in no time. Both were fighting to pull out the last few pieces of clothes, what a cute sight!

Now why this falls into the 'Teaching & Learning Moments!'?

* I get to expose and teach our girls to help out with some housechores.

* I get to teach our girls to practise their motor skills and dexterity - to pull and dropped the clothes into the basket.

* Our girls get to build up their courage over being near household machinery (within my supervision of course!)

* Our girls get to work together as a team to accomplish a task together.

* As older girl does her task quietly, she shows a good example to her younger (and very eager to follow every movements!) sibling.

* I get to boost their sense of accomplishments for being mummy's little helper!

Win-win!

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