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For those who wonders what is copywork? It is actually a reproduction of an original work. In our case, I got our 6 years old boy to copy out a sentence that I wrote on his exercise book. I started doing that for his Chinese language homework he got from his kindy class - to practise writing his name in Chinese and during school holidays, I continued writing single sentences in English and let him do the copywork right after he woke up, brushes his teeth and waiting for his breakfast.

According to this article:

"The purpose of copywork is to get into the child’s visual (and motor) memory the look and feel of a sentence that is corrrectly composed, and properly spelled, spaced, and punctuated."

The idea of doing bible verse copywork came from my sister in law. She shared how her kiddos are doing the same, every morning after waking up, her children will copy a verse (when they first started - now at age 10 they are writing by page everyday) from the bible. She shared the many benefits from doing this with her kiddos:

- intimacy with the Word of God

- good English learning

- careful copying

- handwriting exercise

- spelling development

So, with that in mind, I want our kiddos to follow in the footsteps too!

I googled around for templates to print out (no time to design my own for now but I hope to design myself in future, that way I can customise according to our kiddos). What I did with the free template was I wrote out the sentences to copy (1 bible verse and 1 is where the verse is from) then get our 6 years old to copy twice. First time is follow the dotted letters and the second time is to repeat without any dotted guides. In the box on upper portion, I told him to doodle or write or draw whatever on his mind that he thinks represents the bible verse. Am loving this idea as I get to learn and remember as well!

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Last year, I wrote about a look back into my home-cooked journey so far. Then shortly before the end of 2014, I wrote a post on my preparation when cooking. Then I thought, "Why not snap a picture of before start cooking and the final results after cooking?"

So, here you go..

Top part of the picture is the ingredients all ready to be cooked on10th February 2015. From top left (clockwise): 3 stalks of curry leaves, a stalk of lemongrass (chopped into inches long), chopped onions, 2 eggs with some chopped up prawns, about 15-20 prawns marinated with chili powder salt and pepper, sliced pork marinated with sweet soy sauce and salt pepper with some Worchestershire sauce.

My dinner dishes for that day? Click on the dish name to check out my recipe.

• Scrambled eggs with prawns (in Cantonese we call this 'Foo Yoong Har Tan')
  

• Pan Fried Pork Slices infused with lemongrass

• Spicy Butter Prawns
  

In case you are interested to view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

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Took a few tries to get this shot... I just dropped off our oldest kiddo at his kindy and since the weather was lovely, I took our girls to the park nearby and let them play for a while. The sun was shining and seeing their shadows cast on the ground, I decided to take advantage of the teaching and learning moment to try to teach our girls (especially our 3.5 years old Alyson since she can understand better nowadays) on the topic of shadows.

I got her attention by telling her to look on the floor and with my shadow, I showed to her how our shadow can still touch each other, giving high fives, tickles, and more. When she swings further away, her shadow grew longer while it grows nearer and bigger as she swings closer.

They enjoyed seeing their shadows and was amazed with the shadow sizes and lengths as their distance varied while on the swing. Fun!

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