Animal Farm

5 Nov 2009

SP's class made a trip to this place called "Animal Resort" at Seletar Farmway. It wasn't much of a resort. It was rather pathetic - one small pond with some fishes, a few cages of rabbits, some wandering geese, one big cage with 3 peacocks and a few chickens, 2 goats and 1 retired race horse (probably abandoned by its owner). Well, the trip served its purpose - my undivided dedicated attention for SP.

Update on SP's language skills: No short cut for this boy; he speaks in complete sentences, like "Kor Kor, don't cry; otherwise I go tell papa.", "Mama, look at me.", "I don't want Popo; Popo go home.", "Mama, can you carry me?", "Mama, I want the blue scissors.", "Mama, can I cut your hair?" And he is into words with 3 syllabus - 'otherwise', 'remember', 'emperor', 'butterfly', 'Monica' (the girl in Eric Carle's "Papa, Please get the Moon for me" - his fave bedtime story for the moment; he calls it 'Papa moon'). He says, "Coco lala" for Coca Cola.

He picks up songs on his own and spouts them in spurts out of the blue:

火车快飞, 火车快飞,

Fly, fly, fly, butterfly

Thomas, he's the cheeky one

He will dance spontaneously to all kinds of music and he has different dance moves for different rhythm and beat - shaking the shoulders, nodding the head, swaying his bottom, jumping, clapping.