In labour ...

 andddddddd

 ...

exhausted ...

 

 Allah SWT gives strength ...

...

Labour Day is for children and students ...

for adults it is a Laborious Day indeed ...

keep sabar my dear heart ...

Allah SWT gives strength :)

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 ummmmph sweet ... a size 5 shoes for a pair of tired feet ...

Image Source: Here

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Every First of May I remember the joy of walking ... all the girls and Miss Hair and a few other teachers ... 

from St George's Girls School (where we were temporarily boarded) at McAlister Road ...

 through Scotland Road and Youth Park ...

 to Penang Botanical Garden ...

 

Image Source: Here

 

this trip was etched in my memory because of Miss Hair ... our Biology Teacher from Ireland ...

Thank you Miss Hair wherever you are ... :)

Teachable moments ...

Children Playing in Rain (Photograph by Jashim Salam, 2010) 

 Image Source: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/children-play-rain-bangladesh/

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i like this ...  

teachable moments ...

in real life ... for all ages ...

... but listed below are teachable moments for the early years ... 

for more, please check out the website at the end of the text ...

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In the kitchen:

• Show how you separate fruits and vegetables, talk about it, and let your child help.
• Take out the pots and pans and a wooden spoon and let them hear the different sounds of percussion instruments.
• Let your child help prepare a meal; they can do simple tasks such as take things out of the cabinets or pour stuff into a bowl. And when they help cook, they’ll probably eat the food.
• Alphabet magnets on your refrigerator can be used for to talk about things that start with a particular letter; for example, foods that start with the letter “G.”
• The kitchen sink offers an opportunity to talk about how you clean the dishes, talk about drying the dishes, soap, and differences in water temperature.
• Let your child put spoons in the drawer when cleaning the dishes.

Shopping:

• Talk about what you are looking for and have your child participate in looking with you.
• Look for shapes, colors, types of objects, and specific foods.
• Have your child hand money to the cashier; they’ll begin to understand money and they’ll love paying for things.

In the car:

• Look for shapes, colors, types of objects, and signs out the window.
• Play “I spy,” where one person sees something and people have to guess what it is by asking “yes or no” questions; e.g. Is it alive? Is it blue?
• Sing songs and nursery rhymes.
• Talk about your day.
• Play the alphabet game where everyone in the car calls out letters of the alphabet in order as they see them on signs and license plates.
• Discuss what a red light, yellow light and green light mean.
• Talk about safety and using your seat belt.
• When you put money in the meter, stop at the stop sign and obey traffic rules, talk about and let them be part of it so they learn about good citizenship.

At meals:

• Talk about the day’s events.
• Share stories.
• Teach manners: saying please and thank you, wiping their mouth, chewing with their mouth closed.
• Explore new textures, colors and tastes. Talk about the food and how it feels, looks and tastes.

Doing laundry:

• Have your child help you sort colors, sort like items, match socks.
• Play with the basket in the laundry room for younger ones – hide and seek or take a ride.

At bedtime:

• Read books together. This is really important!
• Share stories about your day or make up stories together.
• Brush your teeth with your child so they learn good habits.
• ... add our own bedtime routine ...

Text Source: http://www.eyi.org/help-kids-learn/parents/104.html

 

Immersion ...

AlhamduLILLAH,

Syukur dan bestnya bila belajar off campus ni ...
... duduk dalam bilik ...
... clear katil of all the sleeping paraphernalia ...
... put books needed today ... papers-from journals - not newspapers (tak jadi kojo kaghang) ...
... big tupperware (why do i need to promote the brand ...) plastic container of stationery ...
... mug of coffee Datuk Fazilah Kamsah (yang ni promote tak apa ...) letak atas pinggan ... not saucer ... terbalik kaghang habis cadar  ...
... biskut kering - plain crackers with kajoor(walsall)-kurma (brunei/birmingham)-dates(dimondale) ...

Breakfast --- sebelah kiri - tiga/empat rumah away ... kadang-kadang je yang ni ... breakfast dlm rumah
Lunch ... down kat baghuh ... across the road, on the left ... *lauk lady
Afternoon tea ... in front ... right across the road ... *soya lady ...
Dinner ... down kat baghuh, across the road, on the right ... *kelantan lady ...

... AlhamduLILLAH syukur ... syukur ... macam duduk asramalah juga makan pergi kafeteria ...

*sume husband bagi label ni ... senang nak refer ...

 Tu sebab ... tak pandai pandai masak ... :)

... Salam all, salam DLL i'm imagining that you are immersed in the big book ... all the best ... all the best ... :)May ALLAH SWT ease ... ameen ...

... remembering fall in michigan ... and SK in dimondale ...

... ok back to work ...