My Favourite Music/Song

My number 1 favourite song is Carwash. Because the tune is beautiful. In the song it has many different people singing. I like the ending of the song.

My number 2 music is a piano solo called Sea Song. I like it because it uses minor and the tune is sad.

Number 3, I like the dance of Footloose. It's my favourite dance because it's active, happy and playful.

3 household items using energy

*oven

*computer

*microwave

Oven uses electricity. It could heat up a cake or roast chicken.

Computer uses electricity. It could update or download things.

Microwave uses electricity. Microwave can heat up foods.

I like my PSP

It has beautiful colours.
It has popular games.
It is covered by glass.
It has batteries.
It has sounds.
It has music games.
It has table games.
It has fighting games.
It has beating games.
I like my PSP.

Christmas day

One day it was Christmas. Everywhere was snowing.

Somewhere even had a snowstorm.

Everyone was playing snow except Johnny.

Every houses window was blocked with snow. Even the doors were blocked.

Johnny thought it was cold outside so he wouldn't go outside.

He saw his friends playing outside with snowballs.

Now he was ready to go outside and wore his jacket and his boots.

Now finally he got outside to join his friends in the game.

A very good home English teaching material - SRA Specific Skill Series

Because of the non-English background, it's always a problem for many migrant families to find a better way to improve their kids' English.
Even most of us have received Tertiary or even higher education, we don't feel confident enough to teach our kids English at home.

Many friends said don't worry in the end they (the kids) will master the skill and English is always their first language.

But as parents, we always demand our kids have a good begining from the start line. (Maybe that's why Asian people are regarded as very ambitious :)).

Early this year, my friend recommed SRA Specific Skill Series to me. Kevin has tried a few books and they are really good!

Altogether the Series contained 10 levels: Picture Level, Prep Level, A, B, ..., H.
The book says it's better for the child to start from the leverl which is a bit lower than his/her real level. So I let Kevin start from Level A. But A is really too easy for Kevin. We are currently working on Book C: Work whin Words.

The best part of the book is that it is composed by short articles or questions and most of them are multi-choice questions. Kevin has great interest in doing them as he's pround that he can finish them so fast and thus he establishes more confidence in doing them.

I think the purpose of this series is very similar to those TOEFL or GRE books in China. They are trying to get the students expose to as many types of questions that may appear in real exams as they can and of course the students would then get used to those questions and do better in future exams.

More reasons for the gift from Santa

Dear Santa:

My mum told me to write more reasons because I don't have the reasons in the first letter.

I'm very good at maths, art and piano so can I have the Christmas gift?

Thank you Santa.


Love from

Kevin

A letter to Santa

Dear Santa:

Can I have the Wii game called Mario Party 8 please?

I like it because it has my favourite games.

Thank you Santa.


Love from

Kevin

太鼓达人

每天LG与Kevin都要在弹琴问题上斗争一番。
这也是寥寥可数的引起家庭斗争的事端之一。
Kevin本来还算喜欢弹琴，特别是对他放任自流的阶段，他可以随心所欲地挑选自己喜欢的曲目或者干脆自己创作！而且Kevin的荷兰籍老师也是闲散派作风，对进度没有一点要求。
但当LG发现源自前苏联派的和中国派的钢琴老师都特别注重指法而采取枯燥式练习后，琴房里的气氛就越来越凝重了。
Kevin虽然长的人高马大，可毕竟还刚小，而且长了一双小肉手，摸着软软的很能引起大人们对他的宠爱，一到钢琴上就问题来了，力量不够。
可是昨天弹琴时段，气氛意外祥和，正奇怪呢，LG前来报告说，今天Kevin的手指出奇地好，而这居然归功于我！因为Kevin近来一直专注于攻克我装入PSP的太鼓达人游戏！拇指和食指的灵活度和力度就这么在鼓棒和鼓槌的切换间得到升华！
谁说玩游戏是玩物丧志呀！