10 Healthy Lunchbox Ideas

1. Grated cheese, snow pea sprouts and carrot with a little mayonnaise rolled up in lavash bread.
2. Chicken breast, chopped tomato, celery and capsicum in pita or pocket bread.
3. Lean roast beef, tomato, grainy mustard and lettuce on rye.
4. Banana on raisin bread.
5. Baked beans and alfalfa sprouts on a bread roll.
6. A salad box with lettuce, potato salad, green beans, pitted olives and a hard boiled egg.
7. A cold lean lamb cutlet, cous cous, cherry tomatoes and cucumber.
8. Stir fried vegetables and pork with rice or noodles.
9. Tuna or salmon rissoles, salad and pasta.
10. Ham, chutney, lettuce and grated carrot on foccacia.

Kevin's drawings

Falling in love...

Kevin & Mum
(It's sooooo sweet. Look at this, you will smile from the bottom of your heart)

Kevin's got his first reward - Kevin的第一笔奖金

Kevin won the First Place for the Rotary Club of Holroyd Poster Competition.
As a reward, Kevin received $50 of Dymocks gift card, which is the biggest reward he has ever got.
Kevin's teacher, Mrs Neill told us there was initially no prize setting for Kindergarten students but Kevin's drawing was so lovely that finally won the first place.
We haven't even got the chance to have a look at the drawing yet. But we believe it must be a wonderful drawing just like so many others Kevin has done at home.

Kevin的画最近得了个大奖，并且拿到了50元Dymocks书店的购物卡。Kevin到底画了什么连我们都不知道，是他的班主任觉得太可爱了而拿去试试看的，想不到居然以幼儿班的学生身份拿到了一等奖。
Kevin从小喜欢画画。三岁不到的时候，我们买了个可以随时刷新的画板给他，从此他就玩画画玩得不亦乐乎。小孩的表达方式总是最简单最直接的，几笔线条往往也能把个复杂的世界活灵活现地勾勒出来。我们从来没有刻意地去改变他想画的东西，或者让他去模仿物体本身，因为那样反倒会看不到他心灵世界里的东西。
曾经碰到一个年轻却很有见地的学艺术的朋友，她在周末专门教小孩子学画。她说很多家长总是匆匆忙忙地送孩子来上课，看到画得象了就很高兴，却从来不肯花点时间听听孩子述说画里的故事。她说对孩子来说，一副简单的画其实就包括了一个很完整的故事，而孩子们最难能可贵之处就是他们的想像力，这也是学艺术的人最需要的特质之一。如果逼孩子去模仿去学素描，反而会过早地遏制了孩子想像能力的发展。
每个父母都会觉得自己的孩子是个天才，尤其在他们小的时候。但是成人的眼光却会在不经意间磨灭了那些天分或是为之戴上一个沉重的枷锁。
我也会和所有的父母一样，尽我所能让Kevin接触和学习所有美好的事物。但最重要的是，我希望这些美好的事物能带给Kevin更多美好的记忆，让更多的快乐伴随他的人生。

Secret in Kevin's bag

From time to time, I tidy up Kevin's school bag for him. But last week Kevin didn't allow me to touch his bag. He said he would let me know on Sunday.

Kevin was the first to get up on Sunday and excitedly show me the secret he had hidden in his bag - a Mother's Day card and gift.

On Tuesday, Kevin bought the gift for me by using the $2 he had planned to buy an Ice-block.

What a lovely boy! I'm so touched.

Painting Workshop

It's Easter and school holidays.

We took Kevin to the Westfield Shopping Centre Parramtta yesterday. There happened to be a Painting Workshop on level 4. Kids or even adults could choose one of the white plasters and color it by using brushes.

Rating for NSW Schools

To promote for a fair and equal learning environment, the Department of Eduation has never encouraged any ratings for schools.
But parents, of course, are still keen to find out the ranking or rating of schools. It is said most of the ratings origin from tutoring schools or colleges.

The following are the unofficial recommendations of good schools.

Some good primary schools
1. Carlingford West Public
2. Murray Farm Public (Carlingford)
3. North Rocks Public
4. Caringbah North Public

Opportunity Class Placement
The Opportunity Class Placement Test is usually taken in Year 4. Places are offered during the final term of Year 4 so that students will be prepared for the following school year.OC classes is not easy to get in. All government primary schools have been zoned to at least one school with opportunity classes if there is one within reasonable distance. Students attending government schools will be notified by their current school of the school(s) with opportunity classes relevant to their application. Non-government primary school applicants and home-schooled applicants are zoned according to their residential suburb.

Unofficial Selective School Ranking
1. James Ruse Agriculture High
2. North Sydney Girls
3. North Sydney Boys
4. Baulkham Hill High
5. Hornsby Girls High
6. Sydney Girls High

Some good Non Selective High Schools
Epping Boys High
Carlingford High
Cheltenham Girls High
Caringbah Girls High

Famous Private Schools
Pymble Girls High
Sydney Grammer
The King School
Tara Girls High
MLC High

Cindy's Birthday Party

Cindy is Kevin's classmate. She is going to be 5 on 6 April.
Cindy's parents held a birthday party for Cindy in McDonald this morning.
There were 8 kids joined the party. Kevin was one of them.
They were playing games, dancing, chasing and screaming in the playground, and eating happy meals and icecream cake.
No doubt, eveyone had a very good day today!