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Sunday, November 30, 2008

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.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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