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I'm in an on-going process to make more and more flash cards for our kiddos. My current goal in educating our kiddos is to instill their love for reading, do loads of flash cards and worksheets on spelling and writing and hopefully more practice and worksheets on Mathematics stuff later on.

I got some templates of animals and its young from the Twinkl website (loads of free stuff there!) and did some minor customizations based on our kiddos interests and my gauge on their understanding level at the moment. Printed out some pictures, laminate them and use a card ring to hold these cards together for ease of use.

What I did with our kiddos using these flash cards were based on each kiddos' age, level of understanding and learning style.

With our 6 years old boy, I get him to read out the name of the animals and test him on the animals and its youngs - body parts, habitats, how they move etc.

With our 3.5 years old girl, I just flip through the animals one by one while I say out the animal and its youngs' names, their color and name of their body parts and ensure our girl pronounced it correctly.

With our 1.5 years old girl, I did the similar to what I did for our older girl, just that I focused on the adult animals at the moment.

From time to time, I also look for videos on YouTube that shows how the actual animals and its youngs look like and behave in their natural environment. I checked with our kiddos as we watched the video, what are the colors of the animals, how they move, what they eat, identifying their body parts and so on.

Will share more in near future if possible ;)

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Few weeks ago, I bought a book on "Bugs: A Pop-up Journey into the World of Insects, Spiders and Creepy-crawlies" and our 2 older kiddos seem very interested with this book. Maybe because there are pop-ups insects and creepy-crawlies in the book hehehe...

Anyway, the reason for my post today is to share with you guys something we learned from this book - Bombardier Beetle

Sometimes, after reading to our kiddos from the book, I like to show them YouTube videos on how the subject looks like in real-life, how it moves, what sound it makes etc. So naturally, after explaining to our kiddos what is a Bombardier Beetle, I searched for a nice educational video of it on YouTube. You can watch the video here. Our kiddos watched it few times, very intrigued with the beetle and I explained to them again and again, how the beetle protect and defends itself from its enemies.

Btw, if you are interested to get this book, you can get it with free worldwide shipping from The Book Depository or from Amazon website.

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Last year, I wrote about a look back into my home-cooked journey so far. Then shortly before the end of 2014, I wrote a post on my preparation when cooking. Then I thought, "Why not snap a picture of before start cooking and the final results after cooking?"

So, here you go..

Left part of the picture is the ingredients all ready to be cooked on 31st March 2015. From top left (clockwise): Choy Sum (washed, rinsed, chopped into inch long), a cup of sliced garlic (about 7-8 cloves), a bowl of sweet soy sauce + water + sugar, 2 eggs, a can of red beans, Asian sea bass (siakap).

My dinner dishes for that day? Click on the dish name to check out my recipe.

• Stir-fry Choy Sum with garlic
  

• Pan Fried Siakap (Asian Seabass)

• Red Beans with Eggs
  

In case you are interested to view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

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