弟弟's class finally had their JMC Primary 3 class party! For his solo performance, he plays 3 songs "Morning In The Forest", "Little Bluebird" and "March Of The Little Bears".
He chose the t-shirt himself. He said guitar suits music class party :)
Intro and he wanted teacher to accompany him to the piano
似模似样的弹琴
Looks so serious during his solo performance
Video of his performance taken by 爸爸. Luckily he is back from business trip in time to attend class party together.
After all the children performed their chosen solo pieces, they sing "Songs of The Seasons".
Making funny faces while getting ready
Then it's dance performance for "Samba King".
Finally it's gift exchange and group photo.
Group photo with the class and Teacher Sherlene
姐姐 making funny faces while waiting. 弟弟 during gift exchange.
The children exchanged snacks after their performance. 弟弟 is very happy as he is pleased with his performance and with having gifts and snacks.
姐姐 and 弟弟 playing at playground and having a snack at KFC
Some photos during lessons. Really hope he can pay more attention to teacher and listen to teacher's instruction. Teacher Sherlene did mention this class is more playful and she still want the parents to sit in even when they go for JXC. He can play well if he feels like it, but he is always rushed and did not follow timing. He is not that good at listening nor singing. Luckily he has quite big hands and the playing comes easily to him.
Practising "Cast A Spell"
Practicing "Samba King". See he looks so playful here.
The video, practicing "Samba King". The two boys in red t-shirts were busy being playful.
Practicing "Songs Of The Seasons"
As for 姐姐, she is progressing well onto JXC Solfege & Ensemble and Repertoire Book 3. Seems like her class was more mature. The teacher had requested to only have children in the class from JXC after a couple of months.
I took a snapshot of this picture in one of the studios. Yamaha didn't update their website and only hardcopy of this structure is available in their brochure. I guess they didn't think the current students or parents are interested as the school did not give this to us. It's another 7 years for 姐姐 and 9 years for 弟弟 :P
The progress structure for Yamaha Music Education System
We manage to see Ben 10 character at Gurney Plaza even though we arrived late. It was games with Ben 10 for the kids with tickets, guess-the-number to win tickets and photo session. I think it finished in 30 minutes. The Ben 10 character in his costume was walking around Gurney Plaza (with a staff) after that to go back to the office I guess. We only got a few far away shots with the Ben 10 character as we didn't buy the merchandise to get tickets for meet and greet. This is the first time we have been to a character meet and greet session which must purchase merchandise.
The best shots we got since we didn't purchase the merchandise for photo session.
After that happy munching at Sakae Sushi (again!!!!! why they like it so much). It's the first Sunday of the month, children's day promotion. We found out we have to ask for the Sakae cap. Too bad we forgot to bring the discount voucher that 弟弟 got, so we will be back (again!!!).
This year for 弟弟's kindy school trip, they went to Sakae Sushi Auto-City for Children Charaben Workshop. 弟弟 was so excited about it :)
He wanted to bring a food container along, in case he couldn't finish his meal and he wanted to share with 姐姐. He was back early and there was only a few kids left when I pick him up around 2:30pm. Looks like this year they gave a much later estimate when they'd be back.
The charaben 弟弟 made, and there's leftover from his kid's meal to share with 姐姐
He got a goodie bag with a small pack of Kewpie mayonnaise and discount voucher. So funny, I don't know why they give Kewpie mayonnaise. Not sure why he said it's a boring trip, yet he was the one asking to go. He didn't look like not enjoying it, his photos from school folder are with his big smile.
It's a long holiday weekend! We went to furniture fair at PISA called Penfurnex 2012 during the weekend. Not finding what we need, we went for lunch at Pizza Hut Sunshine Square, and also some shopping.
The poster for "Kids Eat Free Every Day"
The children having their kid's meal and Cheesy 7 pizza. They had soya bean drink.
We hardly go to Sunshine Square since it's considered far from our home. Just because we're in the area, we drop by to check out the Cars counter. 弟弟 got new clothes and new pajamas. Too bad we forgot to take photo for him at the counter with Cars poster. 姐姐 discovered they have a counter selling Hello Kitty perfume. She has now become a Hello Kitty fan.
The poster with Hello Kitty :P
弟弟 take photo with his Lightning McQueen toy
弟弟 with his Lightning toy. He looks so different here.
On Sunday, we went to Penfurnex again for Old Master Q (老夫子) children's colouring contest. This time 弟弟 and 姐姐 are in different age groups. There is also Old Master Q and Big Potato performance. We missed Old Master Q during Mid-Autumn Festival as it was exam time. Good time to catch them here.
弟弟 was at the stage with kids in his age group.
He's about the only child there without a table but that didn't dampen his enthusiasm.
老夫子 and 大番薯 characters come visiting :)
爸爸 was accompanying 弟弟 thus he got lots of photos
弟弟's finished colouring.
For his age group, 爸爸 told me later that the kids are supposed to add some doodles on the wall in the picture. 弟弟 said he already tried his best to draw something nice, seems like the end result still really look like doodles :P
姐姐 was with the other contestants in her group in another room. They are all veterans, so I told her just to draw whatever she likes and enjoy it. Since parents are not allowed inside, I went looking for 爸爸 and didn't know 老夫子 and 大番薯 went to visit the children in the room too. She didn't have any photo taken as she said she didn't have a camera or a phone. She was too shy to ask mr photographer that went around with 老夫子 and 大番薯 to take her photo :P She said poor 大番薯 fell over one of the kids' table. His costume seems difficult to handle. Well they have showtime later so she still have chance to take photo with the characters.
She only got to take photo of the 老夫子 poster
Show time!
Manage to catch a few shots
The kids are so happy to see 老夫子 and 大番薯 characters, they were not shy at all
Photos from 老夫子 facebook. 弟弟 is in quite a few photos but found only one of 姐姐.
Surprise for prize-giving, 弟弟 got one of the consolation prize. He's really happy since it's his first time getting such an encouragement :)
Prize giving for consolation prizes
This photo is from 老夫子 facebook too.
Then it's off to dinner. Before we go home, we saw this promotion at the central atrium called Sustagen 100% Nutritionland. Great fun for the kids! The games are about the food pyramid and balanced diet.
The fruits and veggies (fiber) station
The meat (protein) station
Grains station
Sigh, have you seen anyone who likes to eat meat so much?
After getting all their stickers for the food pyramid, they go to health check station, which checks their height and weight. 弟弟 is 113cm tall, and weighs 20kg. 姐姐 is 127cm tall and weighs 24kg. Both are a little below average, as 弟弟 is 2.5 months to 6 years old, and 姐姐 is another 1 month short of being 8 years old.
Dettol team came to 弟弟's kindy for fun educational mini carnival themed "Healthier Today, Brighter Tomorrow". 弟弟 enjoyed the activities very much. It's a new way of marketing and promotion nowadays - take photos of the kids, post them on the official facebook page of the company and the parents will flock to the pages. Mission accomplished :)
Final year at kindy for 弟弟! He is graduating from kindy this year. He was very excited as they had been practising their dances for ~3 months. He's excited about his dances, he's excited about his costume with sparkling stuff, he's excited to be in a concert, he's excited to be getting a bear-bear, and it's one of the bigger milestones to be graduating :)
His class photo
He is the 4th boy from the left
We were late getting out of the house as 爸爸 was late back with fast food dinner for us. 姐姐 has ballet class at the same time, and heard this year's concert is for 2 branches together so it's going to be longer than last time. As it's the final chance to get some photos we have to snap some before returning the graduation robe, just like 姐姐's time. We purposely wore the same clothes for the fun of it :D
Family photo at home with our kindy graduate :)
Posing around the house with his costume and graduation robe
Left: At home. Right: At the concert venue, looking goofy
Since I have to wait for 姐姐's ballet class to finish, we were nearly late. Somehow the emcee was also late due to traffic jam :P thus we were just in time for the opening. 爸爸 missed the group photo taken with teacher Kogi, he said he just stepped out and didn't realize they have photography session :(
Smiling for 爸爸 :)
This photo taken from the concert photo CD
All the 6 years olds queue for their turn to take the scroll and teddy from Teacher Queenie, our beloved school principal. 弟弟 being playful and on energetic high was tugging the bear away from 姐姐 before his teacher called him to join the others backstage, as the graduating class will present the first dance.
Graduation photo from concert photo CD
The opening dance "Tarian Ritma Muhibbah" presented by the graduating class. Colourful costumes, fancy dance and co-ordination. It surprises me that 弟弟 can even do self-adjustment after their movement from one side of the stage to the other. Sometimes he looks towards us and smiled his playful smile of his.
Tarian Ritma Muhibbah
Tarian Ritma Muhibbah closing
From concert photo CD
Being in the graduating class, he got more chance for performance on stage. Last year at 5 years old class, he was just in one dance.
The second song he is performing is Zumba Waka-waka. This is one where it's funny like he was at the wrong place at the start and he sendiri made adjustment someway after the song started. When they are supposed to hold hands and jump together, his friend on the left side shook off his hands and jump out by himself. Hahaha.. :)
From concert photo CD
The last song he performed is Mandarin song "浪迹天涯". Music with very distinctive, strong beat. The children must have practised many many times until they can get into action automatically when the specific music is on as they paused for a while and started in the middle of the song. The other actions were done by the girls at the side.
Some random shots
He said Yang Yang asked him to take off his shirt on stage. He even showed peace sign to us :(
Boys move to the center
His friend Bryan has such funny expression here :P
Couldn't see him at all at finale since he's big boy and in the highest class, means he is right at the back :)
Photo with 姐姐 and Teacher Queenie
The concert ends around 10pm, wow glad this is his last year :D
