PieCeS of OuR LiFe

Long time no write, the kids grow a little bit older. Raisha just celebrated her 4th birthday last month. She now became more independent. Eat, shower, pee, and brush her teeth by herself. It helped me so much to lower my load at home as her younger sister becoming more and more active.
Her academic potency was progressing as mentioned in the year end report from school. I guess I don’t need to worry about that.
Instead of latin alphabet she learnt at school, she also has started to learn arabic hijaiyah. At this moment she’s in the second book of Qiroati.
Her short daily prayers/supplication (du’a) memorization started to slow down, not as fast as when she was 3, but it might caused by me. I think I have tought her all the daily prayer I had so I have to improve myself first before teaching her new du’a.
Anyway, she got the first prize for du’a recitation in the Ramadhan Weekend Special for kindergarten class

She has started to memorize short surah (juz ‘amma) and alfatihah. Child is very fast when it comes to memorize something. So I need to add my recitation of juz ‘amma, otherwise she will beat me hehe (I remembered Ust. Muntaha reminded us a lot about this, “Masa dari SD sampe sekarang hafalannya cuman dari AnNaas sampe AdhDhuha aja.” Gubrags, tersindir berat).

Raisha also paid a great attention to music. For the last three month she has started to learn piano lesson at Yamaha Music Course and looked like she really enjoys.

Meanwhile Dinda is 1.5 year old now. Her vocabularies were still limited to bapak, teteh, mamam, mimi. Luckily her gross motoric skills were progressing a lot. She now could climb the stairs without help (and made my heart almost stop beating), unfasten her harness in the car seat (and climb down the carseat to reach me while I’m still driving, omG), climb the chair up and down, etc.
Her fine motoric skills were improving as well. She could feed herself (and make a big mess rightafter), scribble (including on the wall hiks hiks), and play with lego.
She’s also a real copycat. She copied everything she saw which made her interested such as brooming the house, combing the hair, calling with the telephone (and made the home phone broken) singing and dancing to the rhytme she heard.

One thing that made me feel very surprised about her was that she often went to the toilet when she need to poo; took off her pants and diaper by herself and asked me to carry her to the watercloset.

General Comments

Raisha can initiate communication with others displaying greater confidence during role play. She uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences during role play. She interacts with others in a variety of contexts, negotiating plans and activities and taking turn in conversation.
Raisha enjoys music and movement. She sings to familiar tunes and enjoys participating in action songs. In literacy, Raisha identifies letters in lower case and their corresponding sounds. She forms some of the letters correctly and produces neat work.
In numeracy, Raisha is able to count, identify, and write numbers 1-10 independently. She however needs a little help from teacher to form some of the numbers correctly.
Raisha recognises differences in quantity when comparing sets of objects. She enjoys completing simple addition and substraction.
Raisha look forward to Physical Education lessons. She follows instruction given by teacher and completes task without much difficulty. She is currently learning to throw and catch balls, bounce balls and balance the beanbag.

Looks like I don’t need to worry about her going into reception class (feeder class for year 1). Actually, I was not expecting her to go up to the next level. At first, I thought to just let her stay in kindergarten to give her more time to play as reception class is much more serious and strict. Unfortunately, Mutiara will cease the kindergarten operation starting next term and will provide two reception class for Year 1 feeder. So, yes, starting September, she will be in reception class. Her class teachers said that I didn’t need to worry since she was doing very well in her class; her report ranged from good to very good, she was mature, always happy at school and very independent. Good job, Raisha!

*picture taken by professional photographer