Home schooling

I have been teaching Qi Yu all the alphabet sound since March this year. Being lazy myself, i only teach her once in a while, maybe like once or twice a week. I was feeling guilty about not consistent in teaching her. But thank god she is catching up fast. She already know the sounds to all the 26 alphabet and i am trying to use these alphabet to make words for her. Her enjoy sounding out the words and sometime will sound out the words for me to read. Of course she is not able to read just yet but when she holds book in her hand and do the read alound, it make people think that she already can read! And people will often give her the "wow" which she is pleased!
From time to time, she would request to have class when mummy is being lazy! I used to play hide and seek game with her. i hide the card and say the sound, she goes to search for them. And the jie jie is complaining why her learning is not as fun as meimei! Guess i need to put in some time to look into ways of making learning fun for the jie jie as well!

Imagination!

Qi Yu loves to let her imagination run wild. She often imagine herself to be different kind of thing, usually animal. One day she can be a cute little puppy, another day cute little pony, whale, Dumbo the elephant, Simba the lion king or whatever story she read, she would turn to that and wanted to be called that name. So her name is changing everyday and when you address her with the "wrong" name she would be cross!
She loves to tell story and loves to ask questions. She is a real inqusitive girl, adorable and sweet!

Too Harsh?

With daddy coaching her, Qi Ning's piano is moving on great. She just started to learn piano beginning of this year, she is now at grade 4 pieces and started being Sunday School piano the sunday just pass. She is able to play well but I am not sure whether if we have pushed her too hard. There are time she would cries because it is too hard for her and she say she feel like giving out piano! I don't know whether if this is just part of a learning process or because we pushed her too hard. I just want her to enjoy playing piano and not feel pressurized. She is a smart girl and when she overcome the challenges she would share her happiness. hope we are not too hard on her!