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Clifford the Big Red Dog

Clifford the Big Red Dog has been Roy’s favourite  reading character since this character was introduced to him when I bought him the Clifford Phonic box set.

I’ve  recently added two other titles “Clifford at the Circus” and ” Lots of Love” from the Clifford’s puppy day series. These two books are from the Scholastic series of books which I recently ordered through school.

Our school is a member of the Scholastic Book Club for schools and as a staff we are able to buy certain books at a discounted price. It was a steal as I paid less then $10 for the two books and it came with a set of finger puppets and a beanie bag Clifford the red dog.

Roy was ecstatic when he saw the Clifford soft toy and the new books that were to be added to his collection.   He now eagerly looks forward to holding Clifford and reading along to his Clifford series books before bedtime each night.

What type of books are your pre-schooler into?

Stories of Fatherhood- Dads for Life

Some heartwarming moments with Dads who play an active part in their children’s lives.

Visit to the Singapore Art Musuem

At the entrance of the museum

Over the weekend we brought the boys to the Singapore Art Museum . It was the start of their month long Children’s Season exhibition.

The boy enjoyed themselves playing with the interactive displays. The 1st stop we had was at the 1st exhibit on the ground floor. – The Garden

Having fun playing with the enormous “five stones”

Chiling out!!

The light and dark green beanbags were to represent the grass growing in the garden where Walter rabbit lived. I don’t think the boys were able to make the association between the beanbags as they were too preoccupied tossing and throwing the different beanbags at all the kids who were in that room with them.

Floribots

Mechanical flowers called Floribots were featured in one other rooms. The 100 giant robot flowers depicted the plant life-cycle from a seed to a bloom. The boys were intrigued by how the flowers randomly rose and sank.

As we ventured futher into the art garden we entered the Enchanted Forest.

Roy leading the way into the forest

Characters from various stories were entwined together and hidden within the forest. There was an activity book which one could do in conjunction with visiting the Enchanted forest. The book could be purchased from the information counter but we thought against it as we didn’t want the boys to have such a “structured” visit to the museum.

The boys did some colouring of butterflies instead and pasted their masterpieces up within the enchanted forest.

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The monster

On the 4th floor of the building we saw this exhibition by Joo Choon Lin. She was on hand at the exhibition to answer questions and Ryan had a field time asking her various questions regarding the reason behind her creations.

Hubs and I found the animated cartoon a big gory and too violent to our liking as there was quite a lot of blood as the monsters were killed.  Most of the creatures which were created were made out of copper which was moulded into various shapes and sizes. It must have taken the artist an extremely long time to create each of her masterpieces on show.

The boys were not actually put off  by the morbid scene and were happily examining the various exhibits on display. I think they were kinda oblivious to what they were viewing.

Will you be bringing your children to view the exhibits?

The Art Garden is open from the 14 May to 18 July.

Art Garden: Children’s Season at the Singapore ARt Mueum is at SAM at 8Q

Mondays to Sundays 10am-7pm

Fridays 10am-9pm

Adult $10

Student ( with valid student card ) $5

Children 6 years and below = FREE

Multilingual Books for Children

Fiction and Non-fiction books are common visitors to our house. Every month I try to borrow new books for the boys to read. Sometimes when we do not get around to visiting the library I would let them read the children e-books which I find online.

Children’s Books Forever is a site which I have recently been introduced to. At that website there are many different children’s books which are FREE to download in PDF format. What I really like about the site is that there are books available in different languages like – German, Spanish, French and Japanese among other languages. The books are written by Hans Wilhelms and are catered for readers from toddlers to pre-schoolers.

The storybooks have very colourful illustrations with realistic drawings of animals that are depicted in the various stories.

Ten little bunnies is one of the short stories which I read with the boys. It is a book on counting backwards from 10 to 1 with a twist at the end. It definitely works well as a before bedtime story which you can read to the kids before they drift off into slumberland.

Do check out the site for more interesting online reads for your kids.