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Sunday, October 27, 2013

11:57 PM

K4 : Week 30

Fritz, Fritz-homeschool

Fritz is currently 4 years 7 months

Science

We continued our learning. This time, we learnt about Circulatory System. First, we watched a movie from KidsHealth.com to know more how heart works. It's also a learning too for me as my biology was never getting a good score in my era. :P

Now we know that the size of heart is just a clench of our fist. It's small but it works so hard in every single seconds. It's never stop working even when we're sleeping.

After that, we pasted the part of heart. I know he didn't know all the name so well, at least he knew that heart was divided into 4 parts.

In the end, we pasted the vein and artery in our part of body. We used a blue and red wool as a symbol of those. Nice work, boy! ^_^

Craft

I just captured the tiger only and forgot to get the shop's picture. Though I still needed to help him, overall, he did well folding the paper.

Fun

Fritz was invited to attend a birthday party for Celine. She celebrated her 4th birthday that celebrated at Bakmi GM, Citra 5. Her mom invited all the member of her classmate, so for sure, Fritz didn't anyone there. Luckily, he didn't put any matter with that. He still could join the party and he enjoyed it so much. We couldn't stay until the party was over as we had to attend a wedding party of my friends.

We attended Om Gusti and Tante Vivi's wedding. Here the story...

d'Lievell

I was just a girl who had many beautiful moments in the past and a woman who had lots of things to be learned for life and now I'm just a mother who still fighting for having a good life in the future with my beloved hubby and son I've a big passion in educating my son by home-education as well as in making scrapbook for my ME time.

10:52 PM

Gusti and Vivi's Wedding

Cerita Ethep,

I've known this couple from college when we were in Pastoran. We were also in the same Legion of Mary, Perawan Yang Murah Hati (PYMH) Presidium at that time. Though I didn't too close to them as their best friends who know everything about their life, we were quite knowing each other by sharing some stories when we met in some occasions for Kombat.

They were in relationship for quite long time, more than 7 years that I knew. They were getting close each other during Ziarek 2005 while PYMH was being the team for that occasion. I think all the members of Pastoran know all about their first story how they could get close and had their relationship. It's so silly! Lol

They came in two different culture, Chinese and Javanese, but they have one heart as Catholic. I really do love this couple. I believe they are the happiest couple I've ever known. Gusti really tried his very best to have Vivi as his wife. Happy ever after, guys! May God bless you two with gorgeous kids and good life...

I met my oldies friends from the Legion of Mary. It's just like a small reunion for us. How I missed those time!

Mommies and kids

with some members of Pastoran

Pastoran is really the best part in my life and I'm proud to be the part of Pastoran.

d'Lievell

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

2:51 PM

Legally Ours!

Cerita Ethep,

The legal called Ali to come to the marketing office to sign the agreement letter for our house. We came together by bike there in the middle of the day. They greeted us warmly when we entered the office. Then, we had chit chatted before the agreement. I've never believed that it would come true!

Legally, the house is ours now after we're signing the letter. Pose!

Treat ourselves in Domino Pizza for our coming house

*50% every Tuesday in Domino Pizza

d'Lievell

Sunday, October 20, 2013

11:56 PM

K4 : Week 29

Fritz, Fritz-homeschool

Fritz is currently 4 years 6 months

Science

This week, it's time to learn about the Respiratory System.

I found the lungs by goggling. I asked Fritz to color the lungs and applied it on our open skeleton. Before, I asked him to watch how we breath in KidsHealth.com. It's a nice resource for kids to learn all about the body.

I supposed to make a simple experiment about Lungs using balloon but I couldn't find the balloon. Fritz forgot where he put it anyway. So, no experiment for this part. :(

Resource:

http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/RSmovie.html

Math

He found that measuring using the tool was so fun. So he measured every things in the house. He measured the fridge, box, sofa, table and even the wall. From this, he learned about tens. Nice work, boy! ^_^

Bahasa Indonesia

I borrowed the Bahasa Indonesia book from my tutorial class. He got so enthusiast in learning it. Slowly but sure, boy! ^_^

This week, he followed me again to my tutorial classes. This time he learned to read 2 syllables sentences in Bahasa Indonesia. Glad to see him able to read the simple one! ^_^

Art

This time we're making Butterfly Foot Print with Nicole. Firstly, they were so happy making it together then in few minutes both were having a quarrel and ending with Fritz's crying. I don't have the picture of the art this time as I had to separate both of them. LOL

Miscellaneous

My Silly Boy's action this time..."I'm in jail, Mama" and he was under the laundry basket. OMG!! O_O

It's Sunday and it's time for me to cooking off. Just for Sunday only! Papa made our lunch and this time he made us Toge Goreng (fried beansprout) - contains noodles, fried tofu, beansprout with fermented soybean (oncom and tauco). Yummy!!

Recently, Fritz loved to eat late in the night before he got to sleep. That night, he asked me to make him a plate of fried rice instead of having his milk. He could grab lots of fried rice I made. Wow! Then he could sleep tight till morning. LOL

Fun

My family picture

We're having fun this Eid al-Dha holiday. For more story here....

We've got an invitation from Om Vidor and Tante Thiya for their sister's wedding. It's just few of Papa's friends were invited and here we were; Om Don and Tante Davi, Om Juls and Tante Bea and there's not in this photo were Om Anto and Tante Jeanne. Few minutes after we're taking this photo, we're running under the rain. We went Om Don's car to reach our car. Hihihihihi....

Happy Wedding, Om Dwi and Tante Mitzie! Happily ever after!!

d'Lievell

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

7:29 PM

Eid al-Dha Holiday 2013

Cerita Ethep, Fritz-trip

This holiday was coming in the middle of the week, on Tuesday. My MIL asked to go out of town. We chose to Bogor to eat ngohiang, the most favorite dish we eat every time we go to Bogor. That's the first plan.

Few days before we went out, one of my friend recommended a place in Bogor. It's Warso Farm, a farm of durians and dragon fruits owned by an army veteran named Warso. I searched the location and few articles in Google and it's quite exciting place to go so far. Then, I threw my suggestion to my MIL and she agreed.

So, today, we're ready to have some fun going out of town together with my MIL and BIL. We went out from my parents' house almost 8 o'clock AM. Before we picked them, we had breakfast at Kofie Noodles in Kelapa Gading. It's so recommended as they made their own noodles and dumpling skin. I love something handmade or homemade.

When we ate, we sat next to a family with a same age boy as Fritz. His mom asked me lots of questions. She started our talks by asking about Fritz's left handed. Then we continued our talk about school and homeschool. She offered me a job, giving private tutor to her boy. Too bad, she lives far away from our house. :(

After our tummy was fulfilled with noodles, we picked my MIL and BIL. It's almost 11 o'clock when we started our journey. I just prayed we're not gonna face a heavy traffic as it's a holiday for everyone. Thankfully there's no traffic jam during our way. We finally arrived almost 12.30 in the noon after searching with my BIL's GPS. The place isn't hard to find. We faced many green areas - trees and fields with a mountain as a background. It's just like my drawing picture during primary school. LOL - just two mountains with rice fields and a zigzag way in between.

As it's not a harvest months, so there's only a bit durians we could see in the trees. We found the big one.

After we're done walking around the farm and we didn't see any durians in the trees, we decided to sit in a simple restaurant which sell some foods with durians. There's surabi durians, durians ice, and also a durian that we could grab it together. My MIL bought a durian for us while Ali bought an ice durians.

Fritz found his pleasure in a playground. This was his first time playing a roundabout stuff - I don't know the name :P.

Look at his happy face!

Fritz had his lunch here. He got a packet of rice, a grilled fish with tempe, tahu, sour soup, and two salty fish and also an ice tea. It's just for IDR 25,000. Very cheap!!

Taking picture in front of a big durian

After that, we went to Pasar Ah Poong in Sentul. Badly, we faced heavy traffic jam in Bogor. It took almost an hour to reach Sentul and we arrived around 4 PM. Wow, lots of people were there! We found a bit difficulty to park our car. We just ordered martabak eggs only as we hardly to find seats and it's totally so hot and crowded. After that, we decided to walk around. So many nicely things to be captured there and here what we did there...

What's behind your head, honey?

Woo...^_*

Under bale-bale

On the sky bridge

K-Pop style by Fritz

With Popo

After rafting..ups...LOL

My lovely family

Few minutes after our photo sessions was coming pouring rains and we decided to go home. Our journey not yet finished. We had Domino Pizza as our dinner, we got a buy 1 get 1 Tuesday promo for this October. Yeah....

d'Lievell

Sunday, October 13, 2013

11:56 PM

K4 : Week 28

Fritz, Fritz-homeschool

Fritz is currently 4 years 6 months

Science

Recently, Fritz always has lots of questions related with part of his body. He asked me what's inside his legs, his chest and many more. And I think it's the best time for me finding more about human body then we can learn together.

After searching for few days and collecting all the resources {then I became so dizzy with lots of materials I've downloaded and forgot which site I've seen before :P}, I think I'm ready to start our first lesson about Human Body.

The first one, we started with the Skeletal System. Fritz of course was so excited to start it. He even offered himself to cut all the skeleton but sorry boy, I think just let me did it for you. It's needed to be cut neatly, honey.

I bought a duplex paper and some materials we needed before. So the first step was tracing his body on a piece of duplex paper. As he's bigger than the paper so I needed to trace him dioganally.

Then, I started to cut the skeleton one by one and arranged it on his tracing body. Most of all I made it by myself with less help from Fritz. He just put the skeletons part after I finished with all of those. Badly, his body wasn't as the same high as the skeleton. He's too high. So I needed to modify it and I used The skeleton high and trace it's shaped.

The skeleton itself could be opened. We want to put all the parts of our body inside there. Just wait for the next days, we still have lots of exciting things to be learned.

Resource for the skeleton from http://www.eskeletons.org/pdf/000646791.pdf.

Second Day, we learned about Brain.

The brain is the most important part of our body. It is the busiest thing we have as it can't stop working even during in our sleep. How big is our brain? It's a very small part and just as big as a soft ball. FYI, whales and elephants have bigger brains than human but human brains are the largest weight all over the body.

The activity we did were coloring the brains, making the brain puzzle and of course the last one he had to paste the brain into the right place. He knows exactly now why he must wear helmet when riding a bike. It's to protect our brain safety if we should take a fall.

Resource:

http://www.slimgoodbody.com/teacher_resources/bodyology/brain--nervous-system/

http://www.thecraftyclassroom.com/CraftScienceHumanBodyBrain.html

Reading Eggs

Finally he passed his Level 6 too after few months stuck because he refused to do it daily. Actually, he's getting good in reading but he said he got bored with this activity. Let's just do it slowly...but sure! ^_^

And after he did his test in Level 6, he continued forwardly to Level 7. Not too bad!

Bahasa Indonesia

He followed me to my tutorial class in Thursday as he refused to take a nap and cried a lot. He loved it so much my offerings. LOL. He did nothing actually in my class except looking my students do paper. Then, I've got an idea to teach him reading in Bahasa Indonesia. I gave him a book for reading. Wow! He could read 2 syllables word though he needed me to help him to read. He couldn't stop reading and asked more pages. Love to see him!

Miscellaneous

My busy body boy always has high curiosity in everything I do. This time, he always wanted to try my new thing, Nano Spray. Every time I used it, he insisted to use it too. So, he got his turn this time using my Nano Spray and did like I did. LOL

Fun

We had an opportunity to see all about the army tools. More story here....

Yeaah....we're going on a tank!!

It's Monas!!

One of my friend from high school opened his own Satay and BBQ kiosk in Modern Land, Tangerang. We came there to try his recipes and it's so yummy. As Fritz was having diarrhea, he couldn't try it. He just waited patiently for us eating the satay. Thanks for the invitation, Mr Dad! ^_^

My ex boss in Sekolah123.com got married! He invited us to come to his wedding mass in Sunter. We're so happy to see him standing in front of that altar. Congratulation, Mr. Demos and Erlisa for your wedding day! Happily ever after!! ^_^

As we're not being invited to his personal party, we had our own party. We went to SSIKKEK restaurant near MOI. We used our Living Social voucher for it. Yeay!!

I was so glad that Fritz could eat the meat and he said it's so yummy. Wohoooo....^_^

d'Lievell

Monday, October 7, 2013

9:02 PM

Monas Trip : Seeing Army's Tools

Fritz, Fritz-homeschool

To celebrate Army's birthday on 5th October, Indonesian Army or we called it TNI showed all of their army tools in Monas. We had an opportunity to see them free. We purposely came on Monday in their last day performance to avoid the crowded. It's really nice occasion as we can see very closely all about our army.

The first tank we saw when we arrived.