Trial Class at Pat's Schoolhouse

Today is my 2nd time attending trial class since my first trial class at Kindermusik in last Sept when I was only 9 months old.

We went to Pat's Schoolhous at Claymore Road and attended their Pat's d'Story Club's trial class together with my friends - Cathleen, Fybie, Gezann, Shanice and Jayden (aka Yang Yang).

Our teacher is Pamela and I find her very nice and caring. We were given some time to cool ourselves down in preparation for the class. Before we start the story telling, Teacher Pamela taught us to sing a song call "Good Morning" (same tune as Happy Birthday song).

As today's theme is Caterpillar, she showed us a toy caterpillar and she told us that she will perform a little magic when the story finished.

The storybook for today is called "The Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. Wow.. this storybook is pretty big in size and it contains a lot of cute animations with simple narration. However, I was too engrossed playing with the toys I saw on the rack and did not pay much attention to the story. Mommy said my buttocks are sharp-pointed which makes me cannot sit still to listen and enjoy the story.

When the story telling ended, Teacher really did the magic and her toy caterpillar has became a toy butterfly. With this, we ended the story telling with a song (PS: Mommy cant recall the title or lyrics of this song)

We proceeded to do finger-painting at the sitting area. Teacher showed us how to dip our little fingers to the 3 plates of paints to do finger painting of a caterpillar, and she used a marker pen to draw the head and legs of the caterpillar. Now is our turn to be the little artist and let our imagination runs wild while creating our own caterpillar with the help of our parents.

Mommy held my 2nd right-hand finger and dipped it to the yellow paint and started to dad 9 parts of the caterpillar's body onto the white paper. Out of curiosity, I soon helped myself by trying to use the paintbrush and added some blue paints to my creation, and I enjoyed so much that I started to mix the paintbrush stained with blue paint to the plate of red paint, and I got another different color - purple. Hmm.. Mommy realised that it is getting a bit out of control, she quickly drew the head and legs part for my caterpillar and handed my drawing to Teacher before I create a havoc. I was quickly rushed off to the toilet to wash away the paints on my fingers before I can enjoy the snack time.

We had Milo with either cheese sandwich or jam sandwich. I enjoyed drinking the Milo from the cup and I cant helped but had 2 servings of Milo.

Next, we headed to the veranda and have a fun time playing with hula hoop, balls and of cos the bubble blowing. This is my 1st time seeing so many bubbles in the air and I love catching the bubbles and seeing it disappearing in the air. Teacher even let me try to blow the bubbles but it was unsuccessful.

The next activity is my favourite - Music & Movement. We went to the Music Room and Teacher gave us some time to settle down. While everyone are busy, I caught them off-handed by giving Gezann, Shanice & Fybie a big hug each and oh dear, Mommy was so embarrassed by this action of mine.

Anyway, we had a fun time listening to the music, playing with the wooden sticks and dancing all over the Music Room.

I really enjoyed the interaction and activities that we had today. A big 'Thank You" to my parents for bringing me to this trial class. More information can be found on this http://www.patschoolhouse.com/dstory.asp

PS: I overheard my parents discussing to let me go for another round of trial class at a branch nearer to our house. And if I really like it, they are considering to sign me up for a term.