Task 2: Making a Necklace

The second task is to make a necklace for the mom using pasta shells or beads. Again, as a trio, i assigned hatice to make a necklace for me (though in truth it is for her hehehe) and baddin to make a necklace for his sister..

The materials
2 siblings busy at work
Hatice working with full concentration
Baddin working with an even fuller concentration
Choosing which beads to use next is no easy task.. trust me.. i saw them frown while choosing the beads hehehe
Baddin's art work.. a necklace for abla

Hatice's art work...this one photo is snapped by hatice.

Task One: Making Pudding

The first task for today (monday) is to make a pudding with the mom.. n in hatice's case.. mom n little brother..so all the tasks during the holiday r to be done in trio..

hatice n baddin ready with thir önluk..ready for the task
The key ingredients..Dr Öetker Pudding! hehehe

well.. it is the FASTEST n most DELİCİOUS way in making a pudding known to man :0)

We love Şutaş milk..another ingredient for the pudding
The milk poured into the pan
The pudding powder into the pan..together they work as a team..
Pour some more....work hatice! work baddin!
The mixing of the ingredients (not on the stove)
The mixing of the ingredients by the mom.. hatice n baddin r forbidden to play with hot things like the stove.
Hatice's task: to snap a picture of the pudding.

Not bad eh?

Another task awaiting us tomorrow..

End of the First Semester Report Card(s)

I was shocked to see sooo many mini report cards beside the main ones... So here they r..

The Main Report Card

The Front Page
Green is for language development:music n turkish language.

Blue is for knowledge development: reading n writing preparatory as well as science and maths

Red is for Psychomotor development: games and movement as well as art

Orange is for social development: free time and drama

Green is for daily care n cleanliness

Teacher's comments: My dear sweet child of this class..Your bautiful face, your heart full with the love to learn in trying to be successful in everything you do...i thank u. I am happy to be ur teacher.

English Report Card:

all excellent except for 2 *çok iyi* (very good)

Folk Games Report Card:

Teacher's comment: I wish u success in the future

Music Report Card

Teacher's comment: Ur performance is good..Thank u.

Computer Report Card

Teacher's comment: None

Physical Education Report Card

Teacher's comments: Thank u for being an example to ur friends.

Drama Report Card

Teacher's comment: Quiet, full with discipline and successful. I wish u every success.

Chess Report Card

Teacher's comments: Dearest Hatice, I hope u will be always as careful and successful like this

Art Report Card

Teacher's comments: I thank u for the success u have had this semester

Yup.. so many report cards huh? but i guess this is good in the sense that u can see the development of ur child not just in general but in a bit of detail as each teacher makes a special evaluation on ur kid(s) in every subject..it seems hatice need to improve on her drama n computer skills...i pray for her every success in everything she does

Art Work

These r some of the artwork that had been produced by my dearest bebeğim Nur Hatice for the first semester of her pre school months... Pls bear in mind that there r some more of these.. only that the mom is lazy to scan them.. hehehe

Spongebob Square Pants!! or should i say..

Sponge Girl half oval Skirt?

A basket made from papers

Pamuk Dede is a famous character of a grandpa in children stories in turkey.. his wife is called Şeker Nene

A robot made from a Cd n coloured papers.. there r the legs n hands but they r too long for me to scan them.
* Mary had a little lamb..little lamb..little lamb..*

This time hatice has got a little lamb of her own :0)

Brush ur teeth everyday .. i suppose it was done at the week where the kids were learning to take care of their teeth..
A very cute caterpillar with very strage legs hehehehe..my dear princess must have glued them upside down :0)

*Time waits for no man* they say.. Just like these things.. if i dont put a bit of effort in uploading n typing at least some of the stories in her life.. they will fly by soo easily and so fast..n before i know it.. they will be forgotten stories of the past..

Dearest çiçeğim..this is for u..

She said..

Ever since monday this week.. my daughter has lost her chit chat friend in the school bus. Ever since she started her schooling days till monday, she has been sitting next to her cousin ilayda in the school bus.. chit chatting... sharing their girlish talks.. even some in depth fears.. Now İlayda has changed to another bus service to go to school..n my daughter has lost her chatting friend..she feels lost. Everyday she asks me whether we can go to ilayda's home.. we cant yet of course...

I try to reassure her that the fact that ilayda has to change school bus is due to logistics reasons.. which is a good indication for ilayda.. n that no matter how much she misses her cousin in the school bus service... the good thing is.. now whenever she goes to her grandpa (dede).. she can always call ilayda to her grandpa's place....like the old times.. n that she should be happy that things r looking up to a brighter side for ilayda...

I know she realizes this fact as well.. but can u blame her for missing the one person she makes noise with in the school bus service?

*hugs* to my lil angel..

Our short conversation

There we were.. hatice, baddin n i.. feasting on the mc donalds.... we started to chat about her school ..She was telling me that one of her friends brought a *guest student* to their class.. Well, they do that.. u can bring guests to school for a day.. we were talking in turkish but i am gonna translate our conversation in english..I decided to tease her a bit...

Anne: If ur friend can bring his friend to school, then u can bring ur little brother to school as a guest for one day then?

Hatice: But anne.. baddin will miss u.. who will look after him? he is small and he wouldnt understand the lessons. (her voice becoming extremely pleading n tear streak in tune hehehehe)

Anne: But hatice, ur brother is not so small.. he can look after himself.. he wont trouble u.. u wont need to look after him all the time..he is an intelligent boy after all.. just like u...

Hatice: But anneeeeeeeee (heheheheehe i laughed inside)

Anne:Ok..ok.. if u dont want him, i wont send him as ur guest.. after all he will join the pre school after the summer this year..

Hatice was so relieved heheheheeheheheh But baddin was a bit dissapointed of course..but he'll recover :0)

Hatice n school.. i try my best to let her have all the opportunities and experiences at her own pace....AS independent as she possibly can from me, her dad n her brother.. So far, together with her classmates, they had visited the baker's shop.. they had watched theatres....went to a virtual cinema..and tomorrow, they will go to a *toy museum*....she missed on the trip to the bookstore..

The thing is.. parents r allowed to join their kids in these activities..As much as i want to join her.. i think it is best for her to have the experience alone.. if i join in, that means she will have to entertain her bro as well.. she wont be free to be herself coz she will be conscious of my presence n that is the last thing i wanna do. I want her to be her.. to be a child.. not an abla (sister)..not a daughter.. i dont want her to have any role...i want her to be her..a carefree child..a child...happy n enjoying her freedom to the fullest..

The fact that she has to shoulder the role as an abla far too soon saddens me to an extent..but for every opportunity possible....i want her to be free of any roles..n just be her.. she needs to be her in order to be happy n confident in life...n may she be...n this is my only wish..