Ummi birthday cards n gifts

This post i quite belated from my actual birthday date, it just that i have just got time to upload them. On my birthday , my husband are outstation therefor its just me and the kids. I love spending time with them doing a project therefor i thought why not i make them do my birthday cards and gifts. There are lots of fine skills thought in this activity. I am also introducing them a virtue of gratefullness, thankfullness, caring and showing appreciation.

Cutting papers

The cards are made by a recycles magazine cover, and colorful paper glued to the cards 

Covering the cards with colorful paper

Gluing

Harith coloring his cards

Uysy rather play with ipad tha coloring the cards

Stickers

I love you too dear

stamping

Stamping.

My birthday cards and gifts specially made by the kids

Colorful beads to make bracelet for me

Uyay working with his manik

Notice how after a few manik in, he starts to loss interest and play manik with lorry. Cute!!

Harith in concerntration

Its just lovely

Notice uyay small ring, he is still small with less attention span. Therefor  should be bracelet become a smaller one-ring!!

Cantik tak???

It is such a fun activity with the kids and the gifts and cards are priceless.

Pirate ship

Today Harith ask me whether we can build a ship. He wants to build a pirate ship. Hmm I actually dunno how to make a toy ship , that float!, and I feel blessed living in this era, where I just have to Google just about anything. I found this web who taught me the easiest way to make one, then we find the stuff and sit together one wonderful Sunday afternoon and work on the ship together. Its so much fun. Playing the ship with the kids later. Not to mention I don't have to spend money on toys nowadays cause the kids believe they can make all their own toy now :D, isn't that lovely. Not to mention building their confidence on the fact that they can make something that actually works!! . Enjoy the pic!!

Empty milk bottle.

Cut white papers

Covet them up

Harith choose to colour them brown, its the logic wood color right?

Uyay coloring his own smaller ship

making the sail, harith design his own pirate sail, from memories he recal how it should look like.

putting the sail up

My very own pirate ship!!!

The wind effect!! This is in a way is a science project as well whereby we show the kids how the wind propuls a vehicle forward and how it effects is enhance by a sail.

After playing we can put them to dry to play again. oh yes, to protect the bottom of the ship from getting wet we can cover the bottom of the ship with solofon tape.

Mind trap

                    We(hubby and I) were watching social network the other night. It is a story behind the making of 'facebook'. I was so fascinated with Mark Zuckerberg. I mean he is such a genius. In the movie they protrayed how fast and smart he is. very quick thinking, brilliant!! To sum it all. In wiki, it was told that Zuckerberg began writing software as a child. At times when kid his age is playing video games, he actually created one. He will ask his friends to draw a character and he will develop the game. His father( a dentist) taught him Atari Basic Programming (what the hell is that!! ) while he is in primary and later hire a software developer to tutor him privately. He actually took a graduate course in the subject at a college nearby his home while he was still in high school ( what!!). In his high school years he developed a program called synapses ( a programe that used artificial intelligence to learn the user listening habits) that microsoft wants to buy but he put them available online instead just for free ( you must be kidding me man!!) Later he enroll in Harvard which are full of more prodigy just like him. I went through most of the co-creator of facebook profiles(zuckerberg college friends aka all still teenagers) . And i'll be damned, most of them have as much successes in early life , childhood life as Zuckerberg.

               Later, I was wondering why? Why? Are all these genius people came from US, Europe and most developed country but not in our part of the world. Apple, blackberry, microsoft..etc..etc what have our races has given to the world??Was it genetics? It could be but still the prevalence of genius should still be more random. Then I realize that these inventors are not necessesarily genius, they might be juat briliant and creative and self driven. Yet here we have many brainer as well, zero creativity, zero success tho. What is our problem??


                    Living here, in vietnam i realize that most of the peole here are somehow different intelectually ( i dunno how else to describe it. Sorry) they are frustrating to work with. Its like they are programmed this way. They go to school at a very young age, 6 full days a week, what did they do in school?? Somewhere i heard they are given lots of stuff to memorize. And then it hit me bamm!! There are something in their education system to programed them to think and act in certain ways. Just like the british and dutch and french who controlled our education to make us easier to rule before.


                   Now after 54 years of independence. I have to say there are nothing to be proud of our education system. It is an old system that screams!!!! Changes. Our educational system are still base on Penyata Razak(1956) and Penyata Rahman Talib (1959) . It was last reviewed in 1983 for KBSR and 1989 for KBSM. Common man!! Do we seriously think that the system 30 years ago is still relevant now!!! Who are you kidding!! . Back to my issue. The human brain is actually a miracle, its capacity as to date is actually infinite. You can see these ecspecially in the young growing minds of our children. Their ability to learn, their curiosity and their achievement in a short span of their young life is amazing!!! That is up untill they go to school. Our aged old traditional( teaching kids to be rigid) school. How many of us realize that the sylabbus that are thought in the school kill our child mind creative thinking?? At a very young age, the earlier they go to school, the earlier the assasination are done. Parents, teachers are only concern about learning to read, write, count and most of all excell exams!!everything are learn only through textbook and chalkboard without any real experience on what we are learning. Education and living are compartmentalize, go to school study, study at home, do your homework then after study you can play and enjoy. Why cant we enjoy during lessons??our mind are not encourage to wonder away from the syllabus. You just need to read this, remember that( hafal) and you'll score in your exams. Exams are everything!! These are the mind trap of Malaysians. Things that are stopping us to be Great. Our power of mind have been caged since young.

                With this realization is my urge for us to change. Tho we cant change our nation education policies. We can change our own children education policies. We can do that by educating our children the right way. Get more involved, dont just leave it to the schools. Google, search, read and then share of the best education that the western are exposing to their children in order to make them great. Add our own succes flavour( that is the Islamic knowledge) to them. For me I have found mine, It might not be the best but it is my favourite, to be expose to their concept more, is to teach me to understand more about nurturing human mind to greatness it deserves. My method are 'montessori method'. And I will try my best to share them here. Stay tune :) . And to Zuckerberg, I salute you boy. ( young billionaire b***ch) :D.