A rainy homeschooling day

I started school early today by doing my written English and Maths workbooks that I'm supposed to do a page of each day. As mum slept in late, we got to play the trains and cars after that. She got caught up with cutting up some cards, so we managed to slot in time to play with the flashlight.....

Thereafter, we played snap with the Scooby Doo matching cards that mum just made. We were supposed to play naming the cards afterwards but Umayr wasn't interested. I got to play the geography game Seterra with mum. We did Asian countries and flags.

When mum had to read to Umayr, she let me continue playing with the programme, I love playing flags and try very hard to be top of the league. After reading to Umayr, they played speling the animals with the small movable alphabets. He later played matching animals and their young cards.

When I was done with my game, Mum did a worksheet on 'Where I live', we explored where I lived from planets to continent, to country, to city, to address. We didn't have outdoors as it was raining heavily outside.

So, Ummi gave us tissue boxes and cardboard to make train carriages which we decorated with glitter, markers and finger prints. After that, we managed to sneak in some time to play with our trains when ummi was teaching Sofiyya.

As she was cooking, Ummi let us watch the story of Prophet Yusof and Ibrahim online. After lunch, it was time for solat and tilawati. As we had some time after doing our Arabic writing, mum played a game of chess and then it was time for TV......

Keeping Abi close....

We were supposed to learn about the United States while Abi is away there for a fortnight but last week both Umayr and I were down with fever for almost the whole week. Last night, we got our first lesson, well I got mine, when Ummi played the 'Alphabet States' with me.

Both of us had a map of the United States. One of us would say a letter and try to name as many states starting with that letter as we can. I had fun but I wonder why Alaska is so far away from the rest of the states and why they made a new Mexico when there's one nearby.

Today, Ummi printed out dollar notes for us with a picture of George Washington on the front. She tried to teach me about pennies, nickels and dimes but I only got the quarters. Anyway, Umayr and I played buying and selling with our foreign currency.

Ummi played another game on the 50 states with me today.The challenge was to name as many states as we can with the help of the map we had last night. Ummi only got 3. I obviously won but 50's a lot of names. I got tired and maybe I'll continue naming the states on the blank map tomorrow.

I tried to read my dictionary after lights out tonight, but Ummi found me out. I wonder what the fuss is about spoiling my eyesight. Now, I don't even know where I stopped....Oh well...

Today, Abi flew to Washington from San Diego. He said it's nicer there with mountains and lots of greeneries. I wish I could be with him....but he'll be back soon. I can't wait to play with my Thomas train set.

our first plane trip

The day that we have been waiting for has finally arrived;our first trip abroad via plane to Brunei. We woke up before six and were off half-an-hour later to the airport.

After checking in at 7 a.m. ,we had breakfast at the lounge before the long wait at our gate to board the plane. I managed to grab the seat by the window while Umayr sat beside me.

We were supposed to take a Singapore Airlines plane, but it turned out to be a smaller Silkair one instead. Oh well, it was still huge enough for me. The best part was breakfast of course, yummies galore!

I loved watching the things below us getting smaller and smaller....then came the clouds but my ears were a bit clogged, Abi started to get irritated with me for talking so loudly: )

Sofiyya fell asleep halfway through the flight to much of Ummi's relief. Sometimes the plane was a bit shaky but Umayr and me were just excited at being in a plane, we didn't really care.

The flight was over in less than two hours our plane landed at Brunei with a bump!Then we were off to meet our uncle, auntie and cousins whom we have not seen for two years.