A Heartfelt Thanks Drawing

Shenny made this heartfelt drawing for her beloved music teacher, Kelly, after two years learning music from her.

Shenny will move on to her real piano lesson next month onwards. And her new coaching teacher will be different.

Shenny's teacher, Kelly was really surprise and asked mommy whether I helped her to come out idea in drawing. Mommy's answer was "No". This drawing was from her own imagination. The only papa hinted Shenny was that she needed to draw something that related to her teacher.

Below is the explanation of Shenny of her picture (which carries some stories).
" My music techer kelly and her hasband were married and they lived in a castle. Everyday, the castle will have rainbow to say "good morning", "good afternoon" and "good night". The castle is very special because it is golden.

And they grow flowers, so that they could see butterflies. But there are not any butterfly there because they have gone with their honey. "

My Grandfather's Clock

Just a log about Shenny's new discovery.

Shenny overheard My Grandfather's Clock song in car when mommy sent her to kindy two days ago.
She told mommy that her ballet teacher used the song to teach them dance. There was no singing, only music. Now, she was happy that she get to know how to sing the song now.
On that night itself, out of surprise, she played this song to mommy.




Here is Shenny's singing -  My Grandfather Clock:

Valentine Day = Chocolate Day ?

On the Valentine Day, Shenny happily passed mommy her handmade weaving paper heart shape envelop from school at car.
There were two chocolates inside the envelop. She asked mommy to pick one of chocolates and eat it. Mommy did as was told.  The other chocolate would be given to papa later.

At home, mommy asked Shenny this question:

Mommy: Do you know what is Valentine Day?
Shenny: It is chocolate day.
Mommy: Why?
Shenny: Because you get to eat chocolate on that day.
Mommy: Oh..how do you feel after eating chocolate?
Shenny: ...feel sweet and happy. (grin at mommy)

Mommy reckon this is a very good answer and didn't further elaborate to her about the "real" meaning of Valentine Day.  Let her to think it this way till she realizes herself one day. 
Haha..I guess it is good to let her imagination flow for time-being, I think.

What do you think?

Festive Western song meets Eastern song

Shenny played these two songs during Chinese New Year eve early in the morning.

She was happy that she could practice her songs on real piano at her grandparents' house because she only had keyboard at home.

Both songs were taught by her music teacher (Kelly).
Jingle Bells was played according to piano lyrics (to prepare her to take up real piano lesson next month), while Of The Spring (大地回春), Shenny learnt by hearing although her teacher was kind enough to write the lyrics in her own special way, so that her students could pick up the song.

Here is her performance at her grandparents house.



Shenny also played Of The Spring (大地回春) on her little keyboard when we were on our way "balik kampung" to her grandparents house.
Here is the recording:

CNY Crafty Work

As usual, Shenny would make some arts and craft related to CNY at her kindy and art's class before CNY.

At art class, Shenny made a big Ang Pow pocket and a pink lantern.

Her art teacher gave her a ready cut red paper and teach her how to fold and glue it to make a big pocket.
Then, she could draw, colour and decorate the pocket as she likes.

She wanted this for our family only.

At home, her papa suggested Shenny to make one big Ang Pow pocket for her grandmother and grandfather since we would celebrate CNY there. Shenny agreed with papa's suggestion.

Luckily, mommy had some red paper at home, so Shenny happily drew, cut and glue to make the Ang Pow pocket.

As for the chinese writing, Shenny was not so good at it. She asked mommy wrote on a piece of paper and she followed the strokes.

Shenny said "This big Ang Pow pocket is for grandmother's whole family".
Therefore she drew lots of people including a baby (her little cousin, Calvin).
Both her grandmother (in pink dress) and grandfather stood right in front.

As the art work from  her kindy, her teacher gave all children two ready made CNY cards, and had them to do a bit of coloring, sticking and writing on the cards themselves. 

Mommy thought this is too simple for 6 year old children and much less creative compare to her enrichment art class.

Wishing all a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year !!!

Gong Xi Gong Xi 恭喜恭喜

Shenny plays a simple Chinese New Year song for everyone.

Wishing everyone Happy Chinese New Year. May joy, good health and happiness be with you all the time.

Drawings (5)

It had been awhile mommy did not log Shenny's drawings in her blog.

This time mommy would like to post some of Shenny's drawings for birthday, X'mas and Chinese New Year.

Birthday:

(13/1/2011)

Since Josiah is a boy, Shenny did not write "I Love You" in the card because she felt embarrased to do it.  Instead, she drew a heart shape. 

Josiah was there to fight with Ben10 monster.

Six candles.means her friend turned to 6th year old.

(2/1/2011)

Six balloons flying means her friend has turned to 6th year old.

Leanne was dancing in the picture.

(16/10/2010)

All girls play balloon together. 

Chinese New Year:

(8/1/2011)

This is for her grandmother in Holland. 

The drawing is done at reverse side of the greeting card.

Since the coming year is rabbit year, so Shenny drew two big rabbits there.

X'mas:

(21/12/2010)

This is for her music teacher, Kelly.

Santa was in a sleigh, pulled by three colourful reindeers, flying across the sky.

Teacher Kelly was there singing.

Santa dropped a present into chimney for her teacher. 

The house was a rainbow house.

Make Cookies

Backdated post.

Mommy got to know about this Horlicks Doggie Cookie through Chloe's blog.  After checking the actual recipe , it seems to make this cookie quite easy and fun. 
Since Shenny kept on complaining that her school holiday was very bored, therefore mommy decided to occupy her time by making this cookie.  And she loved it.
Actually, this was the first time mommy make cookie at home.  Since we did not have any mixer at home, mommy had to mix ingredients by hand,that included cream butter and make dough.  Ha..mommy really felt hand soar to cream the butter.  Shenny was there observing mommy doing everything and kept on asking "Can I try?".

Shenny was centrating to decorate the doggie face.

Shenny felt it was fun to decorate doggie faces with coco crunch, chocolate chips and chocolate rices.
At first, mommy let her decorate doggies ears, eyes and noses. Shenny was ok to decorate doggies eyes and noses, but she pressed too hard when decorate doggies ears, that ended up doggies faces became crooked.  See picture below: 

The decorated doggie cookies were crooked due to Shenny press hard to decorate doggie ears with coco crunch.  So mommy later decided Shenny to decorate eyes and noses will do.

Tada...the finished product ready to go into oven.

We managed to make 42 pieces.  Shenny loved to eat the Horlicks Doggie Cookie.  It was not too sweet and has some butter flavour.

Since it was a bit heaty after eating it, mommy had to control Shenny to take one or two each day only. 

Shenny also shared some cookies with her aunt, cousins and her music teacher.