Cagalli's Corner

As promised, here are more video clips of Kalli's trial PRE-K class. But before that let me just share how Kalli loved her classes. Her classes start at 2pm. That's usually her nap time. For 3 days she fell asleep in the car going to class. I let her sleep in her stroller until 15 minutes before the class. When it's time to wake her up, I just tell her, "Kalli, we're here at Gymboree. It's time for your class. Are you ready?". For three days, she would immediately wake up, almost in a panic, and say "I'm ready! I'm ready!". Hahaha, it was so funny how excited she got. Even now, she tells me once in a while that she wants to go back there. Oh, if only we have the money :(

Anyway, going back to the videos, these clips were taken during the second day. There were only 3 of them left. The other girl Allysa was sick and had to go home. The other boy didn't participate much cause he didn't want to let go of his toy. You'll notice that Kalli was feeling more confident here than her first day.

Here, Kalli was tasked to find "Tueday". She was so good :)


This here is one of my favorites :) I love how she's always so curious and willing to learn. She so proud of herself too, it's adorable :)


Notice that Kalli was always looking at her classmates.


Notice how she was almost always the one answering? :)


Kalli loves arts and crafts too :)


Here's another favorite of mine :) She was so funny singing "Old McDonald" :) I guess she liked the headphones more than the crayons.


Okay, that's it for now. Day 3 coming soon :)

I've been trying to teach Kalli her numbers but she seems to be having trouble remembering what they look like. I bought her these rubber numbers which I use as flash cards and one time we were playing with it. I asked her to show me number 1 but she couldn't remember. In frustration, I picked it up and told her, "Kalli, I've been trying to teach you number 1 for a long time. Why isn't it sticking to your head?" She told me then, "Okay okay, it will stick now." Then she took the number 1 and tried to plaster it to her head! Hahaha, I laughed and laughed. When it started falling, she said, "It's not sticking mommy!" Hmmmmmmm, stick to head nga naman...

Anyway, this last week I tried a different approach to teaching her. For the whole week we're only learning numbers 1 and 2. I carry the rubber numbers everywhere and throughout the day I'll ask her what they are. We started last monday and it seems she has learned it already. When I mix the numbers 1 and 2 with the others, she can easily pick them out. Hopefully it sticks even when we start learning the other numbers too :)

I signed up Kalli in a free 3-day pre-kinder trial class at Gymboree and she was soooo good! She loved it too! I was so tempted (and still is) to enroll her in June. If only it wasn't so expensive :( One school year of PRE-K is 58,000 pesos.

At first there were 4 of them in the class. Two of them (Kalli and Allysa) were 2 years and 5 months old, while the others (JM and Julia) were 2 years and 8 months. Among the four, Kalli and Julia seemed to be the most ready to attend school. By the last day, the two of them were the only ones left.

I took a lot of videos and I'll be posting them as I upload them. For now, here are some clips from the first day.

In this video, Kalli was telling her teacher how she got the fish tattoo on her hand during the playtime session before class. Her teacher was pretty impressed with the way she talked and told me so at the end of the class :)


Kalli was still a bit shy during the first day. By the 3rd day she owned the place, hahaha.


In this video, Kalli was asked to put Gymbo's picture on "Monday". She was told that "Monday" starts with M and she found it. I was so proud, hahaha.


It was story time here and the teacher gave them cookies to eat while they listened to the story. Kalli loves stories and books and she was so attentive.


That's it for now. More videos to come :)

As promised, here are some videos of Kalli's 2nd day of swimming class.

Here's Kalli and me doing "The Swimmers in the Pool". Remember this? I posted a video of her practicing this in her inflatable pool :) She loves this!


Here's Kalli "On the Duck". They're practicing their jump. You can hear the teacher reciting Humpty Dumpty in the background. You'll see Kalli doing that in the next video :)


Here's the "Humpty Dumpty". I don't think this is Kalli's favorite part, but she's still trying, right?


Here's the Monkey Walk. She can do it with very little support now :)


Here's the Head Dip.


Here's the Head Dip again, this time with her legs kicking :)


That's it for now. Tomorrow's her 3rd day of class so expect more videos in the next days :)

Mommy was so loud! Hahaha :)

Below is Kalli's bedtime prayer. She prays this every night before going to sleep. This was my prayer too when I was younger :)