29 Oct renzi/stretch routine (extra credit)

on street - 21 chars (some repeated)

read 12 pages in a Disney pinyin picture book, about 50-60 chars/page . Basic understanding Verified.

Read aloud 1 page

went over 29 words on daddy's list

--stretch

About 12 minutes mostly hamstring + adductors

## nice acts by Yixin

The bigger things well-done could deserve separate blog posts.. mostly in wordpress

1. 21 Sep 2016 didn't lose the StandChart fake coin. Found it quickly when dad asked
2. 21 Sep 2016 piano teacher Alex Chung had positive things to say. Good cooperation. We will stick to the old grade 3 book.
3. 21 Sep 2016 inefficient and feet dragging, but did put in real effort preparing for the Chinese spelling test
4. He said his #1 favourite drink is Coke but he knows to control it
5. 27 Sep 2016 I asked him to play a line (about 4 bars) 5 times. No complaint no resistance. Half way through, he knew he made mistakes so he said "this one doesn't count."
6. 29 Sep 2016 for the first time boy was better prepared for Chinese spelling test. He prepared with SCC staff.
7. 1 Oct 2016 dressed up after shower, without any prompt
8. 1 Oct 2016 boy told me his favourite drink is unhealthy -- Cocacola, so he knows to avoid it.
9. 2 Oct 2016 meimei lunch. Meimei refused to be fed by WG. Dad didn't know how to feed her. Boy took up the job and completed entire lunch by spoon-feeding.
10. 19 Oct 2016 for the book bought in Beijing with pages of jigsaw puzzles, meimei often mess take out the pieces but Yixin would put them all back.

23 Oct renzi/xiezi routine(extra credit)

picked up 2 chars on the street

went over about 40 chars on daddy's list + about 20 in the P2 textbook

Also see the post [[milestone in Yixin's Chinese reading]] -- he read a baby book without pinyin and picked out many kanji characters on the Japanese toy.

--xiezi

Mom went over a lot of them with boy

22 Oct renzi/xiezi routine (extra credit)

recognized about 10 chars on the street, without pinyin

went over about 400 chars 

--xiezi:

mom went over quite a lot of them with boy

20 Oct renzi/xiezi routine before exam (extra credit)

heavy xiezi practice with Ms Grace and with Mom.

Incredibly, the last dictation by mom was 100% correct including hard
ones like 候, 校, 保护.

Also recognized 处 / 外

19 Oct renzi/xiezi routine (extra credit)

heavy xiezi practice - about 40 with Mom then with Dad but repeatedly.
Boy was very serious and self-driven in the last 10 minutes of the
night.

piano daily routine since 18 Sep

Until 20 Oct, no miss

16 Oct renzi/xiezi routine (extra credit)

recognized 3 hanji in a Japanese restaurant, without prompt

went about 10 chars on daddy's list

Read a story -- about 130 chars without pinyin and about 40 chars with pinyin.

15 Oct renzi/xiezi routine (extra credit)

read aloud about 300 chars without pinyin!

re-read yesterday's comics -- reading out some 20 chars without
pinyin. Able to make out all the stories despite unfamiliar words.