Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 6 (2y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing training:

1. Draw a picture of a 2 identical sweets. Put a straw in between them and stick them together. Put a satay stick through the straw.
   
2. Ask your child to hold the string and blow that the sweet will turn.

Sight Training

1. Make a mobile of a cloud with a bell attached to it.
   
2. Move the mobile left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the dragonfly or do a high five wit

Right brain: Where is the apple?

1. Show your child a picture of a house with three windows marked A, B and C
   
2. Ask them to guess where is the apple.

Right brain: Place the balloons?

1. Show your child a picture of a cat holding three balloons of different colours for 10 seconds
   
2. Give them the picture without the balloons and the balloons seperatedly.
   
3. As them to place the balloons at the end of the strings in the right order.
   

Where is the sheep?

1. Show your child a long strip with three seperate compartments inside.
   
2. Hide two clouds and one sheep (with the top part tat looks exactly the same peeping out)
3. Ask your child to find the sheep
   

Flash Memory

1. Show your child a series of 5 flashcards.
   
2. Give them 6 flashcards and ask them to point the odd one out.

Build the blocks

1. Give your child a bag. Ask them to open it and take out the three square blocks inside.
2. Show them two pictures and ask them to place the blocks accordingly to the pictures.
   

Dots

1. Show pictures of numbers in random and variety dots.

The cat on the mat

1. Story of the cat on the mat with 4 animal characters.
2. Let your child listen to the story and as the story goes along, he will pick out the right character and paste it in the storybook.

Your Own Constellation

1. Teacher Ivy shared about the different constellations, what they are called and their shapes using flashcards.
2. After that, the child is given a blank paper and 6 star stickers.
   
3. They are asked to paste the stickers wherever they like and then use pencil to link up the stars and say what shape is their constellation
   

Language Training:

1. Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.
   

Language Training- The Birds:

1. Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.
   
2. Now show the same animals and name them in French.
   

Sing a song/Tell a story:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc


Shichida Musical Theatre: Learn The Colours

1. Sing a song and help your children learn about colours.

Simon Says...

1. Show your child flashcards and say, "Simon says..."
   
2. Flash a card of the action and then do the action and get your child to follow
3. Eg of actions are "clap, hop, run, skip...etc"
   

Memory- Which picture did we see?

1. Show a picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.
   

Memory- Where is the ball?

1. Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.
   
2. Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.

Intuition- Find the ice cream :

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a ice cream and the other one is empty.
   
2. Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..
   
3. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the ice cream
   
4. Repeat 2-3 times

Jigsaw Puzzle

1. Give your child an 8 piece puzzle with the right answer and ask them to fix it.
   

Counting

1. Use the additions song and sing +3 and +4 to your children
   
2. Give them a list of the correct formula in the song with the respective number of stars and ask them to point as you sing along
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the letters Q and R. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Draw a star after they are done.
   
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Q is for Queen

1. Draw a picture of a queen and cut two lines by the sides of her dress so that you can slip in a long slip of paper.
   
2. In the long slip of paper, list 6 items that start with Q and slowly pull so that your child can say the Q words.
   

R is for Rabbit

1. Draw a of a rabbit and cut out a hole in the mouth.
   
2. Give your child small squares with pictures and words starting with letter R.
3. Ask your child to say the word and feed the rabbit the squares.

Feed the Mouse

1. Use a container and put a picture of the face of a mouse on top. Cut a hole where the mouth is.
2. Next, give your child a pair of chopsticks and also cut out some sponge and ask them to use the chopstick to pick out the sponge to feed the mouse.
   

Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Cut out the picture of the egg and put something precious inside

Image Training: Teeny Tiny Person Image Training

Image training is to train your child's image visualization function and the brain's ability to capture or hold an image in their mind.

Children with a developed mind that can image well, they tend to have very good memory.

There are a few activities you can do to improve this but today, we are only going to talk about

Teeny Tiny Person Image Training (older than 4 years old)
Before carrying out the return to the womb image training, please practice relaxation and deep breathing exercise together with your child.

You may hug him/her and image this in your mind. (Imageing that your child is going back to your womb). when your child is 3 years and above of age, he/she can do this on their own while you say out the steps.

1. Today, we are going to tbe a Teeny Tiny Person. Lie down on the floor and close your eyes
2. Exhale slowly and flatten your tummy
3. Ok, inhale an swell out your tummy and make your tummy like a big balloon
   
4. repeat this breathing three times
5. ok, now you can come back to normal breathing
6. now, imagine well. You can find a mirror in front of you and you can see yourself in there. Can you see yourself? Once you can see yourself please raise your hand.
   
7. Ok, put down your hand. Now I will count till your body gets smaller and smaller. Are you ready? One, two, three!
8. You are getting smaller and smaller. Now you are as small as a bean. Are you as small as a bean?
   
9. You will be much smaller soon, you will be a teeny tiny person.
   
10. ow you are so tiny you can get into anything. Let's go into your body and see it, if you have any problem in your body, you can heal the problem by yourself. Try healing that. HAvae you healed yourself?
11. Please come out of your body and go back to your original size. when i cont to five, you will return to your original size and come back home.
12. 1,2,3,4,5. Here you are! Please open your eyes!
    
13. Ok, now you are coming back to where you are now, I will count 3, 2, 1 and you will be back home as a xx year old child
14. 3,2,1, here you are back now!
    

Image Training: Return To The Womb

Image training is to train your child's image visualization function and the brain's ability to capture or hold an image in their mind.

Children with a developed mind that can image well, they tend to have very good memory.

There are a few activities you can do to improve this but today, we are only going to talk about

Return to Womb Image Training (less than 3 years old)
Before carrying out the return to the womb image training, please practice relaxation and deep breathing exercise together with your child.

You may hug him/her and image this in your mind. (Imageing that your child is going back to your womb). when your child is 3 years and above of age, he/she can do this on their own while you say out the steps.

1. Lie down on the floor and close your eyes
2. Exhale slowly and flatten your tummy
3. Ok, inhale an swell out your tummy and make your tummy like a big balloon
   
4. repeat this breathing three times
5. ok, now you can come back to normal breathing
6. now let us image that your body is going to get smaller and smaller
   
7. now you are a xx year old , you are going to get much smaller, now you are a one year old baby. you are going to be even smaller, now you are in mummy's tummy.
8. Let;s take a look around in your other;s tummy. What does it feel like? What do you feel? Tell me what you are seeing and feeling
9. You are in mummy's tummy and mummy and daddy are looking forward to seeing you grow everyday ad being born very healthy, Your mummy and daddy are very happy that you are going to be born. Everyone in our family loves you and is looking forward to you being born.
10. Now, let's be born again from mummy's tummy
11. Now you are born a healthy baby. Remember when you were born? Tell me how it was
12. (Bring them to their own age)
13. Ok, now you are coming back to where you are now, I will count 3, 2, 1 and you will be back home as a xx year old child
14. 3,2,1, here you are back now!

Note:
If your child has any bad habits, you can undo them by giving them a positive commmand when they are in your womb and after they are reborn, reaffirm this positive command.

Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 4 (2y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing training:

1. Give your child a picture of a seal. At the top of the noise, use a BIG stray and paste at the back of the seal. Then glue some string on the seal.. glue the other end to a coloured cotton ball and use it to act as ball for the seal.
2. Balance the ball on the straw and ask your child to blow the ball away.
3. Repeat.

Sight Training

1. Draw a star and say it is a wishing star. Paste something that tinkles behind the star.
   
2. Shake the star and move it and ask Baby's sight to follow the star.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the star or do a high five with it.

Taking Pictures At The Zoo

1. Show your child some flashcards and tell them that we are going to the zoo today. At the zoo, we will be seeing some animals like Monkey, Rabbit, Lion, etc
   
2. Paste pictures of the animals all over the classroom
   
3. Give your child a cardboard camera and ask him or her to take pictures of the animals.
4. Give them small pictures of the animals and tell them that their pictures are developed. Look through the pics with them and get them to name the animals again.

4 Seasons

1. Show your child flashcards of the four seasons and describe what the four seasons are and what happens when it is that season. Eg, for spring, it is the time where the flowers are blooming.. etc etc.. Do that in a few short sentences.
   
2. Now give your child four pictures of the 4 seasons and describe each activity they have to do for that season.
   (Eg, spring is where flowers grow so paste the flowers on,
   summer is where the sun is hot so give them an empty bottle to put on sun block,
   Autum is where the leaves drop so ask them to place fallen leaves all over,
   Winder is where they get cotton balls and play with these 'snow balls'
   

Right brain: What colour is the zebra?

1. Show your child a picture of a zebra and guess what colour the strips will be when the black card is removed.

Right brain: Where is the umbrella?

1. Show your child three pockets with the curve of the walking stick/umbrella sticking out.
2. Put in the three cards of walking stick, walking stick, umbrella in different pockets respectively and ask your child to guess which is the umbrella.
3. Repeat a few times.
   

Language Training:

1. Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.
   

Language Training- The Animals:

1. Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.
   
2. Now show the same animals and name them in French.
   

Sing a song/Tell a story:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, different parts of the head, etc.. etc

Button on the wheels

1. Give your child a felt cloth bus with the 4 wheels buttoned on.
2. Ask your child to unbutton the wheels off the bus.. then ask them to button them on again so that the bus can move ;)
   

Memory- Where do the numbers go?

1. Show your child a picture of three bears with three different coloured hats and numbers 1,2,3 written respectively.
   
2. Now give your child the pictures of the three bears that are each wearing a different coloured hat and give your child the numbers, 1, 2 and 3 and ask them to place the numbers on the right bear with the right coloured hat.

Memory- Where is the ball?

1. Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.
   
2. Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.

Flash Memory

1. Show a 4 flashcards and name the items on the cards.
   
2. Now give them 5 cards and ask them to pick the odd on out. Which is the card that was not included in the flash memory just now?
   

Intuition- Find the taxi:

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a bus and the other one is empty.
   
2. Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..
   
3. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the bus
   
4. Repeat 2-3 times

Numbered Dots

1. Show your child apple dots
2. And then test them by showing them two cards and asking for a particular number.
3. Ask them to point to the right answer
4. You can do this after you finish the 65 days dots programme 3,4 times to test them.

Draw The Seeds On The Watermelon

1. Show your child pictures of a few water melons.
   
2. On each water melon, there is a number.
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker and ask them to draw the right number of seeds inside the water melon according to the numbers they see.
   

Numbers Game

1. Show your child pictures of different numbers and give them cards with the numbers.
2. Get them to match the cards with the correct and respective numbers.
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. Eg, just practice to write the letters E,F. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Draw a star after they are done.
   
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Shichida Musical Theatre
Sing the song about mixing colours and then when you go home, you can mix the colours and show your child how you can get different colours.

Finger Play
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes

Duck Song
Sing a song about a duck and get your child to quack along when the duck starts quacking

Stacking Trapeziums

1. Give your child trapeziums of differing colours and size.
2. Ask your child to stack the trapeziums from biggest to smallest and you get a huge tower!
3. Now ask them to dismantle it by asking for the colours.

Coloured Giraffes

1. Draw a Giraffe on a long winded tube and then divide it into 4 segments.
2. Make 4 sets of this in 4 different background colours.
3. Put all the heads together and let your child choose a colour.
4. Put the rest of the body and legs together and get your child to only choose the colour of the heads.
5. Fix them together to make a giraffe.

Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Cut out the large triangles and design an artwork that you like.

Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 3 (2y/o)

PS: Lesson 2 was attended by Daddy as I was attending a seminar that day.

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing training:

1. Find a picture of sail boat and make it such tat the sail can be flipped when blown on.
   
2. Ask your child to blow on the sail.
   

Sight Training

1. Use a bottle, put in beans and then dress it up like a bird.
   
2. Shake it and move the bottle left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the bird or do a high five with it.

Exploring Under The Sea

1. Paste pictures of all the sea animals all over the room.
   
2. Make a goggle with a blue transparency over the eye area and ask your child to explore under the sea.
3. Point out the various sea creatures to them as they explore.

Right brain: Who is swimming underneath the water?

1. Show your child a picture of a sea with a head bobbing up.
   
2. Hide and animal inside and ask your child to guess whether the octopus or the shark is the one hiding underneath the water
   
   

Language Training:

1. Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.
   

Language Training- The Animals:

1. Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.
   
2. Now show the same animals and name them in French.
   

Sing a song/Tell a story:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc


Threading

1. Give your child a picture and punch 5 holes inside.
   
2. Then give them a thread with a knot at the back and ask them to thread in and out of the hole so as to create a pentagon

Button on the flowers

1. Give your child a felt cloth picture full of flowers.
2. The petals can all be removed by unbuttoning them out.
   
3. Ask your child to unbutton them and button them back as they count the flowers
   

Memory- Which picture did we see?

1. Show a picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.
   

Memory- which fish?

1. Show a picture of a fish with three different colours on its body.
   
2. Now give them three similar fishes in three different colours (but in different order) to see if they remember which was the fish that they had seen.
   

Memory- Where is the ball?

1. Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.
   
2. Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.

Memory- What did he catch?

1. Show a picture of a man fishing and the sea creatures that he caught on his line.
   
2. Now give them a picture of the man with his fishing line and all the different sea creatures and ask your child to place the sea creatures in the right order on the line
   

Intuition- Find the bus :

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a bus and the other one is empty.
   
2. Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..
   
3. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the bus
   
4. Repeat 2-3 times

Big, Medium, Small

1. Show your child three sizes of cats, aeroplanes and ducks.
   
2. Tell them which is big, medium or small.
3. Give them a template with the shapes of the things in various sizes highlighted and ask your child to put the items in the outlined shape accordingly to the size.
   

Count the sweets

1. Show your child a picture with a number on it.
   
2. Whatever the number, ask your child to count the sweets and put them into the cup
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Concentration

1. Give your child three pictures of dogs and have folds at their mouths.
2. Put a strawberry into one of the dog's mouth and ask your child to concentrate as you swirl the dogs around slowly.
3. Now ask them to guess which is the one with the strawberry.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. Eg, just practice to write the letters A, B, C, D. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Draw a star after they are done.
   
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Know Your ABC

1. Put up areas in the room and label them. Eg, the area for letter A is defined by the shape of a large apple, B by a large butterfly, C by a large cloud and D by a large door.
2. Give your child some small cards with words and pictures on them.
3. Get them to see what those items are and whether they start with which particular letter.
4. Get them to paste the right cards in the right areas. Eg, Axe, arm, etc are in the A sector.

Finger Play
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes

Hopping Kangaroo
Sing the song of the hopping kangaroo and get your child to hop around on the floor.

Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Cut out triangles and design an artwork that you like.

Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 1 (2y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing training:

1. Find a picture of an aeroplane and attach a string to it.
2. Ask your child to hold the string and blow so that the aeroplane can fly.

Sight Training

1. Make a mobile of a dragonfly with a bell attached to it.
   
2. Move the mobile left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the dragonfly or do a high five with it.

Desert Animals

1. Show your child a picture of some desert animals and their names.
2. Take the animals out as you name them.
3. Ask your child to put the animals back next to the proper names of the animals.

Right brain: Who Is Going To Jail

1. Show your child a picture of a judge and three criminals, Businessman, Chef and Bus Driver.
   
2. Ask them who is going to jail.
3. Take out the 'jail' and show them the character hiding inside.

Language Training:

1. Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.
   

Language Training- The Animals:

1. Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.
   
2. Now show the same animals and name them in French.
   

Sing a song/Tell a story:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc


Shichida Musical Theatre: Learn The Colours

1. Sing a song and help your children learn about colours.

Clip The Grapevines?

1. Draw pictures of grapes and leaves and clip the grapes on a clothes peg and a vine on a clothes peg.
2. Give your child a picture with two strings and ask them to clip the grapes and the leaves in alternate fashion to work out a pattern. This is to test their IQ and also their motor skills.
   

Memory- Which picture did we see?

1. Show a picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.
   

Memory- Where is the character?

1. Show a picture of 5 fingers with three puppet characters placed on 3 different fingers.
2. Now give them a picture of the fingers and the three characters and ask them to place them on the right fingers.

Memory- Where is the ball?

1. Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.
   
2. Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.

Intuition- Find the bicycle :

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a bicycle and the other one is empty.
   
2. Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..
   
3. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the bicycle
   
4. Repeat 2-3 times

Match the Heads

1. Show your child a picture of 5 different cats with different size starting from big to small all in a row.
   
2. Show only their bodies and ask your child to attach the right sized head to the right sized cat. When they are done, ask them to feed the right sized fish.
   

Count the flowers

1. Show your child a picture of a lady with a huge hat with numbers on it.
2. Ask your child to count the flowers and place them on the hat one by one.
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Things in the garden

1. Show a picture of a garden and the names of some of the things listed there.
   
2. Take out the words as you name them and ask your child to put the words back next to the item.
   

Put in the flowers

1. Draw a picture of a garden on a styrofoam cup. Draw some flower stems and pook a hole at the top of the stems.
   
2. Next, use the furry wired decorations and roll up one end to act as flowers. Ask your child to put the flowers into the holes.
   
3. Then get them to take out the flowers and count them. or say the colours.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the letters G and H. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Draw a star after they are done.
   
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Cut out strips of paper and design an artwork that you like.

Shichida Lesson 12 (2 y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing training:

1. Find a picture of an aeroplane and attach a string to it.
2. Ask your child to hold the string and blow so that the aeroplane can fly.

Sight Training

1. Make a mobile of a dragonfly with a bell attached to it.
   
2. Move the mobile left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the dragonfly or do a high five with it.

Pretend Play: Skiing

1. Show your child a series of flashcards that tells him about a skiing trip for the family.
   
2. Make two skis with two sticks for him to sky.
3. Put a rubber strap so tat your child can strap his leg in and pretend to ski all over the room.

Right brain: Magic Ball

1. Show your child a magic ball.
   
2. Take out some picture cards (either tweety bird, slyvestor or bugs bunny) in no particular order.
3. After showing about 8 cards, ask him to guess what will come out next.

Language Training:

1. Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language and ask him to guess which story did it come from.
   
   PS: Ace got it right! And so did ALL the children in his class!
   

Language Training- The Animals:

1. Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.
   
2. Now show the same animals and name them in French.
   

Sing a song/Tell a story: (The Queen's Question)

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc


Shichida Musical Theatre: Teddy Bear's Party

1. Sing a song and help your children learn how to count as they count the teddy bears.

Where are the dinosaurs?

1. Show a picture of 6 cars with 3 dinosaurs placed at three different places.
   
2. Now give them a picture of the 6 cars and give them three different dinosaurs and see if they can place them at the right cars

Memory- Which picture did we see?

1. Show a picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.
   

Memory- Where is the fruit?

1. Show a picture of 3 different types of fruit in the particular order.
2. Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the fruits inside in that particular order.
3. Teach the child the name of the three fruits

Exercise- Wheelbarrow:

1. Ask your child to put his hands on the floor, hold his legs.
2. Get your child to 'walk' with his hands ;)
   

Intuition- Find Few or More :

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is has 1 scoop of ice cream. The other one has many Scoops.
2. Tell your child which card is 1 and which is many and ask them to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..
   
3. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find many scoops so that they can share with mummy.
   
4. Repeat 2-3 times

Roll

1. Give your child a roll of paper.
   
2. Give them three dinosaurs and ask them to roll that roll of paper towards the dinosaurs to knock them over.
   

Spin the wheel

1. Give your baby a wheel with numbers on it. Ask them to spin it and put the same number of pebbles into the cup.
   
2. Spin and count again.

Jigzaw Puzzle

1. Show your child a 3 piece puzzle picture.
   
2. Give your child the puzzle and ask them to match the right picture with the right side. (Eg, ask them if this is the upper left piece and match. If it is the same, tell them it is the same and get them to press the puzzle in.
3. Repeat a few times.

Tall or Short

1. Show your child a few pictures depeciting tall and short (eg, Giraffe Vs Girl, Tall building Vs Short building, Tall mountain Vs Short mountain, Tall tree Vs Short Tree)
2. Give them the words TALL and SHORT and ask them to place the words on the respective items that they compare.
3. Repeat a few times.
   

Big, Medium Or Small

1. Show your child a few pictures of BIG papa bear, Medium Mama Bear, Small baby bear.
2. Give them three sizes of the same item and ask them to distribute accordingly, giving the BIG to BIG papa bear, Medium to medium sized mam bear, etc

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Chopstick Training

1. Show a picture of a clown with rectangular strips and boxes above him.
   
2. Tell your child the clown needs to have a colourful background to become happy again.
   
3. Give your child a pair of chopsticks and help him grip the strips (cut out from dish washing sponge) and place them above the clown to make the clown happy.
   
4. Say the colours as you pick them out.
5. When done, say the colours as you help him pick and put it back into the cup
   

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 11. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Draw a star after they are done.
   
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Finger Play
Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground
Teddy bear, teddy bear, show your feet
Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do

Teddy bear, teddy bear, go up stairs
Teddy bear, teddy bear, say your prayers
Teddy bear, teddy bear, go to bed
Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do


Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Let your child cut out 4 semi circles and then make it into a pram ;)


Notes by teacher IVY:
- Do home practice daily with your child
- Your children's rate of learning in one month is equivalent to what they learn in 10 years before age 3 years old.
- if you miss one month of home practice, you miss out 10 years worth of learning
- you will see the output when they start to learn how to talk properly

Shichida Lesson 11 (2 y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing training:

1. Use a satay stick and stick two flowers at the end.
2. Draw a picture of a bee and attach it to a straw. Put the satay stick through the straw so that the bee is dangling and ask your child to blow so that the bee will spin around the stick.
   

Sight Training

1. Make a mobile of a worm with a bell attached to it.
   
2. Move the mobile left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the worm or do a high five with it.

Pretend Play: Visit to Jurong Bird Park

1. Show a series of flashcards that tell your about their visit to the Jurong Birdpark. Ask them to take pictures of what they see.
2. Next, give them a 'photo album' and ask them to put it in the photos next to the right captions so that they can recap the story of their visit to their parents.
   

Pretend Play: Magic Laptop

1. Show your child various pictures and make up a story with it.
2. Tell them now that they have to type in this story into the computer that you will be giving them and when they spell and type the name of the picture (eg, banana, octopus, car) and press enter, the picture will appear on the computer.
   
3. Fold a card into two to make the Laptop. The bottom half, draw the keys A-Z with the space bar and enter key. The top half, paste a transparency over so that you create a pocket where you can slot in the pictures.
   
4. Start typing and tell them the story as they go along.
5. When they are done, ask them to type in their names.
   

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)
   

Language Training- The Animals:

1. Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.
   
2. Now show the same animals and name them in Spanish.
   

Sing a song/Tell a story: (The Queen's Question)

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, etc.. etc


Shichida Musical Theatre: Name the body parts

1. Sing a song and name the body parts as you sing.
2. Touch your child's body parts as we go along.
   

Listen to a Song:
Listen to a song about cats in Chinese.

What is he eating?

1. Show a big giant frog and tell your child that he is eating something.
2. let them guess if he is eating a centipede or a caterpillar.
3. Show them the answer.
   

Can you taste it?

1. Show your child a picture of two apples. One red one which you tell them is sweet and juicy. The other one is green where you tell them it is sour.
2. Put one of the two apples in an envelope and write the word "taste" on it.
   
3. Ask your child to pretend to eat the apples and taste it and then ask them to guess which apple is in the envelope. Repeat again in you want.
   

Memory- Which picture did we see?

1. Show a picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.
   

Memory- Where is the fruit?

1. Show a picture of 3 different types of fruit in the particular order.
2. Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the fruits inside in that particular order.
3. Teach the child the name of the three fruits

Exercise- Pretend to be a gymnast:

1. Give your child a stick with a ribbon on it.
2. Ask them to wave it around and pretend to be a gymnast.

Intuition- Find Few or More :

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is has 3 fishes. The other one has many fishes.
2. Tell your child which card is FEWand which is MORE and ask them to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..
   
3. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find eitherfew or more.
4. Repeat 2-3 times

Catch the fish

1. Give your child a stick with a magnet at the end.
2. Give them three coloured bowls (Red, Blue and Yellow)
3. Give them fishes of various numbers and put a paper clip on the fish.
4. Ask your child to fish the fishes and put the different coloured fishes in the respective coloured bowls. (eg, blue fish goes to blue bowl)
   

Spin the wheel

1. Give your baby a wheel with number of dots on it. Ask them to spin it and count the dots at where it stops.
2. Count the number of respective little stars and put them into the cup.
   
3. Spin and count again.

Jigzaw Puzzle

1. Show your child a 6 piece puzzle picture.
   
2. Give your child the puzzle and ask them to match the right picture with the right side. (Eg, ask them if this is the upper left piece and match. If it is the same, tell them it is the same and get them to press the puzzle in.
3. Repeat a few times.

Light or Heavy

1. Show your child a picture of a see saw and have velcro at both ends of the see saw
   
2. Ask your child to place two comparisons on the see saw (eg, baby Vs Sumo wrestler, Elephant Vs Mice, Car Vs bicycle)
   
3. show them that the heavier portion will drop down and tell them that this item is heavy and that the other item is light.
   
4. Repeat a few times.
   
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 12. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Draw a star after they are done.
   
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Finger Play
Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground
Teddy bear, teddy bear, show your feet
Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do

Teddy bear, teddy bear, go up stairs
Teddy bear, teddy bear, say your prayers
Teddy bear, teddy bear, go to bed
Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do


Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Let your child cut out 4 trapeziums and ask them to form anything they like.

Shichida Lesson 10 (2 y/o)

Note: Lesson 9 was attended by Waipo so I do not have the details.

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Sight Training

1. Make a mobile of a panda with a bell attached to it.
   
2. Move the mobile left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the hot air balloon or do a high five with it.

Pretend Play: Picnic

1. Show a series of flashcards that tell your child about what we do to prepare when the whole family goes on a picnic.

Pretend Play: Campfire

1. Use cardboard to make a makeshift fire place. Tell your child he/she and family and friends are going on a picnic and after that to a campfire.
   
2. Stand around the campfire and tell them that we will sing and dance around the campfire to the song, If You Are Happy.
3. Let everyone sing and dance around the campfire.
   

Pretend Play: Lucky Draw

1. Show your child a poster and tell them we are going to have a lucky draw. Show what are the first, second, third, fourth-sixth prize.
2. Give them a ticket stub and ask them to tear and put into the lucky draw box.
3. Draw their numbers, call them out and give them their price accordingly to the prize poster.

Pretend Play: Using chopsticks

1. Give your child a pair of chopsticks and put some cotton balls inside a container
2. Ask your child to use chopsticks to pick up the cotton balls (with your help) and feed themselves to the 'glutinious rice' (cotton balls).
3. One for themselves and one for mummy.

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)
   

Language Training- The Animals:

1. Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.
   
2. Now show the same animals and name them in Spanish.
   

Sing a song/Tell a story:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for alphabets (Letters A-M, N-Z, Numbers 1-10, 11-20, Dots (1 small, 1 big, 2 small, 2 big.. etc. You may also include shapes of different countries, how to make foods, opposites, money, time, actions)

Who is it?

1. Show a face of the yellow bear and ask what vehicle he is driving. Cut out only the head and cover all other parts with another board.
2. Ask your child to guess what vehicle he is driving.

Who is dancing?

1. Show a face of dancer and guess which of the three figures is dancing.
   

Memory- Where should the animals be?

1. Show a picture of a ship with three animals in each window for 30 sec.
2. Ask the child to place the right animal in the right window next.
   

Memory- Where is the flower?

1. Show a picture of 3 different types of flowers in the particular order.
2. Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the flowers inside in that particular order.
3. Teach the child the name of the three flowers
   

Memory- Which is the right picture?

1. Show the picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show them two similar pictures after that and ask them to guess which was the picture that they had been looking at.

Exercise- Pretend to be a DUCK:
Ask your child to squad down first.
After that waddle around and quack like a duck.

Intuition- Find More or Less :

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is has 3 flowers. The other one has many flowers.
2. Tell your child which card is LESS and which is MORE.
   
3. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find either less or more.
4. Repeat 2-3 times

Sort things out: Big and Small

1. Give your baby some toys and a big and a small bowl.
2. Ask your child to sort out the big toys into the big bowl and the small toy into the small bowl
3. (Eg, big or small camera, peg, paper clip, ball, star, safety pin etc)

Sort it out: Fruits big and small

1. Give your baby some pictures of big and small fruits and a big and a small plate.
2. Ask your child to sort out the big fruits into the big plates and the small fruits into the small plates
   
3. (Eg, big or small apples, grape, orange, bananas, strawberries, etc)
   NOTE: They look exactly the same but are just different in size.
   

Jigzaw Puzzle

1. Show your child a 3 piece puzzle picture.
   
2. Give your child the puzzle and ask them to match the right picture with the right side. (Eg, ask them if this is the upper left piece and match. If it is the same, tell them it is the same and get them to press the puzzle in.
3. Repeat a few times.
   
   

Things in the Garden

1. Show your child a picture of things in the garden with the words stuck to them.
   
2. Point to the words and read aloud to the child.
3. Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.
4. Shuffle them and mix them and give the word to the child and ask him to find the right item and paste the word next to the right item.
   
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 9. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Draw a star after they are done.
   
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Finger Play
Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground
Teddy bear, teddy bear, show your feet
Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do

Teddy bear, teddy bear, go up stairs
Teddy bear, teddy bear, say your prayers
Teddy bear, teddy bear, go to bed
Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do

Counting:
Give your child a picture of the sea. Tell them that children are going to play at the sea.
Give them a row of children to paste onto the picture and ask them to count the children.
Next give them a row of sunblock to paste and count the sunblocks so that we know there are enough sunblocks for the children.


Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Let your child cut out 4 triangles and ask them to form anything they like.

Cut and paste the snake together and colour the snake.

Shichida Lesson 8 (2 y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Sight Training

1. Make a mobile of hot hair balloons and attach a bell to it.
   
2. Move the mobile left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
3. When baby is done following, get him to catch the hot air balloon or do a high five with it.

Pretend Play

1. Ask your baby to roll a dice. On the dice, there are a few activities like visit the notice board, go for a shower, visit the shopping mall, raise the flag, tie the ribbons, pluck the apples.
   
2. Place pictures of the relevant activities. Eg, picture of shopping mall, picture of apples with pluckable apples, etc.
   
3. Once your baby rolls the die to do that activity, carry out that activity with him.

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)
   

Sing a song:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for alphabets (Letters A-M, N-Z, Numbers 1-10, 11-20, Dots (1 small, 1 big, 2 small, 2 big.. etc. You may also include shapes of different countries, how to make foods, opposites, money, time, actions)

Who is it?

1. Put a long roll of paper inside a tissue box and take it out bit by bit. Show that there is a red, blue and yellow ribbon (they appear one after another)
   
2. Ask your child to guess what is the next balloon that will appear as you continue to roll

Who is it?

1. Show the face of a guitarist and a hole driller. Ask your child to guess which is it inside the hidden picture.

Memory- Where should the bears be?

1. Show a picture of 6 hot hair balloons with two bears in diff balloons. Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the animals inside in that particular order.

Memory- Where is the flower?

1. Show a picture of 3 different types of flowers in the particular order.
2. Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the flowers inside in that particular order.
3. Teach the child the name of the three flowers
   

Memory- Which is the right picture?

1. Show the picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show them two similar pictures after that and ask them to guess which was the picture that they had been looking at.
   

Intuition- Find the words 三 :

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a the words IV
2. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the words.
3. Repeat 2-3 times

Jigzaw Puzzle

1. Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.
   
2. Give your child the puzzle and ask them to match the right picture with the right side. (Eg, ask them if this is the upper left piece and match. If it is the same, tell them it is the same and get them to press the puzzle in.
3. Repeat a few times.
   
   

Things in the bedroom

1. Show your child a picture of things at the bedroom with the words stuck to them.
   
2. Point to the words and read aloud to the child.
3. Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.
4. Shuffle them and mix them and give the word to the child and ask him to find the right item and paste the word next to the right item.
   
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Visit the Safari

1. Give your child a of the SAFARI.
2. All the animals inside the safari have a FRONT view and a BACK view. The pictures can be turned around as they swivel around on a toothpick.
   
3. Show your child the animals and ask for the FRONT or the BACK view.

Expressions:
Show your child the various expressions and ask them to imitate the expressions for you.

Counting Numbers:

1. Give your child a picture of an apple tree with the numbers 1-30 and ask your child to count them.
   

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 7. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Kick the Ball
Give your child a ball and ask him to kick towards you. This will help him to practice kicking. You can also put a picture of the goal post on the wall and ask him to kick into the goal post.

Finger Play
Clap your hands,
Touch your toes,
Turn around and put a finger on your nose
Flap your arms and hop on your feet
Wiggle your fingers and touch the sky


Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Give your baby a of a sun, a cloud, a car and a flower. Ask your child to colour them and cut them out and then paste them on a piece of paper as artwork

Shichida Lesson 7 (2 y/o)

Note: Lesson 6 was attended by Max daddy as I was in Taiwan.. dun think he can recall much.. hahaa..

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing Training:

1. Draw a picture of a Dog.
   
2. Add the ear as a flap and tell your child to blow on the flap so that the dog can cool his ears

Sight Training

1. Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson is dog.
2. Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.
3. Move the picture left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
4. When baby is done following, get him to catch the sun or do a high five with it.

Pretend Play

1. Ask your baby to pretend to pack for a picnic.
   
2. Give your baby some 'cakes' glasses and sheets of sponge in various colours to act as bread (white), lettuce (green), tomato (red), cheese (yellow) and ask your baby to make sandwiches.
3. Once the sandwiches are done, get baby to pack them all into the container and pretend to go on a picnic!

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)
   

Sing a song:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for alphabets (Letters A-M, N-Z, Numbers 1-10, 11-20, Dots (1 small, 1 big, 2 small, 2 big.. etc. You may also include shapes of different countries, how to make foods, opposites, money, time, actions)

Who is it?

1. Show picture of a cave. There is an animal hiding behind the cave. Who is it?
   
2. Guess whether the animal is a LION or a TIGER. After the child has made a guess, open the door of the cave to reveal the answer.
   

Memory- Where should they sit?

1. Show a picture of two hot air balloons with three animals seated together in a particular order.
2. Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the animals inside in that particular order.

Memory- Where is the flower?

1. Show a picture of 3 different types of flowers in the particular order.
2. Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the flowers inside in that particular order.

Memory- Which is the right picture?

1. Show the picture for 30 seconds.
2. Show them two similar pictures after that and ask them to guess which was the picture that they had been looking at.
   

Intuition- Find the words IV:

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a the words IV
2. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the words.
3. Repeat 2-3 times

Jigzaw Puzzle

1. Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.
   
2. Give your child the puzzle and ask them to match the right picture with the right side. (Eg, ask them if this is the upper left piece and match. If it is the same, tell them it is the same and get them to press the puzzle in.
3. Repeat a few times.
   
   

Farm Words

1. Show your child a picture of things at the farm with the words stuck to them.
   
2. Point to the words and read aloud to the child.
3. Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.
4. Shuffle them and mix them and give the word to the child and ask him to find the right item and paste the word next to the right item.
   
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Read the Story

1. Give your child a story book and read the story once to them.
2. Some pictures in the story can be taken out. Take them out and read the story again and ask your child to place the right picture to the right page

Counting Numbers:

1. Give your child a picture of a witch and a moon with 30 stars on it. There are numbers in all the stars.
2. Give your child a small toy (eg, a red plastic teddy bear) and ask the child to stamp on the numbers as they count to help the which get to the moon.
3. Count from 1-30 and then from 30 to 1

Emotions

1. Give your child a sheet of paper with different words that describe emotions like Happy, Sad, Mad, Angry, Hungry, Confused, etc
2. Read a conversation to them and ask them to point to the different words that describe the various emotions when you say them.
3. Repeat again.
4. When you are done, you can ask your child to act out the different emotions to show you.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 1. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Finger Play
Clap your hands,
Touch your toes,
Turn around and touch your nose
Flap your arms and stretch them high
Wiggle your fingers and touch the sky


Inside and Outside

1. Give your child a yellow duck and a few pictures where the words INSIDE and OUTSIDE can be interchangably seen.
2. Push to inside and ask them to put the duck inside.. the bathtub, the present box, the door, pocket. Push to outside and put the duck outside.

Singing: Oh Me Oh My
Oh me oh my what colour is the tree?
Green green green...
Oh me oh my what colour is the sky?
Blue blue blue...
Oh me oh my what colour is the bee?
Black and yellow

Artwork Homework: Cut and paste
Give your baby a picture of a mushroom. Give your child strips of paper and ask the child to cut the trips into small cubes. Then ask your child to paste these cubes onto the mushrooms.

Shichida Lesson 5 (2 y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing Training:

1. Draw a picture of a snail. Roll some paper into a tube and paste on top to act as the shell.
2. Ask your baby to blow on the shell so that the snail will move.
   

Sight Training

1. Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson is pig.
2. Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.
3. Move the picture left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
4. When baby is done following, get him to catch the sun or do a high five with it.

Pretend Play

1. Ask your baby to pretend to be a butterfly.
2. Show flashcards of the butterfly flying to the grass, the flowers, the sky.
3. Give your baby a homemade butterfly suit to put on (you can make using a big plastic bag and ask him to fly around.
4. Paste pictures of the grass, the flowers and the sky on the wall and get baby to fly towards them.
5. If baby refuses, let them hold a picture of the butterfly and fly the picture instead.

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)
   

Sing a song:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for alphabets (Letters A-M, N-Z, Numbers 1-10, 11-20, Dots (1 small, 1 big, 2 small, 2 big.. etc. You may also include shapes of different countries, how to make foods, opposites, money, time, actions)

Who is it?

1. Show picture of an animal wearing a tall hat showing only the face.
   
2. Guess what is hiding under the tall hat... is the animal a rabbit? a cat or a dog?

What is in the tube

1. Something is in the tube. Is it a lemon or a lollipop?
2. Ask your child to guess if it is a lemon or a lollipop.
   

Intuition- Find the shape:

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a pink trapezium).
2. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the shape.
3. Repeat 2-3 times

Jigzaw Puzzle

1. Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.
   
2. Give your child the puzzle and ask them to match the right picture with the right side. (Eg, ask them if this is the upper left piece and match. If it is the same, tell them it is the same and get them to press the puzzle in.
3. Repeat a few times.
   
   

3 Letter words

1. Show your child a picture of things filled with three letter words
2. Point to the words and read aloud to the child.
3. Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.
4. Shuffle them and mix them and give the word to the child and ask him to find the right item and paste the word next to the right item.
   

Fun Play With Beads Counters

1. Count from 1-20 using the beads counters.
2. Ask your child to move and count the beads one by one by helping him move the beads with his hand.
3. Turn the counter over and let him flip the beads upwards to count again from 1-10.
   
4. Teach him how to make two triangles by counting the beads in increasing numbers.
5. Sing the alphabets and count along and find out how many alphabets there are.
6. Count again in different languages
7. Count the number of letters in their names and compare LONG and SHORT, Many and Few.
   
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Memory game: Hot stuff

1. Show a picture of three hot cups of stuff. Milk, Water, Soup which is put in a table with three columns in this particular order
2. Now, give them an empty Card with the table and pass them a picture of a glass of milk, a glass of water and a bowl of soup.
3. Ask your child to place them in the right order inside the columns.
4. If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.

Intuition/ Memory Game: Guess which picture I show you

1. Prepare two similar looking pictures.
2. Show your child one of them.
3. Take out the two pics and ask them to guess which one was it that you showed them.(dun be surprised, they get it right VERY OFTEN!)

Recognizing numbers
Give your child an instrument. Tell your child that now we are going to shake the intrument to create noise whenever we see the numbers 3. Show them some flashcards with numbers varying from 1-5 and ask them to shake when they see 6.

Counting Numbers:
Give your child a book with the numbers 11-20.
Get them to trace the numbers with their fingers and once they are done, ask them to tap on the number that you say.
Open the page and choose between two numbers
If they get it right, high five with them.
if they get it wrong, get them to trace the number again
(PS: after this session, Ace knows 2 comes after one, claps and calls himself a clever boy in the lift just now)

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 1. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Finger Play
(Sorry, this one is new and I dun remember it yet.. haha)


Artwork Homework: Cut the Fox
Give your baby a picture of the head of the fox and the body. Ask your child to cut on the dotted line using a scissors (with your help) and then paste the body and the head together.

Free Flashcards

Was trying to make some flashcards for Ace.

Apparently, according to Dr Shichida, when we flash our flashcards at our babies, we should flash it to them at 0.5 seconds per card (yes, tat takes LOTS OF PRACTICE). This is because when we do that, the information would send very strong vibrations to the brain and it will help your baby's brain to develop better and faster.

Mostly though, the cards are not flashed for them to remember or to learn... but just to stimulate their mind. The end result though is that they WILL remember these things and when they learn them academically in future, they will find it easy to remember, use and spell these words and name these things.

You are encouraged to flash 100-250 flashcards to your child per month. Try not to repeat flashing the same cards twice in each sitting and once the child is bored, switch to some other activity ;)

Usually, try to start with pictures first as children remember better with imaging rather than words. After the pictures, you can slowly insert the words inside as well.

You can start flashcard flashing from three months onwards. I really regret only starting NOW.. cos Ace is already 22 months old. But nevertheless, I do my best to catch up ;)

Most importantly, to Ace, it is like watching TV and he finds it fun as well. He likes the flashcards so much that he will actually point to his flashcards and ask me to let him repeat again.

He enjoys it so much that now before our flashcard sessions, he will readily start doing the prep exercises like the energy ball and the hugging.. ;)

Here are some tips for flashcard flashing based on my personal exeprience:

• Switch off all disruptions like radio, TV, etc.
• Always prepare your lesson and pack your cards in advance so that you dun need to stop in between
• Start by giving your child a hug to connect and praise your child first. If you are a shichida mummy, then do the energy ball to prepare the right brain
  
• If you want, you can play auto suggestion tape in the background (I play the Fun With Numbers disc in the background)
• Flash at a speed of 0.5-1 second per card
• Flash mostly picture cards and only 10%-20% word cards
• Put the cards at slightly above your child's eye level 30cm away
• Place the stack of cards upright on your left palm and pick the card you want to flash from the back of the pack and shift it to the front using your right hand. When the card touches your left palm, then say the name of the card.
• Make sure you say the name correctly!
• Write down the name on the back of the card for easy reference
• Practice, practice, practive! Practice flashing while you watch TV!
• Make it fun!
• Change cards when your baby gets bored with them
• Note, the cards should not be the only activities you do, do also do other right brain activities to make your home sessions interesting ;)
  

Here are some free ones I found from the web to get you started ;)

http://www.esljunction.com/esl-efl-flashcards/esl-tefl-efl-flashcards.html

http://www.firstschoolyears.com/

http://www.mes-english.com/

http://instantresource.net/12/learning-4.php?k=free+flashcards

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/register

Shichida Lesson 4 (2 y/o)

Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.

After that, start gathering the energy ball and throw it high into the air and splash on their heads and then brush away the bad things and gather another energy ball, compress it and eat it.

Breathing Training:

1. Draw a picture of a water melon and a fly on top (that is linked to your water melon by a strip of paper of laminated plastic.
   
2. Ask your baby to blow away the fly and after they blow away the fly, they can 'eat' the watermelon.
   

Sight Training

1. Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson is smiley son with hands to high five with the children… and hang a bell behind it.
2. Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.
3. Move the picture left, right, up, down horizontally or vertically. You can also move around in a zig zag manner just to let his eyes move around. This will work his eye muscles.
4. When baby is done following, get him to catch the sun or do a high five with it.

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)
   

Sing a song:

1. Sing at normal speed
2. Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)

Flash Cards:

1. Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods.
2. You may include flashcards of pictures with their word representatives after the picture. It is important to expose your child to an image first because it helps them remember faster.
   
3. Flash them quickly at your child. Show each picture only for two seconds and read out what it is as you flash it. You do not have to worry about getting tongue tied.
4. Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.

NOTE: You can do so also for alphabets (Letters A-M, N-Z, Numbers 1-10, 11-20, Dots (1 small, 1 big, 2 small, 2 big.. etc. You may also include shapes of different countries, how to make foods, opposites, money, time, actions)

Who will win the tug of war?

1. Give your child a picture two men who are doing a tug of war. Let them guess which one will win the race.
2. The two men are both holding on to a ribbon. Let them guess which one has a movable ribbon and after they have guessed, we will pull the ribbon to show the winner as one of the men's ribbon can be pulled and the man attached will move towards the center ;)
   

Put the right colour train windows

1. Give your child a picture of the train with relevant coloured windows.
   
2. After 30 seconds, hide the picture and give them a picture of the train without the windows and then give them the windows and ask them to place them correctly in the right order.
   

Intuition- Find the pink trapezium:

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a pink trapezium).
2. Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the blue circle.
3. Repeat 2-3 times

Jigzaw Puzzle

1. Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.
   
2. Give your child the puzzle and ask them to match the right picture with the right side. (Eg, ask them if this is the upper left piece and match. If it is the same, tell them it is the same and get them to press the puzzle in.
3. Repeat a few times.
   
   

The M Words Picnic

1. Open up the M word shopping bag when we go for a picnic.
2. Inside there are various things starting with M. Eg, mountain, man, monkey, mango, mat, etc and give your child the words and ask them to place the words next to the things.
   

Find the right vehicles

1. Give your child a picture filled with various different vehicles. Eg, Lorry, boat, yatch, motorbike, etc
2. Give your child the words (names of the vehicles)and ask them to place the words next to the things.
   
   

Buying and Eating Ice Cream

1. Pretend play and the teacher takes out a box and says she is an Ice cream man and she rings the ice cream bell.
2. She then takes out a cone, a cup and a piece of bread and ask the child what type of ice cream they want. (Is it the cone, the cup or bread)
3. Then she will scoop the ice cream (coloured fur balls) and name the flavours as she scoops.
4. Then she will ask them to pay her money and after the child pretends to pay, the teacher will pass him or her the ice cream and they can pretend to eat.
   
   

Use the right utensils to eat

1. Give your child a set of utensils and ask them to flip the pictures.
2. Eg, when they see a picture of a salad, ask them what should they use to eat the salad and give them the right utensils to use.
3. Include, rice, cake, a cup of tea, watermelon.
   

Linking memory game

1. The purpose of this game is to help your child improve their memory by linking things up. You can tell a story and link the things up in order. It does not have to be a logical story.
2. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
3. Now turn the cards around so that the back (which is blank) is facing you and ask your child to pick out the hotel or the crab and see if they can remember where it should be.

Memory game: Hot stuff

1. Show a picture of three hot cups of stuff. Milk, Water, Soup which is put in a table with three columns in this particular order
2. Now, give them an empty Card with the table and pass them a picture of a glass of milk, a glass of water and a bowl of soup.
3. Ask your child to place them in the right order inside the columns.
4. If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.

Intuition/ Memory Game: Guess which picture I show you

1. Prepare two similar looking pictures.
2. Show your child one of them.
3. Take out the two pics and ask them to guess which one was it that you showed them.(dun be surprised, they get it right VERY OFTEN!)

Recognizing numbers
Give your child an instrument. Tell your child that now we are going to shake the intrument to create noise whenever we see the numbers 3. Show them some flashcards with numbers varying from 1-5 and ask them to shake when they see 3.

Writing

1. Prepare a practice sheet for your child.
2. Laminate the practice sheet
3. Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.
4. One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 1. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.
5. Wipe clean and reuse it again.

Finger Play

1. Open your palms and make the sign of a four. Close your fingers over your thumb and say, “This is a bee hive..”
2. Open your other hand and say, “where are the bees…”
3. Use the open palm to cover the top part of the clenched fist and say, “They are all in the hive where no one can see: (at the word see, out the clenched fist to your eye and look inside.
4. “Let’s count them..” And you start to count as you lift up finger by finger and when all 5 fingers are opened, you go “bzzzzzz..”
5. Repeat again

A + B = C

1. Your your child a picture of a banana, a cap and a bear together. Ask them what combination will this become?
2. Will it become a bear with a cap with a banana on the cap or a bear with a cap with an apple on it?
3. you can give different options as long as they vary in items and colours. Let them understand that when you put certain things together, they have to appear together.
   

Feed the birds with worms (6-10):

1. Give your baby pictures of birds with hole cut at the beak and give them furry worms. Ask them to feed the birds and count how many birds there are as they insert the worms in.
2. Leave the worms there and when you are done, you can ask the baby to take out the worms while counting them.

Artwork: Dalmation

1. Give your baby a picture of a Dalmation and give them round stickers to paste to create a dalmation. This is to ensure that your baby will be able to work on his motor skills as he sticks the stickers.

Artwork Homework: balloon

1. Give your baby a picture of three balloons and get your baby to tear paper into small pieces and 'colour' the balloon by pasting coloured paper or magazine paper on it.