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.
   

Shichida Lesson 3 (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 car with two wheels. For one of the wheels, make it into a windmill.
   
2. Ask your baby to blow to make the wheel turn.

Pretend Play

1. Use the flashcards to tell your baby how to fold napkins for the restaurant.
2. Show him the steps by steps how to do it. Let him practice and do it himself.

Sight Training

1. Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson is a cloud with blue frills acting as water… 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 cloud or do a high five with it.

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese.

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)

Who is chasing the man?

1. Give your child a picture with a man running.
2. Something is chasing the man and you turn it the other way round. Ask your child who is chasing the man and give them three pictures (a mice, a monster, an elephant) to choose from.

Who is singing?

1. Give your child a stage with the curtains closed and only the face exposed. Someone is singing, ask them who...
2. Give your child three choices. IS it the INdian girl, the Malay girl or the Chinese girl. Remove the curtains and reveal the singer later ;)
   

Intuition- Find the blue hexagon:

1. Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a blue hexagon).
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.
   
   

Use the tools

1. Prepare a picture with various things and give your child the various tools to match the things to 'repair' them.
2. Have a nail (hammer), bolt and nut (spanner), broken bowl (glue), screw (screwdriver), door (key)..
   
3. Ask your to use the tools correctly with the relavant picture.

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.

Memory game: Colour Mushrooms

1. Show a picture of three colour mushrooms for 20 seconds.
   
2. Now, give them the same picture and give them the three coloured mushrooms and ask your child to match the colours in the right place.
   
3. If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.

Memory game: Active boy

1. Show a picture of a circle, a triangle and a square. Inside each shape, there is a boy doing different actions.
   
2. After 30 seconds, close the picture and ask your child to place the picture of the child inside the right shape.
3. If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.

Pretend Play- Let's Be Superman

1. Introduce flashcards to say- Why must we be superman? (to save people, to become strong, to fly...)
   
2. Use a red plastic bag and make into the cape. Then use cardboard to make Superman's S sign and the shorts and hang over child using a string. Tell the child he is superman.
3. Mummy or daddy can carry baby and FLY them around the room! ;)
   
   

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 4 and numbers 5. Show them some flashcards with numbers varying from 1-5 and ask them to shake when they see 4 and 5.

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

How many drinks are there (6-10):

1. Give your baby pictures of juices with hole cut on top and give them straws. Ask them to put the straws into the drinks and count how many drinks there are as they insert the straws in.
2. Leave the straw there and when you are done, you can ask the baby to take out the spoons while counting them.

The Christmas Letter

The most important ingredient ever in the education of our child- LOVE

My Love mentor, Hiromi Sensei said that children who do not do well in their studies, often do so because they do not receive love in the way that they want from their parents.

Matter of fact is, most kids who go wild, turn delinquent do so because of a lack of love in the way they want it as well.

But as asians, we tend to keep things to ourselves and keep the love to ourself... especially when our child grows older. But it is not difficult to show your love at all!

I received this in my mailbox today and it really warmed my heart. Enjoy!

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Last Christmas I wanted to give our children something a little more meaningful than plastic swords, light sabers, and roller blades. So I decided to write each of them a heartfelt letter expressing my love for them. In the letter I told them how proud I was of them and that I loved them simply for who they were. I also listed some of their talents and strengths and thanked them for everything they do to make our family a success. Before they were allowed to open their one Christmas Eve present, I told them that I had a special gift for them and passed out the letters. The children who were old enough to read went ahead and read their letters, while my husband and I read the letters to the younger children. They all gave a sincere thanks and then were ready to move on to opening presents.

However, my nine year old son announced, "Wait, I'm not finished reading mine yet!" We all waited as he finished. Tears began to stream down his face. Then he hopped off the couch, walked over to me and gave me the longest, warmest hug I think I've ever received from him!

I was so moved that my fun-loving, basketball, soccer-playing son was so touched by these simple words of love. This was the boy that had knocked over a bucket of bright blue paint all over light tan carpet when his dad was painting his room. He was the one who made a two foot hole in our wall while mattress surfing down our stairs. He is the one who stood on a cupboard door to reach something up high and not only broke it right off its hinges, but also cracked the cupboard door in half (in not one, but two houses!)

This is the same boy who wore the same dirty socks for five days in a row before we noticed an awful smell coming from his feet. He was the one who managed to wear out several pairs of jeans and a pair of shoes in just one month and always came home from school with a dirty shirt.

This was also the boy who took care of his two year old sister every night when she asked for a drink of water or wanted a story. He was the one who brought her to mom and dad if she got scared in the night and fixed her a bowl of cereal every morning.

This was the boy who tenaciously practiced his multiplication test over and over until he could fill out all 144 squares in less than three minutes. He is the one who always unloaded his dishwasher without being asked. This was the boy who stood in my arms and cried on Christmas Eve.

Later on that night he went upstairs to his room and re-read the letter, again becoming teary-eyed. When his sister asked him if he was okay, he simply said, "My letter -- it's...happy!" As I went to kiss him good-night I saw him re-reading the letter one last time before his eyes closed in sleep.

We all enjoyed opening our gifts the next morning, but the best gift I received was a sincere warm hug of thanks from a teary-eyed nine-year old boy with a dimple in his cheek, perpetual holes in his jeans, and smelly socks!

--Wendy Jensen--

Breathing Exercise- Octopus

Remember the octopus I was telling you about to help your baby breathe?

Under my instructions, Waipo took like 10 mins to create this:

It is not quite the same as the one they used in class but what the heck, the whole purpose is just to make him blow.. doesnt matter how it looks.

Apparently, it works cos Ace is happily blowing at the tentacles now ;)

This is how you should be blowing it ;)

Good luck!

Ace’s Shichida Training- Lesson 2 (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 an OPEN BOOk. Cut a slit that is 0.1mm in the middle and slot in one ‘page’ of the book. Stick a sticker underneath the page.
2. Ask your baby to blow and the page will lift itself. Ask him to blow harder and keep blowing in order to see what picture is underneath.

Sound Training:

1. Make three different sounds. Eg, sound of handphone ringing, sound of a machine gun or sound of bird cheeping.
2. Show the related sounds to a related picture to your child.
3. Now make these sounds and ask your child to pick the correct card. You may use an electric organ to make the sounds.
   

Sight Training

1. Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson was a PIG… 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 animal or do a high five with it.

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese.

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. 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.
3. 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)


What is in the bedroom

1. Give your child a picture filled with things in the bedroom.
2. Try to make sure that these things are removable and restickable (you can laminate your picture and paste Velcro on the picture and underneath the shapes)
3. Tell your child about the different things and ask them to paste it back or pull it out.
4. Repeat about 2-3 times for each individual object.

Intuition- Find the blue circle:

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

Intuition- Find the right food:

1. Draw a big basket. Colour and laminate it.
2. Prepare picture of three fruits/vege. Pick one of the fruits/vege and paste it behind the slipper.
3. Tell a story. Mummy just came home from market.
4. Show them the picture of the three fruits and veg and ask them to guess which fruits/veg it is.

Imagery- What tree is this?

1. Prepare a picture of a tree. Prepare also a picture of an apple and an orange. Cut another set of apple and orange.
2. Show your child the picture of the tree and tell them that fruits grow mostly on trees. Guess what fruit is growing on THIS TREE.
3. Hide either the Apple or orange behind the tree and send the image of the picture to your child.
4. Show your child the picture of these two items and ask them to guess which item you hid behind the picture of the tree.

Cookery class- How to make Japanese Rice Ball:

1. Prepare a 3 white triangle shapes to be the rice ball and 3 black strips of paper to act as the seaweed.
2. Show a series of flashcards to teach them very quickly how to make the rice ball in 3-4 simple steps: First, scoop the rice, then gather the rice into a ball, add in a plum, make it into a triangle and add in the seaweed.
3. Now ask your child to make three of them following the steps. When he is done, you can get your child to “arhm” and eat it.

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.

Feed the fishes

1. Make a makeshift pond with an old shoe box and put in a picture of a pond and some fishes into the pond.
2. Roll some coloured paper into small crushed circles and ask your child to feed the fishes by putting it into the pond or throwing them into the pond.

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!)

Edible and Non Edible Fruits

1. Show a picture with 8 different types of foods.
2. Give your child a piece of paper with the categories, Edible and NON Edible written on top and ask them to sort them out.
3. Only the common fruits are edible. Explain to your child that even though the other fruits are also fruits, they look strange and may be poisonous and are therefore non edible.
4. Once done, ask them to take out the fruits and help you keep it by saying the name of the fruit.

Art work: Stick the eyes of the animals

1. Use a coloured paper and draw a three animals.
2. Draw circles around their eyes.
3. Give your child some round stickers and let them stick on the eyes themselves.

Recognizing numbers
Tell your child that now we are going to clap whenever we see the number ‘1’. Show them some flashcards with numbers varying from 1-10 and ask them to clap and say YEAH when we see the number 1.

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

Find the colour Spoon:

1. Give your baby pictures of 5 cups with 5 different colours.
2. Give them the 5 different colour spoons and ask them to match the spoons with the colours.
3. You can cut a slit at where the lid of the spoon is and ask the baby to put the spoon in and stir.
4. leave the spoon there and when you are done, you can ask the baby to take out the spoons while naming the colour for them.

Bring The Dogs Home

1. Show them a worksheet that writes down a number (any number 1-5), Beside the number, draw the number of kennel that represents that number.
2. Give your baby a picture of the dog and ask your baby to bring the dog home by putting the dog into the kennel while counting.
3. Keep and count with the baby too.

Shichida Lesson 1 (2 y/o)

Breathing Training:

1. Draw a picture of an octopus without the tentacles. Paste thick woolen treads below as the tentacles. (If you want, you can laminate the octopus so that you can reuse it)

2. Give your baby the octopus and show him how to BLOW. This will help him to breath better.

Sound Training:

1. Use three small containers and put different things inside. Eg, paperclips, green beans and wooden blocks.

2. Shake the three sounds and let your child listen to them. Repeat what they are as you shake.

3. Afterward, give your child a card with drawings of the three things on them. To make it more interesting, you may want to add a FLAP on top to cover these three things.

4. Shake one of the containers and ask your child to flip open the correct answer.

Sight Training

1. Draw a colourful picture of something. (You could draw and octopus and use hanging paper clips and bells as the legs) Hang a bell next to it so that it produces a loud sound. Attach a handle at the back for easy holding if you want.

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.

Language Training:

1. Tell a story in English.
2. Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese.

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.
2. 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.
3. 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)

Shape Sorting

1. Give your child a picture filled with things of different shapes.
2. Try to make sure that these shapes are removable and restickable (you can laminate your picture and paste Velcro on the picture and underneath the shapes)
3. Tell your child about the different shapes and ask them to paste it back or pull it out.
4. Repeat about 2-3 times for each individual shape. (Eg, circle, oval, parallelogram, trapezium, square, rectangle, triangle.

Intuition- Find the hexagon:

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

Intuition- Find the insect:

1. Draw a big bedroom slipper. Colour and laminate it.
2. Prepare picture of three insects. Pick of of the insects and paste it behind the slipper.
3. Tell a story. Use a big bedroom slipper and tell them that an insect has crawled behind the bedroom slipper.
4. Show them the picture of the three insects and ask them to guess which insect it is.

Imagery- Under The Sea

1. Prepare a picture of the sea. Prepare also a picture of a dolphin. Cut cut another set of dolphins and seashells.
2. Show your child the picture of the sea and tell them that dolphins and seashells are from under the sea.
3. Hide either the Dolphin or seashells behind the sea and send the image of the picture to your child.
4. Show your child the picture of these two items and ask them to guess which item you hid behind the picture of the sea.
   
   

Sensory Play- Play Dough

1. Roll play dough into a ball
2. Press it and roll it into a long strip.
3. Twirl it and make it into a ring

Science- Growth of a butterfly:

1. Prepare a picture of a leaf, a Butterfly, an egg, a small caterpillar, a big caterpillar and a cacoon.
2. Paste a Velcro strip on the leaf and at the back of all the various objects.
3. Share the life story of a butterfly and how the butterfly will lay an egg on the leaf, the egg will become a small caterpillar, and the caterpillar will eat and become a big caterpillar and then change into a cocoon and in the end transform into a butterfly.
4. As you share the story, stick the related item onto the leaf.
5. Tell the story again and let your child stick it on.

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. Eg: if you had a picture of a crown, a tv, a hotel, a crab, a door. The story would go like this: This is the crown, given by the King of TV in a hotel and there is a crab next door.
3. Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.
4. 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.

Memory game: Little Froggie

1. Show a picture of 3 Little Froggies in bed with three different expressions. The expressions are in the following order- Smiling, crying and laughing.
2. Now give your child a picture of three beds with slits at the top.
3. Give them three heads of froggies with different expressions and ask them to place the heads at the correct bed.
4. You can ask them to point while you help them with the slotting in.

Colours: Fly the aeroplane

1. Give your child a box full of coloured aeroplanes.
2. Prepare 5 coloured containers and place it in front of him.
3. Let your child match the colours and fly the aeroplane into the container.
   PS: For the container, you could just use a file like an envelope.

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!)

Bring the animals to their mamas

1. Show a picture with 8 animals.
2. Give your child 8 baby animals and ask them to bring the animals to their mothers.
3. Ask them to Velcro stick the babies next to the mummies.
4. Once done, ask them to take out the babies by saying the name of the animal.
   
   

Art work: Stick the windows

1. Use a coloured paper and draw a train with two carriages.
2. Draw rectangles as the windows.
3. Give your child some white stickers and let them stick on the windows themselves.

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 2.
5. After that, the child is free to draw on the practice sheet.
6. Wipe clean and reuse it again.