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.