tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28455128934904346592024-03-05T10:44:34.966-08:00Special Training<*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-15146667406358242192008-06-21T03:03:00.000-07:002008-06-21T08:07:11.284-07:00Free FlashcardsHave not downloaded...<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=45">Occupations and Jobs Flashcards</a> (Set A) A simple set of job and occupation flashcards. Easy and fun job pictures.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=46">Occupations and Jobs Flashcards</a> (Set B) More jobs and occupations flashcards. The only job you have is to print these flash cards.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=47">Occupations and Jobs Flashcards</a> (Set C) Even more jobs and occupations flashcards. Just print and teach. That's your job.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=16">Places Flashcards</a> (Set A) Use the flashcards to elicit places around town.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=17">Places Flashcards</a> (Set B) Teach some more obscure places around the town and country.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=3">Prepositions Flashcards</a> Your students will be learning their prepositions in no time. These 14 cards are easy to identify.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=27">Rooms in a House Flashcards</a> Pictures of the most common rooms of a house.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=6">School Objects Flashcards</a> Teach your ESL students all the objects in a classroom. Teach them all 27 items!<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=1">Seasons & Weather Flashcards</a> These flashcards are great for teaching the weather and seasons. There are 18 different weather pictures!<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=37">Sports Flashcards</a> Here is a great list of common sports flashcards. From archery to weight lifting! Print and teach!<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=38">Sports Actions Flashcards</a> Instead of playing all the sports, use these flash cards to teach dozens of sport actions!<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=39">Sports Equipment Flashcards</a> Stop bringing your entire closet to class. Teach all the sports equipment with these easy to identify flashcards.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=40">Sports Vocabulary Flashcards</a> Here are some sports vocabulary flash cards that didn't fit in the other sports lists.<br /><br /><a class="main_link" title="" href="http://www.eslflashcards.com/preview.php?id=24">Time Flashcards</a> Stop drawing the time and start teaching it! This set of flashcards includes an analog picture of time for every 15 minutes.<*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-44122760925297759352007-08-13T00:00:00.000-07:002007-08-13T00:33:45.472-07:00Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 6 (2y/o)Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><div class="post-body entry-content"><p>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.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing training: </span><br /></p><ol><li>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.<br /></li><li>Ask your child to hold the string and blow that the sweet will turn.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Make a mobile of a cloud with a bell attached to it.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the dragonfly or do a high five wit</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right brain: Where is the apple?</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of a house with three windows marked A, B and C<br /></li><li>Ask them to guess where is the apple.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right brain: Place the balloons?</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of a cat holding three balloons of different colours for 10 seconds<br /></li><li>Give them the picture without the balloons and the balloons seperatedly.<br /></li><li>As them to place the balloons at the end of the strings in the right order.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where is the sheep?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a long strip with three seperate compartments inside.<br /></li><li>Hide two clouds and one sheep (with the top part tat looks exactly the same peeping out)</li><li>Ask your child to find the sheep<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Memory</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a series of 5 flashcards.<br /></li><li>Give them 6 flashcards and ask them to point the odd one out.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Build the blocks</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a bag. Ask them to open it and take out the three square blocks inside.</li><li>Show them two pictures and ask them to place the blocks accordingly to the pictures.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dots</span><br /><ol><li>Show pictures of numbers in random and variety dots.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The cat on the mat</span><br /><ol><li>Story of the cat on the mat with 4 animal characters.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your Own Constellation</span><br /><ol><li>Teacher Ivy shared about the different constellations, what they are called and their shapes using flashcards.</li><li>After that, the child is given a blank paper and 6 star stickers.<br /></li><li>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<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training- The Birds:<br /></span> <ol><li>Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.<br /></li><li>Now show the same animals and name them in French.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song/Tell a story: </span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shichida Musical Theatre: Learn The Colours</span><br /><ol><li>Sing a song and help your children learn about colours.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Simon Says...</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child flashcards and say, "Simon says..."<br /></li><li>Flash a card of the action and then do the action and get your child to follow</li><li>Eg of actions are "clap, hop, run, skip...etc"<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which picture did we see?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the ball?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.<br /></li><li>Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the ice cream</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a ice cream and the other one is empty.<br /></li><li>Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..<br /></li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the ice cream<br /></li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigsaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child an 8 piece puzzle with the right answer and ask them to fix it.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Counting</span><br /><ol><li>Use the additions song and sing +3 and +4 to your children<br /></li><li>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<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Draw a star after they are done.<br /></li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q is for Queen</span><br /><ol><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">R is for Rabbit</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a of a rabbit and cut out a hole in the mouth.<br /></li><li>Give your child small squares with pictures and words starting with letter R.</li><li>Ask your child to say the word and feed the rabbit the squares.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Feed the Mouse</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>Use a container and put a picture of the face of a mouse on top. Cut a hole where the mouth is.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste<br /></span><span>Cut out the picture of the egg and put something precious inside<br /><br /></span> </div><span><br /></span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-58337638731146490842007-08-01T00:03:00.000-07:002007-07-30T00:12:06.490-07:00Image Training: Teeny Tiny Person Image TrainingImage training is to train your child's image visualization function and the brain's ability to capture or hold an image in their mind.<br /><br />Children with a developed mind that can image well, they tend to have very good memory.<br /><br />There are a few activities you can do to improve this but today, we are only going to talk about<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Teeny Tiny Person Image Training (older than 4 years old)</span><br />Before carrying out the return to the womb image training, please practice relaxation and deep breathing exercise together with your child.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><ol><li>Today, we are going to tbe a Teeny Tiny Person. Lie down on the floor and close your eyes</li><li>Exhale slowly and flatten your tummy</li><li>Ok, inhale an swell out your tummy and make your tummy like a big balloon<br /> </li><li>repeat this breathing three times</li><li>ok, now you can come back to normal breathing</li><li>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.<br /> </li><li>Ok, put down your hand. Now I will count till your body gets smaller and smaller. Are you ready? One, two, three!</li><li>You are getting smaller and smaller. Now you are as small as a bean. Are you as small as a bean?<br /></li><li>You will be much smaller soon, you will be a teeny tiny person.<br /></li><li>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?</li><li>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.</li><li>1,2,3,4,5. Here you are! Please open your eyes!<br /></li><li>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</li><li>3,2,1, here you are back now!<br /> </li></ol><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-84993900436314619122007-07-30T23:50:00.000-07:002007-07-30T00:05:22.804-07:00Image Training: Return To The WombImage training is to train your child's image visualization function and the brain's ability to capture or hold an image in their mind.<br /><br />Children with a developed mind that can image well, they tend to have very good memory.<br /><br />There are a few activities you can do to improve this but today, we are only going to talk about<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Return to Womb Image Training (less than 3 years old)<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Before carrying out the return to the womb image training, please practice relaxation and deep breathing exercise together with your child.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">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.</span><br /><br /><ol><li style="font-weight: normal;">Lie down on the floor and close your eyes</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">Exhale slowly and flatten your tummy</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">Ok, inhale an swell out your tummy and make your tummy like a big balloon<br /></li><li style="font-weight: normal;">repeat this breathing three times</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">ok, now you can come back to normal breathing</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">now let us image that your body is going to get smaller and smaller<br /></li><li style="font-weight: normal;">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.</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">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</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">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.</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">Now, let's be born again from mummy's tummy</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">Now you are born a healthy baby. Remember when you were born? Tell me how it was</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">(Bring them to their own age)</li><li style="font-weight: normal;">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</li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3,2,1, here you are back now!</span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">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.</span><br /></span></span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-9409333498197027582007-07-29T22:53:00.000-07:002007-07-29T23:50:26.456-07:00Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 4 (2y/o)Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><p>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.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing training: </span><br /></p><ol><li>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.</li><li>Balance the ball on the straw and ask your child to blow the ball away.</li><li>Repeat.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a star and say it is a wishing star. Paste something that tinkles behind the star.<br /></li><li>Shake the star and move it and ask Baby's sight to follow the star.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the star or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Taking Pictures At The Zoo</span><br /><ol><li>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<br /></li><li>Paste pictures of the animals all over the classroom<br /></li><li>Give your child a cardboard camera and ask him or her to take pictures of the animals.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">4 Seasons</span><br /><ol><li>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.<br /></li><li>Now give your child four pictures of the 4 seasons and describe each activity they have to do for that season.<br />(Eg, spring is where flowers grow so paste the flowers on,<br />summer is where the sun is hot so give them an empty bottle to put on sun block,<br />Autum is where the leaves drop so ask them to place fallen leaves all over,<br />Winder is where they get cotton balls and play with these 'snow balls'<br /></li></ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right brain: What colour is the zebra?</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of a zebra and guess what colour the strips will be when the black card is removed.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right brain: Where is the umbrella?</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child three pockets with the curve of the walking stick/umbrella sticking out.</li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training- The Animals:<br /></span> <ol><li>Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.<br /></li><li>Now show the same animals and name them in French.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song/Tell a story: </span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Button on the wheels</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a felt cloth bus with the 4 wheels buttoned on.</li><li>Ask your child to unbutton the wheels off the bus.. then ask them to button them on again so that the bus can move ;)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where do the numbers go?</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of three bears with three different coloured hats and numbers 1,2,3 written respectively.<br /></li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the ball?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.<br /></li><li>Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Memory</span><br /><ol><li>Show a 4 flashcards and name the items on the cards.<br /></li><li>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?<br /></li></ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the taxi</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a bus and the other one is empty.<br /></li><li>Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..<br /></li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the bus<br /></li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Numbered Dots</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child apple dots</li><li>And then test them by showing them two cards and asking for a particular number. </li><li>Ask them to point to the right answer</li><li>You can do this after you finish the 65 days dots programme 3,4 times to test them.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Draw The Seeds On The Watermelon</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child pictures of a few water melons.<br /></li><li>On each water melon, there is a number.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Numbers Game</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child pictures of different numbers and give them cards with the numbers.</li><li>Get them to match the cards with the correct and respective numbers.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>Eg, just practice to write the letters E,F. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.</li><li>Draw a star after they are done.<br /></li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shichida Musical Theatre</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play</span><br />Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes<br />Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes<br />Eyes and ears and mouth and nose<br />Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Duck Song</span><br />Sing a song about a duck and get your child to quack along when the duck starts quacking<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stacking Trapeziums</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child trapeziums of differing colours and size.</li><li>Ask your child to stack the trapeziums from biggest to smallest and you get a huge tower!</li><li>Now ask them to dismantle it by asking for the colours.</li></ol> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Coloured Giraffes</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a Giraffe on a long winded tube and then divide it into 4 segments.</li><li>Make 4 sets of this in 4 different background colours.</li><li>Put all the heads together and let your child choose a colour.</li><li>Put the rest of the body and legs together and get your child to only choose the colour of the heads.</li><li>Fix them together to make a giraffe.</li></ol><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste<br /></span><span>Cut out the large triangles and design an artwork that you like.</span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-35232096054235266862007-07-23T11:53:00.000-07:002007-07-29T23:50:26.456-07:00Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 3 (2y/o)<span style="font-style: italic;">PS: Lesson 2 was attended by Daddy as I was attending a seminar that day.</span><p>Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /></p><p>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.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing training: </span><br /></p><ol><li>Find a picture of sail boat and make it such tat the sail can be flipped when blown on.<br /></li><li>Ask your child to blow on the sail.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Use a bottle, put in beans and then dress it up like a bird.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the bird or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exploring Under The Sea</span><br /><ol><li>Paste pictures of all the sea animals all over the room.<br /></li><li>Make a goggle with a blue transparency over the eye area and ask your child to explore under the sea. </li><li>Point out the various sea creatures to them as they explore.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right brain: Who is swimming underneath the water?</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of a sea with a head bobbing up.<br /></li><li>Hide and animal inside and ask your child to guess whether the octopus or the shark is the one hiding underneath the water<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training- The Animals:<br /></span> <ol><li>Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.<br /></li><li>Now show the same animals and name them in French.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song/Tell a story: </span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Threading</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture and punch 5 holes inside.<br /></li><li>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</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Button on the flowers</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a felt cloth picture full of flowers.</li><li>The petals can all be removed by unbuttoning them out.<br /></li><li>Ask your child to unbutton them and button them back as they count the flowers<br /> </li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which picture did we see?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- which fish?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of a fish with three different colours on its body.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the ball?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.<br /></li><li>Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- What did he catch?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of a man fishing and the sea creatures that he caught on his line.<br /></li><li>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<br /></li></ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the bus</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a bus and the other one is empty.<br /></li><li>Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..<br /></li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the bus<br /></li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Big, Medium, Small<br /></span><ol><li>Show your child three sizes of cats, aeroplanes and ducks.<br /></li><li>Tell them which is big, medium or small.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Count the sweets</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture with a number on it.<br /></li><li>Whatever the number, ask your child to count the sweets and put them into the cup<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Concentration</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child three pictures of dogs and have folds at their mouths.</li><li>Put a strawberry into one of the dog's mouth and ask your child to concentrate as you swirl the dogs around slowly.</li><li>Now ask them to guess which is the one with the strawberry.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>Eg, just practice to write the letters A, B, C, D. They can write other stuff on it when they are done.</li><li>Draw a star after they are done.<br /></li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Know Your ABC</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Give your child some small cards with words and pictures on them. </li><li>Get them to see what those items are and whether they start with which particular letter. </li><li>Get them to paste the right cards in the right areas. Eg, Axe, arm, etc are in the A sector.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play</span><br />Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes<br />Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes<br />Eyes and ears and mouth and nose<br />Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hopping Kangaroo</span><br />Sing the song of the hopping kangaroo and get your child to hop around on the floor.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste<br /></span><span>Cut out triangles and design an artwork that you like.</span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-58659776536102475762007-07-09T21:29:00.000-07:002007-07-09T21:57:49.408-07:00Shichida Sem 2: Lesson 1 (2y/o)Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><p>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.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing training: </span><br /></p><ol><li>Find a picture of an aeroplane and attach a string to it.</li><li>Ask your child to hold the string and blow so that the aeroplane can fly.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Make a mobile of a dragonfly with a bell attached to it.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the dragonfly or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Desert Animals</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of some desert animals and their names.</li><li>Take the animals out as you name them.</li><li>Ask your child to put the animals back next to the proper names of the animals.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right brain: Who Is Going To Jail</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of a judge and three criminals, Businessman, Chef and Bus Driver.<br /></li><li>Ask them who is going to jail.</li><li>Take out the 'jail' and show them the character hiding inside.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training- The Animals:<br /></span> <ol><li>Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.<br /></li><li>Now show the same animals and name them in French.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song/Tell a story: </span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shichida Musical Theatre: Learn The Colours</span><br /><ol><li>Sing a song and help your children learn about colours.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clip The Grapevines?</span><br /><ol><li>Draw pictures of grapes and leaves and clip the grapes on a clothes peg and a vine on a clothes peg.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which picture did we see?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the character?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of 5 fingers with three puppet characters placed on 3 different fingers.</li><li>Now give them a picture of the fingers and the three characters and ask them to place them on the right fingers.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the ball?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of three balls in diff positions.<br /></li><li>Now give them a picture with three boxes and ask your child to put the balls in the right box.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the bicycle</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is has a picture of a bicycle and the other one is empty.<br /></li><li>Tell your child to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..<br /></li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and the bicycle<br /></li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Match the Heads</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of 5 different cats with different size starting from big to small all in a row.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Count the flowers</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of a lady with a huge hat with numbers on it.</li><li>Ask your child to count the flowers and place them on the hat one by one.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things in the garden</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of a garden and the names of some of the things listed there.<br /></li><li>Take out the words as you name them and ask your child to put the words back next to the item.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Put in the flowers</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a picture of a garden on a styrofoam cup. Draw some flower stems and pook a hole at the top of the stems.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li><li>Then get them to take out the flowers and count them. or say the colours.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Draw a star after they are done.<br /></li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste<br /></span><span>Cut out strips of paper and design an artwork that you like.<br /><br /></span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-46646034927248545502007-06-25T00:10:00.000-07:002007-06-25T00:50:15.988-07:00Shichida Lesson 12 (2 y/o)<p>Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /></p><p>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.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing training: </span><br /></p><ol><li>Find a picture of an aeroplane and attach a string to it.</li><li>Ask your child to hold the string and blow so that the aeroplane can fly.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Make a mobile of a dragonfly with a bell attached to it.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the dragonfly or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play: Skiing</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a series of flashcards that tells him about a skiing trip for the family.<br /></li><li>Make two skis with two sticks for him to sky.</li><li>Put a rubber strap so tat your child can strap his leg in and pretend to ski all over the room.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right brain: Magic Ball</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a magic ball.<br /></li><li>Take out some picture cards (either tweety bird, slyvestor or bugs bunny) in no particular order.</li><li>After showing about 8 cards, ask him to guess what will come out next.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Let him hear a story being told in the past in another language and ask him to guess which story did it come from.<br /><br />PS: Ace got it right! And so did ALL the children in his class!<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training- The Animals:<br /></span> <ol><li>Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.<br /></li><li>Now show the same animals and name them in French.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song/Tell a story: (The Queen's Question)</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, prepositions, dictionary words, etc.. etc<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shichida Musical Theatre: Teddy Bear's Party</span><br /><ol><li>Sing a song and help your children learn how to count as they count the teddy bears.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where are the dinosaurs?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of 6 cars with 3 dinosaurs placed at three different places.<br /></li><li>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</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which picture did we see?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the fruit?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of 3 different types of fruit in the particular order.</li><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the fruits inside in that particular order.</li><li>Teach the child the name of the three fruits</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exercise- Wheelbarrow:</span><br /><ol><li>Ask your child to put his hands on the floor, hold his legs. </li><li>Get your child to 'walk' with his hands ;)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find Few or More</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is has 1 scoop of ice cream. The other one has many Scoops.</li><li>Tell your child which card is 1 and which is many and ask them to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..<br /></li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find many scoops so that they can share with mummy.<br /></li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roll</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a roll of paper.<br /></li><li>Give them three dinosaurs and ask them to roll that roll of paper towards the dinosaurs to knock them over.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Spin the wheel</span><br /><ol><li>Give your baby a wheel with numbers on it. Ask them to spin it and put the same number of pebbles into the cup.<br /></li><li>Spin and count again.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 3 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tall or Short</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>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)</li><li>Give them the words TALL and SHORT and ask them to place the words on the respective items that they compare.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Big, Medium Or Small</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a few pictures of BIG papa bear, Medium Mama Bear, Small baby bear.</li><li>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</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chopstick Training</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of a clown with rectangular strips and boxes above him.<br /></li><li>Tell your child the clown needs to have a colourful background to become happy again.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li><li>Say the colours as you pick them out.</li><li>When done, say the colours as you help him pick and put it back into the cup<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Draw a star after they are done.<br /></li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around<br />Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground<br />Teddy bear, teddy bear, show your feet<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do<br /><br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, go up stairs<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, say your prayers<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, go to bed</span><br /><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste<br /></span><span>Let your child cut out 4 semi circles and then make it into a pram ;)<br /><br /><br />Notes by teacher IVY:<br />- Do home practice daily with your child<br />- Your children's rate of learning in one month is equivalent to what they learn in 10 years before age 3 years old.<br />- if you miss one month of home practice, you miss out 10 years worth of learning<br />- you will see the output when they start to learn how to talk properly<br /></span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-16053656026439978802007-06-17T20:37:00.000-07:002007-06-17T23:32:00.752-07:00Shichida Lesson 11 (2 y/o)Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><p><br />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.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing training: </span><br /></p><ol><li>Use a satay stick and stick two flowers at the end.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Make a mobile of a worm with a bell attached to it.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the worm or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play: Visit to Jurong Bird Park</span><br /><ol><li>Show a series of flashcards that tell your about their visit to the Jurong Birdpark. Ask them to take pictures of what they see.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play: Magic Laptop</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child various pictures and make up a story with it.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li><li>Start typing and tell them the story as they go along.</li><li>When they are done, ask them to type in their names.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training- The Animals:<br /></span> <ol><li>Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.<br /></li><li>Now show the same animals and name them in Spanish.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song/Tell a story: (The Queen's Question)</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />NOTE: You can do so also for different airlines, different expressions, diff body parts, adjectives, over, under, etc.. etc<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shichida Musical Theatre: Name the body parts</span><br /><ol><li>Sing a song and name the body parts as you sing.</li><li>Touch your child's body parts as we go along.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Listen to a Song:</span><br />Listen to a song about cats in Chinese.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is he eating?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a big giant frog and tell your child that he is eating something.</li><li>let them guess if he is eating a centipede or a caterpillar.</li><li>Show them the answer.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Can you taste it?</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Put one of the two apples in an envelope and write the word "taste" on it.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li></ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which picture did we see?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show the child two similar pictures and ask them to pick, which picture did we see.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the fruit?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of 3 different types of fruit in the particular order.</li><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the fruits inside in that particular order.</li><li>Teach the child the name of the three fruits</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exercise- Pretend to be a gymnast:</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a stick with a ribbon on it. </li><li>Ask them to wave it around and pretend to be a gymnast.</li></ol><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find Few or More</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is has 3 fishes. The other one has many fishes.</li><li>Tell your child which card is FEWand which is MORE and ask them to use their hand to touch and feel the difference..<br /></li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find eitherfew or more.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Catch the fish</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a stick with a magnet at the end.</li><li>Give them three coloured bowls (Red, Blue and Yellow)</li><li>Give them fishes of various numbers and put a paper clip on the fish.</li><li>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)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Spin the wheel</span><br /><ol><li>Give your baby a wheel with number of dots on it. Ask them to spin it and count the dots at where it stops.</li><li>Count the number of respective little stars and put them into the cup.<br /></li><li>Spin and count again.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 6 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Light or Heavy</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of a see saw and have velcro at both ends of the see saw<br /></li><li>Ask your child to place two comparisons on the see saw (eg, baby Vs Sumo wrestler, Elephant Vs Mice, Car Vs bicycle)<br /></li><li>show them that the heavier portion will drop down and tell them that this item is heavy and that the other item is light.<br /></li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Draw a star after they are done.<br /></li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around<br />Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground<br />Teddy bear, teddy bear, show your feet<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do<br /><br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, go up stairs<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, say your prayers<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, go to bed</span><br /><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste<br /></span><span>Let your child cut out 4 trapeziums and ask them to form anything they like.<br /><br /></span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-15392850850632573952007-06-12T21:40:00.001-07:002007-06-17T20:37:00.779-07:00Shichida Lesson 10 (2 y/o)<p style="font-style: italic;">Note: Lesson 9 was attended by Waipo so I do not have the details.</p><p><br />Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /></p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Make a mobile of a panda with a bell attached to it.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the hot air balloon or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play: Picnic</span><br /><ol><li>Show a series of flashcards that tell your child about what we do to prepare when the whole family goes on a picnic.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play: Campfire</span><br /><ol><li>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.<br /></li><li>Stand around the campfire and tell them that we will sing and dance around the campfire to the song, If You Are Happy.</li><li>Let everyone sing and dance around the campfire.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play: Lucky Draw</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Give them a ticket stub and ask them to tear and put into the lucky draw box.</li><li>Draw their numbers, call them out and give them their price accordingly to the prize poster.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play: Using chopsticks</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a pair of chopsticks and put some cotton balls inside a container</li><li>Ask your child to use chopsticks to pick up the cotton balls (with your help) and feed themselves to the 'glutinious rice' (cotton balls).</li><li>One for themselves and one for mummy.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training- The Animals:<br /></span> <ol><li>Show pictures of animals and name them in Chinese.<br /></li><li>Now show the same animals and name them in Spanish.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song/Tell a story:</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is it?</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Ask your child to guess what vehicle he is driving.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is dancing?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a face of dancer and guess which of the three figures is dancing.<br /></li></ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where should the animals be?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of a ship with three animals in each window for 30 sec.</li><li>Ask the child to place the right animal in the right window next.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the flower?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of 3 different types of flowers in the particular order.</li><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the flowers inside in that particular order.</li><li>Teach the child the name of the three flowers<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which is the right picture?<br /></span><ol><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show them two similar pictures after that and ask them to guess which was the picture that they had been looking at.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exercise- Pretend to be a DUCK:</span><br />Ask your child to squad down first.<br />After that waddle around and quack like a duck.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find More or Less</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is has 3 flowers. The other one has many flowers.</li><li>Tell your child which card is LESS and which is MORE.<br /></li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find either less or more.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sort things out: Big and Small</span><br /><ol><li>Give your baby some toys and a big and a small bowl.</li><li>Ask your child to sort out the big toys into the big bowl and the small toy into the small bowl</li><li>(Eg, big or small camera, peg, paper clip, ball, star, safety pin etc)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sort it out: Fruits big and small</span><br /><ol><li>Give your baby some pictures of big and small fruits and a big and a small plate.</li><li>Ask your child to sort out the big fruits into the big plates and the small fruits into the small plates<br /></li><li>(Eg, big or small apples, grape, orange, bananas, strawberries, etc)<br />NOTE: They look exactly the same but are just different in size.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 3 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things in the Garden</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of things in the garden with the words stuck to them.<br /></li><li>Point to the words and read aloud to the child.</li><li>Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.</li><li>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.<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Draw a star after they are done.<br /></li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around<br />Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground<br />Teddy bear, teddy bear, show your feet<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do<br /><br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, go up stairs<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, say your prayers<br /></span><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, go to bed</span><br /><span>Teddy bear, teddy bear, that will do<br /></span><span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Counting:</span><br />Give your child a picture of the sea. Tell them that children are going to play at the sea.<br />Give them a row of children to paste onto the picture and ask them to count the children.<br />Next give them a row of sunblock to paste and count the sunblocks so that we know there are enough sunblocks for the children.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste<br /></span><span>Let your child cut out 4 triangles and ask them to form anything they like.<br /><br />Cut and paste the snake together and colour the snake.<br /></span><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-23807676243029028922007-05-27T21:13:00.000-07:002007-06-12T22:36:16.020-07:00Shichida Lesson 8 (2 y/o)<p>Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Make a mobile of hot hair balloons and attach a bell to it.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the hot air balloon or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play</span><br /><ol><li>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.<br /></li><li>Place pictures of the relevant activities. Eg, picture of shopping mall, picture of apples with pluckable apples, etc.<br /></li><li>Once your baby rolls the die to do that activity, carry out that activity with him.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song:</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is it?</span><br /><ol><li>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)<br /></li><li>Ask your child to guess what is the next balloon that will appear as you continue to roll</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is it?</span><br /><ol><li>Show the face of a guitarist and a hole driller. Ask your child to guess which is it inside the hidden picture.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where should the bears be?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the flower?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of 3 different types of flowers in the particular order.</li><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the flowers inside in that particular order.</li><li>Teach the child the name of the three flowers<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which is the right picture?<br /></span><ol><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show them two similar pictures after that and ask them to guess which was the picture that they had been looking at.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the words</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:SimSun;"> 三</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a the words IV</li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the words.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things in the bedroom</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of things at the bedroom with the words stuck to them.<br /></li><li>Point to the words and read aloud to the child.</li><li>Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.</li><li>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.<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Visit the Safari</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a of the SAFARI.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>Show your child the animals and ask for the FRONT or the BACK view.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Expressions:<br /></span>Show your child the various expressions and ask them to imitate the expressions for you.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Counting Numbers:</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture of an apple tree with the numbers 1-30 and ask your child to count them.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kick the Ball</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play<br /></span><span>Clap your hands,<br />Touch your toes,<br />Turn around and put a finger on your nose<br />Flap your arms and hop on your feet<br />Wiggle your fingers and touch the sky<br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste</span><br />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<div class="post-footer"><br /><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"> <span class="post-labels"> </span> </p> </div><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-53373210264079581462007-05-20T21:14:00.000-07:002007-05-27T22:22:56.789-07:00Shichida Lesson 7 (2 y/o)<div class="post-body"> <p>Note: Lesson 6 was attended by Max daddy as I was in Taiwan.. dun think he can recall much.. hahaa..<br /></p><p>Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing Training:</span><br /></p><ol><li>Draw a picture of a Dog.<br /></li><li>Add the ear as a flap and tell your child to blow on the flap so that the dog can cool his ears</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson is dog. </li><li>Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.</li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the sun or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play</span><br /><ol><li>Ask your baby to pretend to pack for a picnic.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Once the sandwiches are done, get baby to pack them all into the container and pretend to go on a picnic!</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song:</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is it?</span><br /><ol><li>Show picture of a cave. There is an animal hiding behind the cave. Who is it?<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where should they sit?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of two hot air balloons with three animals seated together in a particular order.</li><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the animals inside in that particular order.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Where is the flower?</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of 3 different types of flowers in the particular order.</li><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds and the child has then to place the flowers inside in that particular order.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory- Which is the right picture?<br /></span><ol><li>Show the picture for 30 seconds.</li><li>Show them two similar pictures after that and ask them to guess which was the picture that they had been looking at.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the words IV:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a the words IV</li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the words.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Farm Words</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of things at the farm with the words stuck to them.<br /></li><li>Point to the words and read aloud to the child.</li><li>Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.</li><li>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.<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the Story</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a story book and read the story once to them.</li><li>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</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Counting Numbers:</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture of a witch and a moon with 30 stars on it. There are numbers in all the stars.</li><li>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.</li><li>Count from 1-30 and then from 30 to 1</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotions</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a sheet of paper with different words that describe emotions like Happy, Sad, Mad, Angry, Hungry, Confused, etc</li><li>Read a conversation to them and ask them to point to the different words that describe the various emotions when you say them.</li><li>Repeat again.</li><li>When you are done, you can ask your child to act out the different emotions to show you.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play<br /></span><span>Clap your hands,<br />Touch your toes,<br />Turn around and touch your nose<br />Flap your arms and stretch them high<br />Wiggle your fingers and touch the sky<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Inside and Outside</span><br /></span><ol><li><span>Give your child a yellow duck and a few pictures where the words INSIDE and OUTSIDE can be interchangably seen.</span></li><li><span>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.</span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Singing: Oh Me Oh My<br /></span>Oh me oh my what colour is the tree?<br />Green green green...<br />Oh me oh my what colour is the sky?<br />Blue blue blue...<br />Oh me oh my what colour is the bee?<br />Black and yellow<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut and paste</span><br />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.<br /></div><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-18044140794536817442007-05-07T10:54:00.000-07:002007-05-27T22:22:56.790-07:00Shichida Lesson 5 (2 y/o)Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing Training:</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a picture of a snail. Roll some paper into a tube and paste on top to act as the shell.</li><li>Ask your baby to blow on the shell so that the snail will move.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson is pig. </li><li>Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.</li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the sun or do a high five with it.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play</span><br /><ol><li>Ask your baby to pretend to be a butterfly.</li><li>Show flashcards of the butterfly flying to the grass, the flowers, the sky.</li><li>Give your baby a homemade butterfly suit to put on (you can make using a big plastic bag and ask him to fly around.</li><li>Paste pictures of the grass, the flowers and the sky on the wall and get baby to fly towards them.</li><li>If baby refuses, let them hold a picture of the butterfly and fly the picture instead.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song:</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods, comparisons, money, numbers.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is it?</span><br /><ol><li>Show picture of an animal wearing a tall hat showing only the face.<br /></li><li>Guess what is hiding under the tall hat... is the animal a rabbit? a cat or a dog?</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is in the tube</span><br /><ol><li>Something is in the tube. Is it a lemon or a lollipop?</li><li>Ask your child to guess if it is a lemon or a lollipop.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the shape:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a pink trapezium).</li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the shape.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">3 Letter words</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a picture of things filled with three letter words</li><li>Point to the words and read aloud to the child.</li><li>Now say the word and ask the child to take it out.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fun Play With Beads Counters</span><ol><li>Count from 1-20 using the beads counters.</li><li>Ask your child to move and count the beads one by one by helping him move the beads with his hand.</li><li>Turn the counter over and let him flip the beads upwards to count again from 1-10.<br /></li><li>Teach him how to make two triangles by counting the beads in increasing numbers.</li><li>Sing the alphabets and count along and find out how many alphabets there are.</li><li>Count again in different languages</li><li>Count the number of letters in their names and compare LONG and SHORT, Many and Few.<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory game: Hot stuff</span><br /><ol><li>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</li><li>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.</li><li>Ask your child to place them in the right order inside the columns.</li><li>If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition/ Memory Game: Guess which picture I show you</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare two similar looking pictures.</li><li>Show your child one of them.</li><li>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!)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recognizing numbers</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Counting Numbers:</span><br />Give your child a book with the numbers 11-20.<br />Get them to trace the numbers with their fingers and once they are done, ask them to tap on the number that you say.<br />Open the page and choose between two numbers<br />If they get it right, high five with them.<br />if they get it wrong, get them to trace the number again<br />(PS: after this session, Ace knows 2 comes after one, claps and calls himself a clever boy in the lift just now)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play<br /></span><span>(Sorry, this one is new and I dun remember it yet.. haha)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: Cut the Fox</span><br />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.<*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-34337785966806691682007-05-03T03:19:00.000-07:002007-05-03T03:37:43.090-07:00Free Flashcards<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8YowkxBnslIjEaL58G1O8RbYD_I7QtF7wfVZsckfX08e8-m75rI8qAcknkvuY7jk9jM2cM8QNVmuuNGRBHs_M2R3QGZJEq94l6ccsrQYDhXl6szn3JInMk8X36zJQf38jnNIIIUOB_o/s1600-h/more02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8YowkxBnslIjEaL58G1O8RbYD_I7QtF7wfVZsckfX08e8-m75rI8qAcknkvuY7jk9jM2cM8QNVmuuNGRBHs_M2R3QGZJEq94l6ccsrQYDhXl6szn3JInMk8X36zJQf38jnNIIIUOB_o/s320/more02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060281733431236370" border="0" /></a><br />Was trying to make some flashcards for Ace.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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 ;)<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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 ;)<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.. ;)<br /><br />Here are some tips for flashcard flashing based on my personal exeprience:<br /><ul><li>Switch off all disruptions like radio, TV, etc.</li><li>Always prepare your lesson and pack your cards in advance so that you dun need to stop in between</li><li>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<br /></li><li>If you want, you can play auto suggestion tape in the background (I play the Fun With Numbers disc in the background)</li><li>Flash at a speed of 0.5-1 second per card</li><li>Flash mostly picture cards and only 10%-20% word cards</li><li>Put the cards at slightly above your child's eye level 30cm away</li><li>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.</li><li>Make sure you say the name correctly!</li><li>Write down the name on the back of the card for easy reference</li><li>Practice, practice, practive! Practice flashing while you watch TV!</li><li>Make it fun!</li><li>Change cards when your baby gets bored with them</li><li>Note, the cards should not be the only activities you do, do also do other right brain activities to make your home sessions interesting ;)<br /></li></ul><br />Here are some free ones I found from the web to get you started ;)<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.esljunction.com/esl-efl-flashcards/esl-tefl-efl-flashcards.html">http://www.esljunction.com/esl-efl-flashcards/esl-tefl-efl-flashcards.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.firstschoolyears.com/">http://www.firstschoolyears.com/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mes-english.com/">http://www.mes-english.com/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://instantresource.net/12/learning-4.php?k=free+flashcards">http://instantresource.net/12/learning-4.php?k=free+flashcards</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.flashcardexchange.com/register">http://www.flashcardexchange.com/register</a></p><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-16850224360692988692007-04-29T20:46:00.000-07:002007-05-07T10:54:18.425-07:00Shichida Lesson 4 (2 y/o)Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing Training:</span><br /><ol><li>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.<br /></li><li>Ask your baby to blow away the fly and after they blow away the fly, they can 'eat' the watermelon.<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>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. </li><li>Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.</li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the sun or do a high five with it.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese. (Eg, Sawako)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song:</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who will win the tug of war?</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture two men who are doing a tug of war. Let them guess which one will win the race.</li><li>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 ;)<br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Put the right colour train windows</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture of the train with relevant coloured windows.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the pink trapezium:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a pink trapezium).</li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the blue circle.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The M Words Picnic</span><br /><ol><li>Open up the M word shopping bag when we go for a picnic.</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Find the right vehicles</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture filled with various different vehicles. Eg, Lorry, boat, yatch, motorbike, etc</li><li>Give your child the words (names of the vehicles)and ask them to place the words next to the things.<br /><br /> </li></ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Buying and Eating Ice Cream</span><br /><ol><li>Pretend play and the teacher takes out a box and says she is an Ice cream man and she rings the ice cream bell.</li><li>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)</li><li>Then she will scoop the ice cream (coloured fur balls) and name the flavours as she scoops.</li><li>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.<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Use the right utensils to eat</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a set of utensils and ask them to flip the pictures.</li><li>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.</li><li>Include, rice, cake, a cup of tea, watermelon.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory game: Hot stuff</span><br /><ol><li>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</li><li>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.</li><li>Ask your child to place them in the right order inside the columns.</li><li>If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition/ Memory Game: Guess which picture I show you</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare two similar looking pictures.</li><li>Show your child one of them.</li><li>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!)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recognizing numbers</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play</span><br /><ol><li>Open your palms and make the sign of a four. Close your fingers over your thumb and say, “This is a bee hive..”</li><li>Open your other hand and say, “where are the bees…”</li><li>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.</li><li>“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..”</li><li>Repeat again</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />A + B = C<br /></span><ol><li>Your your child a picture of a banana, a cap and a bear together. Ask them what combination will this become?</li><li>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?</li><li>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.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Feed the birds with worms (6-10):</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Leave the worms there and when you are done, you can ask the baby to take out the worms while counting them.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork: Dalmation</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Artwork Homework: balloon </span><br /><ol><li>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.<br /></li></ol><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-15797871033037528762007-04-22T20:08:00.000-07:002007-05-07T10:53:56.892-07:00Shichida Lesson 3 (2 y/o)Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing Training:</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a picture of a car with two wheels. For one of the wheels, make it into a windmill.<br /></li><li>Ask your baby to blow to make the wheel turn.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play</span><br /><ol><li>Use the flashcards to tell your baby how to fold napkins for the restaurant. </li><li>Show him the steps by steps how to do it. Let him practice and do it himself.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson is a cloud with blue frills acting as water… and hang a bell behind it. </li><li>Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.</li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the cloud or do a high five with it.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song:</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods.</li><li>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.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is chasing the man?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture with a man running. </li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is singing?</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a stage with the curtains closed and only the face exposed. Someone is singing, ask them who...</li><li>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 ;)<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the blue hexagon:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a blue hexagon).</li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the blue circle.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jigzaw Puzzle</span><br /><ol><li>Show your child a 4 piece puzzle picture.<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat a few times.<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Use the tools</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a picture with various things and give your child the various tools to match the things to 'repair' them.</li><li>Have a nail (hammer), bolt and nut (spanner), broken bowl (glue), screw (screwdriver), door (key)..<br /></li><li>Ask your to use the tools correctly with the relavant picture.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory game: Hot stuff</span><br /><ol><li>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</li><li>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.</li><li>Ask your child to place them in the right order inside the columns.</li><li>If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Memory game: Colour Mushrooms</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of three colour mushrooms for 20 seconds.<br /></li><li>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.<br /></li><li>If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.</li></ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Memory game: Active boy</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture of a circle, a triangle and a square. Inside each shape, there is a boy doing different actions.<br /></li><li>After 30 seconds, close the picture and ask your child to place the picture of the child inside the right shape.</li><li>If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.</li></ol><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pretend Play- Let's Be Superman</span><br /><ol><li>Introduce flashcards to say- Why must we be superman? (to save people, to become strong, to fly...)<br /></li><li>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.</li><li>Mummy or daddy can carry baby and FLY them around the room! ;)<br /><br /></li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition/ Memory Game: Guess which picture I show you</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare two similar looking pictures.</li><li>Show your child one of them.</li><li>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!)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recognizing numbers</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play</span><br /><ol><li>Open your palms and make the sign of a four. Close your fingers over your thumb and say, “This is a bee hive..”</li><li>Open your other hand and say, “where are the bees…”</li><li>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.</li><li>“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..”</li><li>Repeat again</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How many drinks are there (6-10):</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Leave the straw there and when you are done, you can ask the baby to take out the spoons while counting them.</li></ol><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-2933681766925632972007-04-18T22:43:00.000-07:002007-04-18T22:52:32.999-07:00The Christmas Letter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-TTHjaOXpMqwuA7fvIWALh_osh5TCnRUxsULPb4kvp5Q_mLtH4laIxHTcaia8RKruczVMx4ZdAJNVFti1MocdnzzLbQ18ibkxR_PPjqA4GJkbgiKDSAJYFfDXlc_s3d4NP3F_p2PpUo/s1600-h/love02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-TTHjaOXpMqwuA7fvIWALh_osh5TCnRUxsULPb4kvp5Q_mLtH4laIxHTcaia8RKruczVMx4ZdAJNVFti1MocdnzzLbQ18ibkxR_PPjqA4GJkbgiKDSAJYFfDXlc_s3d4NP3F_p2PpUo/s400/love02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055013025122551682" border="0" /></a><br />The most important ingredient ever in the education of our child- LOVE<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />I received this in my mailbox today and it really warmed my heart. Enjoy!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------------------------<br /></div><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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!)<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />--Wendy Jensen--<*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-3690629567485045882007-04-16T09:28:00.000-07:002007-04-16T09:31:46.030-07:00Breathing Exercise- OctopusRemember the octopus I was telling you about to help your baby breathe?<br /><br />Under my instructions, Waipo took like 10 mins to create this:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AMwDus1tA91fRJBjOn4ty6fPcKZDLOASXaDuwCYWS4A9NBrjZGK_jhhyphenhyphenT8_IM-bHEvZ0hbqUao8SmYveyMta9ipgVJ-nXwDDq08lEwQw18HhL6n2FSYEC2JboS3giFb52NFJNE-RS4A/s1600-h/14_blow.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AMwDus1tA91fRJBjOn4ty6fPcKZDLOASXaDuwCYWS4A9NBrjZGK_jhhyphenhyphenT8_IM-bHEvZ0hbqUao8SmYveyMta9ipgVJ-nXwDDq08lEwQw18HhL6n2FSYEC2JboS3giFb52NFJNE-RS4A/s400/14_blow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054064272964018242" border="0" /></a><br /><br />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.<br /><br />Apparently, it works cos Ace is happily blowing at the tentacles now ;)<br /><br />This is how you should be blowing it ;)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvgqHKHjsoKbRfUp9rHvwAVm-HdW2WrB2w7j8xOxW-F8DsV2OQ15RAv-o_aBTpT7WS_auYAOCwc7j6eSlT3EzyWf0oUJu7aes15_rnqD1OBweC02U2MM2IBGZN6irlSYBXdHHdL2WOJI/s1600-h/14_blow02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvgqHKHjsoKbRfUp9rHvwAVm-HdW2WrB2w7j8xOxW-F8DsV2OQ15RAv-o_aBTpT7WS_auYAOCwc7j6eSlT3EzyWf0oUJu7aes15_rnqD1OBweC02U2MM2IBGZN6irlSYBXdHHdL2WOJI/s400/14_blow02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054064277258985554" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Good luck!<*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-58107684515720439542007-04-15T10:17:00.000-07:002007-04-22T20:08:28.964-07:00Ace’s Shichida Training- Lesson 2 (2y/o)<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Start all lessons by hugging your child and singing the good afternoon song.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breathing Training:</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sound Training:</span><br /><ol><li>Make three different sounds. Eg, sound of handphone ringing, sound of a machine gun or sound of bird cheeping.</li><li>Show the related sounds to a related picture to your child.</li><li>Now make these sounds and ask your child to pick the correct card. You may use an electric organ to make the sounds.<br /></li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sight Training</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a colourful picture of something. Today’s lesson was a PIG… and hang a bell behind it. </li><li>Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.</li><li>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.</li><li>When baby is done following, get him to catch the animal or do a high five with it.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language Training:<br /></span><ol><li>Tell a story in English.</li><li>Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sing a song:</span><br /><ol><li>Sing at normal speed</li><li>Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flash Cards:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets, how to prepare certain foods.</li><li>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.</li><li>Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.</li></ol><br />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)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is in the bedroom</span><br /><ol><li>Give your child a picture filled with things in the bedroom. </li><li>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)</li><li>Tell your child about the different things and ask them to paste it back or pull it out.</li><li>Repeat about 2-3 times for each individual object. </li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the blue circle:</span><br /><ol><li>Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a blue circle).</li><li>Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the blue circle.</li><li>Repeat 2-3 times</li></ol><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition- Find the right food:</span><br /><ol><li>Draw a big basket. Colour and laminate it.</li><li>Prepare picture of three fruits/vege. Pick one of the fruits/vege and paste it behind the slipper.</li><li>Tell a story. Mummy just came home from market. </li><li>Show them the picture of the three fruits and veg and ask them to guess which fruits/veg it is.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Imagery- What tree is this?</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a picture of a tree. Prepare also a picture of an apple and an orange. Cut another set of apple and orange.</li><li>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.</li><li>Hide either the Apple or orange behind the tree and send the image of the picture to your child.</li><li>Show your child the picture of these two items and ask them to guess which item you hid behind the picture of the tree.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cookery class- How to make Japanese Rice Ball:</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a 3 white triangle shapes to be the rice ball and 3 black strips of paper to act as the seaweed.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Linking memory game</span><br /><ol><li>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.</li><li>Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory game: Hot stuff</span><br /><ol><li>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</li><li>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.</li><li>Ask your child to place them in the right order inside the columns.</li><li>If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Feed the fishes</span><br /><ol><li>Make a makeshift pond with an old shoe box and put in a picture of a pond and some fishes into the pond.</li><li>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.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intuition/ Memory Game: Guess which picture I show you</span><br /><ol><li>Prepare two similar looking pictures.</li><li>Show your child one of them.</li><li>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!)</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Edible and Non Edible Fruits</span><br /><ol><li>Show a picture with 8 different types of foods.</li><li>Give your child a piece of paper with the categories, Edible and NON Edible written on top and ask them to sort them out.</li><li>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.</li><li>Once done, ask them to take out the fruits and help you keep it by saying the name of the fruit.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Art work: Stick the eyes of the animals</span><br /><ol><li>Use a coloured paper and draw a three animals.</li><li>Draw circles around their eyes.</li><li>Give your child some round stickers and let them stick on the eyes themselves.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recognizing numbers</span><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Writing </span><br /><ol><li>Prepare a practice sheet for your child.</li><li>Laminate the practice sheet</li><li>Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.</li><li>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.</li><li>Wipe clean and reuse it again.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Play</span><br /><ol><li>Open your palms and make the sign of a four. Close your fingers over your thumb and say, “This is a bee hive..”</li><li>Open your other hand and say, “where are the bees…”</li><li>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.</li><li>“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..”</li><li>Repeat again</li></ol><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Find the colour Spoon:</span><br /><ol><li>Give your baby pictures of 5 cups with 5 different colours.</li><li>Give them the 5 different colour spoons and ask them to match the spoons with the colours.</li><li>You can cut a slit at where the lid of the spoon is and ask the baby to put the spoon in and stir.</li><li>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.</li></ol><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bring The Dogs Home</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><ol><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Keep and count with the baby too.</li></ol><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2845512893490434659.post-41761843176227814062007-04-09T22:47:00.000-07:002007-04-29T21:43:08.998-07:00Shichida Lesson 1 (2 y/o)<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><a href="http://trainingforbabies.blogspot.com/2007/04/breathing-exercise-octopus.html"><br /></a></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><a href="http://trainingforbabies.blogspot.com/2007/04/breathing-exercise-octopus.html">Breathing Training:</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Give your baby the octopus and show him how to BLOW. This will help him to breath better.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sound Training:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Use three small containers and put different things inside. Eg, paperclips, green beans and wooden blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Shake the three sounds and let your child listen to them. Repeat what they are as you shake.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="3" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="4" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Shake one of the containers and ask your child to flip open the correct answer.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sight Training<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Show your baby the picture and shake it so that his eyes are focused on the picture.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="3" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br />Language Training:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Tell a story in English.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Tell the same story in Chinese/Japanese.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sing a song:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Sing at normal speed<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Sing at half the speed (to help them remember)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Flash Cards</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Prepare a series of flashcards with a theme. Eg, vehicles, fruits, foods, numbers, alphabets.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Repeat and flash the pictures and read out again.<br /><br />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)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Shape Sorting<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Give your child a picture filled with things of different shapes. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Tell your child about the different shapes and ask them to paste it back or pull it out.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Repeat about 2-3 times for each individual shape. (Eg, circle, oval, parallelogram, trapezium, square, rectangle, triangle. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Intuition- Find the hexagon:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Use two cards of the same size. One is a blank card. The other one has a particular shape (eg, a green hexagon).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Turn the cards over and ask your child to feel it and find the hexagon.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Repeat 2-3 times<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Intuition- Find the insect:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Draw a big bedroom slipper. Colour and laminate it.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Prepare picture of three insects. Pick of of the insects and paste it behind the slipper.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Tell a story. Use a big bedroom slipper and tell them that an insect has crawled behind the bedroom slipper. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Show them the picture of the three insects and ask them to guess which insect it is.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Imagery- Under The Sea<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Prepare a picture of the sea. Prepare also a picture of a dolphin. Cut cut another set of dolphins and seashells.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Show your child the picture of the sea and tell them that dolphins and seashells are from under the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Hide either the Dolphin or seashells behind the sea and send the image of the picture to your child.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Show your child the picture of these two items and ask them to guess which item you hid behind the picture of the sea.<br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Sensory Play- Play Dough<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Roll play dough into a ball<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Press it and roll it into a long strip.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Twirl it and make it into a ring<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Science- Growth of a butterfly:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Prepare a picture of a leaf, a Butterfly, an egg, a small caterpillar, a big caterpillar and a cacoon.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Paste a Velcro strip on the leaf and at the back of all the various objects.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >As you share the story, stick the related item onto the leaf.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Tell the story again and let your child stick it on.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Linking memory game<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Repeat this story and ask your child to place the pictures in this order.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Memory game: Hot stuff<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Ask your child to place them in the right order inside the columns. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >If your child is unable to choose. You can give him two choices and ask him to point.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><b style="">Memory game: Little Froggie<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Show a picture of 3 Little Froggies in bed with three different expressions. The expressions are in the following order- Smiling, crying and laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Now give your child a picture of three beds with slits at the top.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Give them three heads of froggies with different expressions and ask them to place the heads at the correct bed.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >You can ask them to point while you help them with the slotting in.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Colours: Fly the aeroplane<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Give your child a box full of coloured aeroplanes.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Prepare 5 coloured containers and place it in front of him.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Let your child match the colours and fly the aeroplane into the container.<br />PS: For the container, you could just use a file like an envelope.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Intuition/ Memory Game: Guess which picture I show you<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Prepare two similar looking pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Show your child one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >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!)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Bring the animals to their mamas<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Show a picture with 8 animals.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Give your child 8 baby animals and ask them to bring the animals to their mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Ask them to Velcro stick the babies next to the mummies.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Once done, ask them to take out the babies by saying the name of the animal.<br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Art work: Stick the windows<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Use a coloured paper and draw a train with two carriages. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Draw rectangles as the windows. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Give your child some white stickers and let them stick on the windows themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Writing <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Prepare a practice sheet for your child. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Laminate the practice sheet<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >Give your child a whiteboard marker (non toxic) and hold their hands to help them write out the numbers on the practice sheet.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >One number at a time please. Eg, just practice to write the number 2.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >After that, the child is free to draw on the practice sheet. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Wipe clean and reuse it again.</span></span></li></ol><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p><*ANGEL*>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01056533735876988690noreply@blogger.com2