Club 2010 Kids
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My girl will be 3 in June. She speaks well. Can change herself, eat on her own. Also can bath on her own. But I am still there to make sure. Make a good decent conversion. Used because⦠and ask why all the time. I did not teach her ABC and numbers yet. We played 12 piece puzzles and memory games.
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Always21:
My girl will be 3 in June. She speaks well. Can change herself, eat on her own. Also can bath on her own. But I am still there to make sure. Make a good decent conversion. Used because... and ask why all the time. I did not teach her ABC and numbers yet. We played 12 piece puzzles and memory games.
Well done for your girl! Can bath on her own. My son wants to do himself too but always makes a huge mess, so I rather shower him quickly, though I know it's better for him to learn independence. -
patntee:
Hi all, my DS is in pre-nursery now at childcare. He is turning 3 yo in May. He can converse well with us in sentences (but cannot pronounce \"f\" and \"s\" sounds clearly) and can name many objects from pictures (animals, things, food etc) but when it comes to recognising ABC and numbers, he seems very uninterested. He always says \"I dunno\" when we ask him to point out letters of the alphabet or numbers. Any of your 2010 kids are like that? When my elder one was around the same age, she wasn't speaking much but can recognise some letters and knows her A for apple, B for boy etc. But my son cannot sit still to learn from the ABC or number charts.
Hi patntee, my chubs just turned two last December. He is not attending any external kiddie pgrms. He can converse in sentences as well like your DS but due to his young age still got bits of cuuuuttte baby twang... which we simply adore. :please:
He can recite numbers up to 20 but recognizes up to 10 for now. Am in no rush to make him recite / recognize further but instead am playing with him to introduce the quantity concept. ie. Knows the value of the numerals he recites. He skips count like any other tots his age.
He knows his alphabets already and he seems to be self-teaching himself the letter sounds from just our reading sessions with him. Find that he is sensitive to language especially now (sensitive period we call it in Montessori Education) and picking up things very very fast. He can make sense of the sounds when we say bear he goes b-uh is for bear.. and so on. :shock: We just sing along the sounds and words he knows. No formal phonics intro yet and not planning to as yet.
Learning numbers and alphabets need not require seat work. We do fun stuff where he can work hands-on and there are running around activities as well.
Share with you one of our games..
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He will walk around the table and mat to pick up the alphabets to match with the corresponding cards.. and sing the alphabet song over and over.. This material encourages upper case recognition and also learning words that begin with each alphabet.
As for seat activities, he likes tracing these cards.
*oops* think it didn't come out.. will try again later.. These cards feature emphasis on lower case recognition and tracing.
And for math we play with numbers as well. No sitting down required. Don't have to be quiet either.
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Mebbe if you like i can share more.. Most importantly i find that if parents can offer children variety of simple yet interesting resources at home for children to work and play with, children will pick up learning faster than we know it. They of course think that they are just playing with mommy. So, no stress. Only fun.
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Thanks buds! Just saw your comments. The ABC game you have above looks very colourful and attractive for kids. Kudos to you, your son is learning very well at such early age
I agree with you, we have so much pleasure listening to them talk at this age. My son does have some Singlish slang already which I need to more consciously correct.
My son is very playful and cheeky, to the stage that sometimes I don't know if he is kidding us or he really hasn't recognised the letters or numbers. Makes me want to faint, though I also try hard to incorporate play into the learning process and get his elder sis involved as well. He is currently learning phonics in pre-nursery, but seldom hear him recite the phonics sounds at home yet. He comes home singing nursery songs learnt from school. I'm still quite happy with his overall progress ever since he started going childcare, like accepting a wider variety of food, finishing his milk fast and toilet training.
I know that you have shared lots of information on fun learning for young children in the forum, it would be wonderful if you can share more over here to benefit all other parents of the 2010 kids. :thankyou: -
You're welcome patntee.
Yes, the ABC game is very colourful and fun to work with. Plus it comes in a neat tie-bag too. Easy storage. I have gotten him many variations of home resources and materials to alternate our play sessions. I believe it is a small investment yet the pleasure the child derives from them not to mention the returns the parents can reap :evil: from those play sessions, are immeasurable. It takes little effort to have so much fun... over and over again. Children love repetition. Especially when the repetitions are fun and there are options for varied/extended play.
Btw, here are the pictures of the tracing cards.
There's chubs tracing them with his chubby baby finger. :please:
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I got our sets (ABC & 123) from Tom & Stephanie. Cheap too! Below $10 a set. :celebrate:
I have the Montessori sandpaper letters but saving them for when we are officially starting on with Phonics. You can make them yourself too, if you want to.
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/do-it-yourself-alphabet-cards-1-montessori-sandpaper-letters
For now, if you think your boy is just being his cheeky self... you can actually test him by playing the mystery bag game. :evil:
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/teaching-phonics-mystery-bag-game
Or if you wish to formally introduce/revise your boy on Phonics...
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/content/montessori-phonics-introduction-single-letter-sounds-lesson-1
Yes, childcare set up really encourages many self-help skills to guide children towards independence. Whilst many parents have the misconception that childcare services are merely for baby-sitting, these set-ups do MORE than just that. (baby-sitting)
Without these services as options, many moms may not be able to go back to work (FTWMs) or may not be able to find reprieve from having the children at home 24-7 (SAHMs & PTWMs).
I would love to share more when I can. :love: -
Thanks a lot buds for the above
I like the mystery game! Will engage my girl in planning these activities together to teach her little brother, she loves to do these as well and acting like a little teacher. -
I believe every preschooler loves playing teacher.
I can totally relate to that.. since i have two girls myself apart from my two baby boys. Till today the girls still love playing teacher and now they have two lil boys to teach. -
Hi Mommies and Daddies
Iβm new to this forum. My little tiger just turned 3 and Iβm bringing him up with the help of his grandparents, their siblings and his own aunts and uncles and a maid too (a little village of his own). I read somewhere that other than parents, grandparents were the most important element in bringing up successful, happy children. So up to now Iβve kept him out of childcare but his Nai Nai is quite keen on him starting Nursery. She thinks that they can teach him more than she can. Right now, he can spontaneously speak (his mind) quite well in English and in Chinese only if the environment is right (ie. if spoken to in Chinese). Iβm really worried that if I put him in school now, he might lose his Chinese. I really never intended on sending him to school til at least K1.
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Hi all,
Have been MIA for awhile coz busy with jiejie p1 stuff.
Just a update on dd2 speech progress , she has been seeing a doc for her speech delay and yesterday the doc is v happy with her improvement and is ready to discharge her fr the programme.
Half a year ago ,dd2 is still drooling alot and use pointing to communicate with us but now she can tell us wat she wants in a short phase (eg I want eat banana).
I have been using flash card to flash to her and after a few times i let her flash the cards to me. She enjoy learning in this way and show great improvement.
We also send her to pn begining of the year.. and we are pleasantly surprised when she bring home simple reader books (english n chinese) and is able to read( :salute: her kindergarten).
Although dd2 speech still have pronunciation problem especially letter f , c, s ( n sometimes nobody understamd her sentence) but she is pretty advance in her motor skill eg she can write her name and draw shapes.
Hope I have encourage parent whose kiddo refuse to speak at early age to keep on tryingΒ .....very soon you will be able to see your effort and hard work when your kid surprise you ε ζ²Ή :celebrate: -
buds:
The Eco-Friendly Letter Match Set is for 3 yrs and up. Price: $32.95patntee:
Hi all, my DS is in pre-nursery now at childcare. He is turning 3 yo in May. He can converse well with us in sentences (but cannot pronounce \"f\" and \"s\" sounds clearly) and can name many objects from pictures (animals, things, food etc) but when it comes to recognising ABC and numbers, he seems very uninterested. He always says \"I dunno\" when we ask him to point out letters of the alphabet or numbers. Any of your 2010 kids are like that? When my elder one was around the same age, she wasn't speaking much but can recognise some letters and knows her A for apple, B for boy etc. But my son cannot sit still to learn from the ABC or number charts.
Hi patntee, my chubs just turned two last December. He is not attending any external kiddie pgrms. He can converse in sentences as well like your DS but due to his young age still got bits of cuuuuttte baby twang... which we simply adore. :please:
He can recite numbers up to 20 but recognizes up to 10 for now. Am in no rush to make him recite / recognize further but instead am playing with him to introduce the quantity concept. ie. Knows the value of the numerals he recites. He skips count like any other tots his age.
He knows his alphabets already and he seems to be self-teaching himself the letter sounds from just our reading sessions with him. Find that he is sensitive to language especially now (sensitive period we call it in Montessori Education) and picking up things very very fast. He can make sense of the sounds when we say bear he goes b-uh is for bear.. and so on. :shock: We just sing along the sounds and words he knows. No formal phonics intro yet and not planning to as yet.
Learning numbers and alphabets need not require seat work. We do fun stuff where he can work hands-on and there are running around activities as well.
Share with you one of our games..
He will walk around the table and mat to pick up the alphabets to match with the corresponding cards.. and sing the alphabet song over and over.. This material encourages upper case recognition and also learning words that begin with each alphabet.
As for seat activities, he likes tracing these cards.
*oops* think it didn't come out.. will try again later.. These cards feature emphasis on lower case recognition and tracing.
And for math we play with numbers as well. No sitting down required. Don't have to be quiet either.
Mebbe if you like i can share more.. Most importantly i find that if parents can offer children variety of simple yet interesting resources at home for children to work and play with, children will pick up learning faster than we know it. They of course think that they are just playing with mommy. So, no stress. Only fun.
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