buds:LOL . :xedfingers: .. Buds you are really getting serious! The Ants on Apple Book was for a gift ... and my daughter has completed the single sounds but still not that good at reading lah.. Still need to do a lot of work with her.I seem to have also read your enrighten recommendation in other forums as well.. :evil: So, it's not entirely incorrect to presume you might be a sales rep isn't it?
Sorry arh.. you mentioned you wanted to save $ by homeschooling your two kiddies. I'm just a little confused here cos you indicated in your profile that your elder child (boy) was born Apr 2000, which makes him 11yrs old oredi and should be doing psle nx year and your younger (girl) is a May 2005 baby which makes her already in K2... :scratchhead: I'm sure she should already have completed all aspects of the English Language isn't it? So when you say you homeschool your children... do you mean to share that you homeschool / will homeschool both of them all through primary school education? :scratchhead: Bbbb.... bbbuut.... you shared very recently that you have purchased the Ants On The Apple book from enrighten a couple of posts back? > http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=606044#p606044. Can't be that you're in the process of only teaching single letter sounds to your daughter right? She's gonna be in P1 nx yr correct?
I do have lao hua yen so i initially thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.. :?
Btw, i have strongly emphasized that i am no expert. Never was and never will be. All that i have shared are based on genuine sharings of my teaching journey and also my personal experiences as a parent. Since i have been on both sides of the fence (educator and parent), i can try to rationalize and as much as possible... or run through certain grey areas parents may have doubts with; pertaining to education in general or the Montessori Method of Education.
I am not fully homeschooling but actually jsut supplementing at home only ... but still onsider myself a long way away ... Please I don't want to be in your bad books!
... but it is really a matter of preference for us parents especially stay home mothers who may not have the financial resources like working mothers may have. Hence my sharings in this forum have always been to benefit all parents in general with options to either purchase materials or DIY them and with pointers on how they CAN guide their own children at home with aid of clear lesson plans and ideas at no cost. I assume you know pretty much everything since you've attended all enrighten's workshops or programmes n worked on what you've learnt with the many stuffs you've bought to date. You did also mention that you found the presentations enough n comparable to someone doing the Dip itself in one of your replies to a parent here. Hence I honestly find you're already quite the expert for a parent who's only looking to teach own children.