ABC & Chinese words

Berries teacher wrote "please revise" on his worksheet, which made me guilty because I did not revise.

Therefore I asked hubby to help him to revise. Initially they had great fun and he started to recall about half of his words. However as time passed, Matthew became distracted and did not want to learn while daddy became fierce and punishing.

Matthew started to reject revising the chinese words. While making him revise yesterday, I told him that I would not punish him. He continued to play with his car and an idea came to him. Why not let him play with his car and revise the chinese words at the same time?

It worked. I made his cars go through the words and made them recognise the words by parking on the card. He had lots of fun and was very happy.

As for ABC, I decided I would go through all the phonics sound even though he knew most of them using abc twiggles as my resource. Then I would make him do the assessment book for the related letter.

After which we would move onto "learn to read" and phonics method used by "tamarind".

This method would integrate all my ideas and resources while saving time to focus on teaching him. Afterall, the reason why I would always start and stop was because I could not integrate everything into a wholesome plan.

But now here it is.

Marine Life

We watched a play at Esplanade, The Magic Ocean. Meant for children between 2 to 4 years old, Matthew thoroughly enjoyed himself. I also bumped into my JC friend who was the performer for the play.

After watching the play, we went to Sentosa for a short swim at the beach as it was raining. Followed by a visit to the Underwater world. What a day.

The next day, Little M dreamt about the starfish on his car bed pillow. LOL.

It was followed up by his painting of rainbow, starfish(using his finger tips) and water.

Then he played with his marine animal figurines.

Books that we read

湯母去沙灘

Dr Seuss - One fish, Two fish, blue fish, red fish

Valentine's Day 2011

For Valentine's Day

We did a heart shaped sun catcher and read the following books.

1	B23606709K	If kisses were colors	01/03/2011
2	B23607895G	Panda's Valentine's Day	01/03/2011
3	B20380766J	I'll always love you	01/03/2011
4	B23531576J	Daddy loves me	01/03/2011

Mummy got these! Papa confessed that after he ordered the roses, then he remembered that Mummy's favourite flowers were tulips. Mummy was still delighted with Papa's gesture

25 Jan 2011 - 1st day of school all by himself at Berries

After hearing from dear pal Jo that Berries is taking in students born in 2008, I called up and emailed various branches, Orchard, West Coast, Pandan Valley and Bukit Batok to check the slots available.

My preferred slots on weekends were packed and I could only put Little M on the waiting list. Finally found a Tuesday evening 7.30pm slot at Bukit Batok and I could bring Little M to his class except once every 2 months when I have my NC meeting.

Prior to going to school, I bought him a toy car as a present for 1st day of school and gave him a brave boy sweet. I told him that he would be brave after eating that sweet. When we reached the school, he walked away, pulled my hand towards the other direction and kept saying that he wanted to go home. I carried him into the classroom and he settled down soon after. Even when I left the room without saying goodbye, he was ok.

His class came out of the room twice. Once to go toilet break and the second time to go to the other room to watch a cartoon. They put their hands on one another's shoulder and walked in a single file. He was smiling when he walked past me.

Another milestone. My little M at school. Achieved without any tears.

Hooked on Phonics

I ordered this on 16 Dec and it arrived on 30 Dec, just in time for New Year.

Very eager to start this program so I popped in the disc for him once I reached home.

I certainly hope that he would pick up Phonics slowly from this system.

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Read-Kindergarten-Complete-Exclusive/dp/160499178X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294150462&sr=8-1

Christmas Theme

A recap on Christmas Theme

We did the following

1. Pre-writing of Christmas theme cards

2. Clipping clothes peg to the numbers

3. Jigsaw of Christmas Tree

4. Counting Candy Canes

All downloaded from Confession of a homeschooler

Here are some pictures.

Beginning to Read?

30 Dec 2010, Thursday

This morning, M was playing with his phone, which had coloured buttons and labels on them.
Then he started saying out the letters, y e l l o w ...Yellow.
Usually he would read from right to left but he did not this time round.
Has he started reading??

I purchased Hooked on Phonics Kindergarden from Amazon on 16 Dec and it has reached me on 30 Dec. So fast.
Should be starting him on this set soon.
I hope he can learn to read fast so that I can do less reading to him...kekekeke