Flip Books

Since JR has finished going through the Wink-to-Learn English & Chinese DVD Flashcard programmes, I thought to make some books like the "short stories" in Level 6.

This one is on the title "Picnics are Fun" or "我们去野餐".

It's A5 in size (half A4 size), printed on 160g paper and bound.

I also made a book on a short trip to the zoo

Just some ideas on how to reinforce the child's learning using vocabulary & events that is familiar to him.

The BUSiness Times

JR was digging through his dad's bag and found copies of said Times, and starting pointing and saying "Ba", "Ba", which is how he refers to "Bus". How interesting ...

He managed to isolate a small word from a longer word...hmm..

Grind Rice

For those who prefer to give baby brown rice as one of the starter foods, you'll realise that even after boiling for awhile, the "nutty" brown rice is still not as soft as white rice porridge. It's best to have it broken up abit before cooking.


You'll find that a normal chopper will not do. Instead, a blender with a grinder attachment is better. The grinder can handle dry items and churn out powdered stuff. I prefer the porridge not to be too powdery, so would just run it in the grinder for 5 to 8 seconds. You can experiment with it. And I liked to buy organic short-grain brown rice.

Simple Readers

Reading from a new set of books. I love these "Wo Hui Du" Readers as they have large words and it helps that the books only have around 10 to 12 pages each. Easy to go thru'.

These books build on the vocabulary he already is familiar with after having gone through the Wink-to-Learn DVD Flashcard programme, just that the same words are presented in phrases & sentences.

He was so super-tickled by the waterfall though! Really funny.

Puzzles

Saw a number of very suitable simple puzzles at a Popular Fair. They came with words which JR is familiar with. So the puzzles are great reinforcement for matching shapes & words.

Of the 3 sets I got (yea S$4.90 each), JR seems to like the shapes set the best:

Ah, JR likes eating the star too! Haha!

JR's also familiar with the words on this "Colours" set, and he did play with it some, but not as much as with the "Shapes" set.


The 3rd set is one on Animals. This set does not have any words on them. There was a set with words but the graphics were tacky to me (*urgh*!), so after much deliberation, I selected this instead. So I "DIY'd".

I came home and did abit of "homework" on it. I used my Dynamo handheld labeller and printed out the words for it, so now it looks like this.

As for storage...I had this brainwave. *haha* I thought the puzzles would be great in those A4-box files, so I rummaged thru' my "store" of used box files. Yah, they are just perfect for the job!

So everything's neat & dandy. Won't lose those bits now.

Trip to Bank II

Baby is forever making trips to the bank with me. LOL.

Outside the bank, there was a new coin-operated ride. A little merry-go-round of 3 little vehicles, and all of them were JUST perfectly JR's size!

And I hadn't even realised until a long while later that JR was actually in a "bus"! He LOVES buses!

On Twos

He's done bouts of 4 or 5 steps unaided this weekend. Ah, but only when he's in the mood to do so!

And it's too difficult to "catch the moments".

Colours

Chanced upon this Barney Kiddy Ride on my trip to Daiso this morning. Since JR loves the Baby Bop and Barney book (interestingly he hates the Barney videos), I let him sit and play for a while.

Ever exploiting any "educational" opportunities, I took the chance to point out to him in Chinese that there's a Purple Barney, a Green Baby Bop, and a Yellow BJ. *hehe*.

Life Cycle

JR loves Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar book

He just loves to make this butterly "fly" by "flapping" the 2 ends of the pages at the end of the book. Thankfully it's a board book so fairly tough.

And...haha - did he figure out the life cycle of a caterpillar? This was a new book that I got him. A caterpillar book. He took a look at it and picked it up:

...And went STRAIGHT for the last page?!!!! And started "flapping" it.

So for his birthday, I got this cake made for him.

Thanks to Mong's Cakes, who did JR's FULL-Month Cakes too!

Rat Race

JR was so super-excited at these rats, trying to catch them.

The aim of this zoo trip was just to bring him to see the horses being groomed.

...but we also saw the giraffes having a feed

...and learnt that flamingos have "pink milk"