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.

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.

Reading Chinese

Yes, he can recognise Chinese characters too!

I was sceptical about flashcards, but with the convenience of DVD flashcard programmes these days, it just seemed like it was no harm to try.

I just tested him. Am amazed! Started him with the DVD flashcards at 5mths. He's 11mths now. He's never seen these words before other than on the WinktoLearn DVDs.

After having gone through the "Wink-to-Learn"(WTL) DVDs, I must say that this WTL and the "Your Baby Can Read"(YBCR) series are currently the best in quality of the DVD programmes available in stores now. YBCR has a much longer programme but once the baby is happy with the show, often he gets used to it and love bouncing along with the songs and short phrases. For babies with short attention span, the WTL would be most suitable. Being a "flash" programme, it flashes 10 words in a short 2-minute lesson. Just show that 1 lesson or if your baby has a longer attention span, then 2 lessons each day, and show those same 1 or 2 lessons for 7 days in a row. Very quick and simple process. Then change to another 1 or 2 new lessons for the next 7 days.

For WTL, both the English & Chinese programmes are similar. I took a video of 1 lesson of English while Baby JR was watching it this morning, just so as to time how long 1 lesson is - 2:04min exactly. Most lessons are similar in duration, so if you think it's a drugery to show a DVD flashcard programme, think again!

Dot Dots

Started JR on Math Dot Cards this week. Not sure if he is too old for this. Difficult to have him stay still and focus for long at this age. Thankfully, they only require flashing of the dot cards for a very short while, but even that seems challenging to do with a 11-month-old.

Incidentally, the cards fit very well into our MIM sling plastic bags. Quite useful for holding only what I need for the timebeing - only need like 20 cards at a time.

I bought these Math Dot Cards from a local website:
www.kidsbook.sg

This website seems quite useful:
http://www.childandme.com/how-teach-your-child-math-glenn-domans-dot-method/

Card Game II

Ah, now apart from "Hi", he can definitely pick out several other words.

Where's Baby?


Where's Dog?

I did not use flashcards to manually work on this word recognition - all this while, have been relying only on FlashCard Video Programmes. We started off with ">Your Baby Can Read Videos and English & Chinese Wink-to-Learn Videos.

He is now 11-months-old. We started showing him these videos from around 5 months.

Did He Do That?

Coincidence or Reality?

He has been able to recognise that "Hi" word for quite a while now, and will even try to verbalise it with a screeching "hi" sound. I already thot he was quite "slow" since the girl in the video could point and act out the words from like 8 or 9 months old! JR is almost 11mths old! He has not been able to point or gesture to various parts of his body or at things. Only perhaps to raise his hands to ask me to carry him. Or to close/open his palms when he hears the "Twinkle" song, and raise his arms to show "Hurray" as in the "If you're happy" song. But then again, it does say that baby can recognise words if he just focuses his attention on certain words when you read them out, and JR does do that.

I'd made a little cardholder of words that he has come across in the videos that he has been watching since 5mths' old. This morning, while going thru it, he of course said "Hi" at the 1st word as usual, and when he saw "Head", he patted his head....then he saw "Ears" and he said out "ea" ...and then he saw "Mouth" and said "Mao". Was I dreaming that he did that? Was it coincidental or intentional? Couldn't get him to do it again, but well, the sounds WERE different, unlike his usual "do-it-all" "BABABABA or MAMAMAMAMA or DADADAA" sounds.

And when I walked into the store at the petrol station today, he excitedly went "Ba ba ba" when the door to the store opened and he saw the array of Bananas there....Hmm....oh well, he said the same thing when he saw the word "Ball"....

Card Game

Convincing, eh?

www.babycanread.com
www.winktolearn.com

English Flashcards

JR started this programme with the Chinese DVDs. This shows him with the new English Set

www.winktolearn.com

Chinese FlashCards

Another video - a longer one that shows how JR just concentrates when this is put on. He loves it!

www.winktolearn.com

Here's JR watching the English DVDs.

More FlashCards!

Baby LOVES watching his flashcard vids. It's the "Your Baby Can Read" series and the "Wink-to-Learn" series. I'm amazed at his attention span with these. We started showing these to him when he was 5 months' old.


And this morning, I took out some of the kids' old Barney CDs ....JR didn't give the shows any attention! But was happy when I changed to this....Chinese flashcards - again:

Strange Kid!