Friday, March 4, 2011

Send pictures to the right Alphabets House

Use Phonics to go through each picture to each alphabet. Then paste Alphabets House on the wall and ask child to send the pictures back to the right house.

Objective
Familiar with names of pictures, recognize alphabets and Phonics.

Space Memory

Prepare 2 sets, one for yourself and one for the child. Flash the picture to the child for ard 3-5 secs , give the child an empty grid squares and ask child to arrange the pictures back to the correct position as shown earlier. I used blue tacs to paste the pictures, so I can play a few more times while rearranging or changing the pictures frequently.

Objective
Child to practise remembering the position of where the pictures are.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Paperdolls

There are many printable cut-out dolls which can be downloaded and printed from the internet. Print and cut out a variety of apparels for child to dress up the doll.

Objective:
Child learns to differentiate types of apparels and dress up the dolls accordingly.

Sorting vegetables

These mini-sized vegetables are bought from Daiso. I mixed all the vegetables together, get the child to sort them and insert them into the bottles according to the different veg names printed on the bottles.

Objective:
Child learns to recognize different vegetables and practice finger training by inserting them into the bottles.

South-East Asia Countries flashcards

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Shichida vs Glenn Doman FLASHCARDS

Guidelines for Shichida and Glenn Doman's flashcards methods

Shichida believes in building up the images in a child's brains before showing the words.

Content: (start with only images and slowly input words after child is ready or gets older)
Number of cards: 1 to 20 sets of cards (depends of the child's attention span), each set consists of approximately 10 cards and an individual topic(cover page) of each set.
Intensity: Clear images on A5 size (recommended size for fast flashing). Input as much information as you can.
Frequency:Flash only 1x a day (do not repeat)

Glenn Doman believes in building up the words in a child's brain first to prevent child getting bored or lose interest in words easily if images are shown to the child before words.
Content: 3-inch red words
Number of cards: 5 sets of words , 1 set consists of 5 words
Frequency: 3x daily (2x daily for working moms)
New words: 5 daily (1 in each set)
Retired words: 5 daily (1 in each set)
Life span of each word: 3x daily for 5 days= 15x

For both methods
- Begin as young as possible
- Be joyous at all times during the flashcards session (never force the child)
- Stop before the child wants to stop
-Flash each card quickly (<1sec per card)
- Introduce new materials frequently
- Be consistent
-Prepare materials early and carefully and stay always ahead of child

Exploring the Glenn Doman 's Method

Monday, December 6, 2010

Finger-training- Ladybirds on the leaf

How to play: Instruct child to put the correct number of ladybirds onto the respective leaf

Objective:
To exercise their thumb and index fingers using clothes pegs in a much more interesting way.

IQ & Language - Can you find my baby?

How to play : Go through flashcards on animals and how their babies look like, then ask child to match the right babies to their parents on the ice-cream stick. Eg," Mummy Kangaroo has lost her baby, can you find her baby called the joey?"
Don't forget to add in the frog and the tadpole, it's amusing to see how some of my kids got confused trying to match the tadpole to the right animal.
Objective:
Learn to differential animals and able to classify them correctly.
Input the names of what the animals' young are called.

Photo memory - Toys in box

How to play: Same like all photo memory game, flash your set to the child for 3-5 secs (depends on child's ability.) Ask the child to capture the image in their mind and placed the right toys back to the box. Bring out your set that you flashed earlier and check answer with your child.