Development - Flash Cards

Missy today surprised me by responding positively to my teaching using Montessori three period lesson.

My previous post on three Period lesson http://muminwork.blogspot.com/2008/08/montessorithe-three-period-lesson.html

The basic of Three period lessons:
Stage 1
take 3 objects. Place one of the objects in front of child and say its name clearly. Do the same for each of the other two objects.

Stage 2
Place all thees objects together and ask for one of them by name. Once your child has identified the object you want, mix all three up together and ask for another one. repeat this until she is able to identify the objects swiftly when you ask for them.

Stage 3
Point to one of the objects and ask child if she knows its name

I've been flashing her cardsfor months now.. usually i just mention the name of the cards and she just look at them.. after i decided to adopt the three period lesson, i will use lesser cards for the lesson.. like "a" for Apple ,"b" for ball, "c" for cat, "d" for dog.. i keep repeating these cards and sometimes i will say apple "arm" crunchy.. ball bouncing..cat..miao miao.. dog woof woof..

today, when i name the card.. say show mummy the apple.. she will search through the cards and point the apple then take the card out. no joke.. cos initially i put the apple within her sight.. she manage to take it.. then i hide the apple card underneath other cards, she too manage to find the correct card.. she can do the same for ball, cat, dog, sun (as i always sing you are my sunshine when i flash "s' for sun), and rabbit, as i always make the rabbit ears when i flash "r" for rabbit.

Im so proud of my little missy. she is barely 15th going to 16th month old. amazing huh !

With that, i have completed stage 1 & 2. Will continue to thrive for stage 3. she is still not so verbal yet, she understands more things than she can say.

as i flash the cards for eyes, nose, ear , mouth, fingers, face, cheek,now she can touch each of the above correctly in english and also in mandarin.. *clap clap clap*

Then, action words like 'blow', 'drink, 'brush' she knows these very well as i've done this months back..

so, mummy got to work harder to create more cards with action words for her..

Felt good when my effort sees result ! Ganbate my swetie girl !