SM: Exercises Poem

Another poem for this tem. The second one. As the first one, everyone in class can recite effortlessly, thus, sinsei add one more.

Exercises

Bend your body,
touch your toes;

Straighten up,
and touch your nose;

wave your arms,
now touch each knee;

Stamp your feet,
and count to three,
One, Two, Three !

SM: term Oct- Dec 10 for 3 yo

Goal for this term:

1. Able to recite poems and stories
2. able to use 5 senses for ESP games
3. Able to write alphabets and numbers
4. Able to feel an object using teeny tiny Image

missy is able to do (1),(2) and (4) . (3) is in progress.

Poem: Taking a Bath

Our second Poems for this term for SM: for Nov 2010

Taking a Bath

Taking My bath
i try try try
to wipe myself
till i'm dry dry dry

hands to wipe
and fingers and toes
and two wet legs
and a shiny nose

Just think how much
less time i'd take
if i were a dog,
and could shake shake shake

Missy is able to recite the poem after i read to her for few times, she is able to stand there and recite loudly. Of course, with lots of encouragement from us. Great job my girl !

I hope this poem recital can boast her confidence and also memory.

SM: Yawn song

We like the song that comes with a Sun face but in between, the sun yawn..

The lyrics:

When the day began,
i open my eyes,
and stretch my arms,
and open my mouth.

and, yawn. Ouhhhh.. (tt's when the yawn picture came onto the sun's face)
and , yawn. Ouhh..

and the song repeats..

The children in class will be laughing when reach the sun yawning part :)

Makoto Times

Message from mrs Jocelyn Khoo

"Every parent is the sun; every child is a star"

SM- 4th terms -2010

We are now into the final term for 2010. missy class now has 4 girls, one born in Jan(Tyra), one in August(Megan), missy in Sept, and one in Nov(Zi Tong/Ashley). We can see the Jan girl doing much better than the rest, in term of concentration and understanding. But i believe all of them are equally good, just that the Jan-born girl (Tyra) is starting to output, while the rest is still in the inputting stage.

We have a poem to recite this term. Called Rocket. I read once to missy, get her to repeat after me. Then she is able to recite the whole poem. she has never stop to amaze me.

Rocket
======
I am a rocket
Crouched on the ground
Waiting quietly
without a sound

Light this fuse
on my little toe
waiting to take off
Here i go
Whooshhh..

They are suppose to recite in front of the class. which i have some concern, as i noticed missy usually will shy off if we ask her to "show-off" what she knows.. she will either keep looking at me, twisting her tongue, or speak with super tiny voice..

so, i hope to train her confidence, get her to be more outspoken. hopefully, with the practise, she will be better.

SM- Addition & Substraction

besides Linking memory set we bought for missy set 123 A & set 123B, recently we added anotehr mathematics set (besides dots program), this set includes of CD+worksheet.

Missy suppose to listen to the CD, which we bought addition & multiplication, which are the only set available in Tensai shop. this is how it works,

We will play the CD which sing the addition like below:

1+1 =2
2+1 =3
3=1 =4

all the way to 9+1 =10.. it's like singing in rhythm, so children will use their right brain to remember while pointing at the worksheet with the equation above..

so, hopefully missy will like mathematics more..

SM - Three Yo (July - Sept) Goal

This term, missy suppose to be able to pick up the following:

3 years old Ju;y -September:
1. Able to add and divide

2. able to fix block s according to diagram

3. Has good instant memory

4. Able to recall sounds and their pictures

well, from my observation, missy can do (2) & (4) but (1).. she still not able to recognise numbers more than 4.. shake head. (3), she is ok, but LM still sometimes ok, sometimes not..

Keep it up !

Missy and her Shichida Method Progress

It's been one year plus since we joined shichida Method. we started on April 2009 when missy is 18 month old.

Now, she is coming to 33 month-old. well, besides not concentrating in class and refuse to do her activities last time, she is benefitted from the course. she can remember lyrics such as sound of music to school nursery rhymes, she responds well to teachers in school, participative, cheerful and her vocab is very powerful. haaa partly also due to bedtime story read by her daddy almost every day.

her teacher (teacher Wayda) gave me her feedback which mostly are positive and she too thinks maybe she attended SM. she compares to other children's development and gave me these feedback. Which i feel happy to hear , of course. I will also share with her of hoe missy is at home. how she reacts to certain situation etc etc.

i love such interactive session with her teacher, so that we both understand the child more as children tend to react differently at different environment.

We shall continue to let missy enjoy SM until she is 6yo. Shall enroll lil boy when he is 18 month old, but i shall start to do the 5 minute talk to him and enforce on parent-child bon with him now (coming to 4 months old), since i already know how the method works,i shall start early with him, on flash cards too :)

Happy educating our child :) Play and learnt at the same time :)

SM: 3yo (Aprl to June) Term Goal

For 3yo, the term goal from April to June is as below:

1. Understand Substraction within 1-10

2. able to do complex maze/puzzle

3. Able to describe pictures

4. can recall linking memory pictures

mm.. which one missy can do ? (3) which she can describe on things she knows..the rest all..in progress i guess, puzzle, she is playing with more pieces now, but big piece which i bough from ELC. she does not know how to arrange them by herself yet, still need my help, but she knows how to put them together base on the shapes. substration ?? she cant recognise 1 to 10 yet. im still trying to teach her.. im a lazy mum.. sob

linking memory, hubby and i think she can recall, if she concentrates, but only 65% success rate. i prefere flash memory actually, easier for me to do home practise with her than linking memory.

shall work towards the goals.

SM: Linking Memory -3 YO

Starting from this year (2010), missy is considered in 3 year-old class in Shichida. thus, they will start the 3yo linking memory set 1A, 2A, 3A with VCD which play from 1 to 50 cards and reverse.

Sinsei already started the LM set 1A, i shall start with missy at home soon. now preparing the lesson plan..

Hopefully, our effort pays off, missy will have a good memory in future which helps in her studies and life ..

Missy @ 27 months old

Missy can say numbers 1 to 10 clearly. 11-15 clearly 16 to 20 vaguely.

She still not able to recognise colour precisely, she will just say red or blue when i ask her any colours..

She knows Shapes like circle, triangle, square, heart, star very well. she still unable to tell shapes like rectangle, oval, pentagon, hexagon..

She knows her A to Z, she ecognise "A", "B", "C" letters.