BFIR - after-tot

I've been reading the three BFIR books to Missy since last friday. the result is rearding.

Missy is able to say night night whenever i read the goodnight moon to her. She will do a hug hug with me on the last page of corduroy. that's when lisa becomes corduroy's friend and gave him a hug. Missy enjoys the bear hunt adventures in we're going on a bear hunt. she will points at the bear when we found the bear at the cave.

Shall continue to read to her so that i can continue with the rest of the activities when she is older.

I believe early education helps to stimulate toddler's mind !

Update on 20th Feb 09
One unexpected finding froms goodnight moon. all pictures have a mouse,the position keep changing in all coloured pages. i somehow noticed that. so i ask missy to look for the mouse whenever i flip to the coloured pages. "Where is the mouse ?" she will search for the mouse in the page and happily point at the mouse, when she foudn it to me ! good stimulation right ? heee.

BFIR- Books list

I try to read as much to missy as possible. Been lazing recently. never read much books to her. just engage her with drawing and scribbling. Shall not stop reading.

Am still interested with Before Five In a Row (2-4) book list:
http://www.thehomelibraryonline.com/?page=shop/browse&category_id=1018&CLSN_2260=123424998922602ea59fd4e655143f7a

This blogger homeschool her 3 kids age 8/6/4 and one coming on the way. amazing woman. which i dont think i could and i can. so i will just adopt some of the books to read to my girl.

managed to get these books from library near my workplace. many others in other library which i dont think i will get.

1. Jessie Bear - i have 4 books
2. Goodnight Moon by margaret Wise Brown - Tampines lib JP English BRO


3. Corduroy by Don freeman - tampines lib JP English FRE


3. We're going on a bear hunt by Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury- tampines lib J English 428.6 ROS



Shall read for my missy these few days.

Happy Home schooling.

Raisins transfer game

Wanting to play this game for sometimes, but my initial plan is to use beans, but beans is not that safe. since i have many packets of raisins at home, thus, the idea to let my girl have a new game.

This raisin transfer game is to train my girl to follow instructions. i gave her three small bowl of different colours. I place all the raisins into the red bowl. i then show her how i transfer the raisins from red bowl to yellow bowl then to blue bowl. then, i thought maybe three bowl /thre colour might be too overwhelming. i then change my plan to just red & yellow bowl.

I demonstrated wih instructions in words, missy just cant wait to get started. she really follow what i did by transferring the raisins one by one from red bowl to yellow bowl. *proud of her*

of course, i dont expect everything to be so perfect, once she almost completed, she started her usual curiousity again. she will press the raisins, flatten it, then put into her mouth, spit it out.. then take it and put into the bowl again.. repeatedly.

Shall revisit this game.

Sponge in the water

I've got these sponges ages ago. my aim is to do some arts with missy. But, it's too early to start with water colour. she is now using colour pencils and crayons at this stage.

i started introducing sponge to missy is to let her have some sensorial stimulation as it has two different texture, one is rough (like sand paper) and another side is soft and spongy. she likes to play with these sponges with different colours, she will take the sponge to scrub on paper or floor.

since recently, i noticed missy show minimum interest with her toys, so i let her play the sponges in a basin of water.. let her see how the sponge become full with water and when i press the sponge, the water just leak out and the sponge can be soaked with water again..

i let her try on her own, she simply thrilled with it and so excited abt it. she press the sponge, put it again into the basin to soak with water, repeatingly.

of course, it wet the floor, which i well prepared by placing a mat below the basin.

a simple/cheap/fun game to engage with our litle ones which stimulate her senses and refine her fine motor skill

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 !

Development : 15th month going to 16th month-old

Missy will be 16th month this saturday. how my girl has grown since the day she was born.. my small little cherub..love her so much..

joting down her development since my memory is still fresh:

what she can do now:

a. speech
she can call papa, popo, kakak, gong gong, sometimes uncle.. and she knows im her mummy but she just refuse to call me mummy but call me mama or ah ma when she wants me to cuddle her..and she said baobao when want us to carry her

she says mummum for eating, says mm mm for passting motion and say mm mm after she pee..*shake head*, she says apple as we give her apple almost everyday either juice or the apple itself. she knows fish as we have fish tank at home where the fishes are swimming happily, she knows clock as we always point to her the clock, she knows fan, she will point at these when we mention it. she know mirror and she knows what to do with comb, and shoes.

most of the things she wants she will nod nod nod and we have to guess .. ok she want me to open this bag.. if we do the wrong thing she will complaint. haaa

b. food.
she eats more solid, no more grinding required. she eat chicken strips, fish(mostly salmon).. we have yet to introduce pork into her daily porridge. she eat multigrain rice too. she knows how to eat bee hoon in small portion. she drink apple juice and she is leaning to eat yogurt, she likes cheese those in pieces not in cubes.

c. emotion
she is however a girl. she loves her piglet and teddy bear. she likes bright colour cuddle bear.. her mr. bin bear she doesn't really like compare to the pink ones.. she will cuddle her bear and kiss them emotionally. like love the bears so much.. she will carry them and walk about.

she will cry as in complaint if we never meet her wishes, like if she wants us to carry, but we choose to ignore, she will complaint by crying. but once we carry her up, she will be happy. that;s how mischievious she is now.

d. movement
She walks very steadily now. but, she tends to run instead of slow walk, so sometimes still will fall.*eyes rolling*

she know when we tell her to sit down to wear shoes. she can sit on low chair on her own now. she knows how to comb her hair.. she can self-feed. *messing still* she knows how to drink from straw and cup. she knows when she wants to drink milk * if never give her asap, she will complaint too* she knows neighbour is call popo and uncle.. she knows butterfly *the one i hang outside our corridoor*

It's amazing how much she has pick up since.. she imitates us greatly nowadays.

My next step is to introduce her alphabets.. she knows those rhymes that i've taught her. i on the ants on the apple CD to her on weekends. so. it;s time to introduce "A" to her.. she will say "a a a" when i sing "ants on the apples a a a "..

it's really fun to homeschool kids on part time basis.. hee.e. i wont be able to take it if it's full time.. but now i enjoy educating my girl..

BB's teething update - 14th/15th/16th teeth

more coming up.. 16 teeth now.. *smile*

we have been brushing teeth (without toothpaste )with missy since she has 4 teeth. hopefully she will make it a habit.