Flash Cards

Yesterday finally created 8 sets of flash cards, so now, i have 14 altogether:

Titles of flash cards i have now:
1. Numbers
2. Types of vehicles
3. Human body
4. Basic Sentence structure
5. Sentence Structure -Opposites
6. Pets
7. Objects in classroom
8. Musical Instruments
9. Sports
10. what time it is ?
11. Mathematics : Addition
12.Places
13.Animals
14. Actions

10 cards in each sets, so i have 140 crads now.. still 60 cards short from 200 cards per day. gotta make some more today.

Ganbate !!

Home Practises

I've started the 65 days Dot Programme with Missy since Sunday ( 3rd May 09 ). we started with:
Day 1: 1-10 cards
Day 2: 5-15 cards
Day 3: 10 -20 cards
Day 4: 15 -25 cards.

Till yesterady, Missy never show much interest to the dots cards. *sigh* but i got to be persistent and continue as it is. anyway, if the first 65 days cycle she does not show interest, hoping * really hoping* that she will give me more attention and interest on our 2nd 65 days cycle so on and so forth.

Besides our that 1 min 10 dots cards per day, i did some flash cards to her too, am still trying to speed up the flashing.. always got so clumsy even with the thumb rubber on.

She loves to see me flashing the cards though comparing to dots. which is a good thing. so far the topics i have are:
1. Numbers
2. Types of vehicles
3. Human body
4. Basic Sentence structure
5. Sentence Structure -Opposites
6. Pets

All 6 sets with 10 cards so totak of 60 cards per day. Parents are advised to flash with fast speed (0.1sec) per card, 200 cards ( 20 sets) per day. I am still trying to accumulate more topics and the topics should be retire in a month's time, we can reuse the card but not repeating the themes/title/topics.. *tough*

I still have these topics to be created into the flash cards: (plan to do yesterday but headache thus delay)
1. Objects in classroom
2. Musical Instruments
3. Sports


However, i have created my own flash cards for :
1. what time it is ? (clock with time)
2. Addition ( 1+x.. this can go on for many.. 2+x.. 3+x) now i limit it to 10 cards.

Somehow i find it motivated when Missy is giving me some sign of interest. *hee* Mummy too needs encouragement.. maybe a 8 sec hug from Daddy ?


Besides speed flash card which is the essense of the Shichida method, i also do some HSP games with Missy ..

HSP donw with Missy on Monday (4/5/09)
i will take our two cards, face down. and i tell Missy that im thinking of one card in my head, then i make the "to tu to tu" sound to send signal to her and touch her forehead * she loves this part*.. and then ask her to choose the card that mummy is thinking. She got it right the first time, as i try to do the second time, she seems to be distracted by the cards now instead of playing along with me.. so she got it wrong the second time. But, good try. She gets a 8 sec hug

For Monday & tuesday (4/5 & 5/5) we did the photo memory games.
I show her one picture for like 10 sec (usually i will ask her "ok ?" she will nod, then i take the picture away) then i show her two pictures with a slight difference. like one with sun one without, the rest are the same. then i will ask her "which is the picture mummy show you just now ?" Sometimes she choose the correct picture, sometimes incorrect.

This is suppose to train her sharp observation , which most young toddler has. and we just enhance it.

I plan to do some linking memory to her soon and more photo memory games.

Apart from Shichida games. i insist on arts & crafts activities with missy. hopefully on daily basis. besides having fun with all the mess, it's good to cultivate her creativity and fine/gross motor skill and we did a lot of pretend play at home (felt game/animals)

I read to missy on daily basis, yesterday we read Cordurot & LGG read "Goldilocks & the three bears" now, i will let Missy choose the book she wants us to read. e.g take out two books for her to choose. we should limit the selection and by letting to choose thier favourite can help to boost their confidence and help them in making decisions later in life.

It's fun to be able to do activities with Missy especially when she enjoys it. But lways limit each activity below 20 minutes , cos that's how long their attention span can stretch. It will get better when they get older. Our activities in class too are very fast. * right brain stimulation, everything has to be shown fast*

Now is input input input time.. hope i've given Missy lots of good input. except the part when i lost control of my temper.. *shake head*

Life Practises - Brushing teeth with toothpaste

Today is the first time ever lil missy tried toothpaste. she loves it. We have been letting her brush her teeth using toothbrush for nearly 8-9 months now, after she is one yo.

Jenny recommended this brand : First teeth.- not cheap though one small tube sgd12 plus. but for baby safety, im willing to pay a bit more.

100% Ingestible Baby Toothpaste
Contains Milk Enzymes...The Best Natural Protection for Your Child's Teeth
Fluoride Free
For Ages 3 Months to 3 Years
Real Apple-Banana Flavor

Compared to Other Toothpastes, First Teeth®:

Contains No Fluoride or Saccharin

No Artificial Preservatives or Colors

Made with Natural Fruit Flavors

Totally Safe if Swallowed

Naturally protects, like Mother's Milk.


Directions: Wash hands. Place Infa-Dent® Baby Toothbrush as far as possible on index finger. Squeeze a small amount of First Teeth® Baby Toothpaste on bristles. Use small circular brushing motion on teeth and gums. Use daily, especially after meals.

Active Ingredients:Lactoferrin, Lysozyme, Lactoperoxidase (Enzymes are derived from milk and eggs)

Inactive Ingredients:Glycerin, Purified Water, Xylitol, Sorbitol, Propylene Glycol, Pectin, Xanthan Gum, Silica, Natural Apple flavor, Natural Banana Flavor, Calcium Lactate, Aloe Vera

Happy teeth brushing !

Arts & craft

We have been doing quite a number of scribbling/drawing/colouring/finger painting/palm painting even collage in this month alone. I really think it's not bad at all as i try to make this a weekly thing for missy.. she is getting better with her hand control of the crayons/colour pencils..

To make sure she gets the access of the materials to unleash her creativity ..i always pasted a huge mahjong paper at our glass door and she just take her crayons/colour pencils and scriblle.. draw.. and only friday or sunday i will let her play with finger play with sponges and she evolve to using palm to chop on the papers..

We recently did a collage too.. which is a simple one with my help to prepare the torn magazines then she just take the paper and paste it onto the 3 balloons outline.. i will let her practise more of such craft.. good motro skill

New Words

Today im surprised when missy said "touch touch" woah.. her vocab really is expanding.. she wants to touch the toys during our visit to Kiddy palace and keep saying touch and when we passed by Levi's shop, i war the hat onto her head.. after that she keeps saying hat hat.. so i got to really watch what i say.. she is learning fast..

Language updates

Missy is able to pronounce "s" now.. Yipee ! Good job my lil girl. we have been stressing on the "s" on her words. like " say pleasssseeee" " say bussss".

hey, the hard work paid off.. now missy says " please".. with the "s" and 'bus" with the "s" too.. heee..

So proud of her..

more words from missy:
27. pom pom - bathing

28. want want - means she wants something

29. play play - she wants to play on something

30. draw - she wants her arts set- scribbling

31. teeth

32. dog - she will follow with hoof hoof

33. cat - she will follow with miaoo

34. take take - when she wants us to give her something

35. nail nail - when she wants nail clipper

36. hair

37. mirror - learnt from HI-5 mirror mirror song

23/4/09
38. touch

39. hat

40. bag

41. eat

42. bread

There should be more but i cant recall now.

18 month old and she can say so much. how a child grow. Simply amazing and interesting !

Book: Entertaining and Educating Babies and Toddlers

Just completed this book. A very comprehensive books with suggestions on activities from birth till 2 years plus.

I just adopted some of the activities over the weekends with Missy. one of them is the flour mixture. Not bad