For children to develop excellent imaging skills, they need to engage in lots of pretend play, which involves as much senses as possible — sight, hearing, smell, touch and feeling. Today, the boys “visited Disneyland” with Vee being the Mickey mascot (wearing his handmade mask). Then I’d to be the bad guy (again!) who kidnapped […]
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While spring-cleaning, I found a huge piece of quilted cloth that my mum made for Vee when he was a baby. Makes a great playmat for all of us now! One of the first things we did was to figure out how many squares there were. 4yo Jae was really fast cos he’s been
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Made a set of flash cards that my kids love. Malaysia is a place with a huge variety of interesting food, so these cards are very useful. Teaching objectives: Increase general knowledge on the food choices available at our city of residence: Our diet is mainly vegetarian at home and healthier choices outdoors, so we haven’t tried many
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I often get enquiries on how to get the child’s attention for learning. One effective way: Follow the child’s lead This means following his interest and teaching him accordingly. He’d be yearning to learn from you and give you his best attention ever. Vee (6 years 9 months old) is interested in special numbers and especially
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Following feedback from the recent home practice workshops, I’ve compiled a list of home practice learning materials and books for teaching 3 to 6 years old. I start reading and speed-reading the books to my kids from newborn stage onwards. (You may either think this is extreme kiasu-ism or believe that I’m setting a solid multi-language foundation
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Reading is a very hot topic among the parents in my workshops: When should I start teaching my child to read? As a baby? Or when? How to teach her to read? Flash cards or phonics or what? What materials to use? Vee learnt to read in 3 languages (English, Chinese and Bahasa Melayu) from about
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OK, little El & I have finally recovered from the cold; I also did some home practice with Vee & Jae this morning. Yippie! AND I just opened up registration for the Home Practice Intensive Workshops (Basic + *new* Intermediate classes) – everything is now live: CLICK HERE for the 6/9 sessions in Kuala Lumpur (Basic
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Many parents have asked how I manage to teach 3 little children at home and what’s my schedule. Here’s a short post… 3 out of 5 weekday mornings, Vee does 1 hour of home-learning / home practice with me before going off to kindergarten. (The other 2 mornings, our Malay home tutor takes over because I can’t teach
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During the recent survey, many parents asked me how to get their children to focus on learning. Often, parents wish to teach but the children don’t seem to be interested. On the other hand, in our house of 3 super-active little boys, we’re experiencing extremely long attention span. For instance, 6yo Vee spent almost 3 hours on
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“It’s not how much we teach; it’s how much he learns.” — Alfie Kohn To help your child gain the most out of your teachings, he needs to be in the right state of mind. And to be the best teacher you can to your child, you need to be in the right state of
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