Growing Up Years: Maths

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Montessori inspired examples

I have begun collecting montessori presentations from youtube for easier reference in future. Hope this is allowed. If it is not, someone please let me know, and I will remove them as fast as I can. Thank you.

sound blending

Number rods worksheets

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

2013 - May #1

Here are some new activities we are doing:

Jay:

Match Lowercase to Uppercase letters.

He sounded the phonics sound before matching them.

We started on addition.

Joy:

I only managed to take this photo.

The movable alphabets were jumbled up in the box. I would sound the phonics and she will match with proper letter. So far, so good. She even said 'T' (not the phonics).

She is still consistently say the numbers 1 and 2... and we have moved on to 4 and 5. In Chinese. I skipped number 3, since it has 2 sounds in Chinese. As for phonics, we moved on to /t/ and /s/... she seemed to know them, just that not yet able to sound them. She would form her mouth correctly but no sound yet for /m/...

I am very proud of her this week. She searched for her own pajamas (from a mountain of clean clothes- I am ashamed to admit I did not fold and put them away) and changed her pants. When she cant take off her shirt, she came to ask for my help. - all this without me having to keep reminding her. I just casually called out to her that it's time to change to pajamas and I did not even turn to see if she is listening.

Today is a public holiday, when she wakes up this morning, she searched for her day clothes, changed her pants and came to me for help with the shirt. And I did not even asked her to do this.

When hubby brought her back from grandma after lunch, she walked into a dark living room, coz I purposely switched off the lights and pulled the curtains so that we can have a nap. She pulled her daddy towards the switches. When asked why, she said "An"( dark). When hubby asked if she wants to switch on the lights, she answered "shi" (yes). Isn't this great? Another successful conversation. Hooray!