FLASHCARDS: just to clarify, I am flashing boardbook pages, not those cards which I've not made yet! keke! And, I won't be so free to flash once every hour! So boring!!
WHITISH STUFFS IN BTW SKIN FOLDS: hey, mine also has those awful whitish curd inside the skin folds...i thot it's cos of my MUSTELA barrier cream? How abt California baby cream? I find Drapolene and J&J barrier cream don't give me this kinda problem...maybe I shd ditch my Mustela!
chewyring: yah, what is GUG? When r u going over to SH? Do go to my favourite Popular Bookstore (大众)at 美罗城 at 徐家汇. I bought a lot of Chinese books from there, now my hubby is nagging at me to sell those 'ding de' books away...
sarahmay: Left-brainers are good in maths & science. They tend to be:
1) analytical,
2) logical,
3) sequential.
http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/left_brain_characteristics
Right-brainers do very well in Eastern languages cos they can register the graphemes like a photocopier by merely glancing at them! I am a right-brainer, so I rem Chinese characters very well, incl those with the most complicated strokes. Of course, my lessons in Chinese calligraphy helped too lah
heheh.
lilboymom: hehe, I will definitely let my kids read abridged versions. If they enjoy the tale, they will go look for the full version in the library when they are able to read indeptly next time
I prefer breadth over depth in this case
I don't expect them to appreciate literature like they are majoring in the subject at tertiary level; just be exposed to those great literary works in general, so that they won't be so 'suaku' when people mention Heidi, and they go 'Hei-who, huh?'
Jolly Phonics...hmm, this is new to me...It makes Eng language acquisition so complicated wor...I dun rem having to break up consonants and vowels, and use actions to rem the phonetics. If one is not dyslexic, he shdn't hv the problem pronouncing and blending phonemes rite? Many yrs back, I had a tuition kid in P2 who had that problem, e.g. he'd read 'Jump' by looking at the word 'Fly'. He seriously needed therapy.
RANDOM DOTS: I believe the use of random dots to help kids rem numbers better (than the numerals themselves). Sarahmay's method of sticking round stickers is ingenius!! Er, but better stick properly, wait the end-product ends up looking like BRAILLE cards. *BISH BISH*!!!
breadmom: I also kiss his hands, belly, forehead...I dun clean my lips before kissing...ooops!
cheweyring: I love jumpers too
cupcakes: how old is your girl? She can decipher B-o-y and g-i-r-l already? So intelligent!! what is zoophonics? only teaches u how to pronounce names of animals?