Chinese Home Learning

When it comes to Chinese Home Learning, I did not specifically want little boy to memorise how to write the stroke of the Chinese characters. But I did bought some book for him to practice writing though. I think his Kindy teacher did a pretty good job in this area, whenever I told him to do his writing practices, he would told me he knows how to write and added that his teacher had taught him.

Learning Multiplication

I decided to do some Maths learning with Javier since he isn’t going to school today. We explore Multiplication, he has memorized up to x6 time table currently. I wanted him to learn the theory behind the time table instead of blindly memorizing it.

Lapbook on Angry Bird

It’s been a long long time since I last do lapbook with Javier, mainly he do assessment books which he usually can complete by himself. Thus while he do his work, I can do something else. But sometimes I do feel that doing assessment book is a bit too dry and he doesn’t enjoy it much. I would think that Lapbook is much more interesting for him. He was so excited when he saw this materials on the table yesterday and couldn’t wait to do it.

Well, I choose a fairly simple one for him today as our holiday activities. Such that he finished it so fast, but I am glad to see that he enjoyed the process of doing this lapbook. (at least not much complain coming from him as compared to doing assessment book) 

Our Work Table & Our long forgotten Dot Art.

Reading Peter and Jane book 5a

Just an update of Javier on his reading progress.

Doing Work

Whenever I said, “Let’s do work!”.. These are the books that he will rush into the room and bring to me. Not sure why, but he love doing it. Today, being in a good mood, he took these books to me and said he wants to do it.

Update: Reading Peter & Jane Book 4B

Just an update on the reading of Peter and Jane series. Currently Javier is reading book 4b and he do enjoy reading it. 

Learning Maths

Sometimes back, I have introduce Addition to Javier. However at that time, I am not too sure if he really understand the concept which I am explaining to. Few days back, I got back on this topic with him again, and this time I am quite sure he knew it and I have been doing simple addition with him as and when we are free and he managed to get it correct.  

Javier reading Peter and Jane book 4a

We are now into book 4a and sometime I do face tantrums from Javier when he is not in the mood to read. But overall he is doing fine.

Writing Numbers…

Recently, Javier has started skipping his afternoon nap when he came back from school. He would rather choose to do some works or read books over sleep. Actually if he doesn’t get too cranky, I am fine with him skipping his nap. :D Reason being that if he takes his nap, he will tend to nap until 7plus.. and that is I got to drag him out of bed at 7plus, or else sleeping past 8pm is an effortless task for him :(

And I guess you can predict what will happen later on….. He is so alert and energetic, so ended up, he will only sleep in the wee hours at 2am every night which is really driving me crazy!!!!!

Ok.. back to our topic~  previously I had mentioned in my post that I had been doing some writing practices with him on alphabets, but we never touched on numbers. So I was a bit surprised that he could write numbers so well now when he was doing his Maths activity book today.

Javier reading Peter and Jane Book 3b

Currently, he is reading book 3b, and enjoying it! I would only get him to read 1 page to me everyday, but when he is in a ‘reading’ mood, he would offer to read 2,3 or even 4 pages to me. :}

As he was reading this, he was also busy munching on apple which explains why some part of the reading wasn’t very clear. :D

All about me – My body activity book

We are still going on a snail pace on our “About Me” Theme. Today we did some activity using ”My body and clothes” book. 

Learn to Count

As I mentioned in the earlier post, Javier like to rummage through my messy study-room, he happens to dig out this magnetic number activity book. He ran to me eagerly showing me the gem that he had found. 

This book was bought long ago at the books warehouse sale which is a steal for only $10.

All about Me: My 5 Senses

We did a fun activity involving taste which my boys enjoyed alot. I blindfolded them which left them giggling and trying to peep from the cloth when doing this activity. :D

All about me – My body

We did a body tracing today, and the boys were giggling non stop when I traced. And they just couldn’t wait for their chance to try doing one for each other.

Lapbook – Addition Fact

I have started a Maths Lapbook on Addition with Javier.

Learning to write letters

Despite that Javier can trace well, he still can’t write well without the dotted line to guide him. Thus few days ago, I started spending time with him to teach him how to write lowercase letters (which I think is much more important and difficult as compared to uppercase).

After a few session with him, he can now write a,b,c and d quite well.

 
He would trace the letter first, follow by practicing to write on a blank paper. It was quite tough in the beginning when he was learning to write a, but once he knows how to write a, writing b, d, g, p, q would be easy for him.

All about me - Finger Labeling Activity

Currently, our home-learning is on the topics “All about me” and “The 5 senses”. Our first activity is finger labeling activity follow by singing a action song “Where is Thumbkin?”. 

Hundred Board

Sometime back, we started on this hundred board, but half way through it, this activity was shelve for a few months. Until I decided to let Javier start it again this week. He was in the mood to do it for these 2 days, thus we completed it in 2 days! :D

Odd or Even???

I try to revise odd and even with Javier as and when we are free. While browsing through the website, I find that this super teacher worksheets website really have a wide selection of printable which are not bad. I printed this worksheet for Javier which he not only can revise on his odd and even number but can also brushed up on his rote counting skill.

He has the problem (or habit) to miss counting at times, thus I tried to let him count as much as possible to correct this problem. I taught him to group the objects into pair and if there is a one remaining with no ‘friend’  means it is an odd number. I am not sure whether this is a good way to teach him odd and even, but at least at this stage it works well for him.

Missing Numbers????

I happened to saw this cute worksheet on filling in the missing numbers and decided to print it for Javier, but this seems to be a tat too simple for him. :P

He is still not very good in writing yet, and he wasn’t in the mood to try writing also,  thus I need to write the numbers for him.