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Category Archives: English
How I Taught My Toddlers Math (Ages 2-5)
Math is something that my husband and I are pretty focused on. My goals were to achieve the following: Before Age 3: Count to 100, know shapes and colors including harder shapes like rhombus, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, isosceles triangle, … Continue reading
Book Review: 翻一翻‧懂更多 系列套書 Lift the Flap Usborne Series (Rain, Flowers, Babies)
Age: 3+ with parent, 4+ independent (if you can read zhuyin) Please visit our Facebook group for more information! 翻一翻‧懂更多 系列套書 Usborne Lift-The-Flap Series in Chinese (all 3) 天空為什麼會下雨?：翻一翻‧懂更多 Usborne Why Does It Rain? 植物為什麼要開花？：翻一翻 懂更多 Usborne Why Do Flowers … Continue reading
How to Elevate Reading Comprehension in Chinese (Age 5+) 如何提升閱讀理解能力
My biggest issue in having my girls advance in reading comprehension is … “comprehension.” Ok, that sounds dumb. It’s a pain explaining a phrase every single sentence and you really want to give up sometimes. It’s tedious during reading and … Continue reading
Member Post: How We Learned Mandarin With Perfect Accent
We have an amazing member in our Facebook Group. They speak Cantonese at home but Jennifer C (an amazing mom) was determined for her children to learn the proper tones for Mandarin. She suggested: Put the phonetic guides next to … Continue reading
Using Little Flashcards For Games and Phrases
Here I printed the most frequently used 500 words on cardstock paper and then used a paper slicer and cut them up into little cube cards (not all perfect cubes but that’s okay because I wanted to do it … Continue reading
Using Reusable Sheets to Learn Chinese Phonetics ㄅㄆㄇ
Many friends have asked me when to start writing or learning the phonetic system in Chinese and in my article My Journey in Teaching My Children Chinese, I mentioned that I always started them early. Toddlers have very less refined motor … Continue reading
Doodle the Day Away & Improve Motor Skills While You’re At It!
We love this pen. We love this pen. It’s not some new product but we love it. I forgot about this until I looked at our old photos. You melt plastic from a pen and they stick together to form … Continue reading
I Hate Doing Flashcards! Please Spit Them Out Automagically For Me!
Everyone has been saying how useful flashcards are and giving a lot of credit to how “informative” the cards are. I always always always share my resources. I use: http://www.archchinese.com No, I am not a crazy mom (ok, maybe a … Continue reading
“Glow in the Dark”, “Bouncy”, “Balls” … Enough Said
Alex Toys Craft Glow in the Dark Bouncy Ball Bonanza We buy science kits to kill time during weekends. We tell ourselves we’re at least educating the kids while they play during the weekend and let’s face it: projects take … Continue reading
Bellz Game – Time Killer, Strategy Developer, and Motor Skills for Kids
I love games that are educational and I love games that seem dumb and fun with hidden educational qualities inside. This is one of them. The strategy of this game is whoever gets 10 bells through the magic magnet wand … Continue reading
Using Sage Books As a Native Chinese Speaking Family
As I’m looking on the Facebook groups and other forums. The number one issue families have is that the kids don’t want to read the books. Some run away at the first word. Some just cannot make it through. Some … Continue reading
Art + Role Playing = Hidden Learning & Reading
I love art and I love supplies that do more than one thing. One of my favorite coloring supply is the watercolor pencil. Watercolor is usually light in color which is great but what about when you want some punch? … Continue reading
Posted in Baby 0-3, General, Kindergarteners, Lower Elementary Grades 1-3, Preschool & Kindergarten 3-6, Toddlers
Tagged art, children, craft, 繪本, Derwent, Derwent Inktense, early childhood education, education, 野貓軍團, kindergarten education, Kindergarteners, parenting, watercolor, watercolor pencil, 兒童繪本, 小雞去露營
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Teaching Your Child Geometric Shapes and Math Through These Manipulatives by Learning Resources
By now you probably know I’m not a sit down type of mom who likes to do everything from the books. Whenever I have a “building toy” that’s open ended, I dive for it. When I saw this set, I … Continue reading
Posted in Big Kids, General, Kindergarteners, Preschool & Kindergarten 3-6, Toddlers
Tagged children, early childhood education, education, geometric shapes, kids, kindergarten toy, Kindergarteners, Learning Resources, learning resources geometric shapes, Math manipulative, parenting, toddler toy
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Using Legos as an Educational Tool with Preschool Children
Everyone loves legos. It keeps the kids occupied and they get to explore their creative side. I had no issues with Legos but found it annoying that they came in these boxes with pre selected parts and how to put … Continue reading
Posted in Big Kids, General, Kindergarteners, Lower Elementary Grades 1-3, Preschool & Kindergarten 3-6, Toddlers
Tagged Duplo, early childhood education, Gears! Gears! Gears!, Learning Resources, Lego, Lego Dacta, Lego Duplo, Lego Machines, Lego Tech, Lego Tubes, Legos, Preschool Education, Tubes
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How My Children Started Reading Chinese and English Before 3 Years Old
Education isn’t hard and it’s not boring. Most moms think you gotta sit them down and torture their kids in order for them to read. I taught my kids how to read way before 3 years old in English and … Continue reading
You Don’t Always Have Time to Prepare an Art or Craft Session for your Kids, Here’s the Solution!
Using boxed science craft kits to save time preparing a project for your kids to do. Continue reading
How I Pumped TWICE a Day and Still Got Full Output for My Baby
How to pump less and get the same volume of breastmilk for baby. Continue reading
Posted in Baby 0-3, General, Newborns, Reviews of Books, Toys, Etc.
Tagged breastfeeding, breastmilk, medela, newborn, pumpin pal, pumping
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Vitamin D For Breastfed Babies
Having a baby is quite enough right? Feeding is already hard enough and if anyone has “my” type of baby, they don’t eat anything you stick in their mouths. My baby Elli was like that since birth. Other than a … Continue reading
Posted in Baby 0-3, General, Newborns, Reviews of Books, Toys, Etc.
Tagged baby health, baby vitamin D, breastfeeding, vitamin D
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