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Category Archives: Lower Elementary Grades 1-3
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
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
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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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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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