Week 14 - Writing SENTENCES & 做习字

Today we continue practice writing and forming sentences. For my boy, I still focus on 'Filling in the blanks' to complete sentences. For my gal, I did Compound sentences today. She learns to use so, but & and. Not too bad for her first try as she managed to get all her sentences 'joined' correctly.

I gave her 12 strips, she completed 10 of them & learn her 听写 for tml as well. 

As for my boy, yes he detest writing and nag while he writes. In the end, he took 30mins just for 5 SENTENCES!! Yes, but it's ok cos there is a saying 'Practise makes Perfect!'

Today I started them on daily Chinese writing. Reason was I find both my kids don't like Chinese and also seriously, can't read Chinese storybooks as well. My girl started on the Chinese books, along with Hanyu Pinyin and she could decipher most of them to read. My boy is totally new to this. So I just started him on simple Chinese words.

As for my gal, long story short, I realized she hasn't been behaving well during Chinese lesson. She told me she doesn't like Chinese and even though she makes effort to learn her 听写 but that is all she does. So I tell myself, daily 30mins of Chinese writing and I will read 1-2 passage from the books. Once I completed Book 1, I think I can start Book 1 on my boy too. 

Oh, don't ask me why I don't start both of them, I was thinking of settling my gal first then start slowly on my boy. 

Week 12 - 5 & 10 Frame & 我们学写华语字! (Monday)

Today we revise 5 & 10 Frames. I DIY-ed my own 5 & 10 Frames card, with a recording sheet that he needs to write down his answers. 

He draws a card, then tell me the number. Afterwhich, he needs to know how many more to make 5 or 10. 

He then place the counter on his "Frames" then write the mathematical sums. Eg: 4 + 1 = 5 Then continue doing the rest.

Seems ok but after a while he lost concentration. Alamak. Need to build on his concentration very much. We did 4 sums for each addition then call it a day. He took around an hour just to "focus" and finish up while my gal completed her sets of Maths material in like 20mins.

At night, I make used of my new Chinese Word magnets. Happen to see this Magnetic Printing sheet from Daiso. Wow! I was happy and laugh til mouth open big big lo. 

I tried and printed a sheet. Simple 30-40 chinese words, those simpler and freq words. Will use them for writing on their Magnetic Whiteboard sheet. 

Today my gal did 爸爸妈妈姐姐妹妹哥哥弟弟. Will continue to practise them til she can write without refering. 

For my boy, simple 一二三四五. Considered not bad la.

5 & 10 Frame Templates, download here

Chinese Word Template, download here