Hey Buds

Its me again…was away and could not check the forum.One question. I have no idea how to include quotes in my post…hahah…very non-IT me…

Yeah I think I have to slow down with him a bit…Kind of gotten a little excited for a while there and went overboard with him…thanks for your motivation and advice…
my son is so like your DD2…his eyes will roll everywhere but the book and now that a page in 4a is pretty long, so now its pretty difficult just to let him finish a page.

I did not use any methadology though. Should I use any one of them?what do you reckon?

I haven’t tried origami with him though…I will try that…those simple ones…

thanks buds for the ideas…love them.

Hi Buds


Thanks for your suggestions... I agree with you, i should just stick to teaching him the silent 'e' word as sight words. At what age do you think I should resume the complex vowel rule...I think I cause enough damage to his brain already by getting too excited
:stupid: and causing him to be so confused.

He can read on his own but I have to hold on to his pointer and point it to each word and move along with him. If I let go his pointer, he will skip a few words and a few lines...think i must work on his motor skills...his motor skills aren't that good...he still don't really like tracing despite the nice alphabet mat I got him

I must say kudos to you cause I am very motivated by you at how you work with your 2 girls. If I did not come across this forum and read your thread and tamarind's, I don't think I have any idea on how to teach my son how to read.

Thanks again buds and i love your ideas...please throw in more ideas..I'm waiting to try

Hi buds

its me again...my son is now at 4b of pj now...I will revise the sight words introduced in the book by sticking it on the wall... He is not in any phonics programme... I teach him at home using tamarind's method and your fun materials that you shared in the phonics thread thanks to both of you,he can read 3 letter words now and also the the blends... I thought since he is progressing quite good.. I could just go ahead with the silent 'e' words since those words also appear in p&j. However I think I kinda confuse him now when i introduce the complex phonics to him.so I am not sure whether to go ahead or hang on first... I probably need to do more activities to reinforce what I taught him before progressing further...he just gets utterly confuse in a silent 'e ' word and after reading such words, he will go ahead and sound the vowel like in a silent 'e' word when he is reading a 3 letter word.

He is now 3 years 3 months.
Thanks

Ehmmm!!! Hehe maybe this kanchiong mummy go too fast … I think…must press the ‘slow down’ button… I was going through with him as he reads to me d Peter and Jane books… There were quite a number of silent ‘e’ and ‘long’ vowels… So I thought I could just go ahead and teach him the mechanics of it…do I just teach those words as sight words first and proceed with the mechanics later on when he is more mature and ready ?

Hi buds

it's me again I have problems getting son to remember the silent 'e' and the long vowels...do you have any ideas on how to reinforce this...any games? I have to constantly remind him...'there's a silent 'e' at the end and blah blah for every silent 'e' word... So not sure if he remembers it or worse don't understand what I have taught him at all.

Thanks

hi mrswongtuition


Can share with us, where is Kovan branch?I am not that familiar with that area. Thanks very much.

awww...that's sad but thanks buds for the effort...guess I probably have to go to those shop making stamps to churn out the individual days of the week but its going to be costly... so not sure whether it will be a good invetsment

Jedamum

true... Bugis was quite a distance away for me too but kinda central so not entirely far off as compared to those places in d west like those mentioned my buds...

checked bhg in tampines though.. They dun have it... They dun even have a proper stationary section to start off with...

Thanks to your accurate directions, I managed to locate the item real fast..Dun need to scale section by section. Will try it with him tomorrow cause we got it just now and it was too late for him to try it.


Did you further laminate it?

Hi buds

I managed to get the alphabet may from bugis bhg.. Was so happy when I saw it... It costs $5.20. I only saw a few pieces left so for those mummies who are
keen to buy it... Must hurry to get it.

buds your directions To where the mats were places are really accurate...thanks again...now I hope to try it with my son... Hopefully he likes it and will sit to do it...