Third Week of my structured learning plan with Darius.

This is what we have done for 13 months – Lesson 2 Wk 1
Date: 31st Aug – 6th Sep

• Literature - English : Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
• Bible -”The Floating Zoo (Noah’sArk)” from ‘The Rhyme Bible Book for Toddler’.
• NurseryRhyme- Little Jack Horner
• Indoor Game – What Do You See? (Mirror Game)
• Classical Music – Vivaldi: Four Seasons
• Children’s Songs – The Wheels On The Bus
• Mother Tongue – Story ‘飞上天空的绵羊’ (dolphin media books)
• Exercise -Learning to walk down the stairs by holding to the sides of the rail or wall
• Art Appreciation- I decided to do this weekly to get him used to it. Looking at Jan Brett’s artwork in ‘Honey Honey Lion’.
• Other Learning - WinkToLearn Flashcard DVD in Chinese, Audiobooks of Fairytales, Other storybooks read randomly during mealtimes or before bedtime.

More Details Below:

Book Read for the Week: ‘Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes‘ by Mem Fox

Storyline:
Read about storyline and my review here

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Mother Tongue
Book Read: ‘飞上天空的绵羊’ (Dolphin Media)

Read about storyline & review here

No suitable chinese song for this story.

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Nursery Rhyme : Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
Eating his Christmas pie,
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
And said “What a good boy am I!”

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Indoor Game - What Do You See? (Mirror Game)

- Carry Darius in front of a mirror and look into the mirror together. Point out to him all the different things we can see. Point to body parts, eyes, ears, hair, nose etc..and then clothing and other objects that can be seen through the mirror.

Darius loves looking into the mirror even when he was just a few months old. And he likes to walk to the mirror at the door to check out his reflection or kiss himself in the mirror. This game just makes it more ‘structured’ as I point out to him his features and his clothing. He kept laughing as I wave his hands. Also taught him to wave ‘Hi’ and ‘Bye’ but he just laughed and twist here and there, not really concentrating. When can he really start to use his hands to communicate? >.<

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Children’s Songs - The Wheels on The Bus

- Lyrics here

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Exercise

-I’m still trying to teach him to walk down the stairs by himself using the sides as the support. But he will often step out and slip down to the next step instead of properly putting his foot down. He also tend to put out the wrong foot to step down so his legs criss-crossed. Now he still prefers to hold onto one of my hand with his other hand on the sides of the wall or railing to walk down in a frontal manner instead of sideways.

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Art Appreciation

Trying to view the realistic artwork in Jan Brett’s Honey Honey Lion but Darius is simply not interested. He only started at the pictures of the animals for a while before trying to get up from my lap. Well, maybe he just does not like Jan Brett’s art. Nevertheless I have another book, The Hat. Let’s see whether he likes it next week.

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