Encouraging your child to read story books

JX learns to read. He particularly like this story and has repeatedly read it over and over again. He only recognises some basic characters and remembers the rest of the story. Heard that children at this age tends to memorise things better, so besides stories, you could try getting him/her to recite poetry too!

To us, grasping the Mother Tongue from young is important as he would get plenty of chances to learn English in future. At home, his Aunt and me would speak to him sometimes in English. Also, he would learn English from the websites. In fact, he has expressed before that he likes to watch English VCDs and speak English, perhaps from the fact that most of his classmates speak English at Nursery 2.

Enjoy reading!!!

Holiday Activities for children

Holiday activities for children:

http://www.singaporeforkids.com/

http://www.asianchildrenfest.com/

http://www.forestadventure.com.sg/

Check it out!!!

IF you like Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends show at Singapore Indoor Stadium this Dec:

http://www.sistic.com.sg/portal/dt?dt.isPortletRequest=true&dt.action=process&dt.provider=PortletWindowProcessChannel&dt.windowProvider.targetPortletChannel=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar/Event&dt.containerName=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar&dt.windowProvider.currentChannelMode=VIEW&dt.window.portletAction=RENDER&contentCode=thomas1209

Here's an interactive website on Thomas & Friends too!!

http://www.thomasandfriends.com/usa/



Enjoy!!!

Whee! I have passed the 1 year mark!!!!!

Xinran celebrated her 1 year this Sept. I bought her a small plastic chair so that she can push around at home!

Btw I read this in 10/10 Straits Times

"A 2006 report of the landmark Perry Pre-school project in the United Stated showed that the benefits over the life of the child stood at more than US$8 for every US$1 invested in early childhood education" I am beginning to believe that the behavior of our student now may be partly influenced by the type of child care education they had in the past.