Learning Activities with my Children ( DD 29 months and DS 9 months)

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I would like to start this topic to keep the track of Learning Activities with my Children ( DD 29 months and DS 9 months).

I do not want to start the blog, I will share our progress here on the forum in this thread.
I have been keeping a Progress diary of my DD using Soft Mozart program; http://softmozart.com/forum/33-progress-diaries/731-2-year-old-isabella-learning-with-soft-mozart.html
and it helped me a lot to stay organized , I got tons of valuable feedback and my experience helped a lot of people to understand better how to use Soft Mozart curriculum.

The updates will be short, with list of activities and progress made, if any.

So a little about my children:

DD, 29 month at the moment:
LR, started at 4.5 month, went through 1 year curriculum
YBCR from 6m, done all DVDs
Signing Time 12m to 18 month
Whistlefritz, Speekee, TweedleWink, PreschoolPrep…
Knows shapes, colors, numbers, letter sounds, sight reads 300 to 500 words from LR and YBCR, does not read phonetically yet, LOVES books and puzzles and dolls :slight_smile:

For the past 9 month (since my son was born) we haven’t done much… My DD forgot some things, but we started back our program on January 1st, and I see it all is coming back to her :yes: :slight_smile:

DS, 9 month at the moment.

we haven’t done anything organized with him so far.

Plan for this week 1/25/ 2012 to 1/30/2012:

DD:

  1. SoftMozart Music Program,

  2. Reading Program;

Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/ ( we have been using it for the past couple day and DD enjoys it, we play it starting “sound it out quickly”) everyday
Preschool Prep DVDs
LR categories review , LR phonics cards, LR Books
I will add more to this list during the week.

  1. Math Program:

Jones Geniuses Math
Peter Weatherall Math DVD
EarlyBird Kindergarten Math
iPad Apps
:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monkey-math-school-sunshine/id451287325?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/preschool-kitty/id488033099?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toddler-123-flashcards-free/id433158877?mt=8

EK Program: Wink to Learn animal DVDs
We also will be doing DadDude’s PPT books.
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=myfiles;u=12952;pg=8
Those books are awesome! Very informative and great for DD level. We starting with “Bad weather”

DS:

LR, LM,
TweedleWink
Signing Time
YBCR
Doman Picture Dictionaries.

I will be updating this topic during the week adding more info…

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Oh Nadia what a wonderful idea! If enough parents are interested I would love to do a “book” profiling early learners. I could collate all the skills parents are teaching and the methods they are using and profile the children and the successes they have. Perhaps it could be the key to sending this movement mainstream…
Anyway Nadia I feel terrible all this time we have been talking and I never realized that you have a son! How could I miss that!

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Really lovely thread - I will be reading with interest

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Oh Nadia you are a star and have inspired me yet again! Karma to you for some great ideas. I will check out those maths apps right away :smiley:

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Thank you very much for all the moral support, ladies,it is much needed! lol :yes:

1/25/2012 activities done:

DD

1. Music Program Soft Mozart.( Later I will post here a link to our progress diary on SM forum)
BTW info for those who are interested in buying Soft Mozart Software. The good time to buy is now, there will be a price increase starting February 15.
More info about price increase here:
http://softmozart.com/index.php/forum/20-hellene-hiners-blog/1377-new-prices

2. Reading Program;

Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/ ( “sound it out quickly”)
did “short a” presentations /a, b I was planning to show only one presentation but DD insisted on the second one as well.

Preschool Prep DVDs
http://www.preschoolprepco.com/phonics/3pack/
http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/s/SW3dvd-info.php

  watched part of  "Meet the Letter Sounds" .  http://www.preschoolprepco.com/phonics/lettersounds/
 I talked to my friend TeachingMyToddlers  and she gave me awesome advice to focus on Phonics.
  I remembered I had "Meet the Phonics DVDs" and put them to work!
  I LOVE  the Meet the Letter Sounds" DVD. It teaches the letter sounds.+ DVD has a Phonics song, 3 animated  readers and interactive flashcards.
  we also used the blends and digraphs DVDs before and DD knew the  blends and digraphs, so now we're just reviewing them.
 watched parts of "Meet the sight words DVDs 1 and 2 to review the sight words. Played with the flashcards for those DVDs:http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/s/flashcards-info.php

3. Math Program
LM
played with the Apps listed above + Teach Me Toddler App.
+ Little Patterns APP to practice patterns.

EK Program:
DadDudes PPt “Bad Weather”. we loved it!

Played outside, played with puzzles, building block, flipped through the books, read books together.

DS

LR/LM
Tweedlewink lesson 5
Baby Signing Time DVD1

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1/26/2012 activities done:

DD

  1. Music Program Soft Mozart.( Later I will post here a link to our progress diary on SM forum)

  2. Reading Program;

Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/ ( “sound it out quickly”)
did “short a” presentations /a, b
also we watched youtube video version of the presentations, DD loved it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXBcQFgh3Q

also we watched some youtube phonics videos
.
http://piic.jp/ng/study-1.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jv-i9VTAMhE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1yoPSe51Iw&feature=related

Preschool Prep DVDs

http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/s/SW3dvd-info.php

We watched Meet the Sight Words DVD 2 and 3 and read sight words from flashcards.

  1. Math Program
    LM
    played with the Apps listed above + Teach Me Toddler App.
    • Little Patterns APP to practice patterns.

EK Program:
DadDudes PPt “Bad Weather” and “Ages”

Played outside, played with puzzles, flipped through the books, read books together.

DS

LR/LM
Tweedlewink lesson 5
plus he is being exposed to whatever I do with my DD.

Goals for tomorrow:
Start JG Math and EarlyBird Kindergarten Math,
Dedicate more time SM music program.

Not much done, but I am being consistent - This does feel Good! :laugh:

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Well :slight_smile: …
I decided to start the blog and will be posting our updates there.
Here is the link to the post about our 01/27/2012 Learning activities:
http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/01/01272012-learning-activities-done.html

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Wonderful nadia! Well done, now I know why you have been quiet :slight_smile:

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I just added 2 new blog entries :slight_smile:

01/28/2012 Learning Activities Done:
http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/01/01282012-learning-activities-done.html

Thoughts on How To Organize My Blogging…
http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-how-to-organize-my-blogging.html

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2 new blog entries had been added:

01/29/2012 Learning Activities Done:
http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/01/01292012-learning-activities-done.html

Reading Program Update 1.
http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/01/reading-program-update-1.html

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Congrats, Nadia, for starting your blog! I will be following it with interest! :yes:

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Thank you, Anna for your interest!
Means a lot to me!

Yesterday my DD read a book by herself for the first time! :smiley:

I am sharing videos, list of program used and goals for the week on my blog!

http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/02/reading-program-update-2.html

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Congrats Nadia, how excited !

I liked the books but they do not ship to Slovakia >:(

How often do you let her watch preschool prep?

Thanks

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Nadia,

CONGRATULATIONS to your beautiful Daughter and of course to you. :slight_smile:
I just watched the video of her reading and I had tears in my eyes.

Melanie

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Lelask and Melanie, thank you very much for the interest and the kind words!

@ lelask
I was showing each DVD just a few times. She saw the “Sight Words DVDs” when she was 18 months, and could read all of the flashcards.
But at that time she was not interested in readers-books, I was thinking to sell them… And just for the past 2 weeks I showed her DVDs one at a time once or twice,
and it all came back to her, she knew all her 47 Sight Words. I do believe that Preschool Prep Series made a huge difference for us.

I just posted update about our Chinese Language Program with a video of my DD recognizing Chinese Characters.
She does not know them very well yet but we are making a progress.
http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-have-to-confess-that-both-me-and-my.html

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Wow, Nadia! I was so delighted to see her reading Chinese! She is making excellent progress! Keep the updates coming! :yes: :yes: :yes:

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Thank you very much , Anna for the words of encouragement!
You and Ella are such inspiration for us :slight_smile:

I just posted an update 3 on our reading program:
http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/2012/02/reading-program-update-3.html

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@ lelask

I liked the books but they do not ship to Slovakia

you might try to search on ebay , and ask the seller if they would ship to Slovakia.
Today I was browsing for easy readers and found this auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HUGE-LOT-Preschool-Prep-Sight-Words-DVD-flashcards-workbook-easy-reader-books-/200674514969?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb9221819#ht_499wt_1416

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Hi Nadia! It’s been a long time! So happy to see the progress your angels have made. You’re doing a fantastic job! :smiley: Preschool prep videos also helped us a lot. Cammie was fascinated by it before and so is Soren now (4mos old). It’s just that sometimes, the voice-overs sound very stern that sometimes my baby boy would get startled and cry. I wonder if sounding the voice-overs that way has a purpose?

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Hey, V :slight_smile: !

So great to have you back!! I was wondering how you guys were doing!
Congratulations on your Baby Boy Soren!!! When I was watching Cammie’s speed-reading video and heard loud baby-babble - quick thought passed through my mind that must be Cammie became a big sister, but I never expected for it to materialize lol
I will PM you my e-mail, so we can stay in touch!

I did not do anything structured with my son until he turned 9 months, so I am sure you will be way ahead of us.
At the moment I am doing LR/LM/ LCh/ Reading Bear and Signing time with him…