I’m so curious what a day in the life of our kids looks like. What did you teach your child today and when? How long did it take?
Also, do you keep records of things you do? If so, how?
Every day I show following:
LM (currently we watch division)
words for reading (ppt)
something from art (currently I show Vermeer)
something other (currently pet rodents)
LM is the most important for us because I know that the ability to see quantity will decrease soon. Usually we have 1 - 3 sessions per day. I show equations made by myself and quantities from the curriculum. In equations, I follow Doman almost strictly .
I do not keep records. I have folder “currently”, with subfolders “was” and “will be”. Here I keep ppts. Also in reading I have a system how to know which words were shown earlier and how many times each word was shown.
This routine we have since 7 months. 
Thanks for replying!
What is ppt?
Do you have a set time of day you do each thing or just when you find time? How much time between each showing/lesson? And how old is your little one?
So far, I have only shown one set of doman-style flashcard words, 3 times (and only yesterday). I tried a variety of settings and I think what I’ll ultimately do is sit her on the floor in the living room for the first showing and at her table for the last two (big glare from window in the morning by her table).
Good start
ppt is powerpoint. I am used to powerpoint and here is my story:
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-to-read/teaching-to-read-with-powerpoint-here-is-my-template/
and below here in this post I uploaded my latest version which is better.
I do not have particular time. I keep 15 minutes between the lessons. We have PC connected with TV set and we sit… on a table 
My little one is 10 months. Look at the left side of this screen; ages of children are shown.
This is my second child so I have large collection of powerpoint slideshows.
At the moment my 3 month old just does visual stimulation flashcards and sometimes auditory stimulation (identified sounds) at the same time. We’re doing Elimination Communication, so we do them as she sits on the toilet. At the moment that’s about six times a day (it doesn’t happen every time we use the toilet).
The plan in a couple of months is to start Little Reader twice a day, five minutes a time, after the 9 am and 3 pm feedings, and to do math cards Doman-style on the toilet six times a day. I want to start Encyclopedic Knowledge on LR a few times a day a couple of months after that, maybe after some of the other feedings, but it will depend how things go. That’s really all I have planned for the first year or even two; I don’t want to overdo things, and I don’t want any TV time. It was going to be no screen time, but making physical flashcards for reading and EK just seems overwhelming, so I’ll allow 20 minutes or less looking at the computer.
Of course we do a lot of other things while she’s awake, but it’s whenever she or I think they sound fun: massage, yoga, swimming in the bathtub, walking the dog, playing the piano (she sits on my lap as I play and sing), and of course reading all the time. I speak to her in French and we’re also starting to sign a few things. Reading and math are the most important things to me for the first 18 months; once I’m sure she’s got a solid base in those, I’ll look around for what to introduce next. I’m sure this forum will be invaluable for that!
I am teaching my baby how to read - every day showing cards with words and pictures to her. I do not know what the result will be. She seems to love it, but maybe just because she loves playing with the computer. Anyone has any experience with this?
I am also interested in other parents’ experience with multilingualism. My baby is growing up listening to Russian language (mother-grandmother), Spanish (parents) and English (all activities she is involved in). I hope she won’t get all confused about the languages. Has anyone been in similar situation?
My daughter seems to have a good ear. She is singing the songs and although you cannot understand most of the words, you can recognize the melody. Sara is a year and 8 months. Can anyone give me an advice as to how develop her musical talents?
Today, in addition to our regular lessons, one of the things I taught my son was about ON & OFF switches.
First, I demonstrated ON/OFF several times with the garbage disposal (I started out of necessity after cleaning the kitchen!), then demonstrated several times with the kitchen faucet, and last with the bathroom switches (light and fan) which I let him play with himself. I held him the entire time I presented the lesson.
I said the words ON and OFF every time he or I flipped a switch/faucet. I like using the bathroom switches for this because it has both a light switch and a sound only switch (the fan) to show that it’s not only “light” related, ON/OFF is a broader concept. It took him a while with me guiding his hand to “get it” and then he was motivated to use his grasp to flip the switches himself. It was a great fine motor activity, as well as cause and effect. I did this with my daughter too when she was younger.
I let him play with the switches for as long as he needed to to finish learning and inspecting, until the cat came by and distracted my son with his fluffy tail. lol
For my daughter, in addition to our regular lessons I taught her how to wrap a pipe cleaner tightly around a chopstick and make a spiral. She was able to help me wrap it around one of them and had great fun watching me do the rest and playing with the “worms.” Then we bent them out of shape and reshaped them again. Random, hands-on fun. It wasn’t the most educational thing in the world I suppose, but I let her pick “one more game” before bed and she brought me pipe cleaners from the craft drawer so I composed on the fly. I guess it was good fine motor practice, shape identification/reinforcement, there’s got to be a lesson in there about malleability of materials and shape “permanence” I’m sure, and it was just an opportunity for bonding and giggling over “worms” which ranks really high on my list. :laugh:
Not sure if other people do lessons like this, but it’s just some of the things we did today!
Today Lily learned that “Stinky (my mother’s cat) is not a stuffed toy. We don’t hold stinky. We only pet Stinky gently. If we want to hold something, we hold a stuffed toy like Snowy Owl.”
This was after we found her very happily snuggling the kitty by cutting off his oxygen supply! Ooops!
Next time you change your user name, go with “SuperMom”! That was excellent, and I love how you just sort of, mixed things up and composed on the fly, that was good. I hope I can be as good as you when the time comes. It’ll be so much fun. I’m really interested in helping my kids develop/exercise their 5 senses from early on. I’m keeping a list of fine motor skills that babies can do and I had never thought of the light switch, even though the current 2yo in my life loved them when he was about 6 or 7 months.
I did however realize that no matter what sex-child I have, I’ll buy them certain toys such as a dollhouse because they are just too neat to not be enjoyed ny anyone who is interested.
So, I guess I didn’t teach a child anything today, but rather I LEARNED something from a child today…
I know a 2yo little boy who’s been enamored with his older sisters doll-house for the past 6months and his play has become more complex, more imaginative, and more explicit. We played today for like 45 minutes and he had so much fun! Plus, he speaks so much more when he is playing doll house. With power rangers he says about 4 sentences every 5 minutes but makes constant sounds effects. With dollhouse he says about 6 sentences a minute, makes sounds effects and juggles several roles while arranging furniture/rooms, etc…
Here’s a fun one.
I saved all of the tubes from Christmas wrapping paper, and we have been playing with them using them as “slides” for small toys and figurines. We put them in one end, slide them back and forth like a teeter totter, and let them fall out one end. Or prop them on the couch like a slide.
Today I decided they are nearing the end, so I got out the scissors and started cutting. I left one whole, cut one in half, and one in quarters, and we were able to line them up and name the fractions. I will mark them with the fractions and pull them out one more time after nap before I toss them. They are nice though because they are so visual and easy to handle.
I keep meaning to ask the pizza shop for a few extra round cardboard circles I can cut up with an exacto knife for fractions. Maybe I will hang on to the tubes a little longer and compare the two. That would be a good lesson. Something like:
4 identical cardboard tubes
4 identical large pizza circles
4 identical clear bottles (soda/juice/etc)
4 paint colors and matching food coloring
you could cut the card tubes & circles into fractions & paint each a different color
fill the clear bottles with the same fractions of water (1/2 full, etc) and add some food coloring/dye
Discuss and compare them. Just thinking out loud here!
TMT, One of the bloggers I follow posted a fun thing to make with the tp/pt rolls. If I was on my home pc, I would post a link, but I’ll do it later for you. You can make New Years poppers with them. You’ve probably seen the Christmas poppers before. They’re like those, but homemade.
Cut a tube in half so it will pop easily. Then fill it with shredded paper or confetti, candy and/or small prizes. Use scraps of wrapping paper to wrap the whole tube like a big piece of candy and tie the ends with ribbon. Then on New Years (or whenever) your child can pop it in half and get the prizes. I’m going to make some later for my son. I won’t let him know about it so he can be surprised when he pops them open.
Here’s the link http://www.makeandtakes.com/new-years-eve-poppers
Today my dd played “Teach Me Kindergarten” on the iPad on her own initiative . She also played “Angry Birds” too 
. We also read 5 library books together. Some were non-fiction so we learned how to make pizza, bagels, and jam. She also practiced reading our address and phone number. It is written on a laminated card on the refrigerator. We made banana bread together (from a mix). We played in the snow and made a snow man. My son (age 7) wanted to know why salt melts snow. It lead into a conversation regarding states of matter :biggrin: . My son also wanted to know what is a poltergeist, and the difference between a ghoul and a zombie . I don’t know the difference but plan to look it up for him. Both kids spent a lot of time drawing. My son added captions to his drawings. My daughter wrote the letters of her name scattered many times over a piece of paper. It is still more like drawing to her so she doesn’t care to write the letters in a line in the correct order. Sometimes I feel like mostly my kids teach themselves. I hope it is enough. I do try to inject formal reading practice in there but I wish I was more consistent with it. Today it didn’t happen yet.
Lori
i also worry about this 。we are Chinese，we live in Gemany，and i speak english when i‘m not in home。