Advent and Christmas might be an overwhelming time for some parents. There is a pressure to plan for the most perfect craft, buy the most perfect gift, cut the most perfect tree, put up the most perfect decorations, prepare the most tastiest feast– even find the best opportunities to help others. Sometimes we forget toContinue reading “Advent and Nativity Ideas Free Story Printable below”
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Dear Zoo
Contains a 6 day lesson ideas for the award winning book, Dear Zoo. Also contain a note on memory retention techniques! While writing this, Shalem was 3 year and 1 month old. He had mastered all the initial consonants sounds and the vowel sounds. He was able to recognise and write alphabets in both upperContinue reading “Dear Zoo”
100 Storey House
Download free lesson plan at the end of the post. A friend lent us a great Chinese book 一百层的房子. This is the FIRST Chinese book that he loved! ( He loves another book – Sunflower, but it is not a Chinese book to him as mummy has translated it fully into English while “reading” theContinue reading “100 Storey House”
Eli and Levi Number cards
We are so glad to find this very useful math resource and its done by a local Singaporean artist mummy! And its not simply a Math resource, the pictures on these cards are so beautiful and that children take to them so quickly– and it can quickly transform into a animal figure matching/ vocabulary lessonContinue reading “Eli and Levi Number cards”
Many roads to addition
Apples • Math • Science• My Father’s World We have embarked on a lovely curriculum called My Father’s World since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. There will be another post on this if I have the time, for now this entry will be a continuation of my previous post about early childhood Mathematics. AndContinue reading “Many roads to addition”
You’re teaching them well MaMa!
I’m glad to FINALLY have the time to document something systematically. It’s so easy to feel unaccomplished as a stay at home mum, because much of your work and effort isn’t documented and it seems to undo itself daily (housework). At the end of the day or week, you felt that you have done NOTHINGContinue reading “You’re teaching them well MaMa!”
Teaching Numeracy
This post documents Shalem’s Math learning from 1 year old to 3 years old. It includes various fun ways to teach and get your child to master counting on of objects to 10.
About Me
Hello, I am Dinah. I am a Primary School teacher on a hiatus to be present with my hubby and children, Shalem (3) and Shekinah (1). Being a teacher at heart, I cannot help but create and share teachable moments in my every day interaction with my children. It is a tiresome but joyous journeyContinue reading “About Me”
Shalem and Shekinah 