I think these books are truly beautiful and well made. Some of them are in Spanish, many of them are in German, a few are in both languages. Many-many-many thanks to Isa for sharing! You can see the entire list of links to books shared by Isa here: Wonderful collection of presentations from Isa.

Here are just a few…

• German Bakery Shop. German. (10/7/2009)
• Do you like dogs?. German. (10/7/2009)
• Where do you want to be? Part 1. German. (10/7/2009)

Wondering about weather condtions… and naming them in German? Enjoy German weather presentations by Isa:

• Ready Made Books: Weather 1-2. These great presentations are in German. Thanks to Isa!!(10/5/2009)

Honk-honk for a new set of great German presentations shared by Isa:

• Ready Made Books: Traffic Lights 1-3. These great presentations are in German. Thanks to Isa!!(10/4/2009)
• Ready Made Books: Gully. This presentations is in German. Thanks to Isa!!(10/4/2009)

I am continuing sharing wonderful presentations so generously shared by Isa:

• Ready Made Books: La rana cambia de color - Der Frosch. Wonderful bilingual presentations in Spanish and German. Thanks to Isa!!(10/3/2009)
• Ready Made Books: Counting Guitars. Wonderful bilingual presentations in Spanish and German. Thanks to Isa!!(10/1/2009)
• Ready Made Books: La familia Hamster. Wonderful bilingual presentations in Spanish and German. Thanks to Isa!!(10/1/2009)

… and, finally, I started uploading the amazing collection of presentations by Isa:

• Ready Made Books: Colors in Nature. Wonderful bilingual presentations in English and German. Thanks to Isa!!(9/28/2009)
• Ready Made Books: Mi Dia Medio - My Half Day. With Sound. Really fun bilingual presentations in English and Spanish, read in both languages. Thanks to Isa!!(9/27/2009)
• Ready Made Books: Mi Dia Par - My Even Day. With Sound. Really fun bilingual presentations in English and Spanish, read in both languages. Thanks to Isa!!(9/27/2009)

How do you teach your kids colors? Shapes? Materials (wood vs plastic, metal vs glass)?

Thanks to Heidi for sharing her creative system for teaching colors or any other sets of things:

How about showing your kid sets of things that are exactly the same in except for the color?

When I was teaching my daughter to read words for the colors, I flipped the words over to show the color, I also used sets of things that were identical in every aspect except color. I.e. square blocks in 9 different colors, then at a different time plastic rings in 9 colors, then later on a set of colored pencils in 9 different colors, and so on. This worked well for my daughter, at 10 mths the only colors she had difficulty distinguishing between were bright pink and red!

Thanks to Isa, we’ll be having lots of new books in English, Spanish, German… or all of them at once! Meanwhile, I am still working on uploading my own files for everyone to enjoy:

• Ready Made Books: Spanish. Mi Casa 2. With sounds and illustrations.(9/25/2009)

Spanking - this is a highly debated issue. Some believe a good swap on the butt can’t do any damage. Some believe that the damage can be quite substantial.

The study is published in the September/October issue of Child Development is analyzing if the spanking one year olds can result in a more aggressive behavior as the children grow. The researches noticed that spanking is considered more appropriate in the low income families, then in high income, so 2,500 white, Mexican American and black children from low-income families were analyzed. The low income families have been chosen also because some behaviorists claim that if spanking is considered to be a cultural norm, it doesn’t have an effect on the level of aggression in a growing child.

Apparently, these behaviorists were proved wrong.

Read more…

New sets of single words in English!

• Teach Your Child to read… in English: Introductory Single Words - Foods 3 - Fruits . With illustrations & sounds. (9/23/2009)
• Teach Your Child to read… in English: Introductory Single Words - Possessions 3 - Art Tools . With illustrations & sounds. (9/23/2009)