Comments on: Runaway Baby: The Alternative Ways of Showing Cards to An Active Child http://www.childandme.com/runaway-baby-alternative-ways-showing-cards-active-child/ Educational Ideas Exchange Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:44:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keri http://www.childandme.com/runaway-baby-alternative-ways-showing-cards-active-child/comment-page-1/#comment-46207 Keri Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:02:05 +0000 http://www.childandme.com.php5-2.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/?p=97#comment-46207 I also have a very active two-year-old. She first started reading at 10 months with flash cards, YBCR, and my own homemade materials. When she got older, she would no longer sit still or look at flashcards, so we do a version of 'I-spy'-- with written words, in three languages. She thinks it is a terrific game, it keeps her active and learning, and has an added bonus: My husband and I are scientists, and she has become extremely observant of the world around her as she tries to find things I am referring to. I have also found it is a fantastic way of teaching prepositions because when she needs a 'hint', I don't simply point it out. I provide clues, such as: it is above the tree, beside a silver van, etc...we are now describing things in abstract terms to raise comprehension as well: "I spy something that is a simple machine, is round, and is underneath the silver van..." then write the word on a dry erase board...your creativity is the only bound! Hope this helps... I also have a very active two-year-old. She first started reading at 10 months with flash cards, YBCR, and my own homemade materials. When she got older, she would no longer sit still or look at flashcards, so we do a version of ‘I-spy’– with written words, in three languages. She thinks it is a terrific game, it keeps her active and learning, and has an added bonus: My husband and I are scientists, and she has become extremely observant of the world around her as she tries to find things I am referring to. I have also found it is a fantastic way of teaching prepositions because when she needs a ‘hint’, I don’t simply point it out. I provide clues, such as: it is above the tree, beside a silver van, etc…we are now describing things in abstract terms to raise comprehension as well: “I spy something that is a simple machine, is round, and is underneath the silver van…” then write the word on a dry erase board…your creativity is the only bound! Hope this helps…

]]> By: Alenka http://www.childandme.com/runaway-baby-alternative-ways-showing-cards-active-child/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Alenka Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:04:18 +0000 http://www.childandme.com.php5-2.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/?p=97#comment-538 For more fun, I let my son hang the words around our home again. He loved it. When he was asleep, a little "dwarf came along" and messed up all the words - hanged them to all wrong places. My son noticed it by himself and was very happy to correct "dwarf's" mistakes. A few days of that and then all the cards were gone. Instead - there was a letter in the mail box. He was running all over the house following directions and searching for dwarf's surprise... Just a little more fun, but I had a chance to have a glimpse at how good he is at reading, and he had a fun practice. For more fun, I let my son hang the words around our home again. He loved it. When he was asleep, a little “dwarf came along” and messed up all the words – hanged them to all wrong places. My son noticed it by himself and was very happy to correct “dwarf’s” mistakes. A few days of that and then all the cards were gone. Instead – there was a letter in the mail box. He was running all over the house following directions and searching for dwarf’s surprise… Just a little more fun, but I had a chance to have a glimpse at how good he is at reading, and he had a fun practice.

]]> By: telco http://www.childandme.com/runaway-baby-alternative-ways-showing-cards-active-child/comment-page-1/#comment-9 telco Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:50:06 +0000 http://www.childandme.com.php5-2.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/?p=97#comment-9 Thanks to Yonit Kasten at Thanks to Yonit Kasten at TeachYourBabyToRead for sharing this with us: With a toddler, I would probably put the word cards away and focus on books. And by books I mean home made books. Start with a simple 2 word phrase on each page with pictures on the next. Really simple so that your ds can relate to them. I started with my dd when she was right about that age (around 17 months) - and I also had a newborn. I started my toddler straight on books, and then made word cards with the words in the books for the baby. So for example, some of the earliest books were things like: Sima's Breakfast scrambled eggs (picture of scrambled eggs) Orange juice (picture of a glass of orange juice) bowl of cereal (picture of a bowl of cereal) Delicious! I did the books on the square bit cards, made the letters nice and big 3-hole punched them and tied them up with yarn. (ChildAndMe comment: You can find more methods on creation of books at Hot to Create my own books and How to Print Power Point Presentations) That is just one example, we had them for going on a walk, her gymnastics class, her family...pretty much anything that was about her and interest her. And as I said, each of the words in the above story was also made into a word card for the baby, and dd would sometimes listen in. As she got into it more, I made the stories more complex and also not always about her. LOL Also, to give you some encouragement, my well program has always been very haphazard. The reason I started Sima so late was because I was doing a BI program with her older brother and that took precedence. Generally, if we read the book 3 times a day I considered it a success and there were days we didn't meet that. She is now 8 years old as of about a month ago and reads on a high school level - voraciously. She keeps 3 different librarians in business. :) My son who had the BI, is now cured and is 17 and a sophomore at Bard College with a 3.8 GPA and on the swim team. Any my 10 month old baby proved today that he can read by pointing at the word "Mommy" and saying "mama". (I wasn't actually testing him, I was going through some old cards and he happened to see it). Boy did we celebrate that! And yes, his program is also haphazard because he is the youngest of 4 kids and I am homeschooling his 2 older sisters. Yonit * reply July 31, 2008 - 22:16 — Admin Thanks to Zeng for sharing Thanks to Zeng for sharing this with us: I have been trying a new way of doing flash card with my baby. It seems for now get his attention better than Domann's method. Every day, I paid somewhat attention to what he played most during the day. At the end of the day, I made flash cards for those things. I select five randomly from the pile. After one session, I made a note at the end. Once the note indicate it is 10, I will retire the card. Otherwise, I will leave them in the pile. Every day, to the baby, he more or less see the new cards, especially for each session during the day. I do three sessions a day, five each session. I do not know whether he will continue likes it or not, but maybe some other babies will enjoy this method too. * reply November 4, 2008 - 10:04 — Rachelle (not verified) For my extremely active boy For my extremely active boy who would never sit through 2 pages of any book, i made word cubes. I purchased very thick cardboard, carefully sketched out the cube shapes, wrote the words on each side then made the cube using strong glue to keep it together. I have made about 90 cubes with about 180 words. We have fun throwing the cubes and reading whatever word lands face up. It is brilliant! I have tried to only use a few cubes per week but of course they have all come out and he learnt every single word in only a few months. They are also strong enough to survive being stomped on. I also have a small whiteboard and marker which i use from time to time to write a word related to what we are doing, he gets to rub the word out which he likes. I have also written the word of all his puzzle pieces on the back of each piece and in the spot where it is supposed to go in the puzzle. I painstakingly made a few personalised books for him but alas he hated them and just threw them away. He is not one for sit down activities! Once he was almost 2 and a half we began to read books at bedtime (he wasnt interested at all before this age despite my persistent efforts) and he would point to the words while i read them. I am so relieved that he can read now (at 3 years) as i just know he would have been so incredibly difficult to teach once he started school. Now the skies the limit! His preschool teachers dont understand how such a hurricane of a child can read so well at such a young age! Thanks to Yonit Kasten at

Thanks to Yonit Kasten at TeachYourBabyToRead for sharing this with us:

With a toddler, I would probably put the word cards away and focus on books. And by books I mean home made books. Start with a simple 2 word phrase on each page with pictures on the next. Really simple so that your ds can relate to them.

I started with my dd when she was right about that age (around 17 months) – and I also had a newborn. I started my toddler straight on books, and then made word cards with the words in the books for the baby. So for example, some of the earliest books were things like:

Sima’s Breakfast
scrambled eggs
(picture of scrambled eggs)
Orange juice
(picture of a glass of orange juice)
bowl of cereal
(picture of a bowl of cereal)
Delicious!

I did the books on the square bit cards, made the letters nice and big 3-hole punched them and tied them up with yarn. (ChildAndMe comment: You can find more methods on creation of books at Hot to Create my own books and How to Print Power Point Presentations) That is just one example, we had them for going on a walk, her gymnastics class, her family…pretty much anything that was about her and interest her. And as I said, each of the words in the above story was also made into a word card for the baby, and dd would sometimes listen in. As she got into it more, I made the stories more complex and also not always about her. LOL

Also, to give you some encouragement, my well program has always been very haphazard. The reason I started Sima so late was because I was doing a BI program with her older brother and that took precedence. Generally, if we read the book 3 times a day I considered it a success and there were days we didn’t meet that. She is now 8 years old as of about a month ago and reads on a high school level – voraciously. She keeps 3 different librarians in business. :) My son who had the BI, is now cured and is 17 and a sophomore at Bard College with a 3.8 GPA and on the swim team.

Any my 10 month old baby proved today that he can read by pointing at the word “Mommy” and saying “mama”. (I wasn’t actually testing him, I was going through some old cards and he happened to see it). Boy did we celebrate that! And yes, his program is also haphazard because he is the youngest of 4 kids and I am homeschooling his 2 older sisters.

Yonit

* reply

July 31, 2008 – 22:16 — Admin
Thanks to Zeng for sharing

Thanks to Zeng for sharing this with us:
I have been trying a new way of doing flash card with my baby. It seems for now get his attention better than Domann’s method. Every day, I paid somewhat attention to what he played most during the day. At the end of the day, I made flash cards for those things. I select five randomly from the pile. After one session, I made a note at the end. Once the note indicate it is 10, I will retire the card. Otherwise, I will leave them in the pile. Every day, to the baby, he more or less see the new cards, especially for each session during the day.

I do three sessions a day, five each session.

I do not know whether he will continue likes it or not, but maybe some other babies will enjoy this method too.

* reply

November 4, 2008 – 10:04 — Rachelle (not verified)
For my extremely active boy

For my extremely active boy who would never sit through 2 pages of any book, i made word cubes. I purchased very thick cardboard, carefully sketched out the cube shapes, wrote the words on each side then made the cube using strong glue to keep it together. I have made about 90 cubes with about 180 words. We have fun throwing the cubes and reading whatever word lands face up. It is brilliant! I have tried to only use a few cubes per week but of course they have all come out and he learnt every single word in only a few months. They are also strong enough to survive being stomped on.
I also have a small whiteboard and marker which i use from time to time to write a word related to what we are doing, he gets to rub the word out which he likes.
I have also written the word of all his puzzle pieces on the back of each piece and in the spot where it is supposed to go in the puzzle.
I painstakingly made a few personalised books for him but alas he hated them and just threw them away. He is not one for sit down activities! Once he was almost 2 and a half we began to read books at bedtime (he wasnt interested at all before this age despite my persistent efforts) and he would point to the words while i read them. I am so relieved that he can read now (at 3 years) as i just know he would have been so incredibly difficult to teach once he started school. Now the skies the limit! His preschool teachers dont understand how such a hurricane of a child can read so well at such a young age!

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