My prayer every night will include : Phoebe will be able to recognise more words each day and enjoys reading and will grow up into an independent avid reader one day. So, as parents, what do we do to help her ? We bring her to the library fortnightly to borrow books, usually 12-16 books at one time to last for two weeks.
One of the books which I had borrowed for her during one of the library visits was "Pointy-Hatted Princesses". She loves princesses now and loves to be one. She loves pink. And I am teaching her rhyming words at this juncture. So this book fits our bill perfectly. Phoebe loved this book immediately and she started to select the princess that she wanted to be. She chose to be Princess Bridget because she's wearing pink and she has long hair. After reading the book, she wanted a hat like Princess Bridget. So on one of the Saturday mornings, we decided to make a Princess Bridget hat together. She helped in pasting the hearts , tearing the scotch tape for me and searching for the long pink sashes. When the hat was done, she was very happy and pretended to be Princess Bridget.
To reflect back, I had just done a partial MLEA with Phoebe. When doing it with our own children, we can do MLEA so spontaneously but when doing it in school, it seems so difficult, troublesome, time consuming and frustrating. When Phoebe learns to write better, I'll get her to write about being Princess Bridget. Then truly, we would have completed the whole process of MLEA! :)
One of the books which I had borrowed for her during one of the library visits was "Pointy-Hatted Princesses". She loves princesses now and loves to be one. She loves pink. And I am teaching her rhyming words at this juncture. So this book fits our bill perfectly. Phoebe loved this book immediately and she started to select the princess that she wanted to be. She chose to be Princess Bridget because she's wearing pink and she has long hair. After reading the book, she wanted a hat like Princess Bridget. So on one of the Saturday mornings, we decided to make a Princess Bridget hat together. She helped in pasting the hearts , tearing the scotch tape for me and searching for the long pink sashes. When the hat was done, she was very happy and pretended to be Princess Bridget.
To reflect back, I had just done a partial MLEA with Phoebe. When doing it with our own children, we can do MLEA so spontaneously but when doing it in school, it seems so difficult, troublesome, time consuming and frustrating. When Phoebe learns to write better, I'll get her to write about being Princess Bridget. Then truly, we would have completed the whole process of MLEA! :)
Pointy-hatted Princess Phoebe :)
5 comments:
cool! great way to learn and tis fun too! I always want to take Sophie to the library but tis so hard to travel... so hot, so tiring... so LAZY me!! hahaha
No lah... you're not in the best condition to travel now... you're already doing such a good job with Sophie... I think when she read about her blog next time, she'll tear buckets! :)
Wah i must go for course under u Annie, I am clueless when it comes to teaching EL
come and teach lower primary and you'll learn lah... :)
i am motivated by what you're doing... will work harder on teaching DN to read! phoebe's compo is wonderful! must frame and keep :)
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