因朋友開了一間賣Montessori Material的show room，應她的要求將部分教具的操作方法拍攝下來，讓家長/老師買回家中懂得如何Present 給孩子。(好似煮食節目^^)
教學方法如有任何不足之處，請留言賜教。不要批評教學過程沉悶，因為此方法是希望最簡單直接地介紹字型及音給孩子，也不要批評沒有引起幼兒的學習動機，因為montessori相信當孩子是ready時，他對學習是充滿興趣的。
當然現實中有些時候不太work^^
Sandpaper letter 主要是讓孩子認識letter formation 及 letter sound (即字型及字音)，其實如果唔用3 period name lesson的方法還有不同的present但萬變不離其中，都是要讓幼兒trace 及 say letter sound.
我本打算再做一套即是用硬卡紙及沙紙，但計下買材料都要用$100左右，不如再買一套新去教學，$200有找。
I am not a native speaker so please kindly don’t challenge my accent. And this is one of the effective way to introduce/ Revision letter sound to the young child.
This is the basic part of learning letter sounds by using Montessori 3PL method.
The name of this teaching method is called 3 period name lesson. And it is widely used in Montessori Curriculum. This is one of the effective way to let the children learn the name of object/sound. It seems a little bit boring when using this method, but some educators state that this is the good way which let the child focus on what they are going to learn.
Through the presentation the child can understand the letter formation (by tracing the sandpaper letter and have the tactile feeling) and the letter sound . Traditionaly there are no songs in this method but I found this is hard for the child to remeber so you will find I used some songs to let the child recall her memory.
One more thing, Montessori stressed that it is no need to praise the children becasue when the children work with the material, they will gain the happiness by themselves (internally). However, sometimes I find that children need support and praise, and a smile/ wording that can encourage them keep going. Why not?
1st Period, Introduce the sounds
2nd Period, Have the child to regconize each sound
3rd Period, Ask the child to read/say the letter sound
To maintain healthy body and strength baby’s muscles, there are some stretching Exercises you can do with your infant ^^
1. Hug-A-Baby, gentle, passive stretching of the arms and legs
2. Alternate Leg and Arm Stretch
3. Tummy Knee Press
Tips:
Fly fly butterfly,
Fly fly butterfly,
Fly fly butterfly,
Fly up in the sky so high.
My Abbie loved catching the toy butterfly when she was few months old. Then I sang the song with the toy butterfly. You might spot that I moved the butterfly randomly in front of Abbie, becasue I want to let her have some eye-hand co-ordination exercise, encourage her fine motor skill when she was grabbing the toy and using both hands. The most important thing was “We are having fun“!
This is defintely not a good example but I really want to share with others, you will find how crazy I am.
I tried to introduce the song related to the letter sound /c/ and I love the song from Jolly Phonics “we are clicking castanets“. I prepared the castanets (I brought it from Tom Lee $50) and showed in front of Abbie. I hoped that she would enjoy singing the song with me and the castanets. However, she seemed don’t know what’s going on……Perhaps, she was wondering what is in front of her and the TV was quite distract.
This activity is not suit for babies but for toddlers, parents may try using the song to introduce or reinforce the letter sound.
For Letterland users may use the clever cat song but for my experience children love “we are clicking castanets” more.
音樂，家長們包括自己都希望自己的孩會喜歡，甚至可以Master一至兩種樂器。BB年紀太小，手眼協調，小肌肉未準備好，邏輯思維未能明白樂譜，如何在此階段培養他們對音樂的興趣及作彈奏樂器的準備。
其實學前不鼓勵介紹音程給幼兒，一般都是由拍子開始。最簡單有2拍、4拍及3拍。家長可選擇一些較短、拍子比較易掌握的曲目跟BB哼著及打拍子。讓他們可以以身體感受音樂。不要太擔心音準(除非自己是走音王)，因為自己哼的話可以調整速度，而且此活動焦點在於感受拍子。
請注意這Viedo不是好的範例，因為我習慣了跟大孩子玩，自己先打一拍(重)，然後再跟孩子打2,3拍(輕輕)。
如果跟BB做可以重拍在肩膞，輕拍在大腿。
Babies love to take something out from the jar when they are between 5 to 9 months old. It can help them to refine eye-hand co-ordination, using both hands and fine motor skill……
So what can parents do? What kind of activity can work with your little one?
準備保鮮膜的芯，把手帕(或其他物件)塞入，要保留少部分的手帕讓BB容易把物件抽取出來。
鼓勵BB使用兩手抽取物件
BB抽取物件時，家長可以跟他拉扯著該物件讓BB感受拉力
以此活動利誘BB爬行^^
提高活動難度：把手帕塞入(實)一點，BB要大力一點才可以把手帕抽出來。
It is fun for doing cookery activity with the children. They love this kind of activity and it is easily to notice that all of the young kids have the instrinic motivation to learn & work.
When I introduce the indgredients we used to make sandwhiches. The older children asked me “why there is no baby chick come from an egg?” It generates their curiosty to make a question. “Good question!” I replied.
I have some children take part in peeling the eggs.
Then some children smash the eggs with the mayonnaise.
Then I have them to cut the whole slice of bread into half. Some of them like to make retangualr shape and some of them like to make triangualr shape. I just let them to cut what shape they want. (Luckily no one ask me to cut a circle!!)
Of course using a real knife to cut is very dangerous and we should let the children know that they are allow to use knife only when the adult accompany with.
The children learn a lot from the activity. At least they can tell me “I want to make two triangles/ rectangles ^^”
Remark: This is just what I feel. The playgroup is good but not my cup of tea! If any mistakes about the teaching concept please let me know and I always welcome any comments which help me improve. ^^
Last weekend, me and Abbie went to the learning centre to have a trial lesson about music. Honestly, I was quite disappointed and felt sorry to Abbie because of wasting her time >.<
As we went there late perhaps we missed the warm up part. When we rushed into the classroom, the class was playing pee-ka-boo and the teacher claimed that it can train the children Object Permanence however she didn’t explain what it is.
“Object Permanence” which simply means “out of sight out of mind”. It is acquired by human infants from 8 to 12 months of age and there are 6 stages of Object Permanence.
And obivously she played pee-ka-boo with the see-through scarft is suit for 4-8 months old infants.
And most of the babies are older than 8 months some of them are 14 months. Although my girl is 7.5 months old, she has already understand it.
Using partially hidden concept, indicating knowledge that the whole object is still there (mommy/hand)
After that we played the song named “jasmine” and the teacher had the parents hold/ assist the babies walk and count 8 beats then stop. She said that can help the children learn phrasing.
Then what we do were listening the music and sang the songs with shaking the bells. But it was impossible to listen the music when the bells were shaked coz too noisy. And the songs were too fast to sing.
The bells are fit for Abbie to put into her mouth >.<
Shaking the bells and singing songs.
Lastly, what we did were putting babies in the blanket then rock them and blowing the bubbles.
See! I can rock my Abbie with one hand and take a picture with the other hand ^^
Bubble time!! My silly Abbie, she doesn’t know what’s going on >.<
There were some points I feel uncomfortable with
*Summary: Teachers and Staff are very nice. Environment is OK big enough for babies to move. The program content is not what I want for, it consists of songs and activities but ……. The teacher is nice but …… *
When I introduce this concept for my friends who are having babies, they thought I am crazy. Why I don’t set an area then put the baby in such as playpen/ crib……that will limit the accidents happen? I said “Defintely Not”.
As I always tell parents, please remove the obstacles and make your child free to move whenever and wherever they want.
Now my Abbie loves her sleeping place very much. I just put the mattress on the mat and around the mattress I put the cushions. It is safe for her to sleep and play and explore. When she wakes up she will try to grab the edge of my bed and wake me up too. Instead of crying like another babies to get attention. Of course she seldoms cry for attention. She loves to move around our home and dig out interesting things.
Just a little step,
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