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We were out for dinner at a restaurant few weeks ago and while waiting for our food to be served, I saw the menu brochure. Teaching and learning moment! You know how?

Letter and word recognition and pronounciation opportunity!

The menu was printed using different font types, all the more getting me excited as I want to test our 6.5 year old whether he can recognise the letters in different font types hehehe... He got most if them right except the words like 'Signature', 'Dessert' and 'Premium'. Not bad!

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I had recently started to teach our 4 year old girl how to write number 1 and recently posted about it as well. I gave her a worksheet on 28th Sept 2015 for revision.

This time, I decided to change style a litte bit, instead of letting her use a big size pencil, I gave her one of my highlighters and I particularly looked for one in her favorite color, PINK.

Again, her grip is not there yet, as you can see from the picture, she grasped the whole highlighter instead but I wouldn't worry much about this at her age now. But I noticed that her writing is steadier compared to her using pencil although the direction of her number 1 varies due to the tip of the highlighter. Maybe I should look for those highlighters with rounded tips huh?

In any case, she did her copywork, following the dotted lines to write number 1 (only got 1 wrong as she didn't realised she was supposed to write the number 1 as well in the blank boxes), the rest of the questions, she managed to solve by her own. Good job girl!

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I had recently started to teach our 4 year old girl how to write number 1. She has been nagging me to include her whenever she sees her 6.5 year old big brother doing his kindy schoolwork.

I am not a big fan of buying workbooks as I feel it is wasting money to just have our kiddos to scribble and write on it. Of course you can always make a photocopy or laminate the worksheets but I was too lazy for that and also some worksheets found in the workbooks that I have seen are just too simple or too advance for her age, so I ended up scouring through the Internet and customizing some or at least, looked for some that is as close as it can be to meet my expectations.

Anyway, I gave her the 1st worksheet on 17th Sept 2015. I started off by explaining to her number 1 and how to write the number 1. Her grip is not there yet, as you can see from the pictures, she grasped the whole pencil instead but I wouldn't worry much about this at her age now.

The first worksheet was a combination of few samples I've seen online. It shows the number 1, how to write it out with some dotted lines to guide her. I also added in a clip art on how to show the number 1 with our fingers, followed by the word 'ONE' and 'one' in both uppercase and lowercase. The last portion was for her to practise writing number 1 again based on the number of objects shown.

I gave her the 2nd worksheet on 23rd Sept 2015. This worksheet was taken from the Mathseed website. The objective is for her to identify which picture has 1 object and to draw the line to link the correct object count to the number 1. The second portion was for her to identify which picture has 1 object and to circle the correct count. I'm happy to see our 4 year old girl able to circle better this time round and she didn't even wait for me to finish explaining to her which fruits has 1 count only.

And since she is able to finish the above worksheet fast, I gave her another one. This time is for letter A/a recognition. This is her 2nd lesson as I have previously taught her to write the letter a (upper and lowercase) I got this worksheet from preschoolmom website. What she did in this worksheet is to practise writing the letter A and a following the guided dotted lines. Then to color in and draw the object that starts with the letter a (in this sample is alligator) At the bottom left, she was able to circle the letter A/a that she can find in the box without my help at all. The bottom practise is to just fill the missing letter, which is A.

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