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16  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: The DVD i used to teach my son all of the 220 Dolch sight words on: May 19, 2009, 04:32:30 AM
I believe that I purchased mine straight from the kid2020 website.  I am also an Amazon.com shopper like you but I think that DVD wasn't available there.  But the kid2020 , as far as i remember, were very good with the shipping and taxes (like Amazon), but you may want to double-check on that ... as I got mine some time back! smile

and 2010BEBES- I will definately share my experience on this forum if i end up using the Math DVD!   smile
17  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: do you limit your child's playtime in any way in order to teach him/her? on: May 19, 2009, 04:25:31 AM
The thing is that if I show him a "Car Book", he gets stuck on the page with the car and keep pointing to it and saying "car, car, car!"  It's unbelievable!   LOL
I know how you feel about being afraid that he would loose interest in learning ... I also make it a point to make LR and LM and flashcards a part of his daily routine ... because I feel that at this age they are resisting EVERYTHING that they are being asked to do!  But I still keep trying to "sneak in" a flashcard here and there ... and i've noticed that alot of times it works!  It's kind of like when you are trying to get them to eat something new ... in the beginning they resist, but if you keep trying, then they will get used to it and eating that thing will become a part of their routine.  Like my son just started eating some green beans, which he used to refuse before.
18  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: any link between learning to talk and learning to read on: May 19, 2009, 04:21:11 AM
Sorry, I didn't word my post the right way, I think that caused the confusion. 

My son can read many many words (hundreds of words) comfortably, but he doesn't read any short phrases even though we have been practicing for some time (even though he knows all the words in the phrase).  So I am attributing that to him being a late-talker.  Like it's difficult for him to read the whole phrase (even though he knows all the words in it) because he doesn't TALK in full phrases yet ... maybe that's why reading the whole phrase for him is challenging  ...  that's what I was trying to get at...  I hope I clarified myself a little more.     big grin

I am assuming and thinking that the "early readers" were also "early talkers"...
19  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / any link between learning to talk and learning to read FULL SENTENCES on: May 18, 2009, 10:32:00 PM
I was wondering if there is a link between when a child learns to talk and when he learns to read.
My son is a late talker;  he started talking at the age of 2 and he still doesn't speak "full sentences" yet;  he just repeats any word you say to him and says couplets at the most, but not sentences.
When i read to him, he follows my fingers and knows many words, but i feel that he is not comfortable reading any of the sentences.  Is there a correlation between speaking full sentences and reading .... like you have to be able to talk comfortably (full sentences) for quite a period of time before you can actually start reading?  I don't know if i am making myself clear ....  confused

It would be great to have some of the moms/dads who have experience with their kids reading help with this ...
20  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: The DVD i used to teach my son all of the 220 Dolch sight words on: May 18, 2009, 09:47:58 PM
"Dolch sight words are the most frequently used words in the English language. Sight words make up 50 to 70 percent of any general text. Therefore, teaching The Dolch Word List is a crucial goal of education in grades kindergarten through 3. "

(I copied this defintion from a website)

This includes words like:  "this, that, there, here, when, if, but, from, you, myself, with", etc, etc.
21  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Encyclopedic Knowledge / Re: Could anybody who bought doman "bit of intelligence card" comment ? on: May 18, 2009, 09:26:11 PM
I had purchased 2 sets in the past and I had thought of purchasing some more at that time ... But then I came across Brillkids and there was so much information here that I didn't feel a shortage of any categories.  But I think that the bits are more useable for kids who would pay attention to each "bit" as it is being read to them.  Like for my son (who is 2-years-old), he will never pay attention to me if i had him sit, look at the picture while I read a fact.  I think he gives more attention to the way things are set up with the LR ... just a word + media. 
I think that the set i own, MAYBE it will be of some use to me in the future, but I can not say so for sure.
22  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / The DVD i used to teach my son all of the 220 Dolch sight words on: May 18, 2009, 09:16:13 PM
You can go to http://www.kid2020.com/  ... they sell this set of 2 DVDs which contains all of the 220 Dolch sight words.  This is supposedly the ONLY DVD out there which contains ALL of the 220 sight words.  I felt very lucky for having found this DVD;  why?  Because i had been trying for a long time to teach my son his dolch sight words with no success; he would show no interest.  I had him watch this DVD (happily) for some time and then I tested him.  To my pleasant surprise, he knew all his Dolch sight words effortlessly, which really helps with the reading.  Otherwise it is so difficult to teach them these words, since there is no picture you can associate with the words. 

The DVD itself contains good graphics ... there is a different/unique graphic for each word, which helps you remember it.  There are some parts which can be a little too much, according to my sister-in-law, but after she saw the results with my son, she ended up borrowing these DVDs for her own daughter.  (Like there are some parts which can be boring with the little girls dancing with the words, but still, your child will be learning).

I would recommend these DVDs to anybody, because they will give good results.   And I was recently going through their website - I think that they have also come up with a new Maths DVD, which i may try for my son.  It would be a good review of addition, subtraction, etc.
23  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / do you limit your child's playtime in any way in order to teach him/her? on: May 18, 2009, 04:25:56 PM
I have a 2 year old who is obsessed with cars ... once he gets ahold of a new car he gets so absorbed and excited that he just wants to play with it the whole day and carry it with him everywhere.  He doesn't even pay attention to his food if he has his truck.  he starts getting very moody and doesn't follow his routine.  He just wants to run around and play.  I do want to see him be happy and laugh ... but i feel that it can be a struggle when i am trying to teach him something.  so i put away his car so it doesn't mess up his day's routine ... then i give it to him at some random times.  without his car he pays a little more attention to his lessons for the day.  he is very inconsistent, if it was up to him he would probably just want to play all day long.   i have to "lure" him into studying and kind of "create the right mood" for him before he starts to pay any attention.  because i want this studying to be a part of his daily routine ... he gets more than enough playtime and funtime in a day, he goes outdoors atleast once a day with his dad to play.  so i try not to have too many toys around the house for him to be too absorbed in.  sometimes i feel i have to "push" him a little, but i also see the results, that he is learning.  i don't like being too pushy either but at the same time i don't want this studying program to end altogether (if i just follow his will).  i think his resistance is related to the age he is at.  at 18 months he was better in paying attention.
do any of you have the same experience with your child?  and if so, how do you deal with it?  It's so true that they are so moody at this age, wish he was 9 or 12 months old again, it was so much easier to teach them at that age!  rolleyes
24  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: why red print instead of black??? on: May 18, 2009, 04:28:38 AM
I think the reason that Glen emphasized red so much is because it's the color that the eye is naturally most attracted to ... so the red color would capture the babies attention more than the black color.  that's why the red color is also used alot in advertisement. 
25  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Too late for Doman Math? on: May 18, 2009, 03:55:07 AM
That's a very good reply trinity papa ... I agree, Math is like learning a new language, but it's just a very "different" style of language.  So kids can always pick up on it, the way they would pick up a new language if you immerse them enough ... they will start to see the "pattern" after some time and they will finally "get it".
But ofcourse it's easier to learn a language when you are younger;  however, you can still get the hang of it when you are a little older and even become fluent with practice.
I wish that I had started the math program with my son earlier too.  He is 2 years old now.  He is very interested in reading books, but when it comes to math, I can tell that it's something new for him, something that he is not familiar with ... like he is just trying to put it all together, trying to "figure it out" the pattern.  Like there is a pattern to reading (moving eyes left to right, phonetic sounds, word recognition) there is a pattern to math (quantities, symbols, addition, etc) which the kids have to become familiar with.  So my aim is that hopefully i can "immerse" him in maths enough to where he starts to see a pattern of it.  I don't know if this will work, but i want to be positive and have faith that he CAN learn the math language.   wub
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