ํYou don`t have to use points to pay for your old files. Just go to your account management page and go to `My Files``.
You can download your own files without paying for them there.

There are several reasons for the file to be categorized as premium. These are my guess:

- the popularity of your file, and the completion of the contents (eg pronuncitation, picture, and audios included in the lessons).
- The files you created are of the language that Brillkids is planning to create as their official curriculum content for Little Reader.

 

You can start using both at the same time.

If I could turn back the hands of time, I would start the Little Math first.  From my experience, Little Math is a very challenging program to teach. It's a hard core flash method program. Young babies ,who are less mobile, may find this program "fun" or "interesting". However, when My toddler started moving around or walking, he didn't care for Little Math. Compared to Little Reader, Little Math's contents have less action or should I say "interaction'?, you know. It's pure flashing dots or icons. Surely, it helps improve your child number sense and math concepts but the challenge to keep your little one interested in Little Math is.......like climbing  Mount Everest..   Having said that, we did manage to complete the curriculum plus the Shichida one.

So, start with Little math, and after 4 weeks or so, you may start the Little Reader software. Little Reader is a lot more fun and engaging. You can interact with your child by  playing, chatting, or using your own props to make the lessons much more fun.

Schedule wise, you can do both in 1 sitting. The daily lesson for both program are divided in 2 sessions.   During the first sitting, show Little Math Session 1 + Little Reader Session 1. Take a break, and then show Little Math Session 2 + Little Reader Session 2.

That what I had done and it worked pretty well for us.  Don't wait too long for Little Math. Start now when your little one is young!  

I had the same issues. So when we had LR lessons, the first lessons that I played for my son was the one he liked the least.
I always made sure that he watched Pattern Phonics first. 

If he didn't want to watch them, I printed them out and manually flashed those words to him.

My sister in law complained about her son not being taught to write. Her son is in Grade 4 and it seems the school does not focus on teaching children to write. The kids are now doing PowerPoint presentation or "type" their report.  I actually am quite concerned when I heard that.

BTW, we live in Ontario, Canada . My son and his cousins are attending a Catholic school.

How about schools in your countries/provinces?

Awesome!

I am trying to teach math facts to my son too. I've used the 100 board to teach my son simple math facts, base 10, skip counting, and numeral order 
This is the board we have used.



When we first started, I only used 1-30 chart and later worked my way up to 1-50. It was easy, just let your child match the number tiles with the numbers on the board. When he is getting better, remove all the numbers from the board. Ask your child to build his own "number board' using the blank grid chart. A child who has worked with the board for a while will know exactly where each number is.  For example, if there is number 5 on the board, my son will know that 15 is below 5 because 15 is 10 more than 5.  6 is on the right because it is 1 more, and 4 is on the left because it's 1 less than 5.   

I also use the arrow to teach number order too. The arrow is showing the number direction.
" --->" means  1 more or move one box to the right. "<---" means  1 box to the left, and it's 1 less. Arrow up means 10 less, and arrow down means 10 more.
2 arrows represent 2 boxes, and etc.

Supposedly, we are doing +2 and -2.   My son holds the board in his hand, looks at the equation, and use the board to find the answer.
To me, this is better than memorizing math facts because he visualizes the board in his head and understand number orders.  I am hoping to take a way the number board and just let him give me the answers from memory. 

[.lmtp]

HI all,
Need some help here. I tried to download Agnes's 65 days Math program but it appear to be lmtp which couldn't recognize by LM progam. ANy idea?

Best Regards

Pennyphoo, .lmtp is actually the Little Math's file. You may want to save the files into your computer, and then import them to Little Math. Make sure that your browser don't change the file name from .lmtp to .zip. If your files is .zip, you will have to rename the file extension.

Please read this support article from Brillkids. I hope this helps:
http://support.brillkids.com/entries/20432501-The-content-files-I-downloaded-were-saved-as-a-zip-file-and-now-I-can-t-import-my-lessons-completely

I did Shichida with my son when he was around 2 years old. It was a pain! We used the Little Math software. Any parents who wanted to start teaching this method, please do so before your baby starts walking.    Anyway, 65-day program is actually quite simple but calling it "65 day" is misleading. This is  actually a 65x4-day program so there are 260 days of lessons in total.

Circle 1 - Day 1 -9, flash 1-50
Circle 1 - Day 10 -54, equations
Circle 1 - Day 55-65, I call it the testing period.

Circle 2 - Day 1-9, flash 51-100
Circle 2 - Day 10 -54, equations (the exact same set as circle 1)
Circle 2 - Day 55-65, I call it the testing period.

Circle 3 - repeat Circle 1
Circle 4 - repeat circle 2

That's it! You are done. 260 days of pain and lots of repetition. I have no clue if my son had learned anything but I do know one thing.  Teaching math to young baby is like giving him Flintstones' gummy vitamins. I don't really see the clear results like teaching him to read but  I know it's good for him and I kept doing it. (giving him the super math vitamins, that is!).

I think I have a chatterbox at home too!
My son would do that just to get attention. He doesn't like to be left out of the conversations. We keep telling him it isn't okay to butt in when adults are talking even though he said "excuse me".)
He has to wait until we finish. We would make conversation short. If he still interrupts the conversation, we simply tell him we will go talk elsewhere and he can't come with us.

 

Welcome to the world of early learning!
Hope you and your little one enjoys the flashcards.

Great find robbyjo!

We've used 100s board by Matthew Thomas. My 5 years old enjoys it. I've used this approach using physical 100 board but the app is better.
  

Did you mean changing the font size of Little Reader lessons?

You can do that with the Override feature. It is on the bottom right of Little Reader screen.
Override ---> Click on the "Advanced" tab > Font Size > Choose any size you want > Save

 For the change to take effect, please make sure that the Override button is green.

Hope this helps.

Wow..looks like I am not alone here. I feel a bit better but yeah, I feel guilty. When my son was little, I could teach him anything! Our learning lessons were so much fun! Doman is so darn right. The younger the easier to teach.

I don't know what stage my son is in right now. I tried to get him to do additions with toys and cars. He would just look at me and said " It's playtime not math time, Mom.". He is negotiating, bargaining, and nibbling!  He also gave me choices (like I normally gave him sometimes.) He was smart enough to only offer choices that would be good for him.   

Hello. My son and I have taken a "long" break from early learning. We have not really done anything for about 5 months! We went overseas for couple months but when we returned home, we have not really touched any subjects of early learning.

Have anyone taken a break from early learning?
For how long?
How did you found your way back?

I would like to start our lessons again but my little boy is not interested. He goes to school full time and in Senior Kindergarten now. He loves school and always talks about what he learns from school. However, when Mommy wants to teach, he simply tells me that I am his Mom, not his teachers.