Sorry for the delay. I´ve just uploaded one slide with the colours in simplified chinese. I´m finishing another with the parts of the body and i hope to release it this week.

Greetings

Perhaps this post can help you:

http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-math/great-free-maths-website-with-videos-music-poems/

Thanks Saunier for trying to share those slides with us. Looking forward to download them when they get ready.

I hope to upload a couple of slides in chinese at the beginning of the next week. Thanks a lot for give me new ideas. Mainly I´ll try to focus my work on them from now 

I´m not a native speaker but i have a lot of material to create new little reader files in mandarin (at least for some words categories and perhaps couples)

However I´d like to find someone who speaks mandarin to revise and check that work, because there are a lot of words that you can say in different ways.

P.S. Hypatia as you know i want to translate my new files in french too. I would appreciate if you could help me to check if everything is correct before uploading them

Ostrich photos are fixed now. However you must wait a little bit because the file needs to be aproved before.

 

Not at all Hypatia . I just want to collaborate, and as far as possible i´ll try to make my next files in french too.

Of course, any suggestion to improve the contents is welcome

Thanks Stellajo, and sorry for the mistake. They look very similar 

In a couple of days I´ll fix it, uploading a new file with other photographs for the ostrich.

 

Perhaps this can help you:

http://flv.xmlbar.com/en/youku.html

 

I was the one in Spain who bought the reading pen from bigreach and i´m very happy with this purchase. I chose that they send me the item by surface mail, because it was the cheapest option and I was in no hurry.

Anyway it depends on the country of destination and the weight of the books you buy. I suppose there will be no problem to ship the pen to Australia too.

I can offer to speak in spanish (my mother tongue) but in a couple of months because my son is going to Peru to visit his grandparents.

I hope to find people who speaks mandarin by skype, although I suppose they will be in high demand 

My kids also see their relatives on skype and it is almost like real life.  My son who is 2, offers his grandparents tea etc! My daughter (7 months) is a lot quieter but does respond to people on the screen.

km276 thanks for your experience too. So you can confirm that the little babies can interact using skype. I´m looking forward to test it in a couple of months 

My daughter sees relatives on Skype every week or so. She usually remains still as long as they talk to her, move, sing etc... if they're quiet, off she goes. I've never tried with a baby but I'm sure there'd be a great interest on her part.

Thanks hypatia for sharing your experience. I´ll try to use skype with our relatives on abroad when my baby grows up a little bit, and I´ll comment how he reacts

Great idea! I really think this is a very interesting topic.

Has somebody tested the children reaction when people interacts with them through the computer screen? Is it similar to real life, so they look to the lips, or they just observe in the same way they watch their favorite TV show?

I wished my parents had had the opportunity to use early learning techniques with me when I was just a baby. I wouldn´t like that in the future, one day my son asks himself the following question: " why my dad lost the opportunity to give me such a wonderful gift ? "

Bebita

As far as possible, by now i´m following the curriculum structure exactly like the english one. However there are parts where it can´t be done (For instance objects with "A" and "An". I can include this part only integrated in the singular and plural)
 
After this first stage of the work I´ll intend to restructure the whole curriculum for my son to adapt better the categories to the words used by Doman in Spain: Not coincidences between first and ending letters, and so on...

For example if we follow the curriculum, the word "bird" should not be translated simply as "el pájaro" because in spanish the words "el ave" refers to all kinds of birds including pigeons and seagulls, and as a rule "pájaro" is used only for the little birds like canaries, sparrows, nightingales... So i´ll remove from my files the big birds photographs avoiding confusions.