If I may ask, what is the FB group? Is it a closed or open group? I don't have a FB account…

It's open "Early Learning Parent's Page" has 484 members and counting! Tamsyn had a great idea by creating the group! The BK community is so wide and we have made great friends over the years here. The FB group takes the friendship even at more intimate level. And the respect we have between each other here on the forum is preserved and strengthened along with the friendship in the FB group. At least this is how I see things.
For some of us the FB group is easier to follow.

Thanks. Just sent a request to join.

Hi orsi26, thanks.    it's good to know I am going on the right direction. Yes, nowadays she loves to re-read the books after I read it to her. Sometimes she read new books by herself and then ask me to read to her. I am in Australia. Where are you?  looking forward to your long reply.

Thank you orsi26 for your reply. Yes, she loves watching peppa pig and Ben & holly! 😄 she learns many words from there including "I'll turn you into a frog!" 😂
Wow now I finally know the reason to go elbow deep! Thanks for that. For fine motor skills as she still has no strength to use scissors yet, I got her a big tweezer to play with and training chopsticks for her fruits.
She wasn't taught phonics, but she watches phonic songs on YouTube, play starfall app on iPad. She started reading bear halfway, we only do the audio sentences and quizzes because with others she lost interest quickly. For little reader, only completed 3/4 as she knows how to read and lost interest. Now she watches it a bit when little one is going through it. When asked how to pronounce "a", she will say it's a as in a from abc song and not a from Apple (phonetically). We read many easy readers from the library, recently moving on to big pictures books, little men & little miss library books, and usborne first reading. Recently I start showing her meet the phonics DVD by preschool prep hoping that she can get something off there. So is it still worthwhile to go through a phonics program? I am planning on homeschool her too. She definitely loves reading, she picks up new books and get me to read them. We go through at least 5 books a day. When she sits in the toilet she reads, and sometimes we read in the car (when I am not driving) and sometimes we have reading marathon (read till she sleeps).
She knows her 1-100, and is it alright to teach her math facts like multiplication and buddies of 10 (1 and 9 makes 10) or should I leave it for abacus lessons? I was reading a lot in the forum and I can't remember if anyone said not to teach math facts before abacus?
Thank you for giving me the assurance that I am doing it right. She is my first so sometimes wonder if I am doing it right. I love this forum and have spent many nights reading through all the posts and absorbing as much information as I can. Thank you. 😊

Hi,

miss r tried reading eggs trial earlier this year and the scores showed her reading at 5 years when she was 2 years 4 months. She did little reader but she stopped after 3/4 of the whole lessons. She plays with star falls and endless abc. She dislikes reading eggs finding it a bit slow for her. I am not sure how much she learnt from there. She loves reading and now she can read several usborne first reading books and many easy phonic books by herself, but she keep insisted me to read to her. I started the first language lesson with her and she seems to be enjoying it. Nowadays she loves to sit and read aloud to herself, but she doesn't like me to listen to her (unless I ask her to read one page when I read one). When I listen to her, I find that she reads in bits? There are a few lines and sometimes she miss one or two words in a line but words I know she knows how to read.

I have these questions:
1. How do I know she is pronouncing right? I read to her but I am not a native English speaker.
2. Should I still go on and introduce a phonic program to her? Like explode the code?
3. What should we do next? We are still reading everyday. Should we go onto spelling? Or building words?

Please advise. Thanks.

Thanks kezia. I have another question, how do i download the country course? i have purchased it a long while back in 2014. Thanks.

I have downloaded the codec but it doesn't seemed to be helping. Please help. Little math seems to be doing fine except the LR and LMs. It has been 2 days now. Can anyone help? Thanks

Hi, I am experiencing problems with the audio or the volume with LR. certain parts will be loud while certain parts are soft.
Also with LMusician, the piano sounds could not be heard.
please kindly advise on how to fix this problem.  thanks.

I have the new iPad with retina display. Mainly for use when outdoors, have LR and educational apps installed. A note to remove YouTube app or don't install that on iPad. Miss R got onto that and type ABC at 22 months! She somehow found her way to peppa pig.  
There are many good educational apps on iPad, recommend sparkabilities, endless alphabet and the montessori apps. I prefer normal iPad as it's bigger screen but it's heavy to bring out.

My daughter loves the following apps:

1. Endless 123, endless abc and reader:
introduce words, numbers and sentences. They have good animations and explanations too.

2. Tiny hands applications like sorting, pairs and towers:
Introduce knowledge into sorting, pairs and sizes.

3. Counting 123(with caterpillar on the icon)
Introduce counting and numbers

4. 22L preschool basic skills and many others:
Learn pairs, patterns, numbers and alphabets.

5. Starfall app:
Easy for her to go through alphabets

Thanks kezia!    got it! 

Hi,

Regrading little reader on iPad, I have downloaded the first part of English curriculum and little one has finished it. I wanted to download the second part but my iPad do not have enough space. Am I able to delete the first part of the curriculum before proceeding to the second part? How can I do so?

Please kindly advise.

Thanks.

i would like to join in too... thanks. 

Thanks for sharing the link. I just click and went through one with my nephew, it's easy to use and provide interesting facts for the kids. 

Wow! It's wonderful to hear what you have done. I always fear that I am not doing enough and feeling stress whether I am doing it right. Thanks for the testimony. I am going to learn from you and take it easy. You are inspiring mom! You have done a great job! Well done! 

I'm very sorry to hear about your mother. You can look into the following:
1. Papaya- healing properties and with anti-cancer properties
2. Colostrum- cow's pre milk to boost immunities and have lots of great properties (helps to boost immunity to prepare for the next chemotherapy)
3. Alkaline water/ food- our body's pH are alkaline when we eat fruits n vegetables and this pH helps us to absorbs nutrients better
4. Avoid acidic food/water, oil and diary products
5. Consume lots of antioxidant foods/fruits
6. Read the enzyme factor by Hiromi Shinya

Books that you can refer to:
1. The Green Pharmacy guide to healing foods by James A.Duke
2. The China Study by T.Colin Campbell and Thomas M.Campbell
3. The Enzyme Factor (diet for the future that will prevent heart disease, cure cancer, stop type 2 diabetes) by Hiromi Shinya
4. The microbe factor & enzymes that switch on your innate immunity by Hiromi Shinya
5. The acidic-alkaline diet for optimum health by Christopher vasey
6. The coconut oil miracle by Bruce fife
7. The acid alkaline food guide by Susan brown and Larry trivieri