Reading Program Update 1.

On Mondays I will be posting our Reading Program updates.

DD 29 month old:

During the past week we focused on reading, and it payed off big time!

As I mentioned before, DD could sight read couple hundreds of words, but she never cracked the phonics code...

For the past week we were reviewing letter sounds, blends, digraphs and sight words using Preschool Prep Company DVDs and Flashcards.

http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/p/index.php

DD mastered most of them,  she does make a mistake  here and there but in general 98% of time she knows them! We also reviewed Preschool Prep Sight words DVDs and she knows most of them except the ones starting with H and Th, so we will continue working on those.

We also been using Reading Bear program http://www.readingbear.org/  Both my children just love it.

After couple days using Reading Bear  ,DD started  sounding out words. She does not blend them properly yet. And she tends to end every word with "t" automatically and only after said "t" reads the propper sound, ex. b a t,m; c a t,b .

We also have been reading some books together, but no new titles.

I will be looking through Book list thread posted on BrillKids forum:

http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/book-list/.

So... Goals for the next week:

will add them tomorrow.

01/29/2012 Learning Activities Done:

DD:

1.Reading Program :

PreschoolPrep flashcards.

Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/ 

Also watched some phonics youtube clips .

YBCR Starter DVD

2.Music Program:

http://softmozart.com/index.php/forum/33-progress-diaries/731-2-year-old-isabella-learning-with-soft-mozart.html?limit=6&start=36

on SoftMozart Forum:
Click here to visit Music Vision International LLC

DS:

LR, LM,
TweedleWink
YBCR

01/28/2012 Learning Activities Done:

DD:

1.Reading Program :

PreschoolPrep "Meet the Sight Words  3 DVD"  and flashcards.

Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/ 

Also watched some phonics youtube clips .

YBCR Starter DVD and flashcards.

We started using PreschoolPrep readers:

http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/p/msw1/easyreaders.php

I am not sure if we will keep working on them or will take other readers....

2. Math Program:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monkey-math-school-sunshine/id451287325?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachme-toddler/id316755410?mt=8

3.Music Program:

http://softmozart.com/index.php/forum/33-progress-diaries/731-2-year-old-isabella-learning-with-soft-mozart.html?limit=6&start=36

DS:

LR, LM,
TweedleWink
YBCR

baby signing time

Thoughts on How To Organize My Blogging....

I am  still  trying to figure out how to better organize my Blog. 

I do not think that just daily updates will be very helpful and informative...

I think in couple weeks it will be hard to dig out any useful info from the older posts.

So I am thinking starting next week   I will be posting in this manner:

I will continue posting daily check lists about our music program on SoftMozart Forum:
Click here to visit Music Vision International LLC

And posting about other learning activities on Brillkids forum:

Mondays:

Reading Program:

activities done,

list of learning materials used,

progress,

challenges, 

goals for a week.

Tuesdays:

Encyclopedic Knowledge:

activities done,

list of learning materials used,

progress,

challenges, 

goals for a week.

Wednesdays:

Math Program:

Thursdays:

Spanish Language Program:

Fridays:

Russian Language Program:

Saturdays:

Music Piano Learning Program

Sundays:

Chinese Language Program:

The list looks ambitious :)  Let's try to make it work!

01/27/2012 Learning Activities Done:

DD:

1.Reading Program :

Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/ 

PreschoolPrep DVDs and fashcards.

http://www.preschoolprepco.com/phonics/3pack/
http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/s/SW3dvd-info.php

Little Reader Books and Pattern Phonics Fashcards.

YBCR Starter DVD. I was showing it to Baby A. and DD wanted to watch it too.

DD knows most of the sight words from PreschoolPrep DVDs. This weekend we will continue to review these DVDs and tomorrow I plan to practice with her reading using PreschoolPrep readers:

http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/p/msw1/easyreaders.php

2. Math Program:

I panned to introduce 

Jones Geniuses Math

Peter Weatherall Math DVD
EarlyBird Kindergarten Math this week, but I need time to review all the materials so I will definitely start stronger on Math on Monday, for the next 2 days I will be using this awesome apps that highly recommend:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monkey-math-school-sunshine/id451287325?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teachme-toddler/id316755410?mt=8

3.Music Program:

We are using Soft Way to Mozart Software.

DD played songs Hot Cross Buns and French Song using both hands. Played Guess the Key Game. Watched Little Reader Solfege files and was learning sequence of Note Alphabet using flashcards and Note Rows printouts.

DS:

LR, LM,
TweedleWink
YBCR.

A Little About Us...

I did not want to start a blog, since it is very time consuming...

I thought l would just share our progress on Brillkids forum, but... if the life is worth living , it is worth recording.

I have been keeping a Progress diary of my DD using Soft Mozart program:

 http://softmozart.com/forum/33-progress-diaries/731-2-year-old-isabella-learning-with-soft-mozart.html
and it helped me a lot to stay organized , I got tons of valuable feedback and my experience helped a lot of people to understand better how to use Soft Mozart curriculum.

The updates will be short, with list of activities  and progress made, if any.

So a little about my children:
DD, 29 month at the moment:

LR, started at 4.5 month, went through 1 year curriculum
YBCR from 6m, done all DVDs
Signing Time 12m to 18 month
Whistlefritz, Speekee, TweedleWink, PreschoolPrep...
Knows shapes, colors, numbers, letter sounds, sight reads 300 to 500 words from LR and YBCR, does not read phonetically yet, LOVES books and puzzles and dolls 


For the past 9 month (since my son was born) we haven't done much.. My DD forgot some things, but we started back our program on January 1st, and I see it all is coming back to her  


DS, 9 month at the moment:


we haven't done anything organized with him so far.


Plan for this week 1/25/ 2012  to 1/30/2012:


DD:
1. SoftMozart Music Program,


 2. Reading Program;


 Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/ ( we have been using it for the past couple day and DD enjoys it, we play it starting "sound it out quickly")  everyday
 Preschool Prep DVDs
 LR categories review , LR phonics cards, LR Books
 I will add more to this list during the week.


3. Math Program:


Jones Geniuses Math
Peter Weatherall Math DVD
EarlyBird Kindergarten Math
iPad Apps
:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monkey-math-school-sunshine/id451287325?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/preschool-kitty/id488033099?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toddler-123-flashcards-free/id433158877?mt=8


EK Program: Wink to Learn animal DVDs
We also will be doing DadDude's PPT books.
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=myfiles;u=12952;pg=8
 Those books are awesome! Very informative and great for DD level. We starting with "Bad weather"


DS:


LR, LM,
TweedleWink
Signing Time 
YBCR
Doman Picture Dictionaries.


I will be updating this topic during the week adding more info...

Welcome to my Blog!

I decided to start recording the learning activities that I do with my kids. 
I have been an early learning enthusiast for the past 2 years since I stumbled upon  Brillkids forum, while doing some research on Glenn Doman's method.
 Long story short, I was hooked  :)!


I will share in this blogs our activities, progress and list of the products that we are using.