Help your kids with school work: Sparklebox 家で英語を教える

イギリスの小学校の先生がこのウエブ・ページをよく使っています。
フォニクス、数字、理科などいろいろプリント・アウトでいるの。
使ってみて！
今娘が宇宙について勉強しているなので、Sparkleboxで宇宙を検索して、宇宙のポスター、宇宙飛行士のマスク、宇宙人の粘土マットとか印刷した。娘かなり気に入った。

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/

Absolutely super website used by primary school teachers for ideas in Maths, English, Science...everything!!
Reinforce what your kids study at school by helping them at home too.
All kinds of resources can be printed out and they all look so good.

Right now my daughter's doing space at school, so we've printed out a space banner, astronauts for a rocket and space-themed playdough mats, just to name a few!!

Really, really check it out.

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/

最近の好きな子供絵本 We're going on a Bear Hunt!

This is a very popular children's book in the U.K. I hadn't heard of it whilst I was in Japan.
I really love it, and so does my little girl.

It's got a repeating structure to it which makes it really easy for kids to remember and say along with. My girl picks it up and tries to read us the story, quite successfully!

The pictures are lovely too and the story ending is entertaining. I get repeated requests to read this at school and home!

アルファベットを楽しく習う / Fun with the alphabet

二歳半の娘は最近アルファベットに興味を持っています。実際に、最初はひらがなに興味を表していました。ある家族のメンバーの名前の始まりをひらがなの本で探していました。アルファベットを同じようにしようと思いました。Mmmm Millie, Mmmmm mummy、Dddd daddy とOoo Ollieを教えてあげました。
そして、小さな素晴らしい絵本を持っています。Wee Sing and Learn ABC, と言います。可愛い動物さんが楽器を弾いています。たまたま "O" には、弟と同じ名前、オリバーになっています：Ollie the owl plays the oboe.
このページを見つけるのは大好きです。ひらがなの本と一緒にベッドルームに置いて、そして夜は必ずどちかを読みたいと言い出す。
同じょように、冷蔵庫に貼ってあるのABCの絵を自分から行って言います。モンッテソーリが言った通りの管理された環境は本当に効くと思いました。
娘は今日本語を上手に話します。ちょうど今お祖父ちゃんお祖母さんの家に居ます。今の環境はほとんど日本語しか聴かないから、彼女の日本語は上達しています。小さな会話したりする。来月からイギリスに引越すから、英語のレベルをあまり心配していません。この大きな環境の変わりは彼女にとって面白いの変わりと受ける事を願っています。

Learning the alphabet

Recently our daughter is interested in the alphabet. Actually she was first interested in the basic Japanese writing form, Hiragana. She could recognize some letter forms by matching them with names of family members. So I tried the same thing with the alphabet and taught her Mmm Millie, Mmm mummy, Dddd daddy along with other family members names.
We also have a super little book called, Wee Sing and Learn ABC, and it has lovely pictures of animals playing various instruments for each letter of the alphabet. Luckily enough, O is for Ollie the owl who plays the oboe!! Ollie is her brother's name so she just loves finding Ollie in the book. I keep this book, along with her hiragana book, in her bedroom, so that at night she reaches for one or the other.
She has also started to point to and name the ABC pictures on our fridge by herself. It really goes to show that Montessori's "prepared environment" really works.
At the moment our daughter speaks Japanese very well. Right now we are at grandma's and grandad's, so she hears and uses Japanese a lot. It's really coming on. We can have little conversations about things. I'm not too worried about not using English so much as from next month everything around her will all be in English. I hope the big change will be an interesting one for her.

外国の人気子供の歌

リズミッククラスでよく使っていた英語の歌。
天気の歌はLets sing let's chant にはいています。
Max and Millie'sは一番使っていたと思います。

We used a lot of songs in our English rhythmic classes. These CDs have some of the songs we introduced. The popular Weather Song is included in the 'Let's Sing, Let's chant' book/CD.
I think we used the 'Max and Millie's' CD the most.
It includes 'Heads shoulders knees and toes'.

楽しい子供の絵本とCD Wee Sing and Learn series

今日の英語のクラスにWee Sing and Learn Coloursを読みました。このシリーズは本当に綺麗で、シンプルでわかりやすい。
Wee Sing and Learn ABCも特に好き。フォニックスを教えたいの人にお勧めです。この本を使って、娘と一緒にも読んでいます。
Halloween とChristmasにも便利な本とＣＤセットもあります。人気の歌たくさんはいています。

Learning the alphabet 楽しいアルファベット

My daughter is only two and a half so I certainly don't want to force her to memorize letters at the moment.

Maria Montessori noted that children learn from a well prepared environment, so here's what I'm doing at home. My daughter loves to open the fridge. So on the fridge I've stuck an A4 sheet with the alphabet on and a corresponding picture for each letter. I also have a set of alphabet flash cards, and I select a couple of those to stick on the fridge and change them occasionally.

So everytime she goes to the fridge she sees the alphabet. We have a chat about what's up there, but I just keep it light.
We also have magnetic letters up there too. She makes great faces with them, and then a great mess with them on the floor.