I made this number bond diagramme quite a while back when I was teaching #3 Number Bond. Number Bond concept is a very important topic in lower primary mathematics and this diagramme can be found in the primary school textbooks and workbooks. The kids see this all the time. They don’t just learn about Number Bond within 10, but use
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In addition to the Chinese Colour Match I created some time back, I have also created a similar set – Chinese Numbers Match Printable – for Chinese numbers. Numbers are numbers, but in Chinese, there are characters for numbers. So it is important to know how to read and write them. This set is good for helping preschoolers learn how
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I mentioned in My Favourite Mathematics Manipulatives that you can easily find fraction discs printables off the internet, print on cardstock, laminate and cut out to use. Recently, I tried making them using foam sheets instead of just printing them on cardstock. It is more work but I figured foam sheet may be easier to handle because of the thickness.
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Two pandas has arrived in Singapore on 6 September 2012. They are on loan from the People’s Republic of China and this is the first time we have real pandas in our public zoo. This has created a bit of a Panda-mania here and since the exhibit opened in late November, many kids have visited the River Safari in the
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Every year, I buy assessment books and every year, I end up with some that my children don’t use or don’t finish. At the end of last year, I decided to put an end to this by doing something which I do for #3 – lesson planning. You see, in order to keep track of what I should be teaching
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Year End Examination is over and I finally have time to post new things. Here’s a new printable for Chinese – Chinese Colour Match. Print the template out, laminate, and cut out the word cards portion. You can use velcro dots (available in HomeFix and Art Friend), or any kind of temporary attachment to attach the word cards. I simply
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We do not speak a lot of Mandarin at home, so my kids have very little exposure to telling days and time in Chinese, except when they learn it in school. For #3, who does not attend a preschool, I created a kind of ” Chinese calendar” for him to practise telling days and dates in Chinese. I put it
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I created a series of Chinese Radicals 部首 Minibooks printables to use along with the Siwukuaidu 四五快读 series. Every Chinese character contains one or more radicals and it is a way to classify the characters according to radical groups. Kindergarten children start learning characters by learning the radicals first. Although I do not adopt this sequence of teaching, I still teach
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I started making up some storybook activities for #3 because unlike materials for English books, such things are virtually non-existent on the internet for Chinese children books. To trawl internet sites for these materials is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It is actually faster for me to make them myself. Basically, they are like a ‘mini-lapbook’
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I mention in my earlier post that I created a set of Place Value Mat that I use with my Base 10 Blocks. I also said that I made up a little story based on Max Lucado’s (christian) children books on the Wemmicks. The Wemmicks are little wooden people created by Eli, a carpenter. They are quite lovable but
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Last year, I created materials for a unit study for Chinese New Year for my (then) 4 year old. The materials are mainly for lap booking. This is how our lapbook looks like : As part of the unit study, we also made a red packet envelope, Chinese New Year card, as
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The follow templates are meant to be used in conjunction with the Siwukuaidu 四五快读 word recognition system. You can, of course, use these cards to teach your child without having to buy the books. However, the books provide other teaching resources that will enhance the learning. I strongly recommend that you buy the books – I don’t earn any commission
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