Five Finger story retelling

 Today I found a way that American teachers used to teach primary school students: five finger retelling. After watching a few Youtube videos, I wanna try with Cele. Everyday I read stories for Cele and she remembers the story after we read it over and over again for many times. She has the eager to learn new things and able to learn at some degree.

We started with a short story about jack in the box. But the story is too short. We read another book, the ant and the grasshopper. I asked her who’s the characters in the book, where are they, on a tree or on the ground? After read the whole story, I retell the story together with her, the beginning, middle and end. She likes it a lot. She even played a acting game before dinner. She acted the ant who works hard and collected food in the summer. I am the grasshopper who is lazy at the beginning but learned to work hard at the end. We collected food together and share food. 

Learn with Cele - cut and count

 Today we back to play and learn. 

I planned to play scooping food activity with Cele. Given it a fun name “finding homes for red beans”, Cele was excited for the game. We got a big baking pan holding many red beans. Cele used a spoon to transfer beans into a another muffin baking pan. She’s good at it. Sometimes moving too fast made her dropped some beans.

After the game, she want to make a dessert with me with banana, cream, chocolate. Wow, she remembered the book about sharing dessert. We have bananas, let’s do it. I gave her a plate to hold the banana and a knife to cut banana, a chopsticks and a folk to eat banana slice. She cut better and better. We shared the banana together.

Learn with Cele: stone paint and free style draw

 Wow, it's 2021. The holiday season passed and we have a new start.

We went on a beach trip and found some pretty stones. I wanna do stone paint with Cele for a long time. There are many cute pictures on Pinterest like painting faces on stones. But Cele is still a painting beginner so I just let her paint freely.  We paint one big stone and five small stones together.

Afternoon, we played the number and letter games. She's able to follow the rule to color the same numbers or letters(B). She remembers many words begin with the letter B: bee, bear, ball, banana, ballon. We learned a new word: bed.

Cele do love drawing, she's still in the mood. So I let her draw whatever she wants. More funs.

Stones surrounded by stones.

a very long worm. 

This is the one I like the most. She drew a duck with a beak, eyes, wings, and arms. And She drew a big slice of bread to feed the duck. On the right and top of the duck, there are two fish. But she told me that the duck won't eat the fish because the fish is reserved for a cat. What a lovely story!

I taught her how to draw a ballon: you need a circle, a tail and a belly button. She drew different shapes of ballons and even draw ballons floating down. I like it.