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www.starfall.com

www.starfall.com

holding a pretend microphone, i interviewed Arielle.

‘What is your name?’

- My name is Arielle (she previously said ‘Arielle is Girl’ when asked in front of everyone in Children Church, hhahaa… don’t ask me why)

‘How old are you?’

- 3 years already.

‘What do you like?’

- Arielle likes Pumpkin!

Super cute when she’s being so nice and when Ash’s asleep.

there’s a meaning behind the ‘pumpkin’ she’s talking about. it has to do with www.starfall.com. this site was introduced to me by Annette when we were still in Bratislava.

it’s a children’s site for learning English, for ages 2 and above (i’m judging from my own daughter’s competency here) in a very fun and interactive way. there are games and activities to assist learning shapes, colours, the alphabets and phonics, which ultimately leads to reading.

what i like about it is it’s interactive, it has songs to attract my preschool daughter, it focuses on the phonics of every alphabet (even on every click!) and the lesson plans are very interesting. it teaches us the correct pronunciation of every word we use in English (no Manglish here la ya). what’s more? IT’S FREE!!!! it’s a free tool i get to use everyday to homeschool my preschooler. my daughter loves it so much she bugs me everyday for it! (her fav is the Pumpkin) :)

so, if you’re looking for a tool to teach your kids English – here’s a very good one; just get online!

Multilingual

Multilingual

i find a lot of benefits being able to speak more than one language. i’m not talking about the obvious reasons like being able to communicate with a wider range of people from different nations… etc, etc.

since Arielle is learning to understand more and more of the language Ayl & i speak everyday, sometimes she picks up on what we talk about esp on things about her when i ‘report’ to him what has happened during the day.

so having to speak in another language that we don’t use often like (BM/Cantonese/Mandarin) helps us to communicate efficiently with each other and still keeping her in the dark!

muahahahaha!

Cranky

Cranky
On top of some TV shelf in Ikea Bratislava

On top of some TV shelf in Ikea Bratislava

Before battery goes flat, remember to check things out, even though it's meaningless and it's better to just go to my pram and shut my eyes.
Before battery goes flat, remember to check things out, even though it’s meaningless and it’s better to just go to my pram and shut my eyes.
I not sweepy....

I not sweepy....

When a kid is really, really sleepy, the last thing he or she wants to do is to go to sleep. All kids are like that. It’s like there’s a conspiracy somewhere (maybe while in their mother’s womb), all the foetuses in the world decided that it’s a fun thing to do. *When battery meter is low, try to squeeze even more juice out of it at the expense of your parent’s sanity*

Arielle is at that stage now. <God help us>

B@by T@lk

B@by T@lk

With one month plus or so before we go back to Malaysia for our summer holidays, I thought maybe I’d write a post on Arielle’s vocabulary. Mind you, she knows more than she can speak, but it’s just so cute to hear her talk. Here’s a list of words that she is able to say very clearly as of today (some words needs to be coerced out of her):

Papa (daddy)                    

Mama (mummy)                             

Popo (grandma)                              

Tutu (grandfather; actually it’s kung kung, but for the life of me…)

Mum mum (eat)             

Nenen (milk)                                    

No                                                         

Mai (don’t want; hokkien)

Ai (want; hokkien)          

Chotto (wait; Japanese)               

Hai (yes; Japanese)                        

So des (that’s right; Japanese)

Car                                        

Bike                                                      

Flower                                                 

Chu chu (train)

Tater (water)                    

Juice                                                     

House                                                  

Bee… bite

Pain pain                             

Bus                                                        

Wabbit (rabbit)                                

Bird

There!                                 

Hi                                                           

Bye                                                       

Baby

I no nu (I love you)         

Shoes                                                   

Shh…                                                    

Cheng Jacket (wear jacket; hokkien)

Reading the list of words that she can manage cannot begin to compare to listening to her say it. We hope that when you see her in Malaysia, you’ll be as charmed as we are :)

 

See you in July!!

P/S: Oh, she can also say ‘SEX’!!! But that means lights in her language.