Monday, April 26, 2010

Lewis learning finger typing, hopefully spelling too


Now that Lewis has mastered using the computer mouse, the next step is mastering the keyboard. For this task, will be exploiting his fascination with cars, more specifically Pixar car.

It doesn't take much to motivate him to type the word "pixar car" into Youtube search engine to search for Pixar Car videos to watch. Currently he occasionally needs assistance to type out the word/phrase but expect that eventually he would learn where the 6 alphabets are located in the keyboard.

Searching for Bob the Builder videos on Youtube

The next more ambitious task will be to get him to spell the words. Now not only do we have Pixar cars to motivate him, to that we have added Bob the Builders, his latest craze (I hope).

Wish me luck.

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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Lewis surprisingly patiently watched this video till end

I got a surprised today, after a search for videos on Youtube turned up this video: Teaching Phonics 44 Sounds of English plus vocally repeating after the voice;

Friday, April 2, 2010

Song to learn phonetics - O song

Below is a video with an O song to help your grandchildren learn phonetics



Everybody sing with me
 Everybody sing with me
These are words with O and PThese are words with O and P
Top
 Top
Mop
 Mop
Pop
 Pop
Top Mop Pop

Take a look at what comes next
 Take a look at what comes next
These are words with O and X
 These are words with O and X
box
 box
ox
 ox
fox
 fox
box ox fox

Good gracious mercy me
 Good gracious mercy me
I know words with o and t
 I know words with o and t
hot
 hot
pot
 pot
dot
 dot
hot pot dot
top
mop
pop
box
ox
fox
hot
pot
dot
top mop pop
box ox fox
hot pot dot
top mop pop
box ox fox
hot pot dot
top mop pop
box ox fox
hot pot dot
top mop pop
box ox fox...