English Picture Book: All of Us 我们一家人

Title: All of Us by Alice Melvin, a book about family

ISBN-13: 978-1849765947

This is an English book but I translate it to Chinese for A1 and A2. I label and teach some Chinese words。 

Some chinese vocabularies used: 我们， 一家人， 我， 爸爸， 姐姐， 邻居， 叔叔， 朋友， 表哥/堂哥/表姐/表妹， 奶奶， 妈妈， 我们， 生日快乐， 蛋糕， 气球， 彩旗

Getting A1 to label each character

All of us

Book for A1

Moon Cake Festival 2019 中秋节

中午弄了椰丝汤圆 ondeh-ondeh， 晚上吃月饼赏月。 

每年中秋月亮都喜欢玩躲猫猫。今年也不例外， 还好风不大。

一时兴起， 弄甜点吃。她们玩起 PLAYDOH 来。

怀念这纸灯笼。看了这新国视频， 弄了三个灯笼， 环保概念。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVV7x9gk2vc

Magnetic Tiles Activities 磁贴片

之前在淘宝淘了一套磁贴片， Ａ1 和A2都很爱， 果然没买错。
这套磁贴片质量不错， 摔掉了N次还好， 最重要不贵。难度不高， 连我一岁半的Ａ2都没问题。为了方便收纳， 我做了一张列表， 方便A1计算。磁贴片玩法很多， 我最爱就是它的色彩， 可以给Ａ1上颜色课。Ａ1最爱就是弄生日蛋糕和礼物。

MAG-WISDOM 100 pieces magnetic tiles

List of tiles for "stocktake"

Teaching the secondary colors (green, orange and purple)

Making cake and singing birthday song is her favorite

Pyramid

Farm play

中文绘本《数一数， 亲了几下》 Let’s count, how many Kisses

ISBN 9787544249188

很可爱的一本书， 我两个女儿看完都会亲亲我。Ａ1也喜欢用 喜马拉雅APP听这绘本。http://xima.tv/WV2Meo

A cute simplified chinese book. My daughters gave me a lot of kisses after reading the book. She enjoys listening to the story on Ximalaya App as well. http://xima.tv/WV2Meo

《数一数， 亲了几下》

宝宝也回亲了我十下， 痒！

拼图 PUZZLE

不同年纪有不同拼图，看见她们完成一个画真的很开心， 真的需要无比的耐心，也谢天谢地拼图没不见。

木妈妈几何拼图

交通工具 - 陆

交通工具 - 空

交通工具 - 海

适合还没两岁的A2

这１００块拼图需要分阶段完成

中文绘本《画了一匹蓝马的画家》活动

ISBN 9787533271046

这是一本色彩丰富的绘本， 动物的颜色都不是常理的， 像有彩色点点的驴子， 黑色的北极熊和紫色的狐狸。 快要两岁的A2很喜欢， 是一本学习颜色的书。 Ａ1也可以学读书和数数动物的爪子和鳄鱼的牙子。我们一起也画了几匹彩色的马。

This is a colorful book with animals of ‘weird’ colors.  There are colorful donkey, black polar bear and purple fox. A2 enjoys learning her colors. Every time we read the book, A1 would count the teeth of the crocodile and claws of the animals. We also painted a number of colorful horses as craft activity.

Blue Horse

《画了一匹蓝马的画家》

给马儿上色

Making Salt Dough Handprint Ornaments and Cookies

Today we make handprints for A2 since she is approaching her 22nd month. We did that for A1 so i need to do for A2 too...

While making the prints, i let them play with play dough and use the remaining dough to make cookies (use cookie cutter and fork to make the patterns). A1 is so excited as she thought I am making real cookie......

“Ingredients” for salt dough:

4 cups all purpose flour

1 cup salt

1.5 cup water

今天我为A2打了21（22）个月的手印。 因为A1在21个月大时也做了，以表示公平，得给A2也弄一个。我把剩下的面团交给她们弄饼干（使用饼干切割器和叉子制作图案）。 A1非常兴奋，因为她以为我正在制作真正的饼干......

手印面团的“成分”：

4杯多用途面粉

1杯盐

1.5杯水

Our handprints

A1 is excited ..waiting to eat the cookie

A2 looks serious

Final works

A1 previous handprint ornaments

用工具作画 Painting with Objects

今天我们用叉子和瓶盖来作画。选了黄色涂在之前的蓝色画上。

之前的工具： 棉花棒， 小白菜。

Today we used forks and bottle lids to paint. Only yellow color was used to build on the previous blue color (using cotton buds). It was less messy this time.

Previous objects: cotton bud, bokchoy. 

A2 in action

Painting with forks and lids

Painting with bokchoy

中文绘本 《请给我， 熊猫先生》Chinese Book "Please, Mr Panda"

中文绘本 《请给我， 熊猫先生》 ISBN 9787508679006

一本很简单的书， 很适合A1学念。我不肯定A1都认得里头的字， 但她肯定能背起来。这本书鼓励小朋友多说“请”和“谢谢”。众多小朋友里， 只有说了这两个词的狐猴才从熊猫先生哪里得到了甜甜圈。

你要甜甜圈吗？企鹅说：给我粉色的。熊猫先生：不给， 我改主意了。

臭鼬：要！黄色和蓝色的，各给我一个。

鸵鸟：不要，走开！

鲸鱼：要，我全都要。然后你再给我拿一些。

狐猴：你好，熊猫先生！我能要一个甜甜圈吗？请给我一个吧，熊猫先生。

Chinese Picture Book - Please, Mr. Panda Isbn 9787508679006 

A very simple book for A1 to read in Chinese.  I was not sure A1 could recognize the words,  but she definitely could memorize the texts. This book encourages children to say "please" and "thank you". Only the lemurs who said these two words got the doughnuts from Mr. Panda.

Do you want a doughnut? Give me the pink one, said the penguin. No, I changed my mind. 

Skunk: Yes! Yellow and blue.

Ostrich: No, go away! 

Whale: Yes, want all. Give me more. 

Lemur: Hello, Mr. Panda! Can I have a doughnut? Please give me one, Mr. Panda. 

书《请给我， 熊猫先生》

           

臭鼬说

熊猫先生改主意了

狐猴

华语书：打开伞（DVD）Chinese Book "Umbrella"

中文书：打开伞 (附DVD)【信谊Bookstart 0-3岁 语文学习】 - 精装 ISBN9787533280062

这是我从图书馆借的一本中文书。从A1两岁左我就开始给她念， 现在她可以念给妹妹听。 书里的儿歌文字简短,插图可爱， 而且每一首歌都伴有相关的动作。A1 和 Ａ2 都很爱。

Chinese Book：Umbrella （DVD）ISBN9787533280062

This is a Chinese book that I borrowed from the library. I've been reading to A1 since she was two years old, and now she can read it to her sister. The children songs in the book is short and simple, the illustrations are lovely, and each song is accompanied by relevant action. Both A1 and A2 love the book.

YouTube视频/videos： 

https://youtu.be/Q-G5Cs6NWMo

https://youtu.be/r19WOn7j_1A

https://youtu.be/etkmjIp5mZk

青蛙跳， 青蛙跳， 青蛙跳跳跳；

青蛙咬， 青蛙咬， 青蛙咬咬咬！