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This is the first lesson for my second child which is to teach her the letter M. Though not being officially taught, she already knows all the letters. I still think it’s important to follow the lesson plan and teach her the letter with storytelling and drawing.
I followed my mentor and told her the story of “Simeli Mountain”, which is a fairy tale written by Grimm Brothers. Before the lesson, I drew a picture of the story with the mountain in capital M and the door in small m. I used three primary colors of beewax crayons to draw this picture.
Though Chinese is our native language, the curriculum and resources that I have are mostly in English, hence I read the story to my child in English in the first time, and then I told her the story again in Mandarin, which is our mother tongue. I hope by the way, my children will get to learn English and still be good at their native language.
I like the concept of relating a letter to a story, and I believe children will learn better and have more fun by listening to stories, and they will always remember it well.
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Question of
Have you heard of or read this story?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Do you like reading fairy tales?
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Yes
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No
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Thanks! I am actually very poor at drawing, but I’ll need to practice more.
I remember reading stories to my son.
I think these are all classical stories that many parents would read to their kids. I think my children will remember this and read to their children as well.
My answer to the second question would be sometimes!
Is it that you don’t like some of the fairy tales, or how it is written?
There are some fairy tales I have made some amendments when I told to my children, especially when they were still young.
I use to read stories to my daughter every night. I didn’t know this one.
This story is actually quite famous, maybe you knew it with a different name. I actually knew this story by the character “Alibaba” when I was young.
Yeah. Reading such stories like fairy tales.
It’s nice to read the stories, and kids always like them too.