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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. 🙂