Tuesday, December 21, 2010

How to know if your baby's learning

This is a video showing how to know if your baby 's learning

How to reach your baby reading

This is a video how to teach your baby reading with flashcard

Color and Shapes in Chinese Flashcards




Color and shapes in chinese character flashcards are available
consists of
15 words (chinese characters) and 15 pictures (real life images)
printed in A4 size cards (250gsm)


S$20

Animals in Chinese Flashcards are available



Animals in chinese character flashcards are available
consists of
20 words (chinese characters) and 20 pictures (real life images)
printed in A4 size cards (250gsm)

S$25

Body Parts in Chinese Flashcards are available



Body Parts in chinese characters are available
consists of
20 words (chinese characters) and 20 pictures (real life images)
printed in A4 size cards (250gsm)

S$25

Vegetables in Chinese Flashcards are available



Vegetables in Chinese Characters are available
consists of
20 words in chinese character, 20 pictures

S$25

Fruits in Chinese Flashcards are available



Fruits in Chinese Flashcards
consists of 20 words in chinese characters and 20 pictures
words are in red and big font, pictures are from real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$25

English Reading kit Packages


Super value of money package, consists of

Fruits (20 words, 20 pictures)
Vegetables (20 words, 20 pictures)
Food (20 words, 20 pictures)
animals (20 words,20 pictures)
Body parts (20 words,20 pictures)
Objects at home (20 words, 20 pictures)
Possessions (15 words, 15 pictures)
Musical instruments (15 words, 15 pictures)
Color and shapes (15 words, 15 pictures)
Vehicles (10 words, 10 pictures)

only S$200

Friday, December 17, 2010

The recipe for success Teach your baby to read

1. Mother (or father or primary caregivers)
Parents are the best teacher, with their love and patience they could give the inspiration to their kids

2. The attitude and approach
expect learning to be fun and relax. Don't force yourself or your kids. If you feel that you or your kids don't feel like to do it, then don't do it.

3. The size and the orderliness of materials
The younger the baby, the bigger print they should use

4. Start as early as possible
the younger the child, the easier for him to learn

5. Always stop before the baby wants to stop
The child should beg for more. If the child gets tired after 5 slides, just show him 4 slides and let him hunger for more

6. No Testing
Testing is a sign of distrust and opposite of fun



Why babies prefer real things to toys?

For the parents who like to observe their babies, have you ever wondered why your baby prefer the real hand phone to his hand phone toy? or real laptop to his laptop toy?

The answer is simple. Your baby is genius. They are little scientists.

What the adults usually do to their annoyed baby ? give them the hand phone or laptop toy.
With colorful and smooth texture, no smell, can't be broken, and safe for babies to play with.
But they are too smart for this fake one. They learn it within few seconds.

And what are their targets?
The real one, which the color is dull, the texture is rough, there's a metal smell, it can be broken.
The fact is they are more curious with this.
Babies like to know what the materials  making the real hand phone by smelling, touching, shaking, and mouthing it.
They like to know how it was made by hitting it to the floor, dismantling or even breaking it.

After they satisfied, they will find another target...which is your favorite ones (laptop, TV remote etc) to learn

You see, how genius they are....

Why are babies easily bored with their toys?

Do you know why babies are easily bored with their toys?
Because they are too smart to learn about their toys. They are able to learn within 90 seconds
This is an experiment that you can do with your baby

Give 3 months old baby a rattle to play with and leave him for a while.
Come back for another 5 minutes and you will see the rattle will be beside him and he will ask for more toys.
It happens with my baby too.

Why is this happen?
Baby learns about rattle within 90 seconds by touching, smelling, shaking and mouthing.
His brain processes it and understand how this rattle works.
After he finishes, he will put the rattle aside and hungry for more toys.

But as parent, what usually we do?
We think that he accidentally put the toy aside and give it back to him. And he will put it aside again 'cos he wants to learn other thing beside the rattle

This is what adults usually don't understand, they will easily complaint to one another that their baby is easily bored.
It's a good sign though that your baby is genius and he's a fast learner

FAQ about flashcards

Why the words are written in red color?

According to the findings, babies are more interested in red color than black color.
Therefore, to help them learning reading, red color is used. After your babies are older let say 3 to 4 years old and above, you can start using black color

Why we must flash the cards very fast ?

Babies are fast learners and easily bored. Therefore you should flash the card, one card/second.
His time is so precious if you flash a card for 5 seconds or more, he will walk away from you and explore other things
Don't underestimate their brains, they would be able to catch the words and pictures within seconds

Why we do both pictures and words?

You can use either words or pictures only. But I prefer combine both.
Words are for them to read and pictures are for them to visualize the words.

My baby hasn't spoken yet, is he able to read?

The ability to read and speak is two different things.
They can read even before they could speak. When you are reading book or newspaper, do you speak too?
Reading means that they understand the meaning of words

What is the recommended age to start?

Start as early as possible, from 3 months old baby
If your kid is now 2 years old and above, don't waste time anymore, start right now with them
The window opportunity of reading begins to close when your kid reaches 4 years old

Why don't you use power point slides or DVD ?

You can use those tools. But traditional way sometimes works best.
It's advisable that we don't  introduce computer or TV to babies age 1 year and below
Besides, with the cards, you can judge by yourself whether your babies are still interested or bored  by looking at their eyes and expressions. The other advantage is you can have special bonding time with you babies.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

vehicles flashcards are available



Vehicles flashcards
consists of 10 words and 10 pictures
the words are red, big font and pictures are real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$15

Possessions Flashcards are available



Possessions flashcards
consists of 15 words and 15 pictures
the words are red, big font and pictures are real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$20

objects at home Flashcards are available



Objects at home flashcards
consists of 20 words and 20 pictures
the words are red, big font and pictures are real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$25

Musical Instruments Flashcards are available



Musical Instruments flashcards
consists of 15 words and 15 pictures
the words are red, big font and pictures are real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$20

Body Parts Flashcards are available



Parts of Body flashcards
consists of 20 words and 20 pictures
the words are red, big font and pictures are real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$25

Food Flashcards are available



Food flashcards
consists of 20 words and 20 pictures
the words are red, big font and pictures are real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$25

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Animals Flashcard

Sample of words

Sample of picture

Animals flashcards
20 words  and 20 pictures
Words are in big and red font, pictures are real life images
Printed in A4 size cards (250gsm)

S$25

Vegetables Flashcards are available

sample of words

Sample of pictures

Vegetables Flashcards
20 words and 20 pictures
printed at A4 size cards (250gsm)
words are in big, red font and pictures are real life images, no cartoon

S$25

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Fruits Flashcards Available

sample of the word

sample of pictures

Fruits flashcards
consists of 20 words and 20 pictures
the words are red, big font and pictures are real life images
printed in A4 size card (250gsm)

S$25

Blank Cards available

100 sheets A4 size (250gsm), suitable for reading kits
Printing words or pictures

S$18

100 sheets 11''x11'' (250gsm), suitable for mathematic kits
Printing the dots and symbols

S$18

Teach your baby to read

Glenn Doman believes that learning to read is the same skill as learning to walk and learning to talk.
Reading is also human's birthright. Therefore an opportunity should be offered as early as possible.
Glenn Doman believes that kids are too smart to bore them with individual letter, phonics and other methods.
He discovered that you can teach your kids to read in just 90 seconds a day.

Why bother to teach your baby to read?
Teaching your baby will stimulate his brain to grow. Babies' brains are developing faster in infancy than they will in later childhood.
Children learn language skills faster and easier in infancy so it's easy for them to teach them to read
Reading is fun for babies and toddlers. The window of opportunity for learning reading begins to close by age four.
Learning to read influences many other aspects in positive way

Do babies want to learn to read?
Yes, babies want to learn anything.

When to start a reading program?
Good time : 3-4 years old
Better time : 2-3 years old
Best time : 0-2 years old

What - Who - When - Where - Why - How

What is Flashcard ?
Flashcard is a set of card bearing information such as words or pictures. Flashcards are widely used as learning drill to aid memorization by way of spaced repetition

Who is suitable for doing flashcard?
Usually the main caregiver either parents or grandparents can do the flashcard for their babies or toddlers

When to start?
Good time : 3 - 4 years old
Better time : 2 - 3 years old
Best time : 0 - 24 months old

Where is the place that suitable for doing flashcard?
Anywhere at home in your convinient time, but measure that the place has few distractions, the caregiver facing the kids if at all possible

Why we do the flashcard method early?
It's very useful to stimulate right and left brain

How we do the flashcard method?
- as quickly as possible, 1 second for 1 card
- look at your children while saying the words, say it loud and clearly
- each set can be 1 - 10 words
- stop before he wants to
- don't forget to hug or kiss when you are done
- don't ask your children to repeat or test them
- wait at least 30 minutes before repeating again
- continue adding 1 word and retiring 1 old word each day


Order and payment method

1. email to diy . flashcard@gmail.com or sms to 97607631 which items you like to order with your name and contact no.
2. I will reply you within 24 hours if the items are available
3. Please give me at least 2 working days to process your order
4. I will inform you once it's ready to be collected
5. For order less than S$50, self collection at Bukit Gombak MRT, cash payment on delivery
6. For order more than S$50, we can deliver after office hour or weekend (free charge), we need full payment before delivery.

Welcome to DIY Flashcard

DIY Flashcard is home made flashcard, hand crafted by mommy with love and passion.

We have many varieties of flashcards from words, pictures, dots
Beside ready made flashcard, we also have blank cards to sell for those who like to make own flashcard

Happy browsing and shopping !
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