11月26日中午，饭后《赛车总动员》点读机灵狗ABC42-46，儿百《Making a hat》《wheels》《where are they going》睡前《小欢的论语》,《数数看》《汤姆的圣诞节》,《汤姆的小妹妹》
晚上，《益智迷宫冒险之路》4页，做《学习毛毛虫 集中注意力》的5页，点读机灵狗ABC42-46，儿百《Making a hat》《The wheels on the bus》。《Down by the station》《brown bear，brown bear,what do you see?》剪纸书3页，睡前《阿利的红斗篷》《小欢的论语》《出发！坐车去海边》
《Amelia Bedelia》这本书读过很多遍了，I can read L2的书，以前觉得很长，现在读多了，也不觉得累了。因为同义词的误会，AB犯了很多错，但是她做的美味柠檬派救了她，有意思的故事。“All he cared about was having her there to make lemon-meringue pie".
Mathstart L1 11 《Jack the builder》很有想象力，积木从2块开始能build成一个东西，逐渐增加。
记录时由家长记录，用简单文字记录。比如
日期 Jan 12， 书名 The seeds  页数 32  阅读情况 read well/ excellent/ a bit struggle  难词 stem, sprout
补充一下：阅读记录主要是给家长自己看的，目的是要大概了解一年的阅读量和进度。
From VOA Learning English, this is the TechnologyReport.
Researches at Johns Hopkins University's AppliedPhysics
Laboratory [APL] in Laurel, Maryland havedesigned a new
humanoid or human-like robot. Itsname is Robo Sally. The
machine can be controlled from a distance and can be used to dowork that is dangerous for human beings.
Robo Sally has two long arms with human-like hands. She
can use her fingers to pick up smallobjects, examine them
in detail and do most things that human hands can do. Each fingercontains a tiny motor, capable of squeezing 20
pounds of pinch force, enough to defuse abomb under the direction of an operator.
She sits on a metal base with wheels that let her move
around, turn in tight spaces and climbover small objects.
Robo Sally
Mike McLoughlin is the main investigator for the Applied
Physics Laboratory's ProstheticsProgram.
"The purpose of that program is to develop prosthetic arms that have all the capability of yournatural arms, and you
do all the complex motions that we can do with the natural arm - withthe robot. So we had this idea if we did this for
prosthetics for humans, we could also put theseon robotic
platforms and enable the robots to go out into dangerous
situations."
It was a difficult job. Mr McLoughlin says the device had to have many small motors to have theability to do what a
human hand does. It also need to have human-like strength. The thumbwas especially difficult because it permits the
hand to hold objects. And everything had to fitinto a space about the size of a human hand.
The next problem, he says, was to figure out how to
control the artificial hand. "So we hadto figure out how to make the connection
between the brain and this arm. We've done that forspinal
injury patients, where we can actually interface with the
brain and use the patient'sthoughts to control the arm."
For search-and-rescue duties, Robo Sally will be operated by a human being using a wirelessmachine that is far from
the robot. The operator will also wear special gloves and
glasses. Theglasses were permitted the operator to see
the robot's hands, even though they are far away.
Mr McLoughlin says this kind of robots could be used in
what he calls "dull, dirty or dangerous"situations where fine human finger movements are required.
"Opening a door, or turning the valve of, you know, a
factory or a power plant like Fukushima,that was all designed for humans. You need to be able to go in and have the
human-likecapabilities in order to be able to work in that
environment."
Mr McLoughlin says the technology is not ready for
everyday application, but he predicts thatwithin five years we will see some wonderful improvements.
And that's the Technology Report from VOA Learning
English.
11月27日上午去太姥姥家，虽然中午没学英语，但是他一直和舅妈聊天，能想出那么多话说，愿意和人交流，我觉得比学英语收获大多了。
晚上，饭前，巴布的《休息日》饭后《益智迷宫冒险之路》2页，做《学习毛毛虫 集中注意力》的3页，点读机灵狗ABC42-46，《Down by the station》《brown bear，brown bear,what do you see?》剪纸书3页，睡前《阿利的红斗篷》《咔嚓，挖掘机》《快跑，宅急便》
昨天发现自己还有Literacy by Design系列的书，而且是G1的，就拿出来给孩子读，读了三本，然后读了海尼曼的All About Spiders,很简单，然后通过提问的方式，让孩子把内容复述了一遍。今天上午给孩子听英文歌，听到一首新的，孩子马上说，让我今天教她，嗯，不枉我昨天晚上花时间挑选一番啊！
玩了一会国际象棋，就迷上了剪纸做纸手镯和皇冠，于是客厅里惨不忍睹，到处是纸屑和她的大作。一晚上忙得不行了，跑来跑去，剪粘画，战果也颇丰。看来手工书马上要派上用场了。
Mathstart L1 10 《It's about time》认识时间，早上7点开始到新的一天早上7点，每小时的活动
《bay Penguins everywhere》一个企鹅很孤独，有一天捡到一顶神奇的帽子，一个接一个的小企鹅从帽子里出来。企鹅不再孤独，只有疲劳，希望有一点自己的时间。有些简单，适合小童
《一百层的房子》每十层住着一种小动物，很有想象力，推荐啊，加入购书计划。