例如在孩子早期阶段学习texture时,我用大量的例子,touch it and feel it. " touch the pineapple, and tell me how you feel, it's rough and hard" "touch the pillow and tell me how you feel, it's soft. touch your face and you'll feel it soft" 好多有趣的例子孩子很感兴趣,soft 与hard一遍过关,可能有的孩子小不会说出这两个词来, 妈妈用“is it hard?"孩子起码都能点头或摇头来表达, 你也知道孩子明白了,反复练习也不枯燥。我们在练习天气前,天天会问他“what's the weather like?"及”how do you feel?" 在生活中我们大量的学习, 又有语境,理解与掌握很快速,而且锻炼了孩子的观察自主能力,孩子充满了好奇。
孩子不喜欢主动说再见,每次离开朋友亲戚后任何事物,我都问他:"what do you say before you're leaving?",问多了, 他习惯性回答:"I say goodbye." 以至于他离开任何东西例如玩具,小动物,电视里的人物,坐车的司机甚至bus, taxi, train等他都主动再见。
对于爱出手打人,我就不停的问," he's sad and starts to cry? why? because you hit him without any reasons and he felt hurt. how did you feel when someone hit you? it's wrong to hit people or have a fight. what should you say when you hit him? do you need to apologize?" 妈妈耐心去说,孩子慢慢就知道了。甚至有时候难教时, 不如他打我, 我轻轻打他, 他哭, 我就说:"when i hit you, you are sad. think about how i felt when you hit me just now. i felt the same way. " 所以他现在看见谁打人就说,"it's wrong hit people."
孩子牛奶从不喝,我先意识灌输,天天喝牛奶前说:"you drink milk twice a day. milk in the morning and milk at night."早上醒来我就说:"it's morning, what do you have for breakfast in the morning? "他自主回答milk.晚上也这样。到喝的时候,他也反抗,我又天天重复说:“milk gets you strong,tall and healthy. you won't have a cold so often, and you won't see a doctor so often.很成功吧,只要他爸爸打喷嚏, 他很自然说:"daddy sneeze, he dont have milk, i drink milk every day." 看电视多了就说:"too much tv! shut down." 很喜欢糖但他还是说:"black teeth!"并给我们看下他的黑牙齿, 我们缩回伸出手给他的糖,并夸奖他很棒,还道歉说自己忘记了不该给他糖吃。
我做的好的就是情景教学,有趣又不枯燥,生活中的点点滴滴都可做素材。当然有时候会出现用词困难,犹豫着要不要用出来, 用出来怕孩子不懂,这也是我的一个误区,我日渐发现哪怕我用过一次的词, 他记得住还在N 月后反馈出来。有次说他don't poke in his nostril with a little finger and get booger out。有次3个月后他说booger,我很大惊。原来很多的词他听过就存在大脑,到适当时间就用出来
我的孩子对巧虎情有独钟,巧虎的ABC不算是好教材,但是有妈妈的参与就非常不错,我孩子的所有东西都是巧虎碟上学到的。