How to teach more than 30 words in a 15 minute

When you start to read aloud with your child it improves their listening skills. Listening helps to increase vocabulary. Practice and repetition make a habit that will enhance your child’s vocabulary. If you still haven’t started reading to your child just start it.

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It is very important to build up the habit of reading at an early age and it can be started from our lap only. Do you know why children don’t like to read because they are not able to identify the word. I am sharing how you can teach more than 30 words to your child within 15 minutes. This is especially for the age group of 4 to 7 years.

Listening will be the basic part when there is the question, how to teach words to small kids? Most of the time parents tend to rote learning because we have been through this. Ratta, and ratta and ratta, but seriously it will not work at all. If your child misses a single letter of the particular word he will not able to memorize the full spelling. Yes, there are some words that need to memories but ratta is not the option.

Phonics plays a very important role in early learners.  The more your child reads the more he will be curious to know the new word and the more he will eager to learn the new word. Today I am sharing how we are doing this. This is my strategy which I am practicing since my little one was in kindergarten and it is really effective.

We are still learning phonics. Always go with the word family which makes a child a better learner. The child learns lots of new words within a minute. When a child gets to know that he can read more than 30 words in a short period of span he will be happy and his interest will increase. Learning should be always in a happy mode instead of the forced.

First we need to teach the child to recognize this blend and then ask them to read the whole word with this blend. Create the above chart and first practice this blend only. Once he recognizes blend then go with the word family. Example PL is the blend and words which start with this PL blend are plants, pluck, plan, play, etc.

During this lockdown my child is not at all ready to study with a pencil and notebook. Yes, she is more interested in teaching on board. So I thought to use this whiteboard. I create a reading wall and write a bunch of words on an alternate day. I ask her to read the words from this reading wall which hardly take 10 or 15 minutes, yes, only 10 or 15 minutes. Check out the video it might be helpful for you.

 

After reading gives a different kind of activities related to this word. The same which we used to give to our kindergarten students like match up, guess the word or write the word. The more you practice this kind of activity the more your child tends to learn without ratta.

The same pattern goes with the other language study too. These are some Marathi word which we practice.

I hope the article will help you, parents. Comment below which technique you use for your child. So that I can get a new idea from you.

 

Till then,

Happy Learning!!

An accidental visit to the Apple Farm

I am belonging to the west coast and love to roam freely with mango orchards especially in the summer holiday. It was an awesome feeling to have Alphonso mango tree around you at reachable heights from where you can pluck mango easily 😀. We have mango once in the year and yes that “AMARAI” looks awesome.

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Since my childhood, I always wonder how the apple is cultivated. The same question is now asked by my daughter too. She is an apple lover and I am not. Glad that my child loves to eat apple more than a banana. As I grew up I came to know the details procedure and wished to have a visit to the Apple Orchards once in a lifetime and yes, my dreams come true.

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It was on Kashmir's visit when we were on our way to Pahalgam. A visit to Apple Orchard was not on our tour list. Still, wherever we went we saw only and only rose and apple tree. Each house had these trees in front of their door. This is the way nature is cultivated and preserved by this society. 

They do not have tall buildings, big complexes, and tons of vehicles. That is why Kashmir air is so fresh and you can feel the cool breeze. Nature is always showering their love to humans but it is “WE” cannot able to sustain it. If we can preserve in a little bit manner I think everywhere will be the greenery.

Yes, that is why now nature tested us. Nature giving abundantly and we humans start to misuse it. We deserve this "CORONA" and all other natural calamities which we are facing since March 2020. These all are a big punishment by nature. Let's understand and accept that nature creates us and it is only and only nature who can destroy us. And that also within a blink of eyes. Respect and preserve nature.

Back in the story, we had our small van and at one point of highway-side, we stopped for our lunch. Oh my God! The rush of the hotel was terrific. You will be surprised to know that we have to stand behind the table like we do in the marriage ceremony😆  and turn by turn we all got our seats and the magic was our order came on a table within a few minutes you can say, 10 minutes. But the waiters were very rude or I can say they have to act rude so that more customers can have their meal.

After finishing our meal we stopped on the other side of the highway for photo-shoot! You know, we can’t miss a single chance of photo-shoot. Near our van, there was a small shop of Apple Juice and we were talking with him. He said here is the Apple Farm. I ran with my friend on that farm with his permission before anyone enters because we have to complete our photo-shoot.😎 jokes apart but yes once you go with the big group it is very difficult to manage them without hurting anyone. 

So this is the Apple Farm. Do you know what was the cost of this Apple? Rs.20 or Rs.10 Per kg.  I wished I can bring as more as I can, the red, green KASHMIRI APPLE.

He was telling us about the farm and showed us the baby apple. April is not the season of apples but yes it is July and August. He took that baby apple in his hand and said, madam, you can take photos too. I was so happy that we got an entry into that apple orchard and also had some pics. It happens very rarely. See here is the bunch of tiny apples. 

Both sides of each highway were filled with only and only apple farms. Seriously nature gives us everything without charging a single penny and we have to preserve this for our next generation.

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If you want red chicks just stay for some days in Kashmir and eat too many apples and within one week you will have red chicks. You don't need to apply any blush. Our kids had such natural blush on their cheeks within a week.

Do you like an apple? Comment down, please. I hope you enjoy this virtual farm visit where I can able to take you. Stay tuned for more such exciting travel post.

Till then stay home and take care.

Tour of ND Studio

Hi, all,

Finally, the lockdown 4 is announced and I think it will be going on continuously. We all are aware of the situation. Will our Mumbai will be locked down for 6 months? Guessing and guessing, the saddest thing is we can keep only guessing and nothing. 

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" HOPE" is the only thing which we have. So never lose hope. These days will be passed and we will have a fresh restart again. 

 We are locked in our house so I want to take you all on tour, 😇, what do you think? 

Q: Where?

Ans: At ND Studio.

Q: Why? 

Ans: Because you all are stuck in a home so for a change come with me.😊

Q: We know it already?

Ans: I guess,😎 it is good. But still, those who do not know they can have a tour.

Q: Where it is?

Ans: It is in Karjat.

Q: What is there?

Ans: Actual Film Studio, as the name suggests ND Studio. It is designed by well know architect Mr. Nitin Desai. The whole studio is beautiful and extremely large beyond our imagination. Each set up is marvelous.

So, are you ready?

Lets, go................................😝

This is the outer wall and you might have seen this when you passed by this karjat road. Love the stone carving of these legends,

Entrance and ticket window where you have to buy a ticket. Do not go on the weekend because there will be a rush and you will get fed up. Try to go on weekdays when tickets have a discount and no rush. you can have a whole tour with patience and can have fun with your friends and family. 

Tip: Do not go with small kids below 4 years or babies. It will be exhausted.

The whole studio is designed by Mr. Nitin Chandrakant Desai. You will get the details on google. It is a very big studio. I will try to show up the main things as possible.

Everything is so huge!

You can have your photoshoot, pre-wedding photoshoot, videos of course by paying the huge amount😐

After the entrance, you will be asked to enter a theater where they will show the picture of the whole ND studio with information about everything related to the studio. You will also have one guide who will be with you for the whole tour of the studio.

This is LAL Mahal, see how big it is,

The Prem Ratan Dhan Payo - Palace,

Flooring is awesome.

Check out this video for this palace:

This is one of the historic palaces- JODHA AKABAR set.

From outside

And when you enter :

 Most of the shooting is from here. 

The seating place of King Akbar.

Love this Palakhi and velvet curtain

Kon banega Cororepati Set:

Our CSMT 

The main interesting is the WAX Museum:

I feel that the real one is standing in front of me.

Tom Cruise

Imitating Angelina

Mr. Bean

These are some village sets :

Stone made Saint's Statue

My little one like this garden due to dinosaur :

Actual it is very big

After so much of roaming, you might be hungry. Don't worry the food plaza is there where you can get a variety of foods with icecream and drinks.

Food Plaza

Agadi gharasarkhe jevan..

The studio is very huge and I can not compile each and everything. Some of the tours I captured in a video form. Don't forget to check out the video on TikTok. Try to show as much as I can. 

Check the above video. 

Do not forget to check out my TikTok id: neetakadam68 for ND studio tours.

Have you enjoyed it? Which place you like the most? Comment below please.

Lockdown kids fun activity # 2

Hey all,

As I promised to share new activity on alternate days, so here I  am with new exciting activity. I hope you all like our previous one with smilies and have a fun time with your little ones. those who do not know please check the link : http://memoryflies.blogspot.com/2020/04/kids-activity-during-quarantine.html

I am giving one by one so that our child does not get bored. This one is pretty simple. Take out a paper, sketch pen and wax or crayon or whatever you have handy.

This is a simple drawing.

There is no rule that you have to draw this only. You can draw anything like a kite, Bunny, Elephant as per your kid's choice.

Just ask the child to take the colour pencil or sketch pen. I will suggest having a sketch pen. Ask them to draw a pattern on each line with a different colour. After that ask them to fill the gaps with contrast colour.

The final product is like this. Lovely?

Some Do's:
# Take the same pattern and sit with your child.
# Show them if they are confused with the pattern.
# Have a competition " Who can make a beautiful pattern".
# Boost your kid's confidence even if they are doing some tiny mistake.

We took almost 30 to 45 minutes to finish with a small break. 😊

What your child will learn?
Concentration,
Patience
Learn different patterns and colours.
Enhance their imagination.

Comment down with your fun pictures.

Till then,

Happy Parenting !!

Kids Activity During Quarantine

Hi, all,

I hope you all are safe inside your home and doing well during this quarantine. Our kids are precious ones because they listen to us without complaining, right. 

I am telling my daughter that Corona is sitting at the entrance of our lift and hence we can not go out. she simply considers this and never demands to go out, the poor girl as she trusts her mumma. But we don't have an option. I wonder we can do this to the elder one who is still not sitting inside the house and roaming here and there without a mask. 😖

Anyway, that is not the topic of my post. There are lots of games and activities which are flooded everywhere. Are you done with that? I am doing this activity when my child gets bored with everything and finally, she wanted to do something new. I introduce this one at a time so that she can not get bored. You know Mumma, today's generation kids get bored very quickly and they want new things fast. Without realizing what is it, they tend to get bored you know what is the reason for this? Internet, yes, the digital world where everything moves so fast. So our kids are becoming impatient as they want everything fast as they saw on TV or on Youtube. They know they can switch the channel if they don't like any content and the same way they want to do with their lives too. 

They get bored by reading, coloring, playing inside the home and bla,bla,bla, 😅, you know what I am saying. Keeping them busy during this quarantine is a bit difficult. Switching on TV, Playing with toys, drawing, TV, eating, jumping, again TV, this is the scenario of every home, 

I am doing some brain booster activity from last one week and she is enjoying it. So wanted to share with you. I hope your little one will learn something new. This is not age-restricted actually, anyone can do it.

I will be sharing on alternate days. You have plenty of time. so please prepare this and sit with your kids and have fun. Do only one or two at a time when they get bored with everything. Trust me they will love it. These are only 10 to 20 minute depending on your child's interest. I keep it for a small interval because you have to develop patience in them too.

This is a sheet where I drew smiles from our keyboard which we are using on a daily basis. 

Take a play dough and ask them to prepare the expression. 

It will look like this. They will make their own facial expression like that and that is the best fun part of it. 

Do this with your little one and comment me down below with your pictures. Ok, so get ready to have fun with us....!!!!

Do comment and share with your mommy friends.

Till then,

Happy Parenting !!

Carrot Cheese Sandwich

As a mommy blogger, I supposed to post some kid's recipe too. Yep, that is what I always wanted to share with my mommy friend and wanted to learn from them too. Trying the recipe which prepares quickly and the most important approved by my little one.😑 After all, we mom always wanted to feed them “Ghar Ka Khana” as much as possible but in a rare case that our every food is appreciated by them. We all know kids are always a picky eater.

The name suggests a simple sandwich recipe, and yes it is pretty simple having only 2 major ingredients and that is carrot and cheese. My daughter loves carrot and so I added that.  You can add as many vegetables along with the carrot. I don’t have at that time so I prepared it from scratch.

These are two spices and salt I use for flavor. Pizza masala gives a taste of pizza which makes a sandwich finished in a jiffy. 

Grate Amul cheese and carrot, add the above spices and mix well. I used brown bread but you can use any bread as per your choice.

Remove the outer crust of the bread, again it is optional. Apply tomato sauce or ketchup or any sauce as per your choice. Put this carrot the mixture on the bread slice generously and cover with the other slice of bread.

Heat up the pan. Add little bit butter and roast the sandwich from both sides until it becomes crunchy. Saee doesn’t like too much crunchy so I toast it slightly.

Cut diagonally and your sandwich is ready. It is not for kids only, we adults can eat this too. If you love cheese and not worrying about calories.😅

Try this for your little one and share your shortcut sandwich recipe in the comment section. I will love to prepare it.