Babyfaith series dvd

This is our favourite, but there are about 6 movies altogether in the series. We have only 3... so far...

God Made Babies
The perfect baby gift!
The award-winning babyfaith® series continues with God Made Babies. This baby-sized version of the story of Moses teaches that God loves, cares for his children and has great plans for them. Children will laugh at the fun puppet shows, delight in the images of babies, and be enthralled with the hymn-music videos. This DVD will help your baby thrive developmentally and spiritually. Narrated by Jodi Benson, the voice of The Little Mermaid.® Ages 3-36 months.

I found them on christianbook.com, and fell in love with them. You can watch free prewiws on their original homepage

Poor health

Barni was feeling very poorly these last two days, so we haven't done much schooling:-(
However, we did read lots of books. We have three of the That's not my... series. Karina's favourite is the train one (but I don't have any photoes. sorry.) You can check out the whole series here.
She is getting ready to record her reading of this very book:-)

Win an excellent pack for teaching English!

http://www.ingles360.net/ is having a giveaway! It is extra worth checking it out! You can enter today, but this is the very last day...
Go here to enter the contest!

Italian lesson

We did some Italian, we practised the colours. I have made some very simple printable flashcards, when Barni was only two months old or so, but I can't attach a word/pdf file here. Any idea?
Some photoes of our lesson:

Labelling our home

I got this idea from Cariseto label our house. She has made beautiful printable cards, so I only had to print, laminate and cut them. We started with the kitchen, today was the third day we read the words, and now I  blue-tacked the cards to appropriate places.
Barni loves the word 'clock'! As soon as he sees any ot these cards, he would go 'kkkk':-) He is just watching so far, except for 'kkk',  but Karina is active, she pronounces the words and she has sticked the cards to their places.

One side of our labelled kitchen

Barni, after lunch, with 'kkk'

Looking at me_booklet

We made this little booklet downloaded from Carisa's site this afternoon, and after having read it together one time then, I asked her at bedtime if she wants to read it again. She said yes. I asked her whether she minded if I recorded her reading, and she agreed. That's the story of the video above.

Colours and shapes

We did colours and shapes today. Karina was plaing with some memory game (we have had it for a long time, but we don't have it's box, and I have no idea what it is called...), then I gave her a book printed from Carisa. She cut the printed material into the pages, then I let her staple the booklet. She was flattered!

Meanwhile, I was playing with Barni and his basket. I had collected a few favourite items of his in a basket, and I let him unpack everything. Then I brought out his sequencing little buckets, and we did colours and numbers. Occasionally we cuddled eachother, then played some more, cuddled, played. And he started playng the keyboard again and again. He just loves it!! Karina volunteered to take photoes, so I have quite a series...

Parts of the body

This week we have started learning (B) / practising (K) the parts of the body. I have lots of flashcards printed back from the time I started learning with Karina, plenty of them, and also this set, is from Free ESL Flashcards. I typed the words for lots of sets, so that I can print them on the back. You can find them here.

Barni is sorting out his cards, and Karina is being very happy for her new baby Moses. I am proud of her, for she is working with her scissors quite neatly finally... We found all body parts of Moses:-)

We are going through the Candle Bible cards again. They just love them!!

For a lapbook on Human body go to Carisa's site!

Contest

I have made a little book about Karina and Barni with Grandpa Jim. It was meant for a contest, but when I showed it to Karina first, she loved it so much, that she has been reading it several times since. You can download it from here

Off topic from Tot school / Lapbook lányoknak

I just managed to put together a teaching material I used last year in kids' camp. I had 4 girls between the age of 8-12, and we learnt about Girls in the Bible. The material is in Hungarian, but I know there are some moms out there who teach Hungarian, too. I had lot of things from the internet - thanks to anyone who shared things with me. Most things can be done with young girls, too. You can download the pdf file from my website

Évi and Enci with front and back of their lapbook

We made a lapbook during the days. For real, extragood lapbooks go to Carisa's site.

A képen látható lapbookot először egy gyerektáborban, később Bibliaköri foglalkozáson készítettük el. 4 leckében foglalkoztunk olyan lányokkal, akiket a Bibliából ismerünk: Evódia és Szüntükhé, Mirjám, Naámán szolgálója és Ródé. Nem sokat tudunk meg róluk, de azok mind nagyon fontosak. Az óravázlatokat és felhasználható anyagokat egy pdf fájlban gyűjtöttem össze, a honlapomról ingyen letöltheted.

Ha ti is elkészítettétek, kérlek, írj róla nekem a lillaficsor@gmail.com címre!

Changes in the living room

I needed the playpen very much in the kitchen, so I decided to move it out there from the living room. Barni can use his walker in the living room from now on. But to make it possible I had to put away lots of things from behind the playpen, because they would be in reach for him from now on. I found several 'Wanted' things...

He was happy to find this toy in the playpen and enjoyed if for about 10 minutes. I hope this change will give me more time in the kitchen...
I found a very old craft sheet of Karina's among those stuff. She was delighted to find her baby Moses:-) She went to bed with him.. It is such a joy to see her face lit up just from seeing a simple sheet of paper:-) It's a good thing I have not put it in the bin...

Candle Bible for Toddlers Memory Game

Today with Barni we played with these lovely flashcards. These were the very first flashcards I used with Barni to teach him English, when he was about 2 months old. He loved them back then

and he still loves them!! I left my camera at church yesterday (there was a baptism:-) ), so I was not able to take photoes today.
I wish I could find some more cards like these. They are big, they are strong, they look cute. And they are from the Bible!!! Any idea?

The Praise Baby Collection

As I was following 1plus1plus1equals1 today, I remembered it is very much worth to share this with you.
When Karina was a few months old, we have received a set of 3 dvds. I have put one of them on for her when she woke up in the mornings, it gave me an extra 30 minutes to get myself out of bed:-) She is 5 now, but she still loves watching them. Barni is not into them yet, but he likes watching them for a while. There are cute videos of babies, animals and animations, while there is lovely worship music on. You can even choose if you want the singing of adults or children, or simply instrumental music.
A fourth disc was a gift from Uncle Russ:-)
You can see samples -and also buy them- here.

They are watching God of wonders here

Deers

I have a new student, and Barni is present at our classes. Kincső, my pupil, has learnt about deers today, so I showed the kids a powerpoint I had made for Karina years ago. It contains photoes of us:-)
In_the_forest_ppt

Next letter is Yy from RRSP

http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2010/08/raising-rock-stars-preschool-letter-yy.html
So far I just downloaded the printables, and will start working on them next week.

Today we went to meet our new German teacher, who is a nice 17-year-old girl learning German at highschool. She is really nice, and we can't wait to have our first lesson tomorrow.

Barni's Russian lesson

After quite a few weeks' break Barni had his Russian lesson again. My sister Pálma has been teaching him for more than 6 months now. Mostly they use flashcards, and she also sings little songs to him.
Judit, thanks for the Russian flashcards!!!

Letter Ii from RRSP

We have finished our work with Letter Ii with Karina. I have found RRSP reacantly, and downloaded quiet a few things from them. They are beautifully done, and also very useful And the main things is that they are CHRISTIAN:-)

Here are some photoes taken alongside the "journey".

You can find thes activities here: http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/Ii.pdf

Summer camp