Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Posters and visual aid

I have read that using posters can help language development.So I decided to hang a poster on colours and shapes near Clara's changing mat. She has been quite interested on it and I have on one or two colours and forms since I hang it.
I have also created a poster with some summer vocabulary
I keep on reading books but I have started reading some new titles(Giraffes can't dance)to refresh my monologues.
Finally I have created a poster for me with some words I use when cooking that it was hard for me to remember when I explain Clara what I am cooking and how.

Sunday, 1 May 2016

Mother's day

It is my first mother's day.Clara was born almost 3 months ago and everything has been wonderful since she arrived.Long before that day me and  my husband decided that I would speak to her in English  which is my third language(I speak Catalan,Spanish and a bit of German too)and  my husband would speak Catalan to her.Other relatives would talk Spanish to her.
The aim of this blog is just to create a record for Clara of her progression and a way for me to become aware of her hopefully daily progress.
I don't have a clear idea how I will record that progression but so far I will include two sections
My progression
I have read books on  bilingualism
I have been talking to her in English everyday  since she was born(in fact I have been talking to her in English since I got pregnant which I think has made it easier to do when she arrived)
I have been reading to her for 15 minutes in English everyday
I have  started  creating her English Library
I play some background  and we sing or exercises on her mat

 Clara's progression
She patiently listens to my everyday reading
She has started to cooing and sometimes has tried to imitate the intonation of my sentences