Lessons based on 贝尔熊的圣诞夜

Here's a great story to be read with your kiddo if you are looking for story books with Christmas theme. I love the 贝尔熊 series because the books are full of brilliant colours and the author is very good with the choice of words used.

DD is very fond of pasting. So I've made activity materials that caters to that. Using pictorial association, we learnt the word "朋", and subsequently "朋友" which can be found in many pages in the book.

Another pasting activity for her to reinforce her understanding of the words "白天" and "晚上".

Counting the days to Christmas Day.

DS learns more conceptual words. Again, pictorial association is used here to help him remember the 2 words. He has the bad habit of doing before listening, so he has gotten it wrongly initially. 

Testing his observation skill...

Attempted to teach him the different parts of a sentence and how to expand a sentence...

And let him form a sentence by modeling after the previous example. I've used the re-arranging the sentence method. You can ask your child to write out the sentence too.  

Writing time...

My bold attempt to teach idioms. 齐心协力 appeared in page 13 of the book. I felt that it is a good opportunity to teach idiom. Using the story to explain the meaning of the idiom makes it easier. As a learning outcome, I require him to form a sentence to describe the picture below.

If you are interested in the lesson, printables can be downloaded here.