鼎鼎学英语

鼎鼎妈妈

《国地儿百》停用了，反正鼎鼎也不喜欢。4.18起开始使用RAZ。

AA级鼎鼎已经都听过看过了。鼎鼎说就从A级开始，虽然好多她也已经听过，看过。先把A级中有MP3的几课小书挑出来放一边，一共8课。洗漱的时候开始听的。其余的书，鼎鼎自己挑了几本（大概有5本），她说这些很熟悉了，放一边。我让她读一下，果然很流利，每一课最后还自己写了一句话。

到床上的时候，我给她捏脊。鼎鼎拿着复读机，听一句，跟一句，同时配上自己的声音，比如骑马配上马蹄得得声，轮船，配上画画水声，还有各种自创的怪叫等等，不亦乐乎。

加州继续备课中。。。。。

另外还要找一些有趣一点的英语故事音频。

yaoxiaosai

原来这样啊！鼎妈，我们才前面三课呢！
谢谢提醒！看来我也得好好听听儿百里面的内容了。

鼎鼎妈妈

今天的RAZ还是听A级，一边练功一边听。

听完躺下前读了两本：《Maria counts pumpkins》和《what I like》。

《Maria counts pumpkins》读到最后，鼎鼎说：I have too many books, I have too many pencils.

《what I like》，我说，You like too many things. 鼎鼎接着说：I like to play. 哈哈，就喜欢玩。用play再说一句。
I like to play piano.

躺下后，我播放frog and toad。第一段Spring正文开始前的那一段鼎鼎听得有点晕，我给她解释了一下，我说那是开场白，简单介绍了故事讲谁的。后面马上开始正式故事。

Frog ran up the path to Toad’s house. 。He knocked on the front door.（听到这里，音频中有敲门声，鼎鼎说Frog敲门了。） There was no answer.（我提示：有没有人应啊？）
“Toad, Toad,” shouted Frog, “wake up. It is spring!” （哦，癞蛤蟆冬眠还没醒来，鼎鼎说。）

后面我卡着一句一句听的。

“Blah,” said a voice from inside the house.
“Toad! Toad!” cried Frog.（Frog为什么哭？——哦，cry不仅仅是哭的意思，还是大叫）
“The sun is shining! The snow is melting, Wake up!”（melting （雪）融化了，我解释了一下）
“I am not here,” said the voice. （听到这里，鼎鼎大笑：不在这里还会说话啊？癞蛤蟆真傻。）
Frog walked into the house. It was dark.（鼎鼎问dark是什么意思，她说钢琴老师经常这样说的，dark。哦，我说，Aliona说的应该是乌克兰语。这里的dark是黑暗，喏，就像我们现在（我们已经关灯了））


All the shutters were closed.
“Toad, where are you?” called Frog.
“Go away,” said the voice from a corner of the room.
Toad was lying in bed. He had pulled all the covers over his head.


Frog pushed Toad out of bed.（frog 把toad 拉下床了？鼎鼎问。我说是推下床。）
He pushed him out of the house and onto the front porch. （推到屋子外面了，鼎鼎说。但我竟然不认得porch这个单词，我老老实实的对鼎鼎说，妈妈不知道porch是什么意思，反正推到门外了。）
Toad blinked in the bright sun.

后面的不在卡听，连续听下去了。估计鼎鼎没怎么听懂。
“Help!” said Toad.
“I cannot see anything.”
“Don’t be silly,” said Frog.
“What you see is the clear warm light of April. And it means that we can begin a whole new year together, Toad. Think of it,” said Frog.
“We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods and swim in the river.
In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars.”
“You can count them, Frog,” said Toad.
“I will be too tired. I am going back to bed.”
Toad went back into the house.
He got into the bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

如果不卡着听，鼎鼎大概听不懂的。我得找个更简单但有趣的英语故事来。

后来还听了小乌龟第一课《the test》，小乌龟的话鼎鼎能熟练地说出来，几乎跟复读机同步。我不知道鼎鼎什么时候听得这么熟练的，应该是上学期每天早上听的结果。鼎鼎说第一张碟4课，第三课不熟悉，其它的都熟悉。小乌龟所有碟片她都看完了。

majialin02

小乌龟和frog and toad对苗苗都有些难，昨天又找出了MARGIC MARKER

鼎鼎妈妈

昨晚，鼎鼎开始洗漱时我坐在电脑前，听得鼎鼎再喊：妈妈，英语——

哦，我把帝尔拿过去。我问：
“今天听什么？”
“还是level A吧。”
“听完小书，要听frog and toad吗？”
“要。”
“重复听昨天听过的吗？”
“先听昨天的，听完接下去。”顿了一下，“我听不懂就问你。”
呵呵，看来故事吸引人。

“妈妈，我真是舒服哎，早上晚上都听故事。”
“是哦，妈妈给你准备了很多故事呢。”
“我要快点学英语，就可以听更多的故事了。”
唉，孩子就是那么容易满足！

昨天在群里咨询了程度低一点的动画和音频，little bear已经下载不少了，RAY有问题，下的不顺利，今天用rapidshare继续下。

鼎鼎妈妈

4.21没记录，今天简单补一下：

放学回家看了little bear的the campfire tale，不知道看没看懂，估计是由于那些bear都长得差不多，鼎鼎没能明白里面到底有几个bear，她问我为什么有两个男的大的bear，mother bear是不是不在家，我没看过视频，我也不知道，让鼎鼎下次自己看。

RAZ开始听B级。

frog and toad 从头听，听过的能跟读，新的内容接下去听，还是有困难。

4.22：

放学回家看小乌龟未引进的7集中的两集，ride the bike 和 birthday party。视频不是很清晰——那些动的画面有些闪，声音也没有洪恩版的清晰。没有解说，英文字幕（估计鼎鼎不会看字幕）。中间我走过去坐鼎鼎身边，发现她还能听懂不少，很意外的是她听得懂different，我问她怎么会知道这个词的意思，她说她不知道，反正她懂意思。

洗漱和练功时，继续听RAZ的B级。上床前读了两本RAZ level A的小书。

躺下按摩时间，鼎鼎选择继续听frog and toad。她说要先听spring，复习一下，然后接下去听。story，听的时候我稍作解释，听到后面部分时，鼎鼎说frog就把刚才的事讲成故事了嘛。

贴一下故事文本：

2-The Story
One day in summer, Frog was not feeling well.
Toad said, “Frog, you are looking green.”
“But I always look green,”
“Today you look very green even for a frog,” said Toad.
“Get into my bed and rest.”

Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea. Frog drank the tea, and then he said,
“Tell me a story while I am resting.”
“All right,” said Toad.

“Let me think of a story to tell you.”
Toad thought and thought.
But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.
“I will go out on the front porch and walk up and down,” said Toad.
“Perhaps that will help me to think of a story.”
Toad walked up and down on the porch for a long time.
But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.

Then Toad went into the house and stood on his head.
“Why are you standing on your head?” asked Frog.
“I hope that if I stand on my head, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.
   
Toad stood on his head for a long time.
But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.
Then Toad poured a glass of water over his head.
     
“Why are you pouring water over your head?” asked Frog.
“I hope that if I pour water over my head, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.
Toad poured many glasses of water over his head.
But he could not think of a story to tell Frog.
Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall.
“Why are you banging your head against the wall?” asked Frog.
“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall hard enough, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.
“I am feeling much better now, Toad,” said Frog. “I do not think I need a story anymore.”
“Then you get out of bed and let me get into it,” said Toad,
“Because now I feel terrible.”
Frog said, “Would you like me to tell you a story, Toad?”
“Yes,” said Toad, “if you know one.”

“Once upon a time,” said Frog,
“There were two good friends, a Frog and a Toad.
The frog was not feeling well. He asked his friend the Toad to tell him a story.
The Toad could not think of a story.
He walked up and down on the porch, but he could not think of a story.
He stood on his head, but he could not think of a story.
He poured water over his head, but he could not think of a story.
He banged his head against the wall, but he still could not think of a story.
Then the toad did not feel so well, and the frog was feeling better.
So the toad went to bed and told him a story.
The end. How was that, Toad?” said Frog.
But Toad did not answer.
He had fallen asleep.

[ 本帖最后由 鼎鼎妈妈 于 2010-4-22 22:46 编辑 ]

鼎鼎妈妈

最近鼎妈工作很忙，又在加紧加州教材学习的准备工作，鼎鼎的每日英语照常：

每天自己朗读两本RAZ小书，现在还在A级；听RAZ音频，最近是AA，A,B,C级反复听，鼎鼎自己选择的。

最近又喜欢上了《frog and toad》，听得很起劲儿。昨晚听的是《the lost button》。

第一遍，鼎妈给她一句一句卡着听，生词意思稍作提示。听一句复读机的音频，如果感觉鼎鼎没能听清音，鼎妈用慢速念一遍。这样进行到一小半的时候，鼎鼎说：妈妈，我知道接下去会怎么样了。呵呵，果然如鼎鼎所猜，鼎鼎特别开心。

中间给解释了一下cry等这一组动词，让鼎鼎明白它们之间的区别和相同之处，并告诉鼎鼎在写作的时候也要用词多样化，相同的意思也通常要尽量避免用单一的词，这样文章才能生动有趣。

第二遍从头到尾完整地听一遍。听完了后，开始听“写”。我说一个单词（生词），要鼎鼎拼出来。比如鼎妈说button，鼎鼎念b-u-t-t-on，鼎妈同时在鼎鼎脸上轻轻地用手指“写”b-u-t-t-on。鼎鼎还说她知道这里要有两个t，否则，u就要读长音了。另外还拼“写”了几个（鼎妈已不记得是哪几个了，所以不列出来了）。

今天打算把文本打印出来，让鼎鼎朗读一下。

3- A Lost Button
Toad and Frog went for a long walk.
They walked across a large meadow. They walked in the woods. They walked along the river.
At last they went back home to toad’s house.

“Oh, that,” said toad.
“Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the buttons on my jacket.”
“Don’t worry,” said Frog.
“We will go back to all the places where we walked. We will soon find your button.”
They began to look for the button in the tall grass.


“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
“That button is black, My button was white.”
Toad put the black button in his pocket.
A sparrow flew down.  “Excuse me,” said the sparrow.
“Did you lose a button? I found one.”
“That is not my button,” said toad.
  
“That button has two holes. My button had four holes.”
Toad put the button with two holes in his pocket.
They went back to the woods and looked on the dark paths.
“Here is your button,” said Frog.
“That is not my button,” cried Toad.
“That button is small. My button was big.” Toad put the small button in his pocket.
A raccoon came out from behind a tree.
“I heard that you were looking for a button,” he said.
“Here is one that I just found.”
“That is not my button!” wailed Toad.
“That button is square. My button was round.”
Toad put the square button in his pocket.

Frog and Toad went back to the river. They looked for the button in the mud.
“Here is your button,” said Frog.
“That is not my button!” shouted toad.
“That button is thin. My button was thick..”
Toad put the thin button in his pocket. He was very angry.
   
He jumped up and down and screamed,
“The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!”
Toad ran home and slammed the door.
There, on the floor, he saw his white, four-holed, big, round, thick button.
“Oh,” said Toad.
“It was here all the time. What a lot of trouble I have made for Frog.’
   
Toad took all of the buttons out of his pocket.
He took his sewing box down from the shelf.
Toad sewed the buttons all over his jacket.
The next day Toad gave his jacket to Frog.
Frog thought that it was beautiful.
He put it on and jumped for joy.
None of the buttons fell off.
Toad had sewed them on very well.

注：

刚才因为清空了历史文件夹，变成了游客状态，写的所有字都在点击“发表帖子”后飞了。不得不重写。

所以记住：搞清楚自己当前的状态很重要。

[ 本帖最后由 鼎鼎妈妈 于 2010-4-26 09:52 编辑 ]

dmldjq

读完整个楼，当然是至今为止的，
感叹于鼎妈的心态，胜似闲庭信步，很稳，很平和。
体味不同的教育方式方法，
让我反思！
谢谢！

鼎鼎妈妈

祝贺一下。

同时祝自己和大家节日快乐。

节后争取上CA。准备工作正在加紧进行中。

鼎鼎妈妈

鼎鼎已经很渴望学加州了，特别是科学。但是，加州教材，决不能简单地以语言学习为目标。所以，不可轻易开始，一定要做好充分准备。

treasures，取得多好的名字！最近学习了一些教材相关的资料，还是忍不住为米国人做教育的细致入微而慨叹。就连鼎鼎也羡慕：他们真是好啊，有这么多好玩的书，我们学校里就没有。鼎妈的回答是：你现在不用羡慕，因为有妈妈，你一样拥有这些宝贝，而且比美国小朋友更多——中国故事。

而开始加州教材系统学习前和系统学习中，听力的配套是决不能忽视的。无论如何，鼎鼎用这套教材和米国小朋友用肯定是不一样的。从read aloud材料看，中国小朋友先抓听力可以一定程度上弥补英语环境的缺陷。

而怎样有效地进行听力训练，选用循序渐进的听力材料一步一步扎扎实实来，还是抓住一个典型材料坚持硬听，鼎妈还在疑惑中。

最近鼎鼎在听frog and toad，故事比较有趣，鼎鼎喜欢，也乐意重复听。这两天听的是 the swim。今天晚上洗漱时，鼎鼎又要听《灰姑娘》了，轻松英语里的，因为故事情节是熟悉的，倒也听得津津有味。

the swim，今天是鼎妈读给鼎鼎听的，鼎鼎说我们要模仿MP3里的，妈妈有些地方读得不一样，很多地方很像了。呵呵，鼎妈没有认真听过音频，完全凭自己的理解读的。所以，鼎妈对鼎鼎说：朗读跟弹琴一样的，每个人理解不一样，所以语调会不同。

听力训练，到底该怎样有效进行？思考中。。。。。

没有基础强行裸听，鼎妈严重怀疑其有效性。

所以，当务之急：积累有效听力词汇。

虽急，却急不得。还是得稳打稳扎。

[ 本帖最后由 鼎鼎妈妈 于 2010-5-4 23:04 编辑 ]