Sunday, September 03, 2006
Counting
Gerald can now count up to 10... occasionally up to 12. He tends to skip 5 though... it'll be 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. But the number of times he is skipping 5 is reducing. Today at GUG, he counted the worms that Teacher Herli put out for the tods to touch. Gerald actually said, "1, 2, 3. 3 worms!" I was quite surprised. He is already connecting numbers and words and unconciously picking up the grammar of English. He can form short little sentences like "Uncle running" or little phrases like "big truck" or "yellow taxi". The human brain is indeed amazing. We do not need to teach a young child language or grammar formally, it is naturally acquired through exposure. Isn't God's creation very good?
Now I think I need to expose Gerald to more Mandarin before he turns into a little banana. haha...
| posted by SengSeng at 5:54 PM
