OHbaby! Forums : Those with ones turning 5... https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:52:10 +0000 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:27:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=21349 <![CDATA[OHbaby! Forums]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : Brae will be 5 on 24th Dec 09...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=533528&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#533528 Author: Glow
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Posted: 02 November 2008 at 11:27am

Brae will be 5 on 24th Dec 09 so starting school Jan 2010

His speech is getting better by the week, pronouciation of L still isnt clear. Knows how to sing the alphabet, can recognise most letters individually. Can recognise some lower/upper case sets. Can recognise & write his name, mum dad etc. Lovesto draw cut & glue
Likes to make up stories, play pretend & sing & dance
Can count to 15, knows shapes, colours & basic time concepts ie the hour & half past.
Loves transport & can name machinery better than i can
Loves outdoors, water, growth, birds, insects- science i guess. Knws what nocternal means, names of different birds/ insects knows about their habitats, knows the water cycle & weather patterens

]]> Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:27:23 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=533528&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#533528 <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : Jake turns 5 next year in October...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=507535&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#507535 Author: lizzle
Subject: 21349
Posted: 03 October 2008 at 11:09am

Jake turns 5 next year in October and at the moment, his speech is improving everyday. He is very very social and we have limited his friends for his b-day party to 6 and even daycare had trouble helping us narrow it down. I was quite proud.
As for educational things - he knows all about random animals (thanks Diego), but doesn't know any alphabet,. he sings ABC and knows the order in whcih they go in. His recognition of his name is okay, but beyond that, not much.
He knows shapes and recognises which shapes make up things - like 'my head is a circle" kinda thing.   he can draw shapes but doesn't have that grip down yet. which makes it hard to form letters and draw properly.
Numbers he is brilliant at - he knows them in Spanish and Maori. I actually think his first year in japan has made it easier for him with other languages as he seems to have picked up quite a bit of spanish from handy manny and Dora!.

This sounds like a skite now. But have just realise dhow far he has come since being in the older area and it's really exciting.]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:09:18 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=507535&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#507535 <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : jack will be 5 in august his...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506845&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506845 Author: jack_&_charli
Subject: 21349
Posted: 02 October 2008 at 2:29pm

jack will be 5 in august

his speech is brilliant, no worries there. can't seem to get him to shut up sometimes

he knows the alphabet and can recognise letters when he sees them, but he can't write them yet. he can count to 15 (i think) and also knows numbers to look at, but not to write.

he loves outdoors, mostly zooming around on his ride on or playing on the swings, sandpit etc   we've been trying to get him to ride his bike properly, but he pedals forwards until the other foot gets to the top, then he pedals backwards to start again.......if that makes sense! his bike doesn't have brakes on the pedals so it kinda 'free-spins' when you pedal backwards

he loves 'reading' books which is really looking at them and making the story up   loves to sing songs to himself, but goes all silly when you ask him to sing it to you   it's so cute

his latest fave thing to do is play games on the computer. mostly at mickeymouse clubhouse website. we got him some reading/phonics computer disks for his birthday and he likes to have a go. but they are abit advanced for him at the moment.

i have his name down at one school for next year, have to wait and see how that goes by ballot. have 2 other schools for backup which i'm in the process of getting info from such a horrible thought!!! ]]> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:29:50 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506845&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506845 <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : Kobe will be 5 in march. He doesnt...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506579&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506579 Author: my2angels
Subject: 21349
Posted: 02 October 2008 at 10:35am

Kobe will be 5 in march. He doesnt mind writing his name but isnt big on anything else. He loves being outside and is really into his sport, he has already had one season of rubgy and is now playing t ball and cricket so has got quite good hand eye co ordination.
He just had grommets done on friday so will be interesting to see how that goes with his speech because he tends to mumble a lot and gets lazy and doesnt sound out words properly.
He can count to 30 and do his ABCs but not really interested in recognising any other letters unless they are in his name or our names but if he sees something like an A he will say thats what Addison starts with.....
And he knows a bit of Maori from preschool too
Cant believe he will be at school next year, my wee baby boy at school ]]> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:35:36 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506579&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506579 <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : Charlotte is 5 in March. Shes...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506355&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506355 Author: Jennz
Subject: 21349
Posted: 01 October 2008 at 11:38pm

Charlotte is 5 in March. Shes been at Nursery from quite a young age and they do quite structured learning with low teacher to child ratios (was 4:1 now its 6:1)- she can recognise and write all the letters in the alphabet in lower case in what they call 'curly' writing (so with the joining links on each letter). They taught them the pincher grip during first term last year and once she had that her writing came along in leaps and bounds. She can write anything as long as she knows what letters to use- as well as the usual stuff off the top of her head, Mum, Dad, Charlotte, Kate, Grammy, Poppa, Love etc plus Space and Dog for some reason

Language is really good- no problems at all.

Shes at reading level 2 now so can read things along the lines of "Kipper ran. Kipper got a banana. Mum ran. She got an apple. Biff and Chip ran. They got an orange. Dad ran. Oh no! Dad fell. Dad got a rubber duck." They have 10 minutes one on one reading time with a teacher each day- plus they bring home word lists and reading books. They learn 2 styles- one sounding out the words and the other is recognising a word on sight (for words like 'one' which you can't sound out).

They haven't had a huge focus on numbers really- she can count upwards of 100. Can do simple addition and subtraction and and write 1-20 on her own- still needs a bit of help above that though.

She can also count to 10 in french, say quite a few simple phrases like hello, good bye, my name is... and sing a few songs. She knows the life cycle of a frog, butterfly etc and all these random little facts about the world- she constantly amazes me with the things she knows.

To be honest shes a clever wee thing but alot of it is down to the excellent teachers at the school she goes to. I mean we pay ALOT of money to send her but its amazing how much she is learning there.]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:38:23 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506355&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506355 <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : Maya still does a mix of upper...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506347&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506347 Author: Maya
Subject: 21349
Posted: 01 October 2008 at 11:17pm

Maya still does a mix of upper and lower case Teresa. Her spelling/phonetics are brilliant but her teacher is really working on her uppers and lowers atm coz she's a bit random with her placement.]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:17:43 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=506347&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#506347 <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : Ok so Hannah will be 5 at Christmas....]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=505987&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#505987 Author: busymum
Subject: 21349
Posted: 01 October 2008 at 7:17pm

Ok so Hannah will be 5 at Christmas. I think she has all her consonants now and most of her doubles. There's only one that comes to mind... but I've forgotten which one *rolls eyes*.

She also hates to write. I'm trying to leave it until next year so she doesn't feel pressured to. I'm guessing it is a fine motor skills kind of thing because she mostly just hates the proper pen-hold, rather than writing itself. Anyhow she can write Hannah and Bria and things like To Mum I love you... but since she doesn't like doing the pen-hold I haven't taught her how to form her letters properly. So it's H, o with a stick upwards, N with the diagonal the opposite way, and yes the last letter of her name is H not h Other letters are a mix of capitals and lowercase but what she writes is readable. (She learned "I love you" from copying a Barney book.)

She is very good at reading though, and will try to sound out words. Stream would end up as something like seat-im because she splits up double consonants when sounding. But right after learning "wait" she figured out "wailing" so she has a good grasp on how the letters work, generally speaking.

Hannah can also count well past 100, I don't actually know what up to anymore because 100 is a lot to listen to LOL]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:17:03 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=505987&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#505987 <![CDATA[Those with ones turning 5... : ...next year. What does your...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21349&PID=505874&title=those-with-ones-turning-5#505874 Author: mummy_becks
Subject: 21349
Posted: 01 October 2008 at 5:38pm

...next year.

What does your 4 year old do at the moment eg Language, writing etc.

Andrew's language is ok (he does need to see a speech therapist about a few letters). He doesn't like to write and it can be a battle to get him to write even an "A". He loves counting and adding so we are doing a lot of that. His big things is transport (he is a boy) so loves building race tracks and train tracks.

So how is everyone elses??

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