250words in 60s - 3years 7months old

Zo Ee at 3years 7months old. (28th November 2011)

Wondering how fast can Zo Ee read? A friend asked me how fast can Zo Ee read. I know she can read very fast since she turned 3 and has been reading sub-titles on the tv since two. 2 months ago, while in a friend's house, Zo Ee read out the sub-titles(as the host) loud and fast from the US VOICE programme. My friend commented to her that "You like to read fast too ha..".

So when I saw her reading her new book, I grabbed the opportunity to record it so that I could count the number of words. The video below shown - she read these two pages; 250 words in 60s. I continued to record her reading a few more pages, they turned out to be 200words/minute and 423words/minute. She actually reads faster when there isn't any picture in those pages.

Fraction - 3years 7months old

Zo Ee at 3years 7months old. (24th November 2011)

We made some jelly with round moulds. Zo Ee decided that we'll share one. So cut it into half; half for her and half for me. Immediately, I finished mine. Zo Ee further divided her half into four equal portion while telling me, "Mum! Do you want another 1/8 of my jelly? You can have one if you want." Then she counted, 1,2,3,4. I overheard her saying, "four 1/8 equal to half."

speed reading - 3years 7months old

Zo Ee at 3years 7months old. (23rd November 2011)

Today Zo Ee read the entire book; about 170 Nursery Rhymes in an hour. This is not the first time Mummy seeing her doing that. Few months ago, Zo Ee read her Noddy book about 100 1/2pages (another half is illustration) in 15mnutes.

Crazy Multiplication-3years 7months old

Zo Ee at 3years 7months old. (13th November 2011)

We just arrived two hours ago after being away for 10nights. When I saw the magnetic numbers pack in New Delhi (none in Goa), immediately I grabbed it for Zo Ee. Zo Ee has been excited and I didn't allow her to open it until we reached home. And when we reached home just now, the first thing she wanted to do was to open this magnetic numbers pack. While DH and I were busy unpacking, Zo Ee showed us these...

She actually used a calculator to calculate the answers. But I still find it cool that she has such idea and went beyond the normal times table she has seen thus far. Also I like that she has written down the equal sign and number two when she ran out of those pieces.

Unikato Game - 3years 6months old

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (10th November 2011)

We are still at New Dehli and will be here until Sunday. We bought Zo Ee some new games and puzzles at the mall. One of them is the Unikato game. Initially, we thought it is a very straight forward game but it's not. One of the rule is that Unikato tiles may be placed next to each other if they differ in exactly one feature i.e. they must match in 3 out of 4 features.

1. Form of the symbol: circle, square, cross

2. Colour of the symbol: orange, purple, blue

3. Size of the symbol: small, medium, large

4. Background colour: white, grey, black

Initially, I was thinking it will not be possible for Zo Ee to play this game since I have no idea how to explain to her the above 3 out of 4 features rule. She wanted to play, so we played along. After seeing a few examples, Zo Ee managed to grab the rule and playing along well. She likes it very much and was playing it this morning too. Ocassionally, she makes one or two mistakes but overall she understood the game well. This morning she laid all 81 pieces out correctly.

This video shown half-way through our first game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0W3sLsHGYk

Many Faces Zo Ee-3years 6months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (10th November 2011)

Drawing Fractions - 3years 6months old

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (7th November 2011)

Vocabulary-3years 6months old

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (31st October 2011)

When we came across this word "Grit" in her book, Zo Ee stopped to ask me what is the meaning of Grit? I told her that I had no idea, why not check out the dictionary together. Immediately, she replied, " Grit - Tiny bits of sands or stones. " An when I checked out the dictionary, I was surprised that she's right. I know she has huge vocabulary, but am pretty amazed with her knowledge of words too.

Case 1 - 3years 6months old.

Zo Ee at 3years 6months old. (31st October 2011)

Case 1 ? I am finding this very interesting. I'm wondering what is she doing on the white board.