Thanks to Addy who started this thread, we have an alternative voice to teaching our children through flashcards!

With the vast amount to information that a child need to read, they will have a competitive advantage if they are able to speed read without losing the meaning of the material.
A normal person read around 125 words per minute, a speed reader can easily read 500 - 1000 words per minute.

Reading is a process of converting words into its corresponding meaning. The problem with reading is that most of us are trained from young to read at the speed of our speech, which greatly reduce our redeading speed. Our brain can process words at a faster speed than our speech, this is where most speed reading techniques come into play.

The reading process is usually as follows:
words (visually)->words (verbally)->meaning

If your child is moving on to secondary school next year, this seminar is for you!

Learn more about:

• Choosing a secondary school and supporting your child in secondary school
• The secondary school system
• Tips for parents to encourage reading

Admission is FREE! 

Location:

Woodlands Regional Library Auditorium (Basement 1)
Woodlands Civic Centre, #01-03
900 South Woodlands Drive
Singapore 730900

To register, call 6298 8012 or email mandy@c3igroup.com with your full name and contact details. Registration closes on Wednesday, 3 September 2008. Register now as seats are limited!

Relax lah... no need to be so kiasu.  New Singaporean parents tend to think that planning for Primary One Registration years in advance is just plain uncool.  Some even believe that as long as they are staying near the school, there is no reason why they would not be able to place their children in that school.

Perhaps the following facts would help put things in perspective:

The objective of this set of cards is to introduce the child to Great Paintings from various eras. This set covers paintings from both Western and Eastern artist and are arrange according to the approximate date the paintings were created.

By JENNIFER C. YATES and SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Writers
Thu Jul 24, 7:13 AM ET

PITTSBURGH - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don't find a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now — especially when it comes to children.

"Really at the heart of my concern is that we shouldn't wait for a definitive study to come out, but err on the side of being safe rather than sorry later," Herberman said.

A simple way to remember an ordered list is to create a mental image of the number and create an image of the item with the mental image of the number.

First you need to associate the number with an image. You can choose similar sounding words, objects with a similar shape as the number, or any thing you might associate the number with.