A few weeks ago we bought a CD on 三字经 (Three-Word Chant) and played for the kids in the car. The CD is meant for babies and above and breaks down the lengthy chant into 8 sections each section made up of 32 three-word chant with a song for each section so that kids will enjoy the seemingly boring chant to enjoyable songs. The first time when we played the CD for Xi, she complained and asked us to play her favourite Hi-5 CDs instead. But after a few times, she seems to enjoy it and even start singing after the songs. We continued to play for the whole week in the car when travelling and and fro my aunt's and our house every evening and morning when she started to get bored and so we switched back to her Hi-5 CD. Surprisingly, she has memorised some of the songs and soon able to recite and sing the full first section of 96 words in complete.
It is amazing how kids can absorb things so fast whilst it takes me some memorise and reading the words to understand the meaning in order to remember the 96 words. In addition, I also notice Ru has great interest in the chant. Everytime when I sing the chant for her she will look at me happily and kick her legs and waive her hands vigorously. Well, we have 7 more sections to go which I don't think I will ever remember. Xi, now mummy and meimei count on you to sing for us the rest of the songs! :)
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