Fun Class: O for Octopus

Chloe has great improvement for the pass few weeks. Firstly, she started nursery at Carpe Diem, secondly, she was able to read some simple sentences.

I will make some adjustments to her fun classes, and I think it is time to teach her writing and Chinese. More sharing will be coming, do check out this blog often :) Alternatively, you may want to like the facebook page I've created under the name of "Learn The Fun Way" in order to get the updates :)

Back to the lesson.

Chloe sang her Greeting song to start the lesson.

I showed her an A4 paper with letter O, and told her we were learning O for Octopus. She traced the letter with a crayon pen.


We then listened to the phonics sound and song of letter O, which went like this:
Oscar Otter, O, O, O....
O is the sound of O


As this lesson is pretty short, I let her colour the phonics sheet:


Previously I would let her paste the pictures in the first lesson of each letters, and label the pictures in the second lesson. But I intend to introduce writing in the second lesson, so in this first lesson of letter O, I let her paste and label the pictures at the same time.


She would take out the pictures from an envelop one by one, name and paste them on the A4 paper which she traced the letter, and label the pictures after spelled the words.


I prompted her to spell the word "octopus":


If you're interested to find out how it works, you may refer to my previous posts on fun classes or here.

The craft work for this lesson:


Cut the shape of the octopus head from a transparency, use black marker to draw the eyes and mouth. Paste the tentacles (cut out from magazines or colour papers) on the transparency. You may do tumb printing on the transparency, but I have forgotten to let her do that :P

See her dancing with her octopus:


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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter O, kid traces capital and small letter O
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of O
4) Kid takes pictures of object starting with letter O, names and pastes the pictures on an A4 paper.
5) Kid labels the pictures.
6) Prompting
7) Colour the phonics sheet (optional)
8) Craft work
9) Summary
10) Closing song

Development age: 2 years 11 mths
(every kid learns on his or her own pace, this is just a milestone of my girl as a guideline)

I attended my phonics lesson for mummies here.

List of my fun classes:
1) A for Ant
2) A for Apple
3) B for Bubbles and Bear
4) C for Crocodile
5) C for Cake
6) D for Duck and Dog
7) E for Egg and Elephant
8) F for Frog
9) F for Fish
10) G for Goat
11) H for Horse
12) H for House
13) I for Insect
14) I for Indian
15) J for Jelly
16) J for Jack-in-the-box
17) K for Kettle
18) K for Kangaroo
19) L for lollipop
20) L for Leaf
21) M for Monkey
22) M for Mummy
23) N for Necklace
24) N for Net