Fun Class - I for Indian!

This was the second lesson for letter 'I'.
We started the lesson after singing greeting song.
In this lesson, my girl learned 'I' for 'Indian'.
We listened to the phonics sound of 'I', followed by phonics song , that went like this:
"Itchy insects i, i, i, i is the sound of I!"
(If you are not familiar with the phonics sound of A-Z, you may click here)
She had done a paper with pictures of objects starting with letter 'I' in the previous lesson, she labeled the pictures in this second lesson of 'I'.

She would spell out the word before labeling the picture on the paper.
The craft work for this lesson was an Indian headband, the materials were as follow:

Chloe was very curious about the feathers and kept asking me what were that.
After the headband was done, she happily put it on:

She wore the headband and happily dance with the closing song "Ten Little Indian Boys"

Lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter "I"
3) Introduce phonics of I, sing phonics song of I
4) Label the pictures of objects starting with I
5) Prompting, spell out "Indian" and read the word
6) Craft
7) Colour the phonics sheet (optional)
8) Summary
9) Closing song

Development age: 2 years 7 mths
(every kid learns on his or her own pace, this is just a milestone of my girl as a guideline)

Jigsaw Puzzle, how much do you know your kid?!

Jigsaw puzzle is a very good game for children, for those who are not aware, the following are the benefits of letting your children playing jigsaw puzzle:
1) It requires the toddlers to think and develop different approaches to a single solution. It improves their problem solving skill in completing the puzzle.
2) Toddler learn cognitive skill like identifying different shapes, colours, alphabets or numbers from solving the puzzle.
3) While putting the right shape together, toddlers learn hand eye coordination.
4) Solving the puzzle require toddlers to pick up the puzzles, sort them, put them together and etc, thus it refines their motor skill.
5) The children get confidence upon completion of the puzzle.

I do know that there are many benefits of playing jigsaw puzzle, but one problem of it is that the puzzles will always scatter around the floor after the children playing it. It creates a job for me to keep the puzzles and it is a chaotic job to me. So, I've never bought any puzzle for my children.

Few months ago, a friend visited me and she bought a set of jigsaw puzzle for my girl. I thought it would be the start of my nightmare as my girl would probably throw the small pieces of puzzle everywhere in my house. I was reluctant to open the box when my girl requested it, but she's those kind of kid that you could never hide anything from her once she saw it.
Out of no choice I opened the box for her, amazingly she did not scatter the puzzles but was trying to put them together! In less than 15 minutes, she completed the puzzle!


She was around the age of 29 months when she first completed the 12 pieces puzzle, she can now complete this puzzle in a much shorter time. We should never underestimate our children, you will never know how fast they can pick up something new!

A recent video of her completing her Thomas puzzle:

Fun Class: I for Insects!

I told Chloe to sing the greeting song to start the lesson. She sang the "Good morning.....", I took the chance to explain to her the difference of day and night, and requested her to change the lyrics to "Good evening...."
I let her listen to the phonics of letter "I", she sang the phonics song together with me, which went like this:
"Itchy insects i, i, i, i is the sound of I!"
If you're not familiar with the phonics, you may refer to this youtube link.
I let her trace the capital and small letter "I".

After which I let her take out the pictures of objects starting with letter "I" from a bag and paste them on the paper. I then asked her "I for?" and she would answer me "Igloo!" and etc.

She coloured the phonics sheet of the insects. Last week, she told me "mummy, there's a bee!" I looked at the spot where she's pointing to, and found that it was a fly! So I took this opportunity to show her how does a fly looks like.

I prompted her on the spelling of "insect", she showed great improvement, and she finally got the concept of prompting. When I gave the sound of "i", she said "I", when I sound "n", she said "N", unlike previously she would just copy the phonics sound I told her and not telling me the name of the letter. When I prompted her "e", she said "A", I told her "e....elephant...e!" she then changed to "E", which was fine for me.

The art craft for this lesson was tap paint one side of the insect picture and fold it to duplicate the colour. It was fun for her as she likes painting and she found it interesting to see the colour duplicate at the other side of the paper.

The finished product:

We sang and dance with the closing songs "shoo fly" (the barney version) and "fly, fly, fly butterfly", after which Chloe gave me a kiss and hug to end the lesson :)

Lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter "I"
3) Introduce phonics of I, sing phonics song of I
4) Let the kid trace the letter I, and paste the pictures of objects starting with I
5) Prompting, spell out "Insect" and read the word
6) Craft
7) Colour the phonics sheet (optional)
8) Summary
9) Closing song

Development age: 2 years 7 mths
(every kid learns on their own pace, this is just a milestone of my girl as a guideline)