Fun Class: X for X-ray

Chloe sang the greeting song to start the lesson.

There are not many objects with the beginning sound of letter X. We had a quick revision on the pictures done in the previous lesson. If you would like to download all the pictures spelled after A - Z, click here.

We listened to the phonics sound and song of letter X, which went like this:
Box of foxes, x, x, x.....
x is the sound of X! 

After listening to the nursery rhyme, she traced upper and lower case letter X on the printed worksheets.

She completed three worksheets on letter X. You can print these worksheets from the internet by searching "letter X worksheet".

I prompted her to spell "X-ray". For technique on prompting, you may refer here.

The craft work for this lesson was to make an x-ray film. She pasted the transparency on a paper frame and pasted the cut-out bones on the transparency. 

I was worried that she might not understand what is X-ray before the lesson. But my worry was cleared after the lesson as she took the frame and posed as if she's taking an X-ray picture.

You may use "hot cross bun" as the closing song for this lesson.

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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Revise letter X by showing kid the alphabet and the pictures done in first lesson for letter X.
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of X
4) Kid learns to write letter X by completing the worksheets from starfall.com.
5) Prompting
6) Craft work
7) Summary
8) Closing song

Development age: 3 years 6 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
25) O for Octopus
26) O for Orange
27) P for Potato
28) P for Pig
29) Q for Queen
30) Q for Quilt
31) R for Rabbit
32) R for Rainbow 
33) S for Snake
34) S for Star
35) T for Tiger
36) T for Tortoise
37) U for Up and Under 
38) U for Umbrella 
39) V for Vegetable 
40) V for Vase

41) W for Worm

42) W for Whale

43) X is a Cross

 

Fun Class: X Is A Cross

We had this fun class on one of the weekends. She was happy to sing the greeting song to start the lesson.

She traced the letter X on an A4 paper:

We listened to the phonics sound and song of letter X, which went like this:
Box of foxes, x, x, x.....
x is the sound of X!

 

She took the pictures of objects spelled after X from an envelop, she would tell me the name of the objects before pasting them on the letter X paper.

 

Happy applying glue at the back of the picture:

 

I printed the words on an adhesive paper, she labeled the pictures.

 

Her picture done. If you would like to download all the pictures spelled after A - Z, click here.

 

I prompted her to spell the word "fox". Her writing showed some improvements. For technique on prompting, you may refer here.

 

She coloured the phonics sheet. I told her to paste the crepe paper on the phonics sheet to make a 'X'.

 

She found the crepe papers too long, and decided to cut them shorter. She had been venturing with her scissor, no matter how i stopped her. I just hope that she would not cut her fingers.

Her completed picture of 'X'.

We sang the closing song " Hunting We Will Go" to end the lesson.

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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter X, kid traces capital and small letter X
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of X
4) Kid takes pictures of object begin with letter X, 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: 3 years 6 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
25) O for Octopus
26) O for Orange
27) P for Potato
28) P for Pig
29) Q for Queen
30) Q for Quilt
31) R for Rabbit
32) R for Rainbow 
33) S for Snake
34) S for Star
35) T for Tiger
36) T for Tortoise
37) U for Up and Under 
38) U for Umbrella 
39) V for Vegetable 
40) V for Vase
41) W for Worm
42) W for Whale

Fun Class: W for Whale

My 2 years old joined in for this lesson too. It was hard to control the lesson, but generally both the kids enjoyed it.

Didi: Yeh! Fun class!

Chloe sang the greeting song to start the lesson. Didi found it fun and sang along. Both my kids like singing and dancing.

We had a revision of the objects spelled after letter W. I showed Didi the pictures done in the previous lesson, and he was able to name the objects. If you would like to download all the pictures spelled after A - Z, click here.

We listened to the phonics sound and song of letter W, which went like this:
Worms are Wiggling, w, w, w.....
w is the sound of W! 

Chloe was singing the nursery rhyme, while didi was scribbling here and there:

 I printed few more activities worksheets of letter W for her. She could complete those worksheets pretty fast. I would normally let her practise writing the letter first:

 

Let her join the words begin with W:

Let her write the missing letter:

While Chloe was doing her worksheets, I let didi colour the worksheets which Chloe had completed.

I prompted her to spell the word "whale". For technique on prompting, you may refer here

 

I had modified the craft work for this lesson. We cut some colourful papers in the shape of whale and pasted them inside a plastic container. She drew some 'waves' inside the container. You can do the craft with your kid by using any materials that you can find from home, I'm sure you've many containers in your kitchen cabinets :)

Her finished product:

The closing song for this lesson: Whale Sneezes

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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Revise letter W by showing kid the alphabet and the pictures done in first lesson for letter W.
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of W
4) Kid learns to write letter W by completing the worksheets from starfall.com.
5) Prompting
6) Craft work
7) Summary
8) Closing song

Development age: 3 years 6 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
25) O for Octopus
26) O for Orange
27) P for Potato
28) P for Pig
29) Q for Queen
30) Q for Quilt
31) R for Rabbit
32) R for Rainbow 
33) S for Snake
34) S for Star
35) T for Tiger
36) T for Tortoise
37) U for Up and Under 
38) U for Umbrella 
39) V for Vegetable 
40) V for Vase

41) W for Worm

Teaching Phonics - Make a 3 Letters Word A Vowel

I printed those papers quite some time, I tried to teach her early this year when she just turned 3 years old, but she couldn't get the technique, so I stopped.

Recently she found the papers and requested to play the 'game' (I always use the term 'game' whenever I introduce a learning method to her), and she got the reading technique this time round.

If you're interested to try it out with your kid(s), you may print the papers here.

Teaching method:
1) Teach the kid to read the ending sound made by vowel A, e.g. at, am, an, ap, ab (refer to the link above)
2) Make the sound of 'at' (do it one by one), tell the kid to pick the paper of the sound you've made.
3) Put the papers (those at, am, an, ap etc) on the floor, make a sound and tell the kid to stand on the paper of the sound you've made.
4) After the kid is familiar with the ending sound, teach the kid to make a word by introducing other papers. Example for 'at', show the kid 'cat', teach the kid 'c.....at' (read the sound of c and at) 'cat' (read the word out loud).
5) Arrange those ending sound papers (e.g. at, am, an, ap, ab etc) on the floor, give the kid a paper (e.g. cat), tell the kid to read and put it under the correct ending sound paper.
6) Say a word (e.g. cat) and tell the kid to pick the paper up. If the kid can't find it, hint the kid which ending sound is the word under.

Mistakes I've made:
1) Give the papers to my girl and expect her to read them out by herself, without teaching her the reading method. By doing this, my girl is actually memorising the word, and not learning to pronounce the word.
2) Give her too many papers at a time. She was a bit confused when I gave her all the papers and expected her to sort them out, she then memorised the words, which is not the purpose of the lesson.

Reminder:
The purpose of this lesson is to teach the kid the phonics method of reading, not to make them memorise the words. Thus, Do Not flash the cards to your kids, emphasise more on the sound, and how each letter interact with the ending sound. E.g. when 'c' meets 'at' becomes 'cat, when 'b' meets 'at' becomes 'bat' and etc.

I'll be teaching her the other Vowels, will be updating here soon.

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