Phonics Set - Read with Phonics Songs and Rhymes

Some readers had asked me where did I get the phonics songs for my Fun Classes, this is the Phonics Set I have been using:

I got the set from the course I attended here.  I heard that Popular Bookshop is also selling.

The book comes with an audio CD, where there are songs and rhymes for each letter. The melody of the songs are similar, the child can pick them up easily. You may refer to my fun classes (first lesson of each letter) for sample pictures of the book.

Fun Class: T for Tortoise

We started the lesson after singing Greeting Song, this time round, she sang the song correctly as "Good Evening" instead of "Good Morning", ha!

We had a quick revision on the words and pictures that she learned in her first lesson on T, for which I showed her the pictures of objects spelled after letter T, and she would tell me the name of the objects.

The above is the picture of the letter T objects done in the previous lesson. If you're interested to download it, please refer to my post here.

After the quick revision, we listened to the phonics sound and song of letter T, which went like this:
Tickling tummies t, t, t,.....
t is the sound of T!

She then traced the upper and lower case of letter T on the worksheets I printed from Starfall.com.

She is very good on tracing the letters now, she can also write without the tracing dots but with mistakes sometimes.

I prompted her to spell the word "tortoise", she insisted to write the word by herself:

This is what she had written:

She had written the "S" as "3", a combination of upper and lower case, but I'm happy with her attempt.

For technique on "prompting", please refer here.

The craft work for this lesson was to paint and collage crepe papers on a cut out as follow:

Brush painting is always her favourite colouring material. See her cute tortoise done below:

Her happy face with her craft work:

There was an add on activity to this lesson, which was the Hare and Tortoise race and story but I couldn't find an empty tissue box for it, so we just played with the cut outs by pressing the back of the cut outs to make it move forward and see who could win the race. We had fun playing it and when I asked her who wins the game, Chloe told me tortoise as the rabbit was sleeping, haha!

If you are interested in making the "Hare and Tortoise" race, you may refer here:
"Colour cut-out rabbit and tortoise. Punch 2 holes at the shorter side of tissue box, insert one string over the 4 holds and leave the string dangling on the same side. Paste hare and tortoise on each strong. Child to pull the string and see both move."

There was no closing song for this lesson.


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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Revise letter T by showing kid the alphabet and the pictures done in first lesson for letter T.
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of T
4) Kid learns to write letter T by completing the worksheets from starfall.com.
5) Prompting
6) Craft work
7) Summary
8) No closing song for this lesson

Development age: 3 years 4 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

Chloe's N1 First Half Year Report

Chloe started her nursery at Carpe Diem since February this year. She received her first half year report on 30 June last Saturday. Her teachers presented her progress on Powerpoint and Word.

These are the slides presented by her English teacher Miss Mylene:

These are the slides presented by her Chinese teacher Miss Liao:

These are some pages from the progress report:

  

 

 

In summary, she received very good comments from both the teachers. The teachers commented she behaves herself in the class, never fight with her classmates over toys, can concentrate well during the lesson. She is advance in learning comparing to her classmates, she knows the alphabets and numbers very well and could even solve those puzzles and count and match games for K1 students. The teachers also mentioned that she shows interest in music and action songs, she can pick up the songs  her teacher taught her very fast. 

I'm happy that she is doing well in the school, and better than what we have expected from her. I shall monitor her progress and groom her according to her interest, currently she is learning Hip Hop dance in Taneo Dance Studio.

Fun Class: T for Tiger

It has been almost a year that she started the fun classes, she is very familiar with the letters and their sounds now. The purpose of these fun classes is more for her fun rather than learning alphabets, the fun classes seem to be too easy for her.

This is the first lesson of letter T, she learned T for Tiger.

She sang the Greeting Song to start the lesson.

She traced the upper and lower case of letter T, which I printed on an A4 paper.

We listened to the phonics sound and song of letter T, which went like this:
Tickling tummies t, t, t,.....
t is the sound of T!

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

She then label the pictures with the words.

Her completed pictures of T:

For pictures of the letters, you may get it here.

She coloured the phonics sheet:

Her nursery teachers commented she is very good in colouring, but I still find her colouring terrible, ha!

I prompted her to spell the word "Tiger", as her younger brother was playing with the writing board, I prompted her using a paper.

For technique on prompting, you may see here.

The craft for this lesson was a Tiger mask, I let her to use the water colour which is her favourite colouring material.

This is her completed mask:

I showed her the video of "Two Little Tigers" (a Chinese song "Liang Zhi Lao Hu") to end the lesson.

The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter T, kid traces capital and small letter T
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of T
4) Kid takes pictures of object begin with letter T, 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 2 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

Fun Class: S for Star

We started the lesson after singing Greeting Song.

After a quick revision on the words and pictures that she learned in her first lesson on S, we listened to the rhyme and song of S, which went like this:
Snakes are slimy, S, S, S.....
Ss is the sound of S!


She traced the upper and lower case S on the worksheets I printed from Starfall.com.

She is getting better on holding and controlling the pen.

I prompted her to spell star. For technique on prompting, click here.

These were the materials for our craft.

She pasted the cotton wool on the black paper as cloud, followed by stars and moon.

Her completed craft work on her shinning stars!


We sang the closing song of Twinkle twinkle little star. She dashed out the room immediately after I finished singing the song. She seem not so interested on the closing song nowadays.

We are now towards the end of our A-Z fun classes, I'm currently planning on her Chinese fun lesson, shall update on this soon.

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

Development age: 3 years 2 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 

Interesting sticker activity books for toddlers

My girl (currently 3 years old) likes to do this type of activities books. She especially likes the stickers given in the book where she can paste them according to the instructions of the book. She can do it at least 4 pages everyday before sleep and I have to stop her from doing it most of the time. So I find this a good way to fill up her time and prevent her from watching too much TV.

She learns simple words, numbers, mathematics and reasoning from these books. Right now she can do simple mathematics (summation and subtract) and I find her improving everyday.

If you are thinking of buying these types of activities books, do take note of a few points:
1) Try to buy those colourful books, as my girl doesn't interested on those black and white copies.
2) The stickers in the book have to be meaningful and related to the activities in the book, or else you'll just ended having your wardrobe decorated with all these stickers.
3) Young kids can't really write yet, thus don't buy those books which requires lots of writing, you might kill their interest instead by doing so.
4) Buy those with interesting pictures, the books must be able to keep the children's interest.
5) All kids like to scribble, it is ok if your kids scribble on the books instead of writing words, they'll learn to follow instruction slowly.

The books I bought for my girl are normally very cheap, but with acceptable quality. She still needs my guidance when doing the exercises, but she's improving. I do not force her to do the book, she's the one requesting to do it most of the time, she sees it as a 'game', something interesting to her.

Hope the above tips do help you in finding an alternative activities for your child, other than watching TV or playing Iphone / Ipad :)

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Fun Class: S for Snake

As usual, we started the lesson after singing the Greeting Song.

But this time round, Chloe sang a better version of the Greeting Song, I guess she must have sang this song in her nursery school.

After Greeting Song, she traced the upper and lower case of letter S.

I printed the letter on an A4 Size paper. If you're printing this as well, do make sure the letter is big enough for the kid to trace.

We listened to the phonics sound and song of letter S, which went like this:
Snakes are slimy, S, S, S.....
 Ss is the sound of S!

She took out the pictures of objects spelled after letter S from an envelop, she would say out the name of the objects before pasting them on the A4 paper. For the pictures, you can download them here.

She labeled the pictures after spelled the words.

Her funny face with the completed Letter S with pictures.

As we still have enough time, she coloured the phonics sheet:

I prompted her to spell the word "snake", she has no problem on prompting now.

One funny incident to share here. She likes to watch youtube on my Iphone, which I disallow her to do so. One day, she took my phone and was trying to search for Mickey Mouse clips, she didn't know how to spell the words yet, and I ignored her. She then told me "prompt me!", haha!

The craft work was making a snake by threading the straws, the materials are as follow:

She was trying hard to do the threading but was unsuccessful initially, I then put a hair clip on the thread so that she could hold the hair clip and insert the straws to the thread easily.

The snake was finally done as follow:

It looks more like a worm to me but she was kind of scared of the "snake". She showed it to her brother and was immediately destroyed by her monstrous baby brother.....

We were too excited to play the "snake" and forgotten to sing the closing song. You may click here for the closing song anyway :)

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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter S, kid traces capital and small letter S
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of S
4) Kid takes pictures of object begin with letter S, 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 2 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