Fun Class: W for Worm

She eagerly traced the letter without me telling her to do so.

But I still made her sing the greeting song to start the lesson.

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!

She took the picture of objects spelled after W from an envelop, she would tell me the name of the objects before pasting it on the letter W paper.

She then labelled the pictures with the words.

The picture done:

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

I prompted her to spell "worm", this word is easier for her since it only has 4 letters. For technique on prompting, you may refer here

 

She coloured the phonics sheet, where we used it for the craft later on.

We cut a few yarn strings and pasted them on the worm pictures.

There is no closing song for this lesson.

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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter W, kid traces capital and small letter W
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of W
4) Kid takes pictures of object begin with letter W, 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) No closing song for this lesson.

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

Fun Class: V for Vase

Chloe asked "what are we learning in this lesson?"
I replied "V for Vase".
She didn't really understand the meaning of  "vase", I showed her the picture of a vase, but she might had thought that was a bottle......

We started the lesson after singing Greeting Song.

We had a quick revision on the objects with the beginning sound of V by looking at the pictures she had done in the previous lesson. She pointed to the pictures and named the pictures. 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 V, which went like this:
Veronica vacuum v, v, v.....
v is the sound of V!

She traced the upper and lower case of letter V.

I added one more worksheet for her, where she identified words with the beginning sound of V. You can download this kind of worksheet from the internet easily, just search the letter you want.

I prompted her to write "vase", her letter E was so funny to have so many extra lines......

 

The craft work for this lesson was making a vase using the following materials: 

Paste the cut out shape of a vase on the toilet paper roll. Decorate it with the cut out heart shapes.
She was so engrossed with her work.

Colour the cut out flowers, paste a straw behind the 'flower' using adhesive tape as shown in the picture below:

Stick the vase on a cupboard, and put the 'flowers' into the vase. Da dah! This is the completed work!

Chloe was so excited about her flowers and vase, she couldn't wait to show it to her daddy and brother. She even told me she wanted to give the flowers to her teachers the next day. She surely understands the meaning of  "vase" and remember it after this lesson. Ha!

The closing song is the same song as the previous lesson. Sing the song and point to the vegetables picture done in the previous lesson.

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

Development age: 3 years 5 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

Fun Class: V for Vegetable

Fun Class is no longer for Chloe to learn Alphabets, but more for writing, spelling and of course, for fun!
She is learning to write letters (her writing is still kind of artistic now), and blending the phonics for more letters.
She can do this kind of exercises by herself without my guidance:

Each day, she does about 2 to 4 pages of the exercises book, all by her initiative. I have never ever force her to do any of the activities posted on this blog, my tips are:
1) Don't make learning a chore to the kid
2) She decides what exercises book to do (I choose and buy all the books, those that are interesting to me)
3) She decides whether to carry on doing a page (I do not force her to complete the exercises, she can always stop when she is tired and continue some other days)
4) Let her try even I know she will do it wrongly (kids learn from mistake, not from our nagging)
5) Compliment her if she has done correctly (she would be very happy if I draw some stars on her book, I do not encourage giving physical gift)
6) Encourage her to find out the answer, she would be trilled if she got the answer and wanted to keep on trying.

I'll post about this in detail next time.

Back to my fun class for V.

She sang the greeting song to start the lesson.

She traced the upper and lower case of letter V. The lighting was not very good, thus can't really see the letter. 

We listened to the phonics sound and song of letter V, which went like this:
Veronica vacuum v, v, v.....
v is the sound of V!

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

She labeled the pictures.

The completed letter V picture! If you would like to download all the pictures spelled after A - Z, click here.

I prompted her to spell "vegetable", she wrote the letters very badly, and I did not take a picture of it. For technique on prompting, you may refer here.

She was colouring the picture of a few vegetables. She is not familiar with some of the vegetables and I happen to have corn in my fridge, so I showed it to her. She peeled the leaves of the corn curiously. 

 

Her colouring of the picture of vegetables:

The next craft was vegetable printing. I tried to search my fridge and found the following which she can play around with.

She brushed the paint on the vegetable, and printed it on the A4 paper.

She was happy trying out printing using all the vegetables given to her.

Her completed craft. I wrote a "V" on the paper.

We sang the closing song to end the lesson :)

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The lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Introduce letter V, kid traces capital and small letter V
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of V
4) Kid takes pictures of object begin with letter V, 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 5 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

Fun Class: U for Umbrella

It has been a long time since the last lesson for fun class. Chloe is not so enthusiastic about her fun classes now probably due to she has many other activities to do. When she's not on her fun class, she would be doing the exercises books I bought for her, in Chinese or English.

We started the lesson after singing Greeting Song.

We had a quick revision on the words and pictures that she learned in her first lesson on U, for which I showed her the pictures of objects spelled after letter U, and she would tell me the name of the objects. You may refer to the previous lesson for the pictures. If you would like to download all the pictures spelled after A - Z, click here.

We then listened to the phonics sound and song of letter U, which went like this:
Up and Under u, u, u.....
u is the sound of U!

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

She wrote letter U in the boxes and matched the pictures to the words:

I forgotten to prompt her to spell "Umbrella", you may want to do it to enforce her phonics on the letters. For prompting skill, click here.

The craft work for this lesson is to paste the baking cup on the drawing paper as umbrella. You'll need about 2 baking cups, cut into half, a drawing paper, crayon and water colour.

Colour the drawing paper using a blue crayon (or any colour the kid likes) by rubbing it flat on the paper. Paste the half baking cups on the paper. Draw the "handle" of the umbrella. Finger print on the paper using water colour as rain drops.
Busy......

She's so happy that mummy let her dirty her finger...... She can only do this in her fun classes :)

Paste the cotton wool as cloud (optional):

We were busy washing our hands after the finger prints, and forgotten to sing the closing song :(

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

Development age: 3 years 5 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

Chloe's N1 Activities Booklets

Chloe brought 7 booklets back home from the school last week. The booklets are the activities worksheets Chloe had done in the school. The booklets show that the school has different theme for each month, the kids are learning new words and doing craft according to the theme.

I appreciate the efforts put in by the teachers in binding the worksheets for the kids to bring home. From there, I can understand better what my kid is doing and learning in the school.

Some pages of the English worksheets:

The different themes for each month for Chinese:

Some pages from the Chinese worksheets:

Chloe is currently studying at Carpe Diem, N1.

If you're interested to find out more on the school, you may refer here:
1) Chloe's N1 First Half Year Report
2) My review on Carpe Diem

Watching Leapfrog DVD - Letter Factory, learning phonics

The following is a video of my 20 months son watching the Leapfrog "Letter Factory" DVD. He can read all the alphabets and say their name and sound. This is a very good DVD that I recommend to all mummies.

Fun Class: U for Up and Under

Chloe was sick again, but she was excited when I mentioned about fun class. I think one of the reasons she likes my fun classes so much is because she gets to do the craft and brush painting which is her favourite colouring material.

She was rather tired when her fever shot up to 38.5 degree, but getting more energetic after having her fever medicine and hearing about fun class.

While I was digging the materials for her fun class, she was talking non-stop giving me instruction on where to put the papers, materials and etc......

She sang the greeting song to start the lesson.

She told me to leave the letter U paper on her table, and she traced the letter without waiting for my instruction.

We then listened to the phonics sound and song of letter U, which went like this:
Up and Under u, u, u.....
u is the sound of U!

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

She label the pictures. With her phonics, she can now guess most of the words right.

The completed picture:

I prompted her to spell "Up" and "Under", the "Up" was still acceptable but the "Under" was horrible. Anyway a good try.

The craft for this lesson was to do up an under water drawing. I mortified it a bit to suit her interest of brush painting. She brush painted the background, pasted  the cut out of fish and jellyfish, and touch up the arms of the jellyfish and seaweeds.

We ended the lesson after watching the video of "Skidamarink".

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