Fun Class - M for Monkey

My kids were sick since my son started fall sick in December, and the virus keeps passing around from one to another and now is back to my son again......
I had skipped a lesson last week and we had the first letter M lesson yesterday even though my son was unwell (what is he got to do with Chloe's lesson? Well, I couldn't concentrate when he was crying and the whole lesson was not an enjoyable one to me, but Chloe did enjoy it).

Ok, now back to the topic.

She sang the greeting song and we started the lesson.

Chloe was given a paper with letter M printed on it. She was asked to name the letter and say the sound. She then traced the letter:


We listened to the phonics sound and song of letter M that went:
"Mummy loves me, m, m, m.... m is the sound of M!"
(If you are not familiar with the phonics sound of A-Z, you may click here)

She picked the pictures of object spelled after M from an envelop, and pasted them on the paper. She was quite amused when she saw my picture, when I asked who was that she immediately said Mummy! You may use your own picture too :)

You may want to ask question like "M for?" and let the child answer it by referring to the pictures.
For pictures of objects from A - Z, click here.
She coloured the phonics sheet, 90% of it was coloured by me, she lost her interest in crayon, I probably got to let her try another material.


I prompted her to spell the word "monkey", she was pretty good on it now.

You may refer to this video of prompting done with her on "leaf".


The craft work for this lesson was a monkey headband. The materials were:

(The materials were provided by Jann, click here for the phonics course I attended)

She couldn't wait to put the headband on:



You may recite the rhyme we used for "lesson C for Crocodile".

We ended the lesson by watching the video of "Five Little Monkeys".
Chloe was jumping around like a monkey.....

Updated on 27 Jan 2012, Chloe singing "monkeys jumping on the bed" while she was under observatory ward in KKH:


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

Development age: 2 years 9 mths
(every kid learns on his or her own pace, this is just a milestone of my girl as a guideline)

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

Easy Phonics: When Two Vowels Go Walking

Easy as it is.
When 2 vowels appear in a word, the first one do the talking (i.e. the first vowel has a long sound and the second vowel is silent.

More practices here

Also see the Silent E rules.

Easy Phonics - Silent E

Silent E does not make a sound in a word, but it has the magic of turning the vowel long (i.e. make the vowel to say its own name).
Example, "cut" after added silent e becomes "cute". In this case, the "u" is pronounced as its name.

The video above has demonstrated interestingly how silent e works.

Other rules of silent e include:
1. Silent e makes the vowel long. (As explained above)

2. Words may not end in v so we add a silent e.

Example have, give

3. The silent e makes the c say /s/.

Example dance


4. The silent e makes the g say /j/.

Example large

5. Every syllable must have at least one vowel.

Example ap ple

(Other syllables that follow this rule: ble, cle, dle, gle, ple, tle)


6. When s is not doubled after two vowels or a consonant, add a silent e.

Example house


7. No reason silent e.

Example come

Fun Class: L for Leaf

We went out for a walk before the lesson, and collected some leaves to be used for the lesson.

We started the lesson by singing the greeting song. Her daddy sit in for the lesson and with his help, I was able to record down the prompting, finally.

I prompted her to spell the word "leaf", and she was obedient to let her daddy record it:

(Do note that in this word, LEAF, E and A are vowels, when 2 vowels appear together, the first one make the long sound and the second one is silent, thus A should have no sound here, but as Chloe is not taught about this rule yet, I had sound the A when I prompted her)

This was the second lesson for letter "L", we listened to the phonics sound and song for letter "L" again:
"Lovely lollipop, l, l, l.... l is the sound of L!"
(If you are not familiar with the phonics sound of A-Z, you may click here)

In the first lesson on letter "L", she traced the letter and pasted the pictures of object spelled after "L". In this lesson, she labeled the pictures. She would spell and read the words before pasting them on the pictures.

I did not print the words beforehand, I wrote it on stickers. I thought it would be the same but it was not, she get too excited to see the stickers and she was a bit out of control, phew..... I shall stick back to print the words on a piece of paper and cut them out one by one.

The craft work was leaf printing. The materials were as follow, including the leaves we collected on our walk.


We began by painting a leaf. She chose the colour and paint it by herself. Brush painting is always her favourite colouring material.


After coloured the leaf, she pressed it on a piece of paper.


You may get a few different shapes of leaves and use different colours for each printing, the finished work would look like this:


The second craft work was to colour the leaf pictures, the pictures were cut out and pasted on fingers for rhyme singing.


The rhyme went like this:
"3 little leaves so bright and gay
was dancing about on a tree one day
The wind came blowing through the town
Woo.....wooo
1 little leaf came tumbling down
2 little leaves, 1 little leave..... no more leaf came tumbling down"

My husband commented the rhyme sound similar to the rhymes I've cited to her in my previous lessons, but it doesn't matter to me as long as she finds them interesting :)

There was no song for this lesson.

Lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Revise letter L by showing kid the alphabet
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of L
4) Kid labels pictures of object starting with letter L, spell and read the word before labeling.
5) Prompting
6) Leaf printing
7) Colour cut-out leaves and sing the rhyme
8) Summary

Development age: 2 years 9 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

Fun Class: L for lollipop

Chloe had just recovered from fever. She requested for the fun class the day before but I told her that she need to rest as she was sick. We had the fun class the next day and she told me she was no longer sick.

She sang the greeting song and we started the lesson.

This was the first lesson on letter "L", she traced the letter on a paper.


We listened to the phonics sound of "L" and the phonics song, that went like this:
"Lovely lollipop, l, l, l.... l is the sound of L!"
(If you are not familiar with the phonics sound of A-Z, you may click here)

She picked the pictures of object spelled after L from an envelop, and pasted them on the paper.

I would enhance it by asking her "L for?" and she would answer me by referring to the pictures, example "L for Lion".

She coloured the phonics sheet of lollipops:

She was a little impatient nowadays and tend not to complete her drawing, but I would insist her to finish the colouring if not I would cancel the lesson (it works every time I threaten to cancel her fun class, ha!).

She and her colouring:


I prompted her to spell the word "lollipop", here is the video of her spelling the word but I missed the first part on prompting, if you would like to see a complete video, click here.


The craft work was doing five sticks of lollipops, the materials were:


She coloured the "lollipop" before pasting it on the straw:


We played with the "lollipops" and do the rhyme together:


The rhyme went like this:
"5 sticky lollipops fixed on stick
Take a sticky lollipop and lick, lick, lick
(continue with) 4 sticky lollipops.....3....2....1
No sticky lollipop fixed on stick
no sticky lollipop to lick, lick, lick"

She kissed me to end the lesson.

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

Development age: 2 years 8 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

Fun Class - K for Kangaroo

Chloe was very excited when I accepted her request to have Fun Class (yes, she's always the one initiates it and not me). She happily sang the Greeting Song and even a few versions in "Good afternoon", "Good evening" and a "Happy Birthday" song (don't ask me why did she sing this song......).

This was the second lesson for letter "K", we listened to the phonics song once again:
"Kings and Kangaroos, k, k, k.... k is the sound of K!"
(If you are not familiar with the phonics sound of A-Z, you may click here)

In the first lesson on letter "K", she traced the letter and pasted the pictures of object spelled after "K". In this lesson, she labeled the pictures. She would spell and read the words before pasting them on the pictures.


I prompted her to spell the word "Kangaroo".


She spelled the word in this video:

I managed to record a complete video on prompting in the lesson of "L for Leaf", click here to view.

The craft work was a rocking kangaroo by using the paper plate, she coloured the kangaroo before pasting it on the half folded paper plate.


The finished product looked like this:


We dance with the closing song of "The Animals went in Two by Two". The melody was the same as the "The ants go marching", we had fun marching around the study room.

She gave me a hug to end the lesson.

Lesson plan:
1) Greeting Song, click here
2) Revise letter K by showing kid the alphabet
3) Kid listens to phonics sound and song of K
4) Kid labels pictures of object starting with letter K, spell and read the word before labeling.
5) Prompting
6) Craft work on "Kangaroo"
7) Summary
8) Closing song

Development age: 2 years 8 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

Fun Class - K for Kettle

We started the lesson after singing the greeting song. I've uploaded a video of Chloe singing the greeting song, do check it out!
We listened to the phonics sound of "K" and the phonics song, that went like this:
"Kings and Kangaroos, k, k, k.... k is the sound of K!"
(If you are not familiar with the phonics sound of A-Z, you may click here)

She pointed at the words when we sang the phonics song.

After introducing letter K, she traced the letter on a paper.


She would then picked the pictures of object spelled after K from an envelop, and pasted them on the paper.

She would name the pictures before pasting on the paper, and I would ask her question "K for?" and she would answer me "K for kettle" and etc.

She coloured the phonics sheet with the picture of a "King" and "Kangaroo".

Nowadays she got the habit of scribbling, she told me she was writing "kangaroo", can you figure out what was she writing?

The craft work for this lesson would be pasting the aluminum foil on the picture of a kettle. The materials were:

I helped her put the glue and she pasted the aluminum on the paper by herself. I helped her touch up the work and it looked like this after completion:

I prompted her to spell the word "kettle"

The closing song for this lesson was "Polly Put the Kettle On". Here was the lyrics:
"Polly put the kettle on x3
We'll all have tea
Suki take it off again x3
They've all gone away"

Chloe said "Thank you" to me to end the lesson.

P.s. she likes to call me "Teacher mummy" nowadays, it all started when there was once she asked me "You Teacher Maria (her weekend enrichment class teacher)?" and I said "No", she then said "you teacher Mummy?" Ha, I'd since got another title from her.

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

Development age: 2 years 8 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