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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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