Sometime soon I'll post pictures of our new (temporary) home. We're getting better and better at this moving thing. This time around, 24 hours after we arrived we had only 3 boxes left to unpack! Granted we'll get to repack them all in 10 months (hopefully) but for now, we've settled in quickly. This move was also made easier by our Family Organizational Binder! When I went to register Micah for school, fill out my paperwork for subbing, etc. I could just grab the binder and I knew I'd have everything I could ever need.
But on to the main reason for this post...Jolly Phonics! So Jolly Phonics is a curriculum published by an independent British company that combines teaching phonics with cute little songs and actions. Micah's 4K school last year used it, and we fell totally in love with it! He has a literacy assessment in a few weeks for Kindergarten, so we started to review his sounds with him and Liliana has been picking up on it quickly too!
Here's the video...I LOVE the little British accents the kids have.
I also made some flashcards with the pictures/letter on it so they have something to hold while they sing it.
After a few days of reviewing these with the kids, Micah said that he wanted to learn how to read. So we sat down this afternoon with some magnetic letters and I'd give him a three letter word and he found the letters that spelled it. He spelled all of these words by himself!!!
The best part was while he was trying to figure out which letters he needed, he was doing the action from the song while saying the sound. It's amazing how the kinesthetic connection really drives the language part home. So if you're looking for a way to teach your kids their letter sounds...this mama HIGHLY recommends Jolly Phonics!
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