Montessori Phonics - Introduction To Single Letter Sounds

[buds]

You're teaching him yourself?


Kudos to you, girl!

:celebrate:

[Hifive]

Hi buds


Yes, I teach him at the moment. I am doing it with the help of your postings in the forum, your advices to the parents here and also tamarind's blog. I must say a big thank you to you and tamarind.

Teaching him at home on my own requires a lot of discipline. I must say that I am still learning because you know as a SAHM of two boys, there are many distractions at home. Hopefully, he's ok with my teaching

[buds]

You're welcome, Hifive. Yes it does take a LOTTA discipline, time & effort to

teach our own children. But if you do it right, the satisfaction is immeasurable.

Psst, i'm still learning too..

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi buds,


Great to see you here.

Congratulations! May i know when are you giving birth?

I have just re-introduced phonics to my son weeks ago. We had stopped it for 8-9months as he wasn’t like it in the past due to some reasons.

He is in vowel a now and make steady progress. The key rule is to teach according to his own pace and do revisions ends of the week and month.

Do you think it is good to introduce blending to 2.5yo? My daughter has short attention too.

Thanks a lot.

[buds]

Charmaine_chong:

Hi buds,


Great to see you here.

Nice to see you anywhere. Hope you're doing fine and that your boy
is now progressing much better after we last spoke via PM.

Charmaine_chong:

Congratulations! May i know when are you giving birth?

Sure! It's January 2011.

Charmaine_chong:

I have just re-introduced phonics to my son weeks ago. We had stopped it for 8-9months as he wasn't like it in the past due to some reasons.

Ok.... :hugs:.... so i suppose you took a breather. Well, it may not be a
bad idea too... recalling the stressful times you had with him at the time.

Charmaine_chong:

He is in vowel a now and make steady progress. The key rule is to teach according to his own pace and do revisions ends of the week and month.

Steady pace... appropriate age and time... plus regular revisions spell
a good continuation. Jia-you ok? :rahrah:

Charmaine_chong:

Do you think it is good to introduce blending to 2.5yo?

Nope. At least not in my opinion. I've seen many very young children who
learn to read too fast lax on other developmental skills. Try not to rush
into ensuring the child can read as fast as possible.

While there may be some kids who can manage well, most i've had the
experience of working with, were either not able to sustain reading
interest, have poor writing skills and fine motor skills in general; on top
of short attention span. They're more impatient and tend to make mistakes
with reading practices. In my opinion, there's a place and time for every
thing. Cannot overdo the speed. As parents, we should know the countless
concepts we can introduce to young children other than just introducing the
reading process.

Attention span can also be nurtured to last longer everyday. Start with doing
activities the child enjoys most and gradually increase the duration. Then,
introduce new things and start with short sessions & prolong future sessions
say abt 3 minutes at a time.

It's like graduating from watching 15min VCDs/TV shows to half an hour..
and slowly to movies. Objective is to observe what the child likes to do
best and work on from there.

[keas]

Hi Buds,


Long time no talk

How have you been? Wow it's fast you are giving birth soon!

Thanks for all the useful posts.

I need advice from you. My son is a bit confused between /c/ and /k/. Is it because I do not emphasize enough on the /k/ sound? Please help. Thanks Buds!

[Charmaine_chong]

Dear Buds,


Thanks a lot.

Buds, i would like to check with you whether you have any idea where i can get silly sentence games to play with my kids.

Something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Sum-Swamp-Addition-Subtraction-Game/dp/B00004TDLD/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Thanks

[Charmaine_chong]

Dear Keas,


C and K sound are the same. Just need to tell the kids the difference in letter name.

[buds]

keas:

Hi Buds,


Long time no talk

Hi keas... yeeeaah.. long time no talk. :imanisland:

keas:

How have you been? Wow it's fast you are giving birth soon!

Been great! Thanks! :love:

Fast meh..

Yaaa... actually just counting the days now... just counting the days.. :scared:
I had three waves of tsunami warnings liao (contractions) these past 2 weeks..

keas:

Thanks for all the useful posts.

You're welcome! I love sharing! :celebrate:
And i'm very happy to know you find them useful. :love:

keas:

I need advice from you. My son is a bit confused between /c/ and /k/. Is it because I do not emphasize enough on the /k/ sound? Please help. Thanks Buds!

Nope. Not your fault they both sound the same.

If need be to spell it out or write it out, my children and students would
usually double check with me... do you want the \"kangaroo\" \"k-uh\" or
the \"cat\" \"c-uh\"? With such questions from the children, you KNOW
that they know the difference. No worries.

If your son doesn't ask it, you may offer the assistance to him.
Eg. \"Mummy needs the /c/ that will start off the word cake... or candy...
But try not to \"tell\" him the answer by sharing you want the /c/
with the curve. :lol: By offering the other words that begin with
the same sound, your son will be more exposed to other words
than those you've introduced... or those he's read... or those tt
he has heard.

[buds]

Charmaine_chong:

Buds, i would like to check with you whether you have any idea where i can get silly sentence games to play with my kids.

Yes, i have one from Growing Fun. Will take a picture and put it up for u.