Jolly Songs - Laurie Fyke

***** " a, a, ants on my arm, a, a, ants on my arm, a, a, ants on my arm, Causing me alarm! " (sung to the tune of skip to the loo, Action: pretend your fingers are ants crawling up your arm) ***** In September my daughter started reception class at school. Very quickly she started coming home singing amusing little songs with a letter in them, only in a lot of cases it was a different pronunciation to how I had taught her. ~ " It's not Luh Mammy, it's lll " ~ I'd made the mistake of teaching the alphabet how I remembered learning it 28 years ago. ...  Read the complete review

Every parent with school aged kids must have heard of and struggled with the concept of jolly phonics. A fair number of them have confused their kids by teaching them the A B Cs as ay, bee, see only to be told on starting school that they are now called /a/, /b/ and /c/ and not even in that order anymore! Jolly phonics is a system that teaches children the letter sounds in an enjoyable, multi-sensory way. It is the first step towards learning to identify the individual sounds that make up words, eventually blending them and learning to read. Why is it important for parents to learn as ...  Read the complete review