PHONICS FOR KIDS: letter m

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Monkey Trouble with the letter "m"

Hi dears!

Today, I am going to show you some samples of activities that we can apply before, during and after with the Monkey and the letter M.

Before....

1. Play the game guess what is it, talking about animals and ending with Monkeys.

2. Let's sing "five little monkeys jumping on the bed" while children jump over a big letter M that it's been drawn or traced (marker or tape) on the floor. Play as many times as you want. End singing the song just with the "mmm....mmm" sound.
There are many songs on You Tube but I love this version...

During....

3. Intrigue your kids or students telling them, it is an amazing and funny movie. Encourage them to pay attention making questions while the movie is running. Split the movie session in two different days, because children often get tired or get bored when video resources take more than 30 minutes.

Click here to watch the movie

4. From here we can go for to different branches: crafting and worksheet (choose one according to your preferences)

Crafting: Here there are some examples.

Handprint Monkey

Brown Bag Monkey

Monkey Banana Treats

Printable Monkey Mask

Worksheets: here there are some coloring pages

Five Little Monkeys

Spot the Difference

Cartoon Monkey Coloring Page

After...

5. Finally, develop with your students a written exercise. You can download it (there are many online) or create it using power point or microsoft word. If you need one with certain specifications, please just tell me.

Here there is one by my own.

Download

I hope you really like it. As always any doubt or suggestion please leave me a comment. :)

Have a nice day.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

The letter of the week is "M"

There is not any rule that demands you, which consonant will be the first by the time children begin to read ; however , I believe that words with "m , f, s , b, g and d " could be the first, due to they are related with their family members .
Therefore, these tag is going to be related with the consonant "m". Here you will find videos , games and activities that maybe you could use at home or in the classroom .

I hope you like it . :)

Well, if you are interested in videos here they are:

I love storybots, because its songs are funny and appealing for kids.

ABC mouse also has nice videos.

It is one of my favourites

There are some more on you tube. :)

I ussually implement games to reinforce concepts, so here there are some Games that you can use:

After children have watched and played with the phoneme, we can continue with other activities in the classroom or at home. For example: modeling clay, pounching,ripping and pasting paper on the letter and some other.

I always prefer those activities that involve crafting...

for example:

It is beautiful, isn't it?

You just need some foamy, cotton, pipe cleaners and a pair of wiggle eyes. First, you help your children cutting the letter and some whiskers and then, they take mouse's parts and organize the body. Finally, they will paste all the parts on the "m" and that's all.

What about monsters.....

You all together can watch " Monsters Inc." and after all elaborate a monster using different kind of material. Let me show you some....