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Alphabets and Phonics for my 3 year old [G - P]

In term 2, we are revising letters A to F and learning letters G to P. In fact, this is the second round of learning alphabets and phonics. Faith have done a round of recognizing letters and their sound last year. But this year, she is learning more vocabulary for each alphabet.

Here are some of the activities we have done for each letter.

Letter G

Learning new vocabulary and the sound of letter G.

Learning the shape of letter G and our button craft giraffe.

Faith was asked to point out words starting with letter G from the newspaper.

Faith identified these G words from the 'Today' newspaper.

Colouring small letter g.

Letter H

Activities for letter H.

Making a Hippopotamus: Sponge painting

Letter I

I for ice-cream. Painting and colouring ice-cream.

Letter J

For sensory play, Faith made the planet- Jupiter out of play dough.

I use this chance for Faith to explore colour mixture and taught her about different shades of brown.

Rolling it out.

Using the different shades to make Jupiter.

Just practicing rolling.

Letter K

Letter L

Creating a ladybug.

Making an attractive lollipop.

Tracing the leaves.

Letter M

Letter N

Creating our very own "The Starry Night" with oil pastels.

Faith learns more about "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh.

Letter O

O for Octopus. An octopus made of plastic plate and some straws.

Tracing activity.

Tracing.

Tracing, then learning to 'copy' the drawing.

Not bad for her first attempt at 'copying' the images.

Letter P

Literature Based Learning

This book was a gift by my lovely friend , Jacqueline.

Activity 1: Identifying words in the book that starts with letter P.

Faith seems to like identifying words and she is getting faster and more accurate.

Activity 2: Identifying some animals that are pink.

I'm actually quite surprised that she could come out with pig and pink dolphin. I added the naked mole- rat for her.

Activity 3: How am I different?

I wanted her to think about how different she is from the others. She gave me quite a few physical difference about herself and others, However, I chose to focus on her personality rather than appearance and she could only come out with 2.

Activity 4: Learning about acceptance.

The moral of the story is that family and real friends will accept you for who you are. Hence, I spent some time talking to her about how much we love her and about our unconditional love.

Activity 5: Learnt about the sequence of events.

This is the first time I'm introducing the sequence of events to her. I printed out some of the main events of the story and got Faith to sequence them according. She has to narrate the story while pasting the pictures into the boxes. She seems to enjoy this activity a lot.