Bob Books !

Bismillah ,

Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

AlhamdulALLAH we finally got Bob Books here in Jeddah from Stars Avenue Mall.

A homeschooling sister held a grand sale of books too , I got set 2 from there too at a very reasonable cost.

So , what is more important , mmmmmmm , my girl has started reading on her own mashAllah mashAllah mashAllah. Yes ! I am very happy. I could not believe when I saw her reading three letter ?( CVC) words plus more and more words with her best of the best abilities. She was trying and kept asking me " Mama, how we will read this word?" , in return , I ask her " to pronounce the letters first , then read the word" . AlhamdulAllah she has got the concept of reading.

I love to see her reading bob books while I am in kitchen or
 before the bed time.

Indeed , another achievement !!! alhamdulAllah summa alhamdulAllah ! This is exactly I wanted from her . Gone are the days.....when I just used to dream :) , now I am watching in reality.

She has completed two sets of bob books......she loves them. Interesting thing about bob books that their stories makes sense for the child reader. Sometimes , she laughs at her best that

"look mama ,

The cat ran . The vet ran.
Yes , yes , the cat can run."

Indeed the hard work with phonics paid off.

She has learnt some new words too.

So , please , whenever you get the chance for bob books. I gaurantee you that your child would love them to read inshAllah. And ignore the pig characater in it. I have already told subhana that this is "chi chi"  means " not a good animal" . So sometimes she replaces that with rabbit.

At the very moment !

Bismillah,

Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabaraktuh ,

Right now , subhana is enjoying the site www.educationcity.com.

MashAllah , she is doing so well ! In fact , she does not want to get up from the laptop! Her phonics are getting more refine alhamdulAllah! She was quite bored of star fall.com since a long time! Now , alhamdulAllah we got the 10 day free trail from education city !

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Lapbook : Learning to read and write through Progressive Phonics

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Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh ,

At last , alhamdulAllah the day has arrived to post on blog . I got busy in last two weeks in preparing resources . Anyways , I will rewind from the very fresh piece of project we have just started and that's making a lap book on three letter CVC words based on progressive phonics. Well , alhamdulAllah today subhana was in keen interest to practice the letters d , o and g. We are following from the very start of alphabetti section. They have lots of books freely downloadable. I invested so much time that through which resource , I should introduce reading and handwriting actually to my child. I chose progressive phonics. It has well explained books, they teach letters through shapes. For example : letter d can be formed by joining a ball and a stick. Letter 'o' as a ball. My child got easily and was desperate to practice it again and again in her own way. They have also provided activities , flash cards and much much more . Before starting this project , I was thinking that my child is just 2.7 months , may be it would be hard for to read and write at this age , but believe me , QadarAllah mashAllah, she has welcomed to learn more and more . You see , this is the homeschooling benefit that a homeschooled child is never meant to be pressurized . He  she learns in his / her own style. And guess what ? We started doing this labpook after dinner , she was quite active mashAllah and fresh too.

Below are the pictures of the lapbook , sorry for the pictures which are inverted ( there is some problem with my camera) . As for handwriting , am linient , we are just practicing in rough and then she will fill the handwriting activity book , inshAllah.

front cover 

shapes circle and stick depicting the letters d , o and g

flap opened

story book related to the letters d , o and g

handwriting activity book

other things that starts with the letter d

practice on board

practice on notebook too

Counting Practice and CVC flash cards !

Bismillah ,

Assalam u alaikum warahamatullahi wabarakatuh ,

Counting Practice

I got this idea from here . Sister shared the document with us too through mail. JazakAllah u khaira ! I took a print out and laminated it easily with a ring. My child uses it whenever she wants to. After laminating things , it makes me not to worry about it as it has got sturdy and the child cannot even chew it hard. She used to count orally with me but now I have showed this visible  handy counting list to her.

Same goes to CVC flash cards !

I took a print out from progressive phonics . It's a bunch of about 38 to 40 cards . Simply laminated it , punched it with a ring. AlhamdulAllah subhana can read all with a phonotic sense.

This is the thing I wanted from her to work with her activities alone when I am in kitchen or doing other work . I keep these laminated cards anywhere on the centre table or on the lower shelf so that she can pick by herself and read aloud . Literally , I cannot explain I love those moments. AlhamdulAllah summa alhamdulAllah!

Phonics Lapbook

Bismillah ,

Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

 

Last month , I saw this lapbook related to phonics on a sister's blog . The plus point of this lapbook is that it has flash cards related to Islam with other normal cards. For example : A for Allah , K for Kaaba , Q  for Quran , H for Hijab etc. Each alphabet has 6 cards or less . A child is asked where to put that respective card on the basis of sound. AlhamdulAllah , Subhana enjoys it and her practice of phonics is refining as well along with the three letter words reading.

Phonics Lapbook - I have joint 2 file folders 

close up

sorry for the inverted pic , my option is disabled to rotate the pic. But just for an idea i have put it here.

Reading three letter words!

Bismillah ,

MashAllah , subhana has learnt the sounds of alphabets. Because of that , she has also learnt how to read three letter words. For sounds , we used Jolly phonics video on YouTube. For Jolly Phonics Handbook which is unbelievably online for free download . And for jolly phonics workbooks can be found here.

Well , those were the details for learning sounds through actions. But just to check subhana that ow she blends the sounds , I am using progressive phonics. AlhamdulAllah she is really doing well. She can reads words along with pronounciation of sounds like c-a-t implies to cat. Bat , rat , sat , pat , mat , pan , ran , can , fan etc. You can downlaod free resources from here .

Moreover , we borrowed a book from a library and it's " I can spell " book with a beautiful catchy cover for kids. This book is really helping us a lot in improving our reading of three letter words.

I also bought a book of phonics which has an interesting aspect of revolving the circular round shaped cards words corresponding to the correct picture. When you will see the close up of the picrue , you will get an idea inshAllah.

Well that's the update on literacy for now!