Please help me with my jolly phonics ?!

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Attached I have no idea what they mean apart from a couple of letters? I know it's meant to be a sound, rather than alway the item name, but I don't understand what sound most pictures represent. They just confuse me, I didn't do phonics at infants school help please My DC is not at school yet, so I can't ask them he's only at nursery and they don't teach this. I got these on eBay to teach DC myself bit out of my depth

s - snake
a - ant
t - tennis
i -
p -
n -
c k -

e - eggs
h -
r -
m -
d - drum
g -
o -
u - umbrella
l -
f - fish
b - bat
ai -
j - jelly
oa -
ie -
ee-
or -
z -
w -
ng -
v - van
oo -
y - yogurt
x - X-ray
ch -
sh -
th -
qu - quack ?
ou-
oi -
ue -
er -
ar -

ai / ay / ae
ee / ea / ee
ie / igh / y / ie
oa / ow / oe
ue / ew / u_e
er / ir/ ur
or / al / au / aw
oi / oy
ou / ow

Go onto the Jolly phonics songs on YouTube. There are songs and actions to match each sound.
E.g. the I is a song about a mouse named only who spills ink on his desk.

How old is DC?

If they aren't yet at school, I'd leave the teaching to the experts. You may do more harm than good.

Reading, varied crafts, music and a little outdoor exploration is plenty for a nursery age child.

Why are you teaching it? There’s no need.

Jolly phonics has an action for each sound, eg I think ‘t’ is tennis, so you look back and forth as you say a short ‘t’ sound repeatedly, as if watching a tennis game (cos all 4 year olds have experience of watching live tennis games and looking back and forth following the ball 😂). ‘S’ for snake I’d imagine you move your hand back and forth like a snake saying a long ‘ssssssss’ sound. I expect you can find videos online of the action for each sound.

The most important thing is that you say the sounds correctly. Eg s is sssssss, not ‘suh’ - most people incorrectly tag a ‘uh’ sound to the end of the letter. ‘D’ is literally a very short ‘d’ not ‘duh’. Imagine sounding out ‘dog’ - you don’t say ‘duh-o-guh’, you say ‘d-o-g’. Again, videos are definitely available online.

Jolly Phonics teaches each sound using a picture, story and song.

E.g. p= a pig cake. The song is all about puffing our the candles ‘p,p,p,p,p.’ You’d an find all the sounds on YouTube.

I work in preschool and we teach phonics using jolly phonics.
Go on YouTube there is a song with action for each sound.
They're done in phases, phase one is satpin , we teach these sounds first.
It's more important that your child recognises the sound rather than the ability to write it.
I spy is good, I spy something beginning with the sound 's '
Obviously children usually enjoy singing the song too.
I'd say don't try and do too much at once, focus on one sound at a time. We do maximum of one sound a week.

Hope that's of some help.

I teach in a reception class but also started teaching DD jolly phonics when she was 18 months old. She’s now three and can read cvc words so I don’t see any reason not to start phonics when they’re young.

Your child will have plenty of time to learn phonics, correctly, when he starts formal education. He doesn’t need to know phonics in nursery and you don’t need to stress about teaching him, particularly if you’re not secure in the sounds yourself. Children pick up phonics very quickly when they’re mature enough, but bad habits such as saying “eh” for i or “duh” for d can be difficult to ‘unteach’.

If you want to help him get school-ready, lots of gross motor outdoor play, colouring to strengthen wrists and finger grip, rolling and pinching play dough, cutting, cutting, cutting... and read as much as you can to him. Sing nursery rhymes, enjoy him, he’ll be off to school before you know it.

I'd second using the JP songs from YouTube. You can also buy the JP finget phonic books on Amazon. I wouldn't recommend the workbooks for nursery aged children but these are sturdy hardback books which tell a story for each sound and you can look for objects with that sound within the pictures. My dd liked these and also the JP video (now dvd) when she was small.

If your dc isn't interested in phonics, then just put the materials aside for a couple of months.

The best things you can do to develop your dc's language skills are to talk to them and to share nursery rhymes, songs and books.

Try the phonicsplay website, they have a good guide for parents and are allowing free membership (username:march20, password:home)

Our school provide a rhyme for each phonetical sound which the children learn, I found that very helpful so for example
ay - May I Play?
a-e - make a cake
ow - brown cow
ow - blow the snow
I don’t know if other schools teach them differently but that’s how my son has learnt them so hope it helps.

@MrsWhites I think those are the Read Write Inc rhymes.

All schools teach (or should teach) reading through synthetic phonics but not all schools use the same scheme.

Another point to consider, maybe teachers on here could answer this, but is Jolly phonics taught in a different way to Read Write Inc? Because if the school you're planning on sending DC doesn't use JP but uses RWI you could be kind of wasting your time, I could be wrong though, they might be the same or similar.

JP and RWI teach different rhymes to help remember the different sounds and I think that they might be introduced in a different order.

But the underlying principles are the same and the sounds represented by the letter shapes are pronounced in the same way.

If you teach one and the school uses the other then the dc have new rhymes to learn but don't have to actually unlearn anything.

The real problems are when parents teach children letter names rather than letter sounds or (to a lesser extent) when they don't use the pure sound (ie when they add an "uh" on the end).
The other problem is if children are taught to read or write using capital letters rather than lower case. Or, even worse, if parents equate lower case letters with the sounds and upper-case with the letter names.