To bloody hate Jolly Phonics

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The DVD is scary! It looks like someone on Acid made it in their bedroom.

Just me then

No not just you...I hate them with a vengeance!

Nope me too......, I have recentley been to the school kicking and screaming to 'watch' a jolly phonics sesion...... Dear god i have way more respect for my 6 year old that she has to put up with that first thing every bloody morning..

Although saying that she has just bounded up 3 reading levels in a fortnight....it may have some uses.... hmmm i will ponder that some more over wine

I like to EAT EAT EAT yoghurt and bananas! I like to EAT EAT EAT..

YANBU.

Oh,my, YASNBU.

I have been advised to start a bit early with it as DD is "behind" at "school" (nursery, she's 3.5), so I got the workbooks. They're not too bad, so maybe try those?

A a a ants... I bloody hate ants.

I have to resist thr temptation to do a MN namecheck-

A a a a Anyfucker on your thread...

I have not seen the video or heard the cd but the jolly phonics really helped my ds1 to pick up his letter sounds really quickly (started school not knowing any but knew loads by Christmas. I am using them to teach ds2 some letter sounds before he starts school as he is keener to learn at a younger age than ds1. I ahve just ordered the workbooks.

My 2.4 year old is constantly singing A A Ants on my arm as they've started doing phonics at nursery. Took me a while to work out what she was on about, I was a little worried she was developing paranoid delusions.

Also, since reading your post I have also been singing Ants on my arm under my breath. Thanks for that. :P

You just wait till biff and bloody chip make an appearance. Drives me nuts

meths you just made me shudder

Don't forget Kipper...why these ridiculous names??!

Ooh I'm on my second time around. I hated them with dd1. They really make my teeth itch with dd2. One of the best forms of contraception ;)

Now I'm singing Ants, Ants, Ants on your arm! Argh!

wait until you get ch, ch and th,th and as for oo - try explaining the different sounds in look and book grrr

look and book have the same sound to me

perhaps 'look' and 'moon' would be a better example...?

Yerk, fortunately my DDs are older and we only did them rather half heartedly. I'm not sure we ever did the whole alphabet.

I can't do them without pissing myself laughing

Look, one thing we don't do in this house is bother with the kids' reading beyond reading them a bedtime story, and buying them books on request, or going to the library. Reading schemes are incredibly boring to have to sit and listen to, I am not trained to teach reading, nor would I want to be trained, so I find the whole thing stultifyingly dull, and the emphasis on identifying each minute part of each word just kills the moment for me and the kids. We leave all that to school. Even though my kids are mostly dyslexic, they have got there very rapidly after the age of 7 or so, and I am left with the view that there are much more important things to worry about than whether infants can read to order. In the rest of Europe they don't learn to read so early, and nobody bloody cares. I don't know why we do over here, tbh.

I got the books because they love them at nursery and at their friends' houses too. If they enjoy it, there's no harm but I won't force them as they are only 4.