Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Phonics ABC

Since I started to show him some videos on youtube, he has been pestering daddy to let him see those videos from his computer everytime when we were around at his house. He would say to us, Ae, Be, Ce....Ae, Be, Ce....or Lots of Shapes...Lots of Shapes...Lots of Shapes...

Those are his two most favourite videos recently. Actually, it all started with Pingu videos from youtube. But you know lar, one video always lead to another. And we eventually found out that youtube had fantastic ABC videos that I can't possibly find in those video shops. Even I have to spend my whole evening ransaking the videos in those shops, I can hardly get something like this. It has all sorts of learning videos such as Phonics ABC, shapes, numbers, colors and etc. But the trouble is, each video only lasted at about 3 minutes the most. So, we had to sit and watch along with him and clicked for a new video when it finished.

Then, daddy being the computer expert, saved all the videos in his computer and automated them to play accordingly. No hassle for us to click for him all the time. It really helps the kid a lot especially the Phonics ABC. The idea of phonics is that you teach your children the various sounds that English letters have. The advantage of this over simply teaching the alphabet is that once they have mastered the main sounds, they can then read many English words!

He is now pretty good at the Phonics pronounciation from A to Z. That is the wonder of videos!

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