With over a thousand people a day on the phonics page alone, I feel quite a big responsibility in what I introduce there. Unfortunately quite a few teachers and parents are under the mistaken impression that phonics means “taking a letter and seeing what sound it makes”. That’s not what phonics means. Phonics actually means…

If you’re teaching younger and younger kids each year, this might be just the thing for the youngest of them all: www.BabySignSongs.com Apparently it gives babies a head start on language development, gives them a big jump when they can physically talk and it causes less tantrums when babies can actually sign what they want…

I wrote this message up on a forum the other day, but figured you might find it useful as well: Another idea is to mix it in with the “Doctor Doctor” game. 1. The kids “rock, paper, scissors“. 2. The loser rolls a body parts die (it’s part way down the right hand side of…

Today’s new worksheets are a set of dice for most of the songs. “But most of them have 8 answers, how can they fit on a die?” you may ask. Well most of them are funky 8 sided dice! Many kids haven’t seen 8 sided ones before so get quite a surprise when they are…

It’s nice to be in Europe for Mardi Gras. In Portugal this week it’s been carnaval, and whilst not quite as fun as Rio de Janeiro, it’s a nice holiday mood, especially on a warm February day. Mind you unlike French (“mardi”) or Spanish (“martes”), in Portuguese Tuesday has nothing to do with “mardi”, they…

Just to let you know that the A4 Cards links have now moved to each songs‘ right hand column only. Sorry for the inconvenience, but is so I can free up the pictures at the top of each page for something else. Now when you click on the pictures instead of the picture card, you…