Jolly Phonics
Jolly Phonics is a comprehensice and multi-sensory and active program that encourages pre-reading skills from an early age. The children at O’Briens Montessori Centre participate in Jolly Phonics everyday before lunch time.
Participating in this program each day provides the children with the opportunity to revise and extend on their phonetic awareness. The Jolly Phonics program consists of songs and actions that teaches children the letter sounds.
The skills taught in Jolly Phonics.
Learning the letter sound
Learning letter formation using multi-sensory methods
Blending the sounds together to read and write new words
Identifying the sounds in words
“Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.”
-Maria Montessori