{"id":362,"date":"2020-07-09T18:51:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2020-07-09T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:54:30","slug":"letters-and-sounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/?page_id=362","title":{"rendered":"Letters and Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Mason didn&#8217;t require her students to start formal reading lessons until age six (at least). She did, however, recommend that children work with pictures, tangible letters, songs, and poems. <a href=\"https:\/\/simplycharlottemason.com\/blog\/alphabet-fun-teaching-reading-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This brief post<\/a> from Simply Charlotte Mason explains an easy approach to learning letters and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our favorite (FUN) materials that help teach letters and sounds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An ABC book with quality pictures (we like the one from the Metropolitan Museum of Art)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Museum-ABC-NY-Metropolitan-Art\/dp\/0316071706\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=vandamusic-20&amp;linkId=1d02e598afdc5d870c4407c506940b96&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0316071706&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=vandamusic-20&amp;language=en_US\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=vandamusic-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0316071706\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small letters that can be held and felt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Melissa-Doug-Wooden-Alphabet-Magnets\/dp\/B000IBPD76\/ref=as_li_ss_il?dchild=1&amp;keywords=wooden+letters+kids&amp;qid=1594066865&amp;sr=8-4&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=vandamusic-20&amp;linkId=6d42bf389a7cc45457b079ab1c15320b&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B000IBPD76&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=vandamusic-20&amp;language=en_US\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=vandamusic-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000IBPD76\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/heidisongs.uscreen.io\/programs\/letters-and-sounds?categoryId=12210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">These songs<\/a> are so cute. My three year-old is enchanted. And my professional-musician ears don&#8217;t want to bleed when I hear them. They are catchy! You can subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/heidisongs.uscreen.io\/catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HeidiSongs alphabet collection<\/a> for $0.99 per month. There are a few examples of her songs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/Heidisongs\/playlists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heidisongs.uscreen.io\/programs\/letters-and-sounds?categoryId=12210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-352 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/b-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/b-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/b-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/b-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/b-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/b.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Mason didn&#8217;t require her students to start formal reading lessons until age six (at least). She did, however, recommend that children work with pictures, tangible letters, songs, and poems. This brief post from Simply Charlotte Mason explains an easy approach to learning letters and sounds. Here are our favorite (FUN) materials that help teach&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/?page_id=362\"><span class=\"more-text\">Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschool.vandagriff.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}