Zoo-phonics at Frank Love

The preschoolers at Frank Love are bursting with excitement. They are learning about letters and sounds through a fun program called "Zoo-phonics". 

The creators of Zoo-phonics, Georgene Bradshaw, Irene Clark, and Charlene Wrighton, believe in capturing the "wild in the child" and directing that energy into learning. The children use their eyes, ears, mouths, and bodies to learn. Each of the letters has an animal friend (associated with the individual letter) and a "signal" (action) to go with it, to help them learn and retain the letters and sounds. They practice the alphabet as a whole, a-z, using all the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic modalities at once. It is incredibly fun to teach and it is highly motivating to children.

Here are some suggestions as to how to use this website to enhance learning at home. I would highly recommend visiting the Zoo-phonics website for parents (see link) for further explanation of this program, and to check out their products. There is an excellent "Parent Kit" to help reinforce learning at home that parents and grandparents have enjoyed using with their children.

Sincerely,