Hi, I'm Lesley Beth.
I'll help you get your grandchildren well prepared for Kindergarten entry. I am an experienced child educator. I created Jazzles as a playful way for parents and grandparents to launch their children into early literacy development by using music, songs and creative arts.

While Jazzles deliberately targets Literacy, it is play based with a wide range of interactivities to develop social and personal skills that are so important for succeeding at school and in life.

With Jazzles, you focus on an alphabet letter a week or every two weeks.

I have a preferred order of learning rather than going A-Z. This research based order ‘fast tracks’ children’s ability to decode words earlier rather than later. The order facilitates teaching phonemic skills by combining groups of consonants and one (1) vowel. It introduces more useful letters first, separating letters that are visually or auditorily confusing (e.g. ‘b’ and ‘d’), and most importantly, focuses on the most common ‘sound’ for each letter.

I’ll give you 3 or 4 suggested activities for each weekday and the Lesson Plans will guide you through the learning themes that center around alliterative language and relevant topics featured in each of the 26 Jazzles Animation.

Jazzles alliteratively 'enriched’ songs rapidly develop oral skills and confidence, so essential to classroom success.

Jazzles is all about generating really extraordinary levels of engagement by catering for all Learning Style preferences and 8 Multiple Intelligences!
Not only does this make learning sense but it reduces or removes behavioral issues grandparents usually encounter when children get frustrated by boring materials.

By following the Lesson Plans, your grandchildren will develop their vocabulary, phonemic awareness, beginning reading skills and lots more through creative learning activities like dressing up, dancing, drama, developing mime and hand-actions and particularly art and crafts.

From baking cookies in letter shapes, to using black beans for math, to gluing instant coffee, herbs, spices and fruit peel or slices onto letter shapes to recall letter-sounds, you can turn lots of simple daily activities into fun, themed, engaged learning while fostering relationships, curiosity and exploration!

At the Minimum, Here's What You Can Achieve

Using Jazzles, I'll provide you with enough joyful cognitive and non-cognitive learning activities to keep your grandchildren happily interacting with you for up to 4-5 hours a day for six months or more!!

The time you spend with them will strengthen relationships and give them the confidence to take their place in Pre-K or Kindergarten with the self esteem that flows from early literacy.

Here's what you and Jazzles can achieve to secure your grandchildren's future before formal schooling:-

1. They'll be ready to read and probably be independently reading.
2. They'll be able to write their name.
3. They'll develop fine motor skills through numerous creative activities.
4. They'll be able to recognize a letter and know its sound.
5. They'll know some concepts of print - like reading left to right
6. They'll recognize a 'letter' and a 'word'.
7. They'll be able to write 'letters' and some words.
8. They'll develop an understanding of the musical concept of 'beat' and enjoy a variety of musical styles and instrument sounds.
9. They'll have sophisticated their ideas about dance and drama.

The results will amaze you. Using the Jazzles resources and extension ideas the Jazzles Lesson Plans, you'll find your grandchildren more focused, more interested, listening more carefully, better able to follow directions, better behaved and more on task to "learn and reinforce" new information about letters and their sounds quickly, easily and very enjoyably. In short, your grandchildren will be ahead of the rest!!

Turning Grandparenting into a Wonderful and Loving Learning Experience!

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills provides educators access to the Gateway's 50,000+ quality teaching resources has been made possible through generous sponsorship by the National Education Association. Because of NEA's support, The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is free to all users. The Gateway (formerly known as GEM) was developed with funds from the U.S. Department of Education to provide teachers with learning resources created by over 750 publicly funded organizations. CleverShow (Jazzles) is proud to be an approved member of the Consortium.

Jazzles company address: CleverShow Corporation, 112 North Curry Street, Carson City, Nevada 89703-4934, United States. Phone or Fax is USA 1-530-687-6305.
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