As you probably know, phonics and early learning of sounds has been my 2009 passion. There is a page run by the British something council with the phonemic alphabet there. They do all the sounds when you click on them.
I was trying to be all educational and professional, but all I could get to was trying to make the lady sound like a gorilla by pressing the different vowel sounds. If you feel like some immature fun, give it a try
I was sorta reminded last night that I don’t post enough blogs these days. I’m ok with that though, I am trying to do blog posts when there is something worth writing about these days. Really actually trying to hold to my resolution of June 22.
So anyway, this is not life changing, but it made my night happy. The other night as we were downstairs and Xave was upstairs supposedly asleep, we hear (very loudly) through the baby monitor “Never… Never make noise at night!” This is one of my Soupy Sounds songs (letter Nn in case you’re a bit slow). He often just shouts out these words during the day, but at 9:30pm it was a little more entertaining.
I have put this song onto my myspace page, so you can now listen to the parents’ favourite song on Soupy Sounds.
Today was at Fusion toy library in Hornsby. I am getting more used to what I need to do in these gigs, how to chat with 2 year olds and be a bit of a clown in front of kids and their parents.
I don’t have any photos of the gig unfortunately, but I know Belinda from the Toy Library took some, so they exist somewhere. I did sell a CD during the gig, and gave out lots of order forms, so fortunately for me it was a profitable morning. Oh the endless joys of Old Macdonald had a farm- they love it!
Can I also do a little plug for the toy library- it was great! If you are in the Hornsby area, head along on a Wednesday morning. It is a cafe/toy library/play group time, had a really good vibe. Are these the next venues my life holds in store?
I just sent an email to Richard Glover on 702. He’s a bit of a fave of mine, just quietly. I was writing to see if I could get some air time to talk about Soupy Sounds.
If you feel like emailing him as well on my behalf, here’s the link. There’s always more chance if numbers are involved I think.
I feel like a dude fishing at the jetty right now. You know how you sit there and then there are heaps of bites? And then you think of how many fish are in the ocean and how many will want to eat your bait?
Well, the analogy breaks down there, coz I don’t want to hook people in and bash their heads in with a boat oar. But I do have a lot of people interested in my CD right now, and suggesting other people who may be interested in my CD. One of our friends ordered the CD today, and is doing a lecture for 200 early childhood students where she’s gonna plug the CD and give them order forms. Kinda exciting. Another person has put me in contact with the KU (kindy union) network, which is potentially huge. But it’s all potential so far, I just pray I have the courage to keep stepping out there. And the humility to keep giving it over to God. And the generosity to keep using it to bless people and be a Godly man in the process.
The first class I ever taught is going to graduate form high school this year. It totally makes me feel old, and sometimes also makes me feel like Peter Pan. Everyone else is growing up and I stay the same Ty/ Mr Soup. There’s even a girl in our home group now who remembers me from the “uncle Ty” days (no it wasn’t a weird cult thing just a kids club I lead).
Anyway, today I got tagged in the photo of my class, 1S, on facebook. Then I went to read the comments they had all left there. It was so fun to read the memories, so great top be a part of them sometimes.
One of the hard things about teaching at those times was that I knew these kids would grow up, make bad choices, some of them ruin their lives or try to ruin them.. and there was no way I could stop that happening. Coz in year 1 I could kinda shield them, tell them bits about God and how he loves them.
Then God said to me “they are not yours to protect, they are mine. So love them while I give you a role in their lives, show them my love by the way you care, then pray for them as you let them go. You never know what I might bring back to their memories later”
Well that was a pretty good call by God, so I did that, and it still seems like good advice 11 years down the track. Bless you guys as you face year 12 this year.
The waiting is over. Today, in the middle of a dude reversing a ‘uge truck very unsuccessfully up our street and plumbers doing stuff in our backyard, a lovely little delivery man came to our door.
I was so busy I didn’t take it in properly, but that was probably good. I have been working on some songs to teach kids their early sounds for the best part of a decade. When I was teaching at PPS it was a major part of our sound learning, these songs which were based on sentences my kids had written. I turned them into songs, which now are a published CD. And here it is, in its first public appearance
The actual songs
Not letterland or ants in the apple
So now I gotta start selling it, which is not something I am naturally suited to. But I think I know enough people to get a start, and I really do know this is a good way for kids to practice their sounds, so that helps a lot. The excellent thing about 10 years is that you have a lot of time to talk yourself out of it. So if you know some people who would be interested, either point them here, or to my myspace page, or send an email to soupysounds@yahoo.com
in short, woohoo!
