With the INTERMEDIATE Letter C videos we are reviewing the upper case C since that is the sound the letter c makes when by itself, and it will often be seen in upper case form at the start of a sentence), and the short c vowel sound (we mark with a lower case c) you hear in our keyword cat. We also remember our first consonant cluster and four letter word: the cr sound in crab. Now we are adding more sounds, another c sound grapheme (ch) as in school. We also add the ch phoneme with graphemes ch as in chips and tch and in watch. We also learn the new phoneme/grapheme cl as in clown. As always, there are a few extra harder words in the videos, which is fine for students to learn and listen to, though were are not yet focused on spelling them. We have a School things song, naming classroom items. There is a song about clowns, a potato chips song (which sneakily clarifies that in the UK, chips are called crisps), a cowboy, cha cha and can can dance (the sweat SHALL flow after dancing all of those!), the rather lovely Candy Man Can song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (can we say chocolate?), and, just in time for Halloween, an episode of Superted in the Creepy Castle. 

A word of warning, though the Superted episode is excellent, and there are no actual monsters or ghosts ever seen in the episode, the atmosphere is really quite scary (I used to be quite a sensitive little boy and I remember this episode terrified me, though it did not give me nightmares - whereas seeing Jaws too young most certainly did! For YEARS...), so know your students! The classes I have played it to seem to have had no problem with it (it helps that I tell them there is no ghost!). I have written previously that there may be some benefit to students' problem-solving and confidence to 'solving' the problem of facing and overcoming something scary. Younger students actually seem more able to deal with this kind of matter, perhaps because their minds are so flexible. But again, know your own risk tolerance, your students' and their parents before showing them this!