Alphabet Adventure

B1 starts school in September (Arghhhh!) and he is very good at his alphabet however I wanted to just help with distinguishing been a capital letter and its little form to see how he copes ... It is also an opportunity to introduce M1 a bit more to the alphabet and help with his pronunciation. M1 doesn't say too much atm and I'm hoping some practise saying sounds can help ....

So I got some shredded paper from our shredder and placed in the tuff spot, I then got the magnetic letters out and hid them in the paper. We went and found the letter blocks, an alphabet animal jigsaw, the easel and chalks and the Leapfrog Alphabet Caterpillar.

I let the boys rummage through the paper finding a letter, when they found one I let them tell me the sounds, we then pressed the caterpillar to make sure we were right. We looked at the jigsaw and found what animal began with that sound and compared the letter to the easel letters. Luckily the jigsaw had capitals and little letters on for them to compare. B1 was more interested than M1 but he still liked to look through and sing the alphabet song and have ago at the different sounds.

After this I then had a load of shredded paper (everywhere!) so I made up a paper mache solution and B1 mixed it all together. I had an old drinks bottle I stuck to a tin lid and we formed a volcano! After some more paper mache and some painting when its dry this will be used in our next tuff spot adventure!