![]() ![]() You can buy the letter blocks from The Toadstool for £18.50 and I think they are well worth the money for providing lots of creative ways of playing with the alphabet, learning letter names and sounds, learning to read and spell and to encourage a love of learning, and especially learning through play. The pictures are simple and the colours are striking. The alphabet blocks from Plan Toys are really beautifully made. We had a lovely game finding all 26 letters when it was time to put them back in the box. She likes cuddles and her dolls house and more intimate small world play.īut when she came to join in the play she loved finding hidden letters among the messy materials in the Tuff Spot. ![]() He just loves learning and activities like this where learning is firmly founded in play are perfect.Įsther is a much quieter soul and probably knows almost as much but is not as enthusiastic about it. William is a sponge at the moment, soaking up knowledge of letters, sounds, order of planets, counting in 10s. He also knows how to distinguish curly c and kicking k because of the cereal name and the brand name, Kelloggs. William already knows this sound as we have Cheerios for breakfast. William really enjoyed doing this and he loved finding the letters by their picture as well as by identifying the letter.īecause one of William’s favourite trains is called Charlie we talked about the digraph ‘ch’. We talked a lot about initial sounds and labelled some of the toys in the Tuff Spot with their first letter. All by himself he found the letters and made several engine names including Toby, Mavis, Dart and Den. When he had made the word he knew it was right but wanted to check so ran off to get one of his many Thomas stories to match his word, Percy, to the name printed in the book.Īfter this William concentrated for a while on the engines already in the Tuff Spot who have their name printed on the bottom of them. C making the s sound is still a bit confusing for my three year old boy. He went back to check each letter as he built the word.Īfter Thomas William wanted to make Percy which I helped him with by telling him the sounds and names of the letters. Rather than me spell out the name using letter names or sounds William decided that he would read the name from one of his posters on the wall. William decided he would like to make words with the letters, specifically the names of his best Thomas characters, starting, of course, with Thomas. Some we had letter side up and some were showing their corresponding picture. Together we took the letter tiles from the box and put them in the Tuff Spot. Today we used Plan Toys Alphabet Blocks in the Tuff Spot to do just that. He can also, with help, work out longer words and loves spelling out the names of his favourite Thomas engines. He can use his knowledge of sounds to read and spell CVC words. William knows the alphabet, he can order letters and he knows their names and also their sounds. We combined two of his favourite things, letters and trains. While Esther was having a funny five minutes (as toddlers often do) I spent some lovely one to one time with William. ![]() ![]() We created a construction site for our Wonderworld wooden vehicles. A perfect combination.Today we enjoyed some wonderful messy, sensory play. The hands-on practice was fun AND educational. Later that evening, I pulled out their box of Duplos. The other day, as I watched them play, an idea popped into my mind: in addition to building THINGS with this favorite toy, they could also build WORDS. My boys have been on a LEGO kick the last few weeks. ![]()
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