Letter Work for the Bitty Girls~

Learning the alphabet and letter sounds is the foundation of reading

so making this potential boring skill fun is critical.

All my littles have loved The Letter Factory videos so I put it on for the bitties~

and they watched as they built words with Melissa and Doug game.

I also revamped their salt box using a M&D tray from lacing activity~

I bagged up the lacing cards and colored the bottom of the tray with smelly markers.

It is both colorful and smells yummy!

I also made ABC cards with smelly markers too and they love writing again!

More letter work ideas coming soon!!!

Sensory Handwriting with Salt Boxes~

Handwriting can get boring after a while and truly I have found it improves
with modeling each day in journals.
I saw a post here and wanted to try with my crew.
I gathered the supplies of
salt, box, a photo with everyone, and sentence strips~

 Made a set of Capital letters with lowercase on the back as well as names.
Both were well received by all the kids~

We also read some of our bird books from the library as well as a WONDERFUL book,
Whose Nest? that Aunt Amy gave us... we LOVE it~

 The bitty girls are really starting to get the hang of school and loved playing
a little dice/color the duck game from here~
{Helped that I let them color with smelly markers!}

 Big news... the boys began their BOB books adventure
and they love them!
We are working on the AT family this week~

 They are great reading buddies.
This afternoon the big girls went out with their nature box~

to capture, document, and release creatures in the yard.