Lower case letters | EYFSMatters

We had great fun this week making this lovely I spy game…

We filled a litre coke bottle full of rice using a funnel… Lots of lovely talk about capacity and measure came from this.

The children then hunted around the classroom to find items to pop into the bottle. It was fascinating to see how they were guessing whether their item was small enough to fit through the bottle neck, and then testing out the size. Cue lots of talk about size and weight!

We then placed all the items on a sheet and photographed these so we knew what to look for. The children loved adding tiny items such as paper clips, split pins and even a rice crispy (“no one will ever spy these” they shrieked!)

The items were then popped into the bottle and shaken profusely. Then the game began.

Great for….

Sounds

Phonics

Making relationships

Resilience

Speaking

Listening

Shape/space/measure

Turn taking

Have fun… I’d love to hear of any games you have made. Please add comments below x

Lots of children get confused between capital letters and lower case letters. It’s so tricky isn’t it- I guess it’s like me trying to learn Greek/Chinese! I just wouldn’t have a clue.

We try to teach each sound individually and show the children the capital at the same time, but try not to over load them with info at the same time.

I have been having a trawl around and have found a few ideas that I think would work brilliantly. As you know, I am an advocate for outdoor learning and anything that is fun, exciting and can offer children challenge.

A fan page I follow on facebook https://www.facebook.com/rockmyclassroom. Has some great ideas that could be adapted and used for lower case and capital letter work.

Laminate lower case letters and have them on cards, children have to squirt the corresponding Upper case letter with their water gun!

Another fab idea from Rock my classroom- you could have 2 buckets one lower case, one upper case, and write letters onto plastic balls. Your child can have a go at whizzing them down the Shute into the correct bucket!