Mama and Baby Letters

Yesterday I had put a few activities in Peter's activity drawers to work on matching upper and lower case letters.  But, he decided he didn't want to do his activity drawers.  Instead he played with his Ocean Animals book learning about the parts of an octopus and doing math problems with fish.

Today we got to the letter matching.  We talked about how some "baby" letters look like their "moms" and others don't.  To make it more concrete we pulled out some of Peter's Dinosaur Train characters.  Tiny looks just like her mom, but Buddy is a T-Rex who was adopted into the Pteranodon family and so he doesn't look like his mom.

Peter practiced matching upper and lower case letters by looking for matching upper and lower case words.

Then Peter did some painting and we signed his name to his artwork to practice some of the lowercase letters he had learned.