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Refrigerator Letter Matching, Version 2.0

Almost exactly eleven months ago, I set Silas up at the refrigerator with a hastily-constructed letter poster and some letter magnets. (See it here.) He's now a whiz at capital letters, including their phonetic sounds, but I realized recently that he doesn't know most of the lower-case letters at all. So I re-created our letter matching activity, but this time with lower-case letters on the poster!

I ran out of room for y and z, but Silas made me squeeze them in with a pen later.

Since last summer, we've managed to lose several of the big letter magnets. I fully expect to find them all if our stove ever has to be moved. Fortunately, Silas received these wooden letter magnets from his great-grandmother for Christmas, and I tucked them away for "the future." The future is here!


The magnet set includes both upper and lower case, but I only gave him access to the capitals for now. We have several road trips coming up this summer, so I'm brainstorming ways to use both sets on a cookie sheet for a car activity. 

Owen wanted to help.

We'll leave the poster up for as long as Toby doesn't tear it down. Silas stops to play with letters at the fridge frequently (but never for very long), so if I guide him to correct letters once or twice a day, I don't imagine it will take very long for him to recognize those lower case letters! Easy learning. :)
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