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Have Montessori letters, now what to do with them?
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I got the wooden Montessori letters from this site: http://www.montessorioutlet.com/cgi-bin/item/510400071/search/Montessori-Outlet-Medium-Movable-Alphabet-%28Print%2C-Red%29
I got both the lowercase and the capital letters, and the storage boxes, and LOVE them. But now… what do I do with them? LOL I have a 3yo who loves to play with them, and he’s learning to ID the capital letters. He also likes me to spell his name for him. I have a 6yo learning to read with word cards, and then we spell out her new words with the letter manipulatives. I would really love some activity ideas to do with especially the 3yo to learn the letters. Something like RightStart’s Math Games book would be super awesome! Any ideas for me?
Oh, I bought those a year or 2 ago thinking the same thing. But I found it was just too much of a mess for this poor mom to deal with! These Montessori letters are bigger and don’t get lost, plus they look so nice (but they are evidently not strong enough for a strong 3yo
). But I *still* don’t know what to really do with them. If you’re trying to do a Montessori approach, you probably wouldn’t want to do too much directing of the learning…just allow the children to experience the letters. They need to feel them and handle them in order to integrate the form of the letters physically. For your older child, you could do word family games (set up “at”, for example, and then make a game of how many words he can make by switching out the first letter.)
Hope your kids enjoy the letters! Wooden letters were one of the best purchases EVER for my son…he used them so much he wore the paint off!
You can use the letters for your 6 yo to match to the word cards. You can spell their names, the names of the pets, places you have been etc. You can put paper over the top and do crayon “rubbings”. You can play a letter recognition game with your little one. You can practice putting the letters in ABC order. You can use playdough and press letter shapes, or poke the letters through, make then stand up, etc.
I’m not certain how I actually ended up reading this post. We’ve used these in our home in a fashion similar to the suggestions in Delightful Reading (and in Montessori type three period lessons prior to more directed word building). They work very well for children who struggle with handwriting. They may use these for spelling “tests” instead of paper and pencil. I have no plans to get rid of these. I’ll have them for grandchildren to play with some day. They are a very tactile way to learn to read and spell.
I know it’s a late post, but I wanted to encourage anyone that has/had the same question. They are certainly worth keeping and using.
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). But I *still* don’t know what to really do with them. 
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