Sandpaper letters

We prepare some learning aids at home like Cuisenaire rods for multiplication/division, flash cards for english, fishing game made from magnets,paper & small nails for Megh to count 1 to 10....but Sandpaper Letters are different thing!

It is Madam Montessori's discovery. Gijubhai has written in detail about it in his book "Montessori Padhdhati". Knowing letters by vision, sound (phonic) and touch! Making sand paper letters is simple and cheap. Mirror printing of alphabets and stick it to zero no. sand paper sheet, cut and stick on hard paper covered with smooth paper. Letter and background should be in contrast.



Megh always enjoy touch of water,soil,mud,clay,flour or anything he is curious about. So I was damn sure that he will like sand paper letters. He likes to feel letters by fingers. But his interest to know different character is amazingly enthusiastic and energetic. Sometimes he comes with letters or whenever he see them in my hands or by accident found this snap above while watching butterfly pictures on pc or on the road/in newspaper wherever he find characters he know, smile comes to his face, eyes shine and with full of energy he initiate identification.
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Later I found wonderful book of Madam Maria Montessori "The Discovery of the Child", probably Gijubhai has written "Montessori Padhdhati" from this book. Methods for sense development,reading,writing,maths explained in details and feels simple th amazing.