NEW busy box

After having the first parent teacher conference of the year yesterday I started to work on some ideas on how to help kids reach the next steps of education. We spoke about introducing lower case letters, letter sounds, and simple words......This is what I came up with after a trip to the dollar tree of coarse and breaking out my beloved laminator.  This project could be done a number of ways but I thought this would be fun.

There are white spoons with all the upper case letters on them and clear spoons with all of the lower case letters on them. The idea is that they can match the upper case letters to the lower case and stack them. The second activity within this busy box is simple words in which they can match the letters. some are only upper case and others are both. I'm excited to see how well they do with this. I will be introducing it tomorrow at Friday circle time. I'm thinking if they are having difficulties with matching the upper and lowercase letters I will laminate a sheet with all the pairs on it and put it in the box for them to use for reference!