Lowercase and Uppercase Letters

This activity is similar to the number matching activity except that it works with letters. As a child learns how to write letters there is more of a focus on uppercase letters. Learning the strokes needed to form each letter can be challenging and that is why there is a focus on only one form of letters at a time. This also helps so that a child does not become so overwhelmed with this new task. For many children the first chance they have of writing lowercase letters is in their name. When writing names it is good to explain why the first letter is uppercase and the rest are lowercase. In my preschool classroom we talk about the way an uppercase and lowercase letter looks, along with how they are similar and different. We talk about letter lines being big, little, curved, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. There is a lot of terminology that goes into letter writing and can help a child differentiate between two letters.  In this activity above the children can match the big uppercase pig with the little lowercase pig. This is a good form of letter recognition too. When working with a child, you can have the uppercase pigs and say "I have the uppercase "A" can you find the lowercase "a"?" Adding letter recognition into different activities makes the learning fun!