![]() I had planned on going outside and drawing on the car park and it’s lovely clean tarmac but it was raining (and cold). It’s half price in the Early Learning Centre and I admit even paying half price for some 3D chalks seemed expensive. I bought a Crayola outdoor chalk set with 3D glasses. I didn’t really believe this could be true until we tried it this morning. Finding the image in one of the original books was the best I could get! If anyone also knows which episodes have Peso playing his xylophone please let me know so I can get a screen shot of it. I’ve hopefully attached the links here so you can print them off yourself and share them with any Octonauts fans. Can you hear the B at the beginning? “kind of thing. Some of them aren’t strictly linked to the letter (like the Gups but he wanted to include all of the Gups and I couldn’t fit them all in the box for G.) So far we’ve just used them to talk about the pictures and link the sounds to letters i.e.” B is for…? Barnacles. Handy!Īnyway – I have created an Octonauts alphabet for LBM to help develop his vocabulary and learn his letters. I love how films frequently have characters with names that begin with the tricky letters – searching around to find characters beginning with V, Q X and Z are so easy it’s almost as if the creative team behind every film approach character naming by going through the alphabet. ![]() I’ve made alphabets in the past for other children including a Star Wars and a Cars one. A personalised alphabet helps with letter recognition, vocabulary and makes learning relevant. ![]() Admittedly none of us can pronounce Humuhumunukunukuapua’a but we’re working on it! A long time ago I started to develop picture and word alphabets that were linked to a theme and things that children are interested in. I’m all for building on this interest because it’s one of the best TV programmes for his age group and means he can identify exactly what kind of sea creature it is – “No mummy it’s not a shark. LBM seems to be like every other child who’s three and really likes the Octonauts.
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