Brightly coloured upper and lower case letters.
Children can explore the alphabet whilst playing a range of literacy games.
Size 75 x 90cm.
Ages 3+
Top Tip!
Use this mat to help reinforce spellings and to help children to practice new words.
See example activity below from the 'Let's Go with Bee-Bot Activity Book'.
Spell
Outline
This activity is great for children who know how to spell their names or other familiar words. It allows Bee-Bot to be programmed and spellings to be reinforced. New words can be practiced and children can write clues to spell messages. This activity works best with just a couple of children at a time. Once it has been introduced to a class, pairs can take turns to use the Bee-Bot and the mat.
Resources
- Bee-Bot
- Alphabet mat (TTS code: ITSMAT3)
Activity
Look at the alphabet mat with the children. Can they find the letters to write their name? Try starting with just the initial letter. Can they program Bee-Bot to move onto all the other letters?
Make sure there is a definite starting point for the Bee-Bot and all the children are familiar with it. Ask the children to write a set of instructions for Bee-Bot to write their name. Bee-Bot should pause on the correct letter. This set of instructions can be written on a card. Once all the children have completed this, challenge them to pick up a card and predict the name. They can then type it into Bee-Bot to check.
This activity can be developed into writing words, making instructions for the spelling words of the week etc.
Cross Curricular links
Literacy Year 1
- Read and spell phonetically decidable two-syllable and three-syllable words
- Recognise automatically an increasing number of familiar high frequency words.
Year 2
Spell with increasing accuracy and confidence, drawing on word recognition and knowledge or word structure, and spelling patters including common inflections and double letters.
ICT
- Develop and record sequences of instructions to control the floor turtle.
- Predict the result of a sequence of instructions and check their predictions by programming a floor turtle Mathematics
- Identify objects that turn about a point or about a line: recognise and make whole and half turns § Follow and give instructions involving position, direction and movement.
- Recognise and use whole, half and quarter turns, both clockwise and anticlockwise: know that a right angle represents a quarter turn.
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