Letter Bugs

18/07/2025

🎣🔤 Go Fish — Letterland Style! 🔤🎣
Today’s game time turned into a phonics-filled adventure with our Letterland Go Fish challenge! We took turns fishing for matching uppercase and lowercase letter pairs, racing to see who could collect the most sets. 🅰️🧍‍♀️🅰️

This fun twist on a classic game helped strengthen letter recognition, memory, turn-taking, and social skills—all while reinforcing those important upper-lowercase connections. The best part? It felt just like play, but it was packed with learning! 🧠💬✨

Fishing for letters = catching knowledge!

15/07/2025

🔠✨ Building “ie” Words with Letterland Magic! ✨🔠
Today, our learners became word builders, using Letterland flashcards to assemble their own “ie” words like pie, tie, and cried! 🧱📖

This hands-on phonics activity helped reinforce vowel team recognition, improve spelling skills, and boost confidence in reading and writing. Plus, it encouraged creativity and independent thinking as children explored how sounds come together to make words. 💡✍️

Learning is always more fun when it’s built with Letterland!

14/07/2025

Master Tricky Words with Confidence! | Tricky Word Flash Cards for Early Readers

Unlock the magic of reading with our beautifully designed Tricky Word Flash Cards! Tricky words—also known as sight words—don't follow regular phonetic rules, making them harder for kids to sound out. But with practice and the right tools, they can become second nature!

These flash cards are specially created to help young learners:
✨ Recognize high-frequency tricky words on sight
📚 Build fluency and reading confidence
🧠 Strengthen memory and word recall
🗣️ Improve pronunciation and comprehension

Why tricky words matter:
Tricky words like said, come, and they appear often in early reading books, but they don’t play by the usual spelling rules. Learning them by sight gives children a strong foundation for smoother, more confident reading—setting them up for long-term literacy success!

Perfect for home learning, classrooms, or on-the-go practice. Whether you're a parent, teacher, or tutor, these flash cards make mastering tricky words fun and frustration-free.

✨You can find these cards at https://letterbugsco.etsy.com✨

13/07/2025

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12/07/2025

🎨🔤 Digraph Detectives at Work! 🔤🎨

In this activity, our learners put on their thinking caps and grabbed their crayons for a digraph hunt! They searched through words to identify digraphs like ai, oa, ie, then colored them in specific colours to show what they found. 🕵️‍♀️🖍️

This fun activity helped build phonics skills, word recognition, and visual scanning—all while boosting fine motor control and focus. ! 🌈📚

Learning to read one digraph at a time!

11/07/2025

🧩 CVC Word Puzzles for Sale! 🧩

Looking for a fun way to help your little ones with their phonics? Check out my printable CVC Word Puzzles! Perfect for home use, these puzzles are a great way to practice blending and reading simple words. 📚✨

✅ Easy to print and use ✅ Fun and engaging for early learners ✅ Perfect for reinforcing phonics skills

You can grab yours today via https://letterbugsco.etsy.com! 😊

10/07/2025

09/07/2025

🔠✨ Flashcard Frenzy: Uppercase vs. Lowercase! ✨🔡

During this activity, our learners had a blast matching uppercase and lowercase flashcards in a fun, messy competition! 😄

Using colorful flashcards spread out on the floor, they raced to find the perfect letter pairs—boosting letter recognition, memory, and fine motor skills. The energy was high, the laughs were plenty, and the friendly competition made learning even more exciting! 🏆🎉

Who said learning can’t be messy and fun?

08/07/2025

🎶 Perfect for Intermediate Rhymers! 🎶
Looking for a fun, engaging way to boost your child's language skills? Check out these Rhyming Cards—we have sets for intermediate rhymers! 🧩✨

These cards are:
✔️ Easy to Use: Perfect for young children just starting with rhymes or those ready to take it to the next level.
✔️ Printable at Home: Download, print, and start rhyming right away—no waiting needed! 🖨️
✔️ Engaging and Educational: Helps build phonemic awareness, expand vocabulary, and improve reading skills—all through the magic of rhyme! 📚🎤
✔️ Versatile: Great for individual practice, group activities, or even as part of a fun learning game!
Whether your child is just discovering the power of rhymes or is ready to take on more challenging pairs, these cards are the perfect resource to make learning both effective and fun!

👉 Click the link to get your set today and start rhyming! 🔗https://letterbugsco.etsy.com

07/07/2025

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06/07/2025

🧟‍♂️✨ Monster Munch Mayhem! ✨🧟‍♂️
During this lesson, our hungry monster had one craving: words that start with M! 🍪💬

Learners had a blast sorting through a pile of words, carefully choosing only the tasty “M” words to feed our picky monster. From moon to monkey, they showed sharp thinking and had loads of fun while building their phonics skills. 🧠📚

Learning letters has never been so delicious! 😄

29/06/2025

🌟 Sight Word Fun with Playdough! 🌟

Today we made learning high-frequency words exciting and hands-on! 🙌✨ Using colorful playdough, the kids rolled and shaped words like the, is, and you — and had a blast doing it!

💡 Why it works: Playdough builds fine motor skills and helps children remember important sight words through touch, movement, and play. Plus... who doesn’t love squishing some dough? 😄

Here are a few activities you can try:
✅ Word tracing with playdough "snakes"
✅ Stamping letters into flattened dough
✅ Smash-the-word after spelling it correctly!

Learning can be messy, creative, and FUN — just the way we like it! 🎉