The Learning Journey Match It, Upper and Lower Case Letters

Such a fun way to learn phonics! I love how this includes both upper and lowercase letters. I really like that you could also connect different letters to create a word. I highly recommend.

I enjoy using this puzzle with my rising kindergartner. I like that it includes both upper and lowercase letters and has the picture. We split the letters in half, so he's only dealing with 13 pairs at a time and store each half in a bag. We then sort and put uppercase in an area, lowercase in an area, and then pictures in the middle. He works to match one from each pile.My complaint is two of the vowel pictures. There is "orange" for O and "ice" for I. Given that preschoolers learn short vowels first, having an R-controlled vowel for O and a long vowel for I is very awkward. Particularly the r-controlled o. It would have been so easy to do octopus for O. I is a little harder, but iguana is a good choice.My son loves us to sing a little song after he finds each pair. I thought I'd share if others want to use it.C and Cat matchC and Cat matchWoop-di-doo! Woop-di-doo!Can you find another?Can you find another?Matching pair?Matching pair?We do the same song with the rhyming words puzzle from this company, replacing "match" with "rhyme"

When I received this, I was a bit worried that it wasn't the complete alphabet because the box says 20 sets of cards. Thankfully, all 26 letters are present and accounted for. It's really hard to find products that isolate the capital and lowercase letters so I was super happy to find this. I follow a Montessori style approach so I plan on introducing the picture sounds, then the lower case, then the uppercase. The self correcting component is super important as well. I recently picked up a similar set at Target that are not self-correcting. They won't teach the child bc any letter and picture can match even when completely incorrect. My only critique is that the letter /i/ uses ice as the picture instead of igloo with the short vowel sound. I am going to draw an igloo on there. I may also draw a colored border around the vowels to distinguish them. The cards are nice and thick though my daughter hasn't played with them yet to truly see how they hold up. Overall, I think this set is a really affordable option and I'm happy with my purchase.

As a teacher and mom of a two year old, I really love this product. I saw a similar product at a teacher store, but I prefer this puzzle because it has a picture on the front to give my child a clue for each match. I also like how durable the pieces feel. There are a few pictures that my two year old couldn't figure out which way was up or down so he couldn't fit the letters in to match. For example, the sun looks the same from all of the angles and he puts it upside down so the letters don't fit. I like matching puzzles to have a few separate bags to store pieces in so kids can easily do them on their own and not get overwhelmed with all of the pieces. I simply do it myself with Ziplock bags, but then they don't fit in the original box this way. This is a personal preference, but I wish more matching puzzles did this. **UPDATE** My son is now four. He is able to figure out the the sun puzzle piece. However, I wish that all of the vowels were the short vowel sound. He got a little confused because they were the long vowel sound. In my school district, they focus mostly on short vowel sounds until the end of first grade where they are introduced to long vowel. It's only I and O. They are ice cube and orange instead of igloo and octopus. Overall, it's a great product.

I use this at work with my preschoolers and they love it! It helps to identify capital and lowercase letters while also demonstrating the sound the letter makes. The only thing I would change about it is for the letters with more than one sound, make an additional puzzle piece. (ie: the vowels have long sounds and short sounds, some consonants have hard and soft sounds, etc.) It could just be an additional picture to go along with the letter so that particular letter would have 4 pieces (Capital letter, 2 pictures for the different sounds, lowercase letter) that way it doesn't require too many more pieces to be added to the set. Great purchase. I'll be purchasing the numbers and spelling sets soon. Update: something else I would change about the Counting puzzles. There are 2 sets of 1-10, and only one of 11-20. I don't know why it didn't just go up to 30 and only have one set of 1-10. Still a great purchase. The kids love it in my class.