Today’s letter for tracing was G. Travis has a hard time with both the upper and lower case of this letter, so I made sure to sit us down when he was well-rested and focused.

He made great progress, and was delighted with the materials I pulled out to make our 3-D versions of the letter.

First up: green clay. “How can this be a G?” he asked, looking at a short blob of clay.

“Look, a G” he said a moment later, inadvertently making as smooshed one.

To be more precise, we rolled out long coils of clay.

With this, we could first loop it into a C and then add the line inwards for a G. Tada!

Next up: grapes! (If only they had been green grapes, but red worked in a pinch).

Travis worked carefully to form the circle of lower case g, but then needed a little help understanding how to make the rest of the grapes march down in a line for the final flourish.

After that, the g got gobbled up too quickly for me to snap a picture!