Sound table ideas

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Can anyone give me any ideas for Sound Table items?

DD's pre-school nursery started with 'A' this week and are working their way to 'Z' by the summer term (clearly doing the sounds in a different order for teaching phonics in class properly, I think the alphabetised idea is just to help the parents).

Of course, I forgot and so have until Wednesday when DD next goes to think of something beginning with 'a' that is not an apple, an acorn or an abacus (damn, because the abacus was the only thing I'd thought of).

In fact, if anyone has any non-obvious ideas for any of the first few letters of the alphabet that would be fabby as the table is going to be filled with books next week for 'b' otherwise!

Animals, aeroplane, ant( in a jar), atlas, abacus, Alice in wonderland, ape, ace(playing card), Australian flag

Bandana, banana, bottle, bible, bee, biro, bolt, bell, biscuit, Brussels sprouts, basket.

Cog, cap, cape, coat, cog, can, cat, cart, car, coin, canary, coffee.

HTH

Oops not abacus, how about acrobat instead, or anteater, or Annie the musical

Anchor, ankh, address book, aldi carrier bag.... Ooh, I'm really getting into this!

Oh my! Thank you You are all brilliant!!!!

Fabulous ideas.

Is this sound table idea a common one I wonder?

We did it in my preschool, but we just got the kids to wander round the nursery finding stuff, didn't involve the parents.

I like being involved . Ah, it's 'B' next week. Bell is a great one, thank you inmysparetime. I have a lovely small hand bell she can take!

Never send anything to pre-school if you're going to be precious if it gets broken. Free advice :D

Zandy Funnily enough, when we visited the school last year I do remember a vintage toy being on the sound table (I think it was a train, had they got to 'T' by then??) and it was truly lovely and clearly very precious, but the children HAVE to learn to respect it in my opinion. And do, if the teacher is anything to go by (she fabulous!!).

Actually, I wouldn't much care if a family treasure got damaged as I'd rather it was played with and enjoyed and prodded lots rather than stuck in a drawer and ignored. So yes, a hand bell I've had since I was three and was given to me by my now deceased mother will be going next week But equally, I am fairly sure it won't be abused. If it gets damaged in normal play... well I'm sure my mother would have just been thrilled it was still being played with actually.

But yes, good advice!