Education- Learn the Alpahabet

Visiting Gulbarga School, I found a lot of activities around letter identification, letter writing, word making and much more. What caught my attention was the letter making through stones. I was elated to see kids using a lot of different material to write alphabets. 

"This is montessori method. Generally either they take beads, stones, leaves to let them create the shape of the alphabets." 

"Jane Sahi suggests a lot of similar practices. Asking the kids to write alphabets on sand, in air with legs, with body and with elbow." 

I found the alphabet writing interesting. Why do we always have to start with the paper. Lets play around with the shapes and also learn the alphabets.