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Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Ending Sounds (/t/)
Play the listening game to help children recognize the /t/ sound at the end of words.
Learn About Letters Together: Cross Your Fingers
Challenge children to make the letter "X" with different parts of their bodies.
Learn About Letters Together: Guess My Word (/t/)
Create riddles with words that start with the /t/ sound and relate to the week’s theme (tool words, construction words).
Learn About Letters Together: Letter ("Bb," "Hh") and Word (build, house) Hunt
Reinforce recognition of the letters “Bb” and “Hh” and the words build and house by having children hunt for them in the room.
Learn About Letters Together: Letters Make Words
Spread out word cards and magnetic letters. Have children work in pairs to match letters to a word card.
Read Together: Houses and Homes
Read Houses and Homes by Ann Morris. Focus on the materials used to build houses and how the materials vary because of where people live in the world.
Recite Together: “Ten Little Nails”
Recite the chant and have children act out the movements with you to the counting rhyme.
Recite Together: “Three Javelinas”
Recite the chant with finger motions that represent the three javelinas.
Sing Together: “Johnny Works with One Hammer”
Review the different tools builders use to build a house. Sing the song and act out hammering a nail for each verse.
Talk Together: Houses and Buildings
Tell children that they will be learning about different types of houses and buildings by using the “Houses and Buildings” display.
Watch Together: “Play with Words: ‘butterfly’” (BTL clip)
Play the Between The Lions video “Play With Words: ‘butterfly.’” Use the video to introduce the concept of compound words.
Watch Together: “Words Beginning with ‘t’” (BTL clip)
Play the video Between The Lions “Words Beginning with ‘t’.” Have children identify the instruments that begin with the letter "t."
Word Play: Action Words
Introduce build as an action word. Have children name the action in illustrations.
Word Play: Alliteration (/t/)
Repeat the sentence “Tommy took tools to town.” emphasizing the beginning sound /t/. Challenge children to say the sentence faster and faster.
Word Play: Match Game
Play a game matching numerals and number words.
Word Play: Matching Game
Have children match cards that have the same word on them.
Word Play: Rhyming Words #5
Display a The Three Little Pigs chart. Point out the rhyme words. Have children generate rhyme words
Word Play: Segment Sentences #3
Use sentences from Building a House to practice counting the number of words in a sentence.
Word Play: Segment Sentences #4
Make sentence strips and count the number of words in the sentence.
Word Play: Segment Sentences #5
Make sentence strips and count the number of words in the sentence.