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ELA Lesson Extensions » Letter Tt
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Letter Tt
Week of August 31, 2009 |
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Arts & Crafts
Glue tinsel on letter T's.
Make T's by gluing together tongue depressors.
Tie-dye
Have children bring to school one plain t-shirt and decorate with fabric paints or do Tie-dye!
Turkey Draw
Draw a turkey. Spread your fingers out on a piece of paper and trace around your hand. Your thumb makes the head so add a beak, eyes and the red wattle. Color the feathers made by your fingers and add legs. Write a story about your turkey.
Toothpick T's
Materials:
"T" cut out of brown paper
colored toothpicks
glue
Directions: Have children glue on toothpicks.
Games & Activities
Tiptoe T
Make a big letter T on the carpet with masking tape. Let children tip toe on the letter T.
Tea Party
Have a Tea party!
Tower
Build a tower with the blocks. See how tall they can build it!
Tongue Depressor Game
Color sets of tongue depressors with red, yellow and blue felt tip markers. Let the children use the tongue depressors for counting and sorting games. Or draw vertical red, yellow and blue lines on index cards. Have the children use the cards as guides to create color patterns with the tongue depressors. Variation: Use colored toothpicks instead of tongue depressors depending on the age of the child.
Recipes & Snacks
T Snacks
Toast
Tea
Tangerines
Tuna
Teddy Grahams
Trix cereal
Taffy
Tapioca pudding
Tofu
Triscuit crackers
Tomato
Trident gum (for older kids)
Twix candy bar
Thumbprint Cookies
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
Finely chopped nuts (Check for allergies!)
1 egg
Jelly or preserves (raspberry is good)
1/2 Tsp vanilla extract
1/4 Tsp salt
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets.
2. Separate egg, reserving egg whites. Cream butter, sugar, and egg yolk.
3. Add vanilla, flour and salt. Mix well.
4. Shape dough into balls. Roll in egg white, then nuts. Place on cookie sheets about 2" apart. Bake for 5 minutes.
5. Remove cookies from oven. With thumb, dent each cookie. Put jelly or preserves in each thumbprint. Bake for another 8 minutes.
Makes 2 dozen cookies.
Songs, Poems & Finger Plays
Tap Your Toe
(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Tap, tap, tap your toe,
Tap your toe for T.
Tap for train and turkey and toy,
Tap, tap, one, two, three.
The Turtle
(Tune: Pop! Goes The Weasel )
The turtle wears a shell on his back,
He walks so very slow.
Just put him in the water and watch.
He can really go.
The Tapping Song
(Tune: The Muffin Man )
(Each child gets two tongue depressors or popsicle sticks or rhythm sticks.)
Listen while we tap our sticks,
Tap our sticks, tap our sticks.
Listen while we tap our sticks,
We will tap them (number) times.
(Tap and count.)
The Choo-Choo Train
(Finger play )
This is a choo-choo train
(Bend arms at elbows)
Puffing down the track.
(Rotate forearms in rhythm.)
Now it's going forward.
(Rotate arms forward.)
Now it's going back.
Rotate arms backward.)
Now the bell is ringing.
(Pull pretend bell cord.)
Now the whistle blows.
(Hold fist near mouth and blow.)
What a lot of noise it makes.
(Cover ears with hands.)
Everywhere it goes.
(Stretched out arms.)
The Train
(Tune: The Farmer In The Dell )
The train is on the track,
The train is on the track,
Clickity clack, oh clickity clack,
The train is on the track.
The train carries (child's name.)
The train carries (child's name.)
Clickity clack, oh clickity clack,
The train carries (child's name.)
The train is on the track,
The train is on the track,
Clickity clack, oh clickity clack,
The train is on the track.
The Wheels on the Train
(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus )
1. The wheels on the train go clickity clack,
Clickity clack, clickity clack.
The wheels on the train go clickity clack,
All along the track.
2. The whistle on the train goes whoo-ee-whoo...
3. The people on the train go up and down...
4. The conductor on the train says, "All aboard!"
The Baby Turtle Song
(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb )
I am just a baby turtle,
Baby turtle, baby turtle,
I am just a baby turtle,
Tucked inside my shell.
I will stick my right foot out,
Left foot out, right arm out.
Then I'll stick my left arm out,
And go explore the world.
Hello, Mr. Turkey
(Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It )
Hello, Mr. Turkey how are you?
Hello, Mr. Turkey how are you?
With a gobble, gobble, gobble,
And a wobble, wobble, wobble.
Hello, Mr. Turkey how are you?
There Was A Little Turtle
(Finger play )
There was a little turtle.
(Make a fist with your right hand in front of you.)
Who lived in a box.
(Place left palm under your fist.)
He swam in the puddles.
(Make a rippling motion with your hand.)
And he climbed on the rocks.
(Make right fingers walk up your left arm.)
He snapped at a mosquito.
(Bring thumb & fingers together in a snapping motion.)
He snapped at a flea.
(Bring thumb & fingers together in a snapping motion.)
He snapped at a minnow.
(Bring thumb & fingers together in a snapping motion.)
And he snapped at me.
(At yourself this time then looked surprised.)
He caught the mosquito.
(Clap hands together.)
He caught the flea.
(Clap hands together.)
He caught the minnow.
(Clap hands together.)
But he didn't catch me!
(Shake head, smile and point to self.) | YELLOW: | | Arts & Crafts
You Are My Sunshine
Need: tag board circle cutout, yellow tissue paper pieces, yellow streamers, gold glitter, and glue.
Have the child glue the yellow tissue paper pieces all over the circle cutout to cover it. Then sprinkle glitter over circle. Finish by attaching the yellow streamers to the edges to create a sun.
Lemon Prints
Cut a quantity of lemons in half lengthwise. Set several aside to dry slightly. Store the remaining in the refrigerator. Then gather: drying lemon halves, white construction paper, newspaper, and yellow paint. Pour the yellow paint into a pan, and have the child dip the lemon into it. Dab onto newspaper, and then have them make a print on the construction paper. After you finish the prints, make lemonade with the remaining lemons!
Games & Activities
Yellow Day Activities
Have a "Yellow Day", where you wear yellow, eat yellow foods, do lots of things outside in the sun. Have lots of arts and crafts that involve the color yellow, or yellow items. You can do these things all on one day, or split them up so that you can do one thing each day. You can also play games that involve yellow: Count yellow counters, name as many things that are yellow as you can, plant yellow flowers and many many more.
Sparkling Yellow Bottles
Fill a 16 oz. empty plastic soda bottle with water and enough light corn syrup to thicken. Pour in glitter, confetti, either in yellow or gold, and seal the bottles securely. Let the children shake and have fun!
Recipes & Snacks
Lemonade
Show the children how you can squeeze fresh lemons to make your own juice. And then let them go wild trying it for themselves! Be sure to have plenty of sugar on hand to make your lemonade with. Straight lemon juice will get you a LOT of sour expressions and pucker-ups!
Butter
Use butter on everything, mashed potatoes, toast, etc.
More yellow foods
Scrambled eggs
Squash (Fried, most kids will eat it!)
Bananas
Golden Delicious Apples
Cornbread
Lemon cake/cookies
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Mrs Astugue's T-1
Woodlake Elementary School
1620 Livingston
Mandeville, LA 70448
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