Letter T

Learning Letter T

It’s time to learn letter T. T is a terrific letter! We need letter T for trees, turtles, turkeys, trucks, and towers. Can you think of any more words that start with letter T?

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Monday — T is for Turtle

  • Writing Practice– practice writing uppercase letter T. Free trace the letter worksheet from atozteacherstuff.com.
  • Book — We read The Box Turtle by Vanessa Roeder. This is one of my son’s favorites, and although I think he has great taste in books, over 1,000 people on Amazon also agree with him 🙂 In this story, a cute little turtle is born without a shell. Not to worry though, because he gets a cardboard box to use as a shell. Everything is just fine until turtle makes fun of his cardboard box-shell. What’s this little turtle to do? Well he tries other things to be a shell. Throughout his shell search, the little turtle learns that being different is not a bad thing and that being yourself is the best thing you can be, even if that means you have a cardboard box for a shell.

Check it out from your local library, or you can buy it on Amazon here.

  • Craft — We made a construction paper turtle to go with the story. This was pretty easy to pull together; all you need is construction paper (green, brown, and yellow), glue, scissors, and a marker.
Turtle Craft

I cut out basic shapes in green: a small circle for a head, 4 rectangles for legs, and a large half circle for the shell. My son ripped up brown paper to decorate the shell.

Next, glue the turtle’s shell, legs, and head onto the yellow paper. Then you can glue on the brown paper to decorate the shell.

Lastly, give your turtle a face.

  • Song — We sang I Had a Little Turtle. It’s short and cute and my son likes the popping sounds of the bubbles 🙂 If you don’t know this song, you can watch it on YouTube.

Tuesday — T is for Tower

  • STEM– Plastic Cup Tower — supplies needed are plastic or paper drinking cups. For this project we used red and blue plastic cups.

My son had a blast playing with these cups. He enjoyed stacking them and seeing how tall he could build his tower before it fell over, knocking them over, making color patterns, and playing “cup hands.”

  • Air Writing: Ask your child to hold up a hand and trace letter shapes with their finger in the air. I was skeptical of this at first, but my son really got into it and I found him air writing his letters all on his own.

Wednesday — T is for Truck

  • Writing Practice: write lowercase letter t. Free tracing worksheet from atozteacherstuff.com.
  • Book: We love Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle. Told in rhyming text, this story is about a blue pickup truck who is kind to everyone and always willing to lend a helping hand. When a big mean truck gets stuck, no one wants to help get it out of the mud. Little Blue comes along to and sees a truck in need, so it stops to help. All of the animals pitch in the help Blue. This story and illustrations are so cute, and I like the moral of the story that choosing kindness is always the right thing to do.

Check this one out from your library, or buy it on Amazon here.

Little Blue Truck has several sequels and they are all great! We especially like Goodnight, Little Blue Truck!

  • Craft: Basic shapes Truck — supplies needed are blue, white, black, and yellow construction paper, scissors, and glue.
T is for Truck. Basic shapes truck craft for preschool.

Using blue paper, draw a large rectangle, a medium square, and a triangle to make your truck. Let your child practice their scissor skills and cut out the shapes.

Using black paper, draw 2 circles for tires. Let your child cut them out.

Draw a square window on white paper and let our child cut it out.

Next, draw a small yellow circle for the headlight. Let your child cut it out.

Now your preschooler gets to put the truck together and glue in onto white paper.

  • Song: here is a cute truck song called Five Little Trucks by Gecko’s Garage. Based on the Five Little Ducks, your preschooler will enjoy singing along to this song. It is available it on YouTube.

Thursday — T is for Tree

Learning letter T through salt tray writing
  • Salt Tray Writing: cover the bottom of a shallow tray or pie tin with a layer of table salt. Your child can take one finger to trace letter shapes in the salt. Practice both uppercase and lowercase letter T.
Letter T Tree
  • Craft: We made an extra craft this week — a Letter T Tree. Supplies needed are cardboard, dark and light green tissue paper, white paper, glue, a brown marker, and scissors.

First, cut a tree trunk out of cardboard. We made ours the width of a ruler.

Glue your trunk to a piece of paper and then glue the leaves in a row above the trunk to form the letter T.

My son drew a hole in his tree trunk to complete his craft.

Friday — T is for Turkey

Learning Letter T -- T is for Turkey. Read "The Turkey Train" for letter T week
  • Book : We read The Turkey Train by Steve Metzger. This is a non-holiday turkey book. The turkeys are headed out for a fun snow day. They take a train (another great Letter T word) and silliness ensues throughout their adventure. Rhyming text is a hit with the preschool age group and the pictures are funny too.

Steve Metzger’s books are popular in preschool classrooms and libraries so you should be able to check out a copy of The Turkey Train. You can also buy it on Amazon here.

  • Craft: Draw a Turkey — I have lots of turkey crafts for Thanksgiving, so instead of making one of them, I asked my son to draw a picture of a turkey. His turkey drawing turned out so cute and we hung it up in his bedroom.
  • Song: We did the “Turkey Pokey” for our song / activity. Watch it on YouTube.

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