Overview
The children will go on a treasure trip and then practice writing the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t and saying the /t/ sound as in trip, terrific, and trail.

Literacy Activities
Tape a T  Trail

• Teach the children how to write the letter T.
• Practice writing the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t in the air.
• Using tape, make a trail of Ts on the ground that leads to a large T.

Treasure Trip

• Read the book Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and tell the children that instead of hunting for bears, we can hunt for treasure (optional).
• Tell the children they will be going on a treasure trip.
• Say, “If you see anything terrifying, say the magic /t/ sound.”
• Act out the Going on a Treasure Trip chant with the children as you read each line and they repeat it.
• As the children encounter terrifying things on the treasure trip, show them the corresponding picture cards.

More Practice
Toss and tiptoe

• Create a hopscotch game by drawing a hopscotch grid on a large piece of paper or by placing smaller sheets of paper together.
• Invite the children to write the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t on each square.
• Drop an object that begins with the /t/ sound (e.g., tool, token, treasure) onto a hopscotch square.
• Have the children tiptoe around the square where the object lands.
• Have the children say the /t/ sound as they tiptoe from square to square.

Read the T  Treasure Trip text

• Read the T Treasure Trip chant to the children.
• Have the children find and circle the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t throughout the text, saying the /t/ sound each time they circle the letter T.
• Read the text again and have the children clap each time they hear the /t/ sound.

Write the target letter

• Draw all of the T objects that the children came across on their trip.
• Help the children label each item underneath the picture (support as needed).