Overview

The children will pretend to tell time on a special T clock as they practice writing the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t and saying the /t/ sound as in toss, track, and tiger.

Literacy Activities
T Time!

• Assemble the spinner using the instructions given.
• Divide the children into teams and have each team choose a team name beginning with the letter T (e.g., tigers, tarantulas, tomatoes).
• Have the teams sit in a circle around the spinner.
• Have a team twirl (spin) the letter T spinner.
• When the spinner stops, have the children say, “It’s T time!”
  • If the spinner lands on two, ten, or twelve (which are numbers that begin with the letter T), the team must shout, “Two (or ten or twelve) is terrific!”
  • If the spinner lands on a number other than two, ten, or twelve, the team must look at the action list and perform the T action corresponding to the number that they spun.
• Play the game so that each team has two turns.
• Reward all the children with a tasty treat (optional).

More Practice
Read target words in a text

• Read the action list to the children. 
• Have the children find and underline the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t throughout the list, saying the /t/ sound each time they underline the letter.
• Read the text to the children again and have the children touch their toes every time they hear a word that begins with the letter T.

Write the target letter

• Have the children practice writing the uppercase letter T and lowercase letter t in the air twice.
• Give the children a whiteboard or piece of paper and have them write an uppercase letter T ten times and then a lowercase letter t ten times.