Overview
The children will play with a tin and a bin as they add sounds to the -in ending to make words, such as bin, win, spin, and pin.

Literacy Activities
Spin, pin, and throw it in the bin

• Put picture cards in a tin can and put the lid back on.  
• Let children spin the tin, then open the lid and pick a card from the tin. 
• Have the children name the picture on the card then decide if the word ends with -in. 
  • If the word ends with -in, have the children clip it with a pin (clothespin) and throw it in the bin.  
  • If the card does not end with -in, have the children discard the picture and spin the tin again.
• Repeat as many times as desired.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• Have children blend individual sounds into words by tapping their head (beginning sound) and toes (-in sound) then clap to say the whole word.
  • w in = win
  • p in = pin
  • b in = bin
  • t in = tin
• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
  • Change the beginning sound: win → bin; pin → tin; bin → fin
  • Change the ending sound: bin → bit; pin → pig; tin → tip
  • Change the middle sound: bin → ban; tin → ten; pin → pun

Write about the activity using target words

• Write the word pin on a whiteboard and read the word together.  
• Erase the beginning sound, leaving the -in, on the whiteboard.  
• Have a child write a new beginning letter (e.g., b, d, f, t, w). 
• Read the new word together, separating the beginning sound and -in word ending before blending them together. 
• Repeat with the other letters.