Overview
The children will try to fit and spin tins and pins in a bin as they read and write words that end with –in such as bin, in, tin, grin, win, pin, spin, and twin.

Literacy Activities
Fit a tin in a bin

• Show the children a bin and a tin. Comment that they both hold things.
• Ask, “Will this tin fit in the bin?” Then place the tin in the bin.
• Show a small tin and let the children place the small tin inside a bigger tin. Comment on how a tin is in a tin.
• Show twin tins (tins that are identical) and demonstrate how you can’t fit one inside the other.
• Pretend to try to fit a big tin in a small tin. Comment on not being able to fit a big tin in a small tin.
• Put in a pin inside a small tin, put the small tin inside a big tin, and put the big tin in a bin.
• Comment that a pin is in a tin and a tin is in a tin and a tin is in a bin then laugh about how silly it is and say, “that makes me grin!”

Get a pin in a bin

• Give the children paper pins.  
• Place a bin on the ground.
• Have the children spin around and then drop a pin to see if it gets in the bin.
• Have the children stand still and try to get the pin in the bin while someone spins the bin. 

Spin the tin to win 

• Have the children write their names on paper pins.
• Let them place the pins in a tin.
• Spin the tin around so that it is hard to keep track of where each person’s pin is in the tin.
• Let each child pull out a paper pin to see if they get their own pin, the one with their name on it.  
• When a correct pin is chosen have the child exclaim, “I win!  I got my pin.”

Apply the Skill

Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
  • tin → bin, pin → win, chin → shin, spin → skin
  • tin → tan, pin → pen, bin → bun
  • pin → pit → pot, bin → big → bog, win → wish → wit

Read target words/patterns introduced in the activity

• Read the text Fit a Tin in a Bin. 
• Read the text again fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in –in.
• Repeat with the other texts.

Write about the activity using target words/patterns

• Play a “pass the tin” game with the children. 
  • Have the children sit in a circle and pass a tin around.
  • As children get the tin, have them say the word tin and then turn the word tin into another -in word by changing the initial consonant.
  • Write each new word on the board.  
  • Repeat the game, but this time, have children write their new –in word on a piece of paper and put it in the tin.
• Give each child a paper and pencil and let them write words from dictation: tin, bin, in, pin, grin, twin, spin, win, chin, shin, din.
• Give each child a whiteboard and have them write words from dictation, changing one or two letters each time to make a new word: in, tin, bin, bit, bat, fat, fit, fin, win, twin, din, pin, spin, skin, shin.
• Engage the children in interactive writing about their experience by generating sentence frames and letting the children fill in target words and phrases
  • We can fit a small _____ (tin) in a  _____ (big tin, big bin, etc.).
  • We put a _____  (pin in a tin, tin in a bin, etc.)
  • We had to _____  (spin) around and get a _____  (pin in a bin).
  • We wanted to get ____  (pins).
  • We wrote our names on paper _____  (pins).
  • We put our paper _____ (pin in a tin).
  • We had to _____ (spin a tin) and find our _____ (pin to win).