As we continue to work through the alphabet, this week we focused on the letter T. Here are some of the letter t tot school trays that we explored during this unit.
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Main Trays
On our first tray was a basket of wooden blocks and a sheet with a letter T and t. Henry could use the blocks to make each of the letters. My {now officially broken} laminator ate the sheet half-way through which is why it is creased.
I saw a lot of the kids trying this one at the co-op so I think it was a success. Henry wasn't super into it, and only sort of understood what to do with the blocks.
The second tray was a tiger dot sheet that I made. I placed some dots on the black parts of the tiger and some on the orange. Then, I included orange and black pom-poms and some tweezers. Then, Henry could tweeze the poms into place to complete the tiger.
This was a big hit with Henry who seemed to like the friendly tiger. Although he ignored the tweezers most of the time {except to ask to tweeze my eyebrows -- no joke!} and used his fingers instead.
The third tray was the most popular this week. It was a small construction-type set {similar} that I found at a garage sale this summer for a couple of dollars. It included a cork board, some wooden shapes with a small hole in them, some tacks, and a small wooden hammer. The kids could put the tack into the shape and use the tool to hammer it into place.
This required serious concentration from all of the kids, including Henry. However, Henry loved this and tried very hard to get the pieces where he wanted them. One little boy at the co-op spent the majority of class using this and covered the entire cork board.
Other Letter T Inspired Trays
Magnet Board: Transportation magnets
Transportation Sorting: This basket included 3 cards -- one for air, land, and sea. Then, the basket had 3 sponges -- a car, a boat, and an airplane. The goal was to match the cards to the shapes. I thought this would be kind of tough, but Henry understood it right away. He also went back to it quite a bit.
Letter T dry-erase tracing: Always a favorite
Toothpicks into a container: Simple yet, fun! Another one that Henry has come back to a lot this week.
Letter T sensory bin: This actually got a lot more use than some of the previous ones have gotten.
