T Lessons concluded

These lessons were done a few weeks ago, but I thought I would share them this week. Next week I will share what we have done and are planning to do this week for the letter Uu.

We started a lesson on Telling time. Tabitha and Amelia both made a clock with movable hands. We painted a paper plate and then glued on the clock template I found here. I used the 8 inch size, but they also have a 6 inch template.

The girls also painted the clock hands.

I cut them out first and taped them to a bigger piece of paper so the girls could paint them with out having to touch them.

When everything was dry I put it all together with a metal paper fastener.

We spent some time discussing time on the "real" clock and then Tabitha did an activity I made up for her. I found a different clock template at a really cool website called Journey in Time. This website is chock full of information about clocks and telling time. The section "Once Upon a time" has the history of telling time and classroom activities. There is a section on the Foucault Pendulum. The section "Just in Time" has more activities, such as math/science and it is here that I found the templates along with so much more. There is also a section on sundials.

Anyway, I copied the template with the numbers and pasted it into my word processing program. I shrunk the size down so I could fit several on a page, then I printed them out, cut them out and glued on the clock hands (quite a tedious task). I have 12 clocks, one each for one o'clock through twelve o'clock. Tabitha had fun picking a clock and using her big clock to "make" the matching time. So far we have on worked on telling time to the hour.

We also made a train accordian book for their T books.

I found a pattern here and printed out extra copies so we could have more cars. After I taped them together, the girls glued circles onto the wheels and squares onto the windows

then they glued pictures of animals beginning with the letter T onto the back of the cars.

Our train is transporting a turkey, a toucan, a tortoise, a tahr, and a tapir.

We went over to the thrift shop and found the game Topple. No, I didn't realize until I got it home, that it would go well with our T lessons. Tabitha was really looking forward to playing the balancing game. Then when we started to put the pieces on the balance board she decided it would be more fun to make them into "sandwiches."

These are the words we put on our word cards that I was able to find signs for:

tiger, tent, telephone, turtle

And these are the other words we used:

tag, toucan, Tabitha

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