T and U!

For letter Tt, we read books about tigers, turtles, trees and of course, trains.

Sam and Anna's tiger handprints.

 

They made dot marker T and t.

I brought home colorful tape to make tape art.

 

We also made trains by painting paper tubes and attaching them together with paper clips.

 Sam and Anna decorated paper plates and then I put them together to make a tambourine.  They had fun shaking them after I put rice inside!

 (Sam made Thomas and Percy on red railroad tracks on his plate- can you tell?)

We practiced fine motor skills by putting toothpicks into a cheese container.

We explored painted towel tubes and made some shapes with them.

Sam and Anna practiced tracing Tts and coloring objects that begin with t.

They also sorted turtles by size: large, medium, and small.

 

Of course, we had to play with trains a lot (but that's what usually happens on a daily basis around here regardless of what letter we're on).

We had fun wearing tutus (yes, even Sam). In fact, Sam was even more happy as a clam  than Anna to be prancing around in his tutu.  It was super cute seeing them dance together, holding hands.

We ate trains for lunch (the corn is smoke from the smokestack).

We also had to visit two trains near us.  This yellow train car is within walking distance of our house.

When grandma came to visit we took her to the black steam engine Sam and Anna love to climb up on.

 
No train visit is complete without going up on the red caboose!

 

 

For letter u, we didn't do as much because I was back working long hours setting up my classroom.

 

Sam and Anna made umbrella handprints, with thumbprint raindrops.

We matched shapes on umbrellas.

And also put umbrellas in size order.

Sam and Anna traced Uus and colored U objects.

They colored umbrellas by matching the color words.

We did dot marker Uus of course.

Sam and Anna also made underwater scenes with sea animal foam stickers.

They made umbrellas with muffin wrappers, pipe cleaners and dot markers too.

 

Finally, we ate a underground snack: dirt and worms!  This was definitely a special treat for us because we almost always have a healthy snack.

Anna wasn't so sure about the dirt and worms.

 
But my sweet-toothed Sam loved it- especially the gummy worms!