This is the tick-tock sound. The tongue quickly taps the top of the palate/mouth with the “voice off”. When you make the exact same movement, but turn your “voice on”, it will become the “D” sound!
Here are some ideas for the Surprise Bag: toothpaste, toothbrush, tape, 2, tiger, train, tree, telephone. There are many more ideas, be creative!
Concepts
Top/bottom: Hide a truck on top or on the bottom of something (on top of a pillow, in a bottom drawer) and have your child go find it after you give clues
Tall/short: Talk about tall/short trees, buildings, and people.
Tame/wild: Read a book about wild animals and a book about pets. Talk about why you couldn’t have an elephant as a pet.
When you are doing things around the house, be sure to use these words: “Put your sock in the top drawer, get the book off of the bottom shelf, look at the tall tree, can you see the short tree?”. Literature states the more language rich a child’s early years are, the more successful the child will be in school.
Books:
The Enormous Turnip– Click Here This is a lot like the Enormous Potato we read in November. The sequence and repetition are great for building pre-literacy skills.
Mop Top-Don Freeman
10 Apples up on Top– Dr. Suess
A Tree is Nice-Janice Udry Click Here
Freight Train-Donald Crews
Hey, get off our train!-John Burningham
A Tree Can Be… Judy Nayer
Songs:
Telephone-Laurie Berkner Click Here
Song in my Tummy-Laurie Berkner Click Here
Twinkle, Twinkle-Raffi
Truck-Laurie Berkner
On Top of Spaghetti-CJ
Home Connection:
- Have a “T” (tea) party with a drink that starts with “T”, tomato juice, or pretend tea.
- Talk, talk, talk (oh…and listen listen, listen).
- Decorate a pine cone from a pine tree with peanut butter and bird seed. Hang in a tree for the birds. Click Here
- Cut branches from a pine tree. Use as a paint brush to paint a picture.
- Count to Ten. Try to twenty.
- Make a tent by throwing a blanket over a table. Read a book in your tent by flashlight
Mrs. Hughes