To start off the learning, we sang a song with hand movements about turtles, as Sarah has been teaching them the letter “T.” T is for turtle. Then we read the book Turtle Splash: Countdown at the Pond.

We did several activities involving T is for turtle: coloring a T is for Turtle Page and tracing the upper case "T" and lower case "t;" gluing cut paper on a turtle to create a collage; and gluing the legs, head, and tail on paper to create a turtle’s body and then adding green paper squares to create the shell.

We also practiced pasting cut paper to make a collage on a printout of a glue bottle. Our message: "In This Class We Stick Together!" Then the students drew with markers on paper to create images of their choice.