Letter Ee

"E" topics...egg, elephant

{Circle Time}

Calendar...Talk about the month and days of the week and put sticker on the day we are discussing.

Reading...days of the week book...No Hugs Till Saturday by Julie Downing

...theme books...My "e" Book by Jane Belk Moncure

"Stand Back," Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!" by Patricia Thomas

Elephants on Board by Suse MacDonald

Hide and Seek Elmer and Elmer Takes Off by David McKee

Two Eggs, Please by Sarah Weeks

Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Songs/Rhymes...The E says..., Do Your Ears Hang Low, Head & Shoulders{...eyes, ears...}

{Letter Craft}

E is for Elephant...inspired by this blog

{Activities}

Coloring...Letter Ee

Elephants...After reading the Elmer books we had an activity to go along with it. I printed an elephant that looked similar to Elmer and cut some squares out of several different colors of paper. Little Bit glued the squares all over the elephant to make her own colorful Elmer!

Letter Identification...used craft sticks to build the letter E

...find the letter worksheet

...upper/lower letter matching

Spelling...We worked on spelling EGG this week. I wrote the word and drew a picture on our dry erase board. Each day I had Little Bit spell and sound out the word.

...tray with magnetic letters and cards with words {EGG, ELF}. Little Bit placed the corresponding letters over the letters on the cards...while sounding out each letter.

Math...I made an egg matching game with numbers. I took some plastic easter eggs and with a black sharpie wrote the number on 1 end of the egg and made corresponding dots on the other end. Then I separate all the eggs and placed them in a basket. Little Bit had to find the ends that matched up by identifying the number and then counting the dots to match. She would place the matching halves together and place in a egg carton.

Dot to Dot...E is for elephant dot to dot. This was a great exercise for getting letters in the correct order and drawing lines! Little Bit loves dot to dots....so I keep incorporating them into our weekly plans!

Computer time...Starfall {we worked in the ABC section with the letter E} and Fisher Price{they have some great learning games and online coloring pages}.

...Little Bit also loves to get in some computer time when we go the library. They have computers set up in the children's area with games, stories, etc. Her favorite one to do is Just Grandma & Me by Mercer Mayer. She puts on the headphones and watches/listens to the story!

{Snack Ideas}

eggs, ear of corn, elephant ear, egg rolls