Letter E

I wrote this back in March but forgot to post it:

This week hasn't been going as well for us as last week. We've had bad weather, closing Butterfly's preschool on Wednesday and Thursday. That's really thrown things off!

I tried just talking about several letter E words all week rather than focusing on a different word/theme each day. I'm not sure it's worked better. I think that focus each day really helped drive home the point. Monkey could name several M words by Friday. I don't think that's happened this week. Again, that could be because Butterfly has been home...

Monday

• We read It Begins With E from This Reading Mama's letter E pack.
• We stamped E's inside the capital E from the same resource.
• We sang the ABC song while pointing to the letters on the big E page from Enchanted Homeschooling Mom's Sing With Me Through the ABC's.
• The big hit was a pan I filled with rice and plastic Easter Egg halves. Monkey had a blasty-blast scooping, pouring, burying, and just generally making a mockery of my living room floor.

Tuesday

• We read It Begins With E from This Reading Mama's letter E pack again. 
• We cut the letter sound pictures from the same resource apart and glued them outside our big E from yesterday.
• We again sang with Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.
• We colored the E crown from the same resource. I cut it out, too, and wanted to put it together for Monkey but of course I couldn't find the stapler.
• We read through (multiple times) the Letter E Songs and Rhymes Mini Book from The Measured Mom. We skipped the elephant song to wait until tomorrow...

Wednesday. Here's where things seemed to go awry. We did get some stuff done, just not what I had hoped.

• We read It Begins With E from This Reading Mama's letter E pack again. Then we pretended to be all the E words. We pretended we were elephants and eagles, we pretended to crack an egg, etc. We each also chose one and acted it out and the other two of us tried to guess which one it was. They loved this and it helped me make sure they understood the vocabulary.
• We again sang with Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.
• We read through the Letter E Songs and Rhymes Mini Book from The Measured Mom. This time we did sing the elephant song, using Finger puppets! again from The Measured Mom.
• Monkey and Butterfly spent a good long while cutting and gluing on their own while I rocked Alligator. Butterfly cut words off the front of a Sophia the First coloring book to add to her art. It turned out pretty cool. Monkey just kept gluing scraps in one spot in the middle of her paper, one on top of the other but it kept them busy for a while, thank goodness. They made that activity up on their own but I'm going to count it as scissors and pasting practice. Kindergarten readiness, here we come!

Thursday saw two dentist appointments, story time at the library, a trip to Target, a doctor appointment, and another trip to Target to get a prescription with all three kids in tow since school was closed again. Whew. We did look for E's in the car! Not enough, I know.

Friday

• We finished putting together our crown! Monkey loved it.
• We read It Begins With E from This Reading Mama's letter E pack again.
• We used an E stamp and an elephant stamp to decorate the lowercase E from the same resource.
• We used do a dot markers to cover the E's on the elephant page, still from This Reading Mama's letter E pack.
• We decorated an Easter egg. I cut a large E shape out of construction paper and gave Monkey do a dot markers, some crayons, and some lengths of fancy tape and let her decorate to her heart's content.
• We practiced coloring elephants.
• We again sang with Enchanted Homeschooling Mom and then we used play dough to make E's on the play dough mat from that resource.

We again sang with Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.