E is for elephant

We made a letter E into an elephant, read lots of great elephant books and made a handprint elephant. Some good books are: "Elephant on my Roof" by Erin Harris and "Half of an Elephant" by Gusti.

E is for Earth

Some good books for this subject are: Ecomazes by Roxie Munro, The Whole Green World by Johnston. We made a lowercase e to look like the earth but coloring it green and blue (http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/category/lowercase-e). We also made an earth out of a styrofoam ball. And made a collage of all the beauties of the earth we are thankful for.

More earth day ideas can be found here: http://www.thecraftycrow.net/2010/04/earth-day-crafts-treats-roundup.html

E is for egg

For the letter E this week we read "Chickens Aren't the Only Ones" by Ruth Heller and "Daisy and the Egg" by Jane Simmons. Great books! We talked about all the animals that come from eggs. I had a bunch of plastic eggs and inside I put plastic animals and bugs that hatch from eggs- dinosaur, fish, lizard, snake, lady bug, octopus, frog, etc. They took turns opening them. Then we had an Easter egg hunt. (We had lots of rounds of this. And they didn't even care that there wasn't any candy inside.) Then we talked about all the things you can do with eggs and how you can make eggs. We had boiled eggs for snack. Then we painted eggs with watercolors. And finally we made a game of matching the plastic eggs and putting them together.

Some more wonderful books for eggs: "An Egg is Quiet" by Dianna Aston, "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr Seuss, and "Minerva Louise and the Colorful Egg" by Janet Morgan Stoeke.