Letter E Week

Letter E Week /Exercise Week & Color Purple

Alright lets get caught up here.  Letter E Week-on Monday, I introduce the Letter, we sing a song and make this page (uppercase E and lowercase e)

We play a Letter E game.  E is for Elf, Exercise, Elephant, Envelope, Eggs, Energizer Battery and Elmo. I hide the things and then the children get to find them.  We practice the letter E sound (two sounds-long/short) while we play the game.

On Wednesday we work on writing the letter E.  First we practice with little white boards and dry erase markers.  Then we practice on our alphabet page with crayons and pencils.  Because it is also exercise week, we also practiced all of the stretches on the paper. 

One of our favorite things during the week is our food experience.  Letter E is tricky so I went with a healthy snack, something to eat after exercise.  We talked a lot about healthy food and junk food, since we read "The Bearenstein Bears and TOO MUCH JUNK FOOD" (it took us two days).

On Friday, our science experiment for the week was mixing the color purple.  I divided the class into teams of two, one person used the dropper to put blue in the bottle and the other person to use the dropper and put red in the jar.  What does it make?  Yep, purple.  Plus the droppers were great fine motor practice.

On Friday, we read the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and made a spider web art project.

These are the books we read this week.

One of the fun things we did for exercise week was dancing with rhythm sticks to a cd.  The songs give you instructions and movements to follow.  We did a movement song everyday for our exercise.  

We had some great snacks for letter E as well, cheddar bunny crackers and capri suns, eclairs, crackers, fruit snacks and pretzel gold fish. This year more than any other year, the children are such good eaters and are really enjoying snack time.  Thank you for all the wonderful snacks.

It was another fabulous week!
-Miss Heidi