- Abigail is 2.5 years old (31 months) -
- Adam is 4.75 years old -
E is for Elephant
This week was “E is for Elephant” using Confessions of a Homeschooler’s Letter of the Week curriculum. Our AlphaTales book, was “The Enormous Elephant Show” and the ABC poem from the Scholastic Teacher Express ABC Poem of the Week e-book was “Eggplants to Eat and Enjoy”. After our fabulous Dinosaur week, we were much more laid back and only got around to a few things for Elephant week.
Abby’s ‘E’ Activities
Elephant Color Matching Puzzles
Pom-Pom Counting
The full picture of what goes on while I’m attempting “school” with the big kids. It’s basically semi-controlled chaos!
E/e Sorting
Elephant Size Sort
Adam helped her make them into a tower.
Abby’s Tot School Activities
The kids begged me not to return the dinosaur books to the library, so they made a frequent appearance throughout the week. Abby would bring me her favorite book and ask me to turn to the T-Rex page for her because it’s her favorite dinosaur.
We attempted this shape matching wheel a couple of weeks ago and she was not into it. This time, she figured out how to open the clothespins by herself, so I would hold the wheel and she’d stick them on.
Adam’s “E” Activities
Elephant Graphing
Any time Adam can use a dry erase marker, he’s happy!
I didn’t realize this was the only individual E activity he did this week. Whoops!
Adam’s Preschool Activities
“Kumon: Let’s Cut!” book. He asks for this just about every day!
He did a few pages from his “Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K” workbook. Here, he is drawing parts of Mat Man.
“Same or Different” workbook
We finished Part II of All About Reading Level Pre-1 which was the lowercase letters!
I thought this page was particularly cute. He colored two of the cats purple because it’s Abby’s favorite color. And he named the kittens Wheel of Fortune, Jasper, and Lover.
Jasper is the name of my parents’ cat, we frequently watch Wheel of Fortune as a family at night, (yeah, we’re old and boring now), and lover? No clue where he got that one!
Now that we are on Part III of his All About Reading lessons, we are doing two at a time so we can finish quickly. Level 1 came in the mail this week and is just so excited to start really learning to read!
Combined “E” Activities
Elephant Cut & Paste
Ee Do-a-Dot Pages
Adam Abby
Pre-writing Practice – Adam
Pre-writing Practice – Abby
She’s much more interested in tracing/coloring than Adam was at her age! I love this picture of her cute little hands.
We walked around like elephants while listening to “One Elephant Went Out to Play” on our Sharon, Lois, and Bram CD. I need to be more purposefully silly with these two silly kiddos!
Letter E Collage – googly EYES!
I didn’t get any pictures of our art project in action, because my hand was covered in paint! We made handprints and then glued on a foam ear, tail, and sun. I love that we’ve preserved our hands together in this moment of time!
The highlight of the week was getting “Elephant Ears”, aka scones, at a local café for dessert one night. Yummy!!
That was our E week!
Linking up to Tot School and Preschool Corner.
