Tot School - Ee

Tot School - Ee is for Elephants, Eggs and Esther

Owen & Eli: 37 months

On Our Shelf
Elephants

Owen and Eli weren't really into the printables this week, so I didn't force it. They wanted to read all of our library books several times and love making the handprint crafts, so we just went with a low key week and had fun with it. The good news is that they have no trouble identifying E and e and know the sounds they make, so everything we did was reinforcement. The boys used their safety scissors for the first time this week and I was really impressed at how hard they worked at them. Not too bad for a first attempt! The counting printable is from here and the stick puppet printable is from here.

Eggs

Our science this week came from talking about eggs and all the different kinds of birds (and other animals) that have their babies from eggs. Many of the egg books from the library were about protecting the babies in the eggs until they hatch and trying to figure out which babies match up with which adult birds. We made this paper plate craft for our alphabet wall.

Bible

As often as I can, I'm going to start using a story or character from the Bible along with our letter of the week. For E, we read about Queen Esther and how she saved the Jews and watched the VeggiTales movie 'Esther: The Girl Who Became Queen (A Lesson in Courage).'

Next week, Letter Ff! Other Tot Schoolers can be found here : )

Tot School - Ee

Tot School - Theme - Ee

Owen & Eli: 29 months old

We took a bit of time off from Tot School during Christmas while we travelled halfway across the country to visit family for three weeks. Needless to say, the boys were excited to get back into a routine and have some structure to their day. We focused on Ee is for Elephant. I found some pretty cute ideas out there in bloggerland and came up with a couple of my own.

The boys are pretty good with capital letters - I think they actually know all of them already (thanks Super Why!), so we focused on the lowercase e for our alphabet craft.


As for our elephant activities, we played 'Hide and Seek Elephant' a lot and the boys loved it! We did some size sequencing, matched numbers to the numbers of the elephants, made elephants out of their handprints and I found an Easter egg craft that we didn't get to around Easter to focus on E is for Eggs.

We did a lot of review of other alphabet letters this week too: Starfall.com, writing letters on the magna doodle, creating letters out of their blocks and finding letters in the stories we read. We looked for elephants in their picture books too, and watched the Elephant on the Run episode of Backyardigans (I love that show : )

Hope y'all had a great week in Tot School. Onto Ff!