Letter E

We actually took two weeks on letter E. I had Lasik eye surgery last week and this week, my whole family is coming in from out of town for Rowin's birthday party. It's been a bit busy, so we just stretched one week into two. It worked out to be about four days.

Day 1:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse: Matthew 22:37-38 (He has it memorized!! I'm so proud of him!! Insert bursting mommy heart-is that an emoji?)
• Calendar/Weather + the following Dr. Jean songs
• Days of the Week
• Macarena Months
• Tooty Ta (Um, he LOVES this song! Hilarious.)
• Tracing Practice-Last week, he was getting frustrated trying to trace the letters, so I found this free tracing printable to practice just following different kinds of lines. I stuck it in a clear sheet cover and had him use a dry erase marker so that we can use it again.

Free Tracing Printable

• Reviewed A-D and introduced E flashcard
• Letter Maze-I have been searching for one of these that I like and finally found one that has capital AND lowercase and it's not in a weird font. You have to find all of the E's to get to the end of the maze. If you think you would reuse these, you can slip them into a clear sheet cover and use dry erase markers. We just used dot markers and then I (secretly) threw it away.

Free A-Z Letter Maze Printables

• Letter Basket-Not a ton that starts with E, but Rowin found elephants, eggs, Elsa, and eggplant.

Day 2:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Calendar Weather
• Reviewed A-E flashcards
• Block Letter (link for free printable on Letter A post)
• Rowin traced it with his finger, saying the verbal prompt, "Big line down, frog jump! Across the top, across the middle, across the bottom."
• Next he filled it in with these fun sticky foam balls that we found at the Dollar Store.

• Writing-Like I mentioned above, Ro was getting frustrated trying to trace letters in his workbook last week so this week we scrapped that. No need to make him discouraged over writing when he's three! I want him to love it! So instead, we did "air writing". We stood up, stuck our arms straight out, like a huge pencil, and wrote E's in the air, saying our verbal prompt as we did it. After we did a few capital E's, I gave him this tray with salt in it, and he practiced tracing them with his finger in the salt. Then we repeated the whole thing for lowercase-first air writing, then salt writing. He loved both of these! The verbal prompt that we said for e was, "Across, up and around."

(I had this little tray from some lacing cards-it was perfect for holding the flashcards in front of him so he could see.)

Idea Credit

Day 3:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Calendar/Weather
• Name Practice-I put a bunch of Post-It notes on the wall, each with a different letter. He had to find the letters in his name and put them in order. After that, I said one letter at a time (for example, "lowercase b") and he had to find it, take it off the wall, and give it to me. (I only used letters we've learned + the letters in his name.)

• Reviewed A-E flashcards
• Dot Marker Page (link for free printable on Letter A post)-Oops! Sorry, forgot to take a pic.

• Eagle Craft-in hind sight, we should have done something that started with a short e sound since that's what he learned. Thought of that too late.

Letter of the Week Craft Ideas

Day 4:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Calendar/Weather
• Reviewed A-E
• Practiced writing A-E (capital and lowercase) in salt (If you're child gets frustrated with writing, this is a GREAT option! If he didn't like how a letter looked after he wrote it, he just shook the salt to "erase" and tried again.)
• Number Matching Game
• I numbered clothes pins 1-10 and had Rowin put them in order. 

• Then he had to clip the clothes pins on the matching number picture cards. 

• Patterns-I started a few different patterns and he had to finish them. This was good for him to practice drawing shapes too. Ha, his circles got a little crazy towards the end. :)