The Mom I Want to Be

1. Present a lower case and capital E to your child.  Explain that E is one of the letters that sometimes makes the same sound as its name.  Give examples of long E words, such as eagle, easy, easel and evening.  Ask if she knows another sound E makes.  Give examples of short e sounds like elephant and egg.

2. Read Edward the Emu

3.  Go on a scavenger hunt to find E items to create an E bag — envellope, egg, ear, earring, elephant, elastic, eraser, etc

4. Create an E collage for your child’s aphabet book.  Have her search through magazines for words that begin with the letter E

5. Provide a cutout E, taped to waxed paper for easy cleanup.  Show child than egg and explain that you will be making paint from the yolks.  Place yolk in a small cup and color with a few drops of food coloring.  Have your child paint her E with the yolk paint (It’s thick and dries to a beautiful sheen and smooth finish).  Have her cover the entire letter.  When it fries, attach to a sheet of paper to place into her alphabet book.

6. Provide a worksheet with R’s for tracing across the top and a blank space below, e pictures (photocopy from book or from magazines), small envellope, and a glue stick.  Your child should trace and print several E’s, and then glue the envellope below.  Fill the envellope with E pictures and place in alphabet book.

7. Other activities:  try eggs prepared in different ways — scrambled, hard boiled, devilled, etc.  Rate them in order.  Pretend to be elephants and swing your trunks.  Talk about animals that hatch from eggs.  Take a ride in an elevator, paint on an easel