{"id":2005,"date":"2007-01-20T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2009-11-25T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:48:32","slug":"learn-the-alphabet-arts-and-crafts-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Alphabet Arts and Crafts – E"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Present a lower case and capital E to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 Explain that E is one of the letters that sometimes makes the same sound as its name.\u00c2\u00a0 Give examples of long E words, such as eagle, easy, easel and evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Ask if she knows another sound E makes.\u00c2\u00a0 Give examples of short e sounds like elephant and egg.<\/p>\n

2. Read Edward the Emu<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00c2\u00a0 Go on a scavenger hunt to find E items to create an E bag — envellope, egg, ear, earring, elephant, elastic, eraser, etc<\/p>\n

4. Create an E collage for your child’s aphabet book.\u00c2\u00a0 Have her search through magazines for words that begin with the letter E<\/p>\n

5. Provide a cutout E, taped to waxed paper for easy cleanup.\u00c2\u00a0 Show child than egg and explain that you will be making paint from the yolks.\u00c2\u00a0 Place yolk in a small cup and color with a few drops of food coloring.\u00c2\u00a0 Have your child paint her E with the yolk paint (It’s thick and dries to a beautiful sheen and smooth finish).\u00c2\u00a0 Have her cover the entire letter.\u00c2\u00a0 When it fries, attach to a sheet of paper to place into her alphabet book.<\/p>\n

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.\u00c2\u00a0 Your child should trace and print several E’s, and then glue the envellope below.\u00c2\u00a0 Fill the envellope with E pictures and place in alphabet book.<\/p>\n

7. Other activities:\u00c2\u00a0 try eggs prepared in different ways — scrambled, hard boiled, devilled, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Rate them in order.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretend to be elephants and swing your trunks.\u00c2\u00a0 Talk about animals that hatch from eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 Take a ride in an elevator, paint on an easel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Present a lower case and capital E to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 Explain that E is one of the letters that sometimes makes the same sound as its name.\u00c2\u00a0 Give examples of long E words, such as eagle, easy, easel and evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Ask if she knows another sound E makes.\u00c2\u00a0 Give examples of short e sounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,58,8,16,15],"tags":[119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}