I Love Homeschool - Letter E week

Another 4 day week of school in our house-
due to more moving preparations.

Marigold finished reading "The Dark is rising" this week-

she's really burning through the series!

Egg Day:

We sang Humpty Dumpty

and read Horton Hatches the Egg 

We learned about what eggs are, 

and what kinds of animals lay eggs

My phone was almost dead, so I have next to no pictures :(

After doing lots of worksheets, 

we had an egg hunt for snack time 

I just put small amounts of different snacks in the plastic easter eggs,

and hide them around the yard.

Each kid gets assigned a color to keep them from fighting

They really LOVED this 

We did sight words hidden in eggs as well 

ELEPHANT DAY:

We sang a song about Elephants playing on spiderwebs,

and read Horton Hears a who

Caleb made our board :)

Pattern Blocks

and our Letter E Folder from last year-

with a fun Upper and Lower case letter matching game

Ashlynn loves the little puzzles from the letter folders

Instead of using do a dot markers, we used circle stickers

on our E is for Elephant worksheet.

Ashlynn got her face paint early, 

while Caleb did some math worksheets that were more on his level than hers

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We had peanuts in the shell for snack time - messy, but fun!

We watched a few short movies about elephants a the same time.

Then we made elephants with play dough

Caleb's turned out pretty well :)

We finished up the day with a pink elephant craft

And Caleb got his face paint too

Oh, and since it was Pizza movie night, we watched DUMBO

EAGLE DAY:

Another day with very few pictures, 

but it was fun!

I had 6 small worksheets,  which taught all about eagles-

Their traits, habitats, life cycle, etc...

They ended up being stapled together to make an E is for Eagle book :)

snack was goldfish, since eagles Love eating fish

I found quite a few great youtube videos teaching about bald eagles.

We watched them, and finished our day with this cute craft

They really enjoy any craft where we can incorporate their handprints 

EYES DAY:

Caleb drew our picture again :)

We rolled dice and glued googly eyes on our "monsters"

Ashlynn wanted an angry monster

Caleb made his a scary one

I found this great skip counting eye worksheet online

Doing an eye unit this time of year was great-

because the dollar store has all kinds of eyeball things

available for Halloween!

We used some eyeballs to do another math game

Then we made graphs and charts to show the eye color of our family members 

Brown is definitely the winner!

We had eyeball snack mix

and then talked about how thankful we are for our vision.

We also played a game I made using Keynote (it's like powerpoint)

One slide would have a picture cropped to show only  eyes,

and the kids would guess whose eyes they were.

The next slide showed the entire picture.

It took only a few minutes to put together, and all of the kids really enjoyed it!