Letter "Ee" Activities

We wasn't able to do letter activities for a couple of weekend because we were out somewhere during those weekends, and was only able to resume with our letter sessions last Sunday and yesterday.

So without further ado, let me now share the stuffs we did with our letter E activities.

E is for Elephant craft

e is for Elmo craft

Since I have friends who's asking me if I were using templates for these letter crafts, and some even asking for a link were to download it. For the record, all of the letter crafts we did were all hand drawn and pre-cutted by me (I sometimes let Lady bug cut simple and small shapes like the squares and triangles we had on our Alligator and Dinosaur crafts, to practice her scissor skill). But I admit the idea is certainly not from me, I also research and check the world wide web for ideas and inspirations from others.

Letter Recognition

Forming while sorting capital letter E and small letter e using circle sticky labels. I write capital letter E and small letter e on sticky labels, so basically she's not only forming the letters but also sorting it to make her more familiar with their formation difference.

Another letter recognition activity. We had a lot of fun with this white crayon resist activity. I pre-write the letter E and e on a white paper, I then asked her to paint the white paper, you should see how amazed she was when a letter magically appear after she painted it with watercolors. It's now time to asked whether the letter she found was a capital E or small e.

We also did a little math along with this activity, by counting how many the capital and how many small letters we found.

We also had capital & small letter Ee hunting and stamping.

Letter Tracing

Tracing is a great activity to practice writing skill. I just recently found a cheap letter tracing guide at the St. Francis Square in Ortigas, they have it in both alphabets (for 120.00php) and numbers (for 79.75php).

Vocabulary

E is for Emotions. Of all the activities we did this was lady Bug's favorite.

See how happy she was while making different face emotions.

I'll be sharing the step by step instruction on how I made this magnetic emotions. This may look like a complicated one but this is actually easy to prepare.

Materials:

1. Any metal/tin board.
2. Freehand drawn  eyes, eyebrows and mouths on a piece of paper. (I use marker pens so the lines will be thicker).
3. Magnetic sheet/strips.
4. A pair of googly eyes.
5. Transparent packaging tape.
6. Double sided tape
7. Scissors.

Instruction:

1. Cut the freehand drawn eyes, eyebrows and mouths following its shapes, I cut mine not too close on the drawn object so there would be enough space to conceal the strip of magnet at the back.

2. Place a strip of magnet at the back of each drawn objects and wrapped it with transparent packaging tape, then sniff of those extra tape around the object, to prevent it from tearing easily and make it last longer. If you have a laminator machine you may laminate it before atta attaching a piece of magnetic strips at the back.

3. Attached also magnetic strip on the back of your googly eyes using a double sided tape.

4. Finally draw a circle on your metal board.

You can now have fun making emotions with your DIY magnetic emotions.

silly face

scared face

surprised face

angry face

sad face

happy face

After doing this activity, while cleaning up the materials I used in making this project, I found this circle tin can on my storage box. It is actually a candy container from Japan, a pasalubong (homecoming treat) from a friend. Anyway upon seeing the container I knew exactly that this would be perfect for our magnetic faces. This would be a great travel kit activity for kids, since it has a lid it can hold all the magnetic pieces inside when not in use and when using it during travels, the container will hold the unused pieces while the lid can be used to make different emotions.

Bible Story/Character.

E is for brave and beautiful Queen Esther. Again we read the story of Queen Esther on our Kids Bible App and learned how God used Queen Esther to saved his people. After reading the story we made this crown craft using a foam sheets and sticker gems to decorate it.

Books.

Our featured books for this activity was about the Elephant fun and 2 of the Elmer the Elephant series which is Elmer's weather and Elmer's friends (one of Lady Bug's favorite books)

Till our next activity. Bye bye!!! =)

Letter "Dd" Activities

We're now on Letter D with our Letter Activities

Letter Identification.

Identfying letter "Dd" by putting a stickers on them. You should see how excited Lady Bug was, when she learned that we will be using sticker on this activity. She loves stickers so much, so I think we will be doing this again on other letters, or will try to re-create a similar activity.

Pre-Writing.

Letter D stamping activity

Tracing Letter "Dd" with chalk and chalk board. I pre-cut an uppercase and lowercase letter D on an illustration board. I introduce the letter to Jashley and Yanyan (our guest classmate for this session), and asked them if they can say a word that starts with letter D. And then I handover the letters to them together with a chalk, and did a little demonstration on how to do the activity.

This kind of activity can be classified as Multi-Sensory Activity wherein the child is using almost all their senses all at once in learning. They are seeing the letter, touching them, and also hearing its sound as we repeatedly saying it or using it with words. This helps the child retain the information they gather into their long term memories.

Another letter tracing activity using our wipe & clean flash cards.

Arts and Crafts.

D is for Duck craft.

d is for dinosaur craft.

Notice that this time I let her use the glue directly from its bottle as compare to the glue sponges we use from our previous activities. It is because (1) I realize I need to let her experience the bottle squeezing & glue spreading since it will also help in refining her motor skills (2) I have yet to add layers of sponges on our glue sponge to prevent her fingers on getting glue from the sides of the container.

Bible Story.

Photo from the Bible Kids APP

D is for David, the main character of our Bible Story for this topic. We have this Goliath face target that I got on this site, I pasted it on a cardboard to make it sturdy. For the stone I actually made a bean bag before for the similar activity we did at chuch, but I cannot find them. Since I didn't have enough time making them again before Lady Bug wakes up from her afternoon nap, I settled with socks that I stuffed with small toy inside to make it a little heavy, enough to beat our Goliath print-out.

This is a great gross motor skills activity. I bet she had so much fun with this activity cause she doesn't wan't to stop playing with it. I think this is a cue for me to prepare more gross motor activity for my ever so active toddler.

Featured Book.

Our letter D book is the Daddy Loves Me and the best seller Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell that my little girl loves to read.