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e is for painted eggs

found at the thrift shop we used these life-sized clay eggs for painting. we talked about the tradition at easter of decorating eggs and we looked at this picture on my computer of colored bird eggs: then they had the freedom to paint as they liked.

e is for egg shells

thanks to many families (and panera) we had enough egg shells to crush and glue on cardboard eggs. the crushing seemed really therapeutic. the freedom to use as much glue as needed was fun (in one morning we used 4 bottles). this is reminiscent of the nut piles we made last year. this activity wasContinue reading “e is for egg shells”

l is for letter

i dabble in the handwriting without tears curriculum. mostly i am fascinated by the desire to make letter writing easily successful for children. one thing we do that is handwriting-withou- tears-ish is give craft sticks or wide gross grain ribbon strips to form the letters. here we have a 5 stick capital E:

e is for egg experiment

when the words “science experiment” or “let’s go to the kitchen” are spoken…there is obvious excitement. here was one of our science experiments (done in the kitchen!) for e week: it really is an amazing experiment. one litle guy said, “okay. i. am. doing. this. at. home. with. my. dad.” consider yourself warned, russ. andContinue reading “e is for egg experiment”

d is for dinosaur

we had a wonderful unit on dinosaurs in honor of d week. thanks to a couple of students, i learned more facts than i came in with. • • • • • • • we focused on the d sound by adding dots to precut dinosaur shapes. . • • • • • • •Continue reading “d is for dinosaur”