I had a difficult time finding items that started with the letter E, so this was not a very Egg-citing week. The items in the Alphabet box were: elephant, eggs and elves. Books that accompanied our list of "E" items were: Babar, Green Eggs and Ham, and The Elves and the Shoemaker.
Two of our elephant activities were an elephant puzzle and a pre-writing exercise printed from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
We had lots of fun with egg day. We first read Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. Stella just loved this book and asked me to read it over and over. We talked about rhyming words like fox-box, house-mouse. Then we set out to crack some eggs. I numbered the eggs in the egg carton 1-6 and we counted them.
Next, I "scrambled" the numbers up (did not get a picture, sorry) and called out the number of the egg I wanted Stella to crack.
Next, Stella added green food coloring and whisked up the eggs.
Stella will not eat eggs, so we didn't attempt to cook these. Instead, we made a kid-friendly version of green eggs using pudding.
Voila! Here is our finished project. Green pudding with a Vanilla Wafer for a yoke and some sprinkles just for a touch of fun.
At the end of our "egg time", I gave Stella a hard boiled egg and we talked about how Nana had cooked the egg on the stove in very hot water. Then I asked her to try to crack it. She was a little puzzled. I explained that cooking the egg made it become solid and hard (probably over her head, but it's an introduction into liquid/solid)
When she finally got to the yoke part, she said (Ewww - poo-poo) I'm guessing she didn't like it :)
And that was our "Egg Day".
For Elves day, I made two stick puppet elves and let Stella play with them while I read, The Elves and the Shoemaker. No pictures here.
Thank you for letting me share our short "E" week with you.
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