We had so much fun learning about the letter E today. We started off by playing with the circus tent, circus finger puppets and face painting. Everyone wanted to be a clown, which was easy enough. We simply used watercolors for the face painting. Using just a small amount of water gives you a thicker paint and it still washes off very easily. E the Elephant lifts weights, so we practiced our exercising, "e-e-e".
We're continuing our study of 3D shapes and played with cones and spheres today. We cut out cone shaped circus tents and practiced an ABC dot-to-dot from the Amazing Action Alphabet.
With the letter E in our knowledge bank we can now read the word bed. We write the word bed and then outline the letters to make a picture of a bed. I then draw a little person sleeping on the bed. I teach a lowercase b and d trick with the word bed. Simply make two fists and put them together to make your bed. When you run into a lowercase b or d check your fists and see if the shape matches the b at the beginning or the d at the end of your "bed". Train your preschooler to reference this trick and they'll always be able to determine the lowercase b or d.
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