We watched Signing Time volume 4: Family, Feelings, Fun in the morning. We also went to the library's story time where we learned about the letter "J" and jungles.
After naptime I brought Monkey upstairs and let him explore his "E" letter box. I need to get upper and lower case letters done and laminated so I can put them in so he can have exposure to both. I also wanted to add a few more things to it but didn't have the time to get stuff printed and laminated (or sewn-I want to make a felt eggplant). So now for a break down of what's in the E box!
-Alphatales E book: The Enormous Elephant Show
-The eel picture found here (ocean animals ABCs)
-Excited (the one from the matching and from the feelings book)
-Exhausted (the one from the feelings book)-Ear (we're using it for our senses folder)
-Eye (we're using it for our senses folder)
-Foam E (see materials-it's from the mat)
-Eight (one is from the LDS file folder book I found from the "Noah's Numbers" game and the other is from here see the counting one)
-Monkey's "Green Elephant" that my cousins gave him when he was born (it's a Carter's brand)
We read:
Alphatales E book (right after we opened our box)
Over in the Ocean
-this book was really fun, it was like the Jungle one we read before it's supposed to be sung/read to the tune of Over in the Meadow. It was really fun.Ocean Babies
-this one was really fun to introduce the babies in the oceanOctopus, Oyster, Hermit Crab, Snail: A poem About the Sea
(we read this before)And not related to our theme:
Diary of a Worm
(we requested this one when we talked about worms but it FINALLY came through)-this one is great to learn about the lives of worms and what they do-written in diary form. Fun for kids!Spot Loves His Grandma
Spot Loves His Daddy
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
We also looked at the tot book we made (for details see this post)
Before bed we read Plenty of Penguins
(we got this one from the thrift store). It's a beginning reader to teach about penguins.
I love this! What a terrific idea! And I have to check out the alphatales books - how can I never have heard of them?? This one looks really good! Great post!
ReplyDeleteI'm now a few days behind-LONG week. If you click on the materials used link on the left side there's a link to the description of the books. I got mine in a set off eBay (new) but you can buy them through Amazon. If I remember right they're Scholastic so you might be able to order straight from them.
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