Joy for Joy School: Day 1: E is for ELEPHANT

Today we learned about the letter E. We started off with circle time. Everyone was super excited to help with the weather! Dino the Dinosaur started off reading our book "Green Eggs and Ham". Eggs start with the letter E I told them. And all of them agreed that they did not want to eat green eggs and ham from Sam... We then read a book titled "Are you ticklish?". Every child loved tickling all of the animals in the book and laughed and laughed as they did!

We went on and used our fine motor skills to use elbow macaroni to trace our letter e. The kids did a great job! Everett and RJ were very particular and took the longest on this activity, making sure they put them just right while munching on a few noodles along the way ;-) . Isaac, Kaylee, and Jared were super speedy and done in no time! Those that finished quickly moved onto the other worksheet that had pictures of words that start with E like Elephant, Eskimo, and Egg. They colored and traced on that worksheet.

After that everyone enjoyed their Elephant sandwiches with peanuts! Peanuts are an elephant's favorite snack, right? :-) Even baby Michael wanted in on these Elephant sandwiches, luckily I had an extra.

Once snack was over we used our large motor skills and went on an elephant treasure hunt. We all used our arms as a trunk and made elephant sounds to try and find where the elephant's treasure may be. We looked in rooms all over the house and then made our way outside. Once outside we turned the corner and found the elephant treasure! Can you guess what it was? PEANUTS!!!! The kids had a great time stomping on the peanuts with their big elephant feet!