Fun with letter E

Last week, our letter of the week was E; we did some cutting practice with paper elephants, and we used popsicle sticks to build our very own E's.

First, we colored our popsicle sticks with markers.

Getting to use markers in K3 is always a treat!

Our artists, hard at work.

Sometimes, choosing the perfect color is no easy task!

Once we were finished coloring our wooden sticks, we built our E's and Mrs. Connie hot-glued them together. We put the finishing touches on them by gluing on googly eyes. But want to hear how smart these kiddos are? One child asked us, "If e says 'ehh' (short e sound), why are we putting I's (eyes) on them?!?" Nothing gets past these guys!

The finished product.

But the best thing we did during letter E week was to check out the quail eggs that are hatching in first grade!! We went into the babies' room in groups of two or three at a time, and you would not have believed how calm and quiet they were. We were so proud of them!

We couldn't believe how tiny the baby quail were!

The white boxin the upper right corner of this picture is the egg incubator, and to its left you can see one of the empty eggs. We marveled that a perfect little chick was able to emerge from such a tiny egg!

Here you can see the empty egg even better.

So calm and careful!

Peeking in on the chicks.

The girls really wanted to pet the babies, but we weren't allowed to do that.

So sweet!

Letter E week was a really fun week!