Highlights from "E" Week

Learning Along the Alphabet Path

~ Letter Formation ~

Letter "E" out of Modeling Beeswax

As well as an Elephant and a little nest with (green!) Eggs.

I also made the girls a Letter E Worksheet in addition to their HWT Wooden Pieces, etc...

(Sorry, no pictures... I didn't have my camera the first couple days of the week.)

~ Eyebright Fairy Coloring Pages ~

From this Coloring Book

(While looking at the Flower Fairies Alphabet book and listening to the CD!)

~ Picture Book Science and More ~

E is for Electricity

Science Book of Electricity
Bill Nye The Science Guy: Electrical Current (DVD)
Electricity (The Usborne Young Scientist Series)
Electricity
Switch On, Switch Off (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

E is for Endangered Animals: Bald Eagles and African Elephants

Endangered Species Coloring Book (pdf) We used Page 24 for the Bald Eagle.
Endangered Elephant Coloring Page and Comprehension Worksheet

Illustration by Twinkle Toes
using Draw Write Now: Animals of the World, Dry Land Animals

E is for Emperor Penguins

Illustration by Rascal
using Draw Write Now: The Polar Regions, Arctic, Antarctic

~ Picture Study :: Brian Connelly's Brown and White Eggs ~

Using Museum ABC, Museum ABC Nesting Blocks, and Elizabeth's pdf

An Extraordinary Egg
The Egg (First Discovery Books)
The Sun Egg

~ E is for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton ~

Our Painted Saint Elizabeth for with

An Alphabet of Catholic Saints

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Paper Doll

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Coloring Page
Copywork from An Alphabet of Catholic Saints

We read St. Elizabeth Ann Seton by Father Lovasik, which is wonderful, but I am hoping to add Kat Finds a Friend, Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity, and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Daughter of America to our collection since we will be studying her more later this year for Little Flowers.

~ E is for Elsa Beskow ~

These are a few of the books we read at bedtime this week:

Pelle's New Suit
Children of the Forest
Ollie's Ski Trip
Peter and Lotta's Adventure
Around the Year


~ Crafts : E is for Embroidery ~

We started out with lacing shapes, including a few "Engines." I had meant to order the Fairies of the Field Lacing Cards, but then I completely forget... (I've been doing that a lot lately!)

I then pulled out a Embroidery Kit, which I had purchased on clearance from Hearthsong a while back, and started to introduce the girls to Embroidery.

I think it is going to be awhile before the girls are really able to embroider on their own, but I just couldn't pass up this opportunity to try out Charlotte's Saints n' Stiches. In fact, she even has a St. Elizabeth of Hungary! The girls helped (mainly watching each step and choosing floss colors), but I pretty much did all of the embroidery work. (It had been YEARS -- and even at that, I only ever learned how to cross-stich so I am sure I made plenty of mistakes -- but I really enjoyed it!! My super sore fingers, not so much.)

I still need to finish them up by making them into little dolls... Hopefully this week!

Closeups:

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

One of my Confirmation Saints

St. Therese of Lisieux

Another one of my favorites!

~ Serendipi-Tea Time ~

We enjoyed lots of "E" foods this week including Enchiladas, Eggos,

English muffins and lots of Eggs...

For our baking project/tea time this week we made

Easy Elephant Ears Cookies!

Here's the recipe/instructions.

Can you tell that someone just lost her second tooth?

We are moving right along...
Tomorrow morning we will begin another Fun week!