We had another busy week full of house negotiations and lots of stress, but the boys and I did manage to fit in some E activities. We started off the week with a field trip down to the science museum. The boys always love the Energy Hall, so we spent lots and lots of time there. Will is fascinated by the section that describes how a refinery works.
On the way out, we found Earth on the planet pathway, which tied into our next craft project.
At home, we made an elephant E and an Earth e. Henry loved finger-painting his e to make it look like the Earth!
We read several elephant books to go along with our elephant E. The boys' favorites were the Elmer books by David McKee, Bernard's Bath by Joan Goodman, and Today I Will Fly! by Mo Willems. If you haven't heard of Elmer, he is a multi-colored elephant, so we made our own Elmers by "painting" tissue paper onto a elephant.
On the way out, we found Earth on the planet pathway, which tied into our next craft project. At home, we made an elephant E and an Earth e. Henry loved finger-painting his e to make it look like the Earth!
I think they're pretty cute!
We read several elephant books to go along with our elephant E. The boys' favorites were the Elmer books by David McKee, Bernard's Bath by Joan Goodman, and Today I Will Fly! by Mo Willems. If you haven't heard of Elmer, he is a multi-colored elephant, so we made our own Elmers by "painting" tissue paper onto a elephant.
The craft didn't exactly turn out like it was supposed to.
The water "paint" was supposed to soak the tissue paper enough so that when the tissue paper dried and fell off, you were left with a multicolored elephant. Our tissue paper didn't really bleed, but the boys sure had fun painting their elephants. 
For our cooking project this week, I had planned to make earth muffins (blueberry muffins with green food coloring) but we just ran out of time. We did have a couple of eggplants on hand from our CSA box that we needed to use up, so the boys helped me try out a new recipe that was basically a combination of eggplant Parmesan and baked ziti. 
Henry is such a good little helper! He sprinkled the eggplant with salt and later he even helped me bread the eggplant slices.
So, despite another busy week, we still managed to have a lot of fun exploring the letter E!
For our cooking project this week, I had planned to make earth muffins (blueberry muffins with green food coloring) but we just ran out of time. We did have a couple of eggplants on hand from our CSA box that we needed to use up, so the boys helped me try out a new recipe that was basically a combination of eggplant Parmesan and baked ziti. Henry is such a good little helper! He sprinkled the eggplant with salt and later he even helped me bread the eggplant slices.So, despite another busy week, we still managed to have a lot of fun exploring the letter E!
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