the letter E @ Malachi's

First day of Funbox preschool at Malachi's house. He was so excited for all his friends to come to his house and play and learn. The first two here were Alema and Kailia. Alema was so funny. First thing he did was take off his backpack, and take out his "mail", his football and a cup o noodles. By the way, the football was a "University of Utah" football, which I thought was against the law in the Foster household! LOL! Maybe he got it from his uncle that coaches at the U. Wonder if Walter knows about that? hahaha!


We welcomed the children with our greeting song, Where is ...? They all took their turns and everyone knew the routine.  Alema was our flag helper and he did a wonderful job.  Aisa predicted sunny weather.  Next was our Days of the week song.  We sang it a few times.  Alema asked us to sing it quietly because his mommy like it quiet.  So we did, I kind of like it sung quietly too.


This week’s letter is E.  After introducing the E, each was able to identify an E on our signs.  When they found the E, I had them push the letter E on the Leap Frog that sang a song about the sound of E.  I also had a pillowcase with the E on it that had different items in it that start with E like envelope, Elmo, earth, egg, elephant, and Ernie.  We sang our EE, what do you see song as everyone picked an item.  

 Craft time went smoothly.  We broke our Elephant Art Project up into two parts— painting the hand prints and gluing on the ears and eyes. Aisa didn’t want to paint his so I traced his hand instead. The girls seemed to enjoy picking out their googly eyes and gluing on the parts. 


 For Snack Time we had oranges, grapes, bananas and a fruit dip shape like an elephant.   We also had baked elephant ears (biscuits dipped in cinnamon and sugar).  Kuulei was a so helpful but decided she wanted to go play with all the others.   Kailia loved grapes.  Kuulei thought the elephant ears were tasty.  Aisa started eating the orange and then says, Auntie I don’t like this orange.  I look over and I realized that he was trying to eat the skin of the orange (hahaha). I showed him which part to eat, and he discovered that he loved the orange! Snack time was awesome!

 For our little science activity, didn't really go as I planned. I found a little experiment to try online, and I was misled. We tried to see if an egg would float in water, if it had salt in it. The instructions were to put "a lot" of salt in the water, but how much is "a lot"? I put what I thought was "a lot", but I guess it wasn't enough, because the experiment didn't work. Guess the kids will just have to remember that an egg won't float in water. They were excited that the egg went to the bottom, and appeared to look bigger. Since I forgot to have Malachi help with the crafts, I had him help me with the failed science experiment.  


We had music time, and sang a song about 5 little elephants. Kailia was our music helper today, and she was very cute. We used some felt boards to help us with our "little mouse" song. The kids really had fun with that.

As always, the kids enjoy their free play time. I noticed that they all play really well together, and it's nice. Just as long as there are enough toys to go around! Didn't see any fighting at all! They even little little Elijah play with them.

I was looking forward to reading time. I checked out some elephant books from the library, but I guess the kids don't really care for elephants, or maybe just books with elephants. We ended up pretending to be elephants, and making elephant noises. We had a ton of fun with that.

The boys love to play and ride the little bikes. The little girls are so funny. Kuulei was reading an Elmo book, and Kailia kept busy with a little puzzle. It's so funny to see the contrast in behavior between the little boys and girls. The boys are so in to throwing the football, and cars, and the girls seem to stay on task much better. It's so cute.

Well, I think today went really well. I've been preparing and stressing and I survived. :) I appreciate being able to have this little funbox school with all you ladies and our kids. It's great for them, and us. Thanks for all your efforts.

Wednesday we will learn about the color orange please have your child bring something orange for show and tell.  We will be taking picture too.