E is for Elephant

We are mid-way through our E unit.  Peter made capital and lower case E's out of pattern blocks.

Our E proverb is A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place.  We read The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room and Peter dictated a book report about what happened in the story and what lesson the cubs learned (spoiler: it is more fun to play in a tidy room).

Peter did a cut and paste puzzle of an elk.  He spontaneously started talking about animals in the elk family.  He came up with moose and deer.  I added caribou.  We talked about the size differences between the various animals, but could only agree that deer are littler and the rest are bigger.

Then, Peter and Elliot did some craft time together.  Peter cut random artistic shapes and arranged them into an elephant and Elliot poured, dumped, sorted and gnawed on crayons.