Overview
The children will color Es to make them elegant as they recognize and name the letter E.

Literacy Activities
Elegant Es

• Write the letter E on a whiteboard, name the letter, and have the children write the E in the air with their fingers.
• Give the children an E color page and markers or crayons and invite them to decorate the E to make it elegant.
• Make comments such as the following throughout the activity to emphasize words that start with the letter E:
  • Enjoy making elegant Es!
  • Here is an example of an elegant E.
  • You are excellent E makers!
  • Every E is excellent!
  • I am excited for elegant Es.
• Have the children fill any empty spaces on the page with E letters.

Expanding Es

• Fold the E page, then have the children help expand the E by unfolding it.
• Repeat the activity, but this time place E letter cards into the folds.
• Have the children gather up the E letter cards as they fall out and exclaim, “An E and an E! Everywhere an E!”

More Practice
Find the target letter

• Display the E letter-finding page and have the children find and circle the E letters.
• Have the children say, “I found an E!”
  • If a child misidentifies a distractor letter as the letter E, have the child compare the letter to the E on the whiteboard.
• Once the children have found all of the Es, have them make the Es elegant by coloring them.

Write Es

• Give the children the letter-writing practice page (see below).
• Let the children trace the Es and then write the Es on their own using the lines as a guide.
• Let the children color their Es to make them elegant when they finish writing (optional).