Early Years Activities for the Letter Ee
Hands-on Ideas for Teaching Phonemic Awareness
Oct 21, 2009
Teaching the letter Ee is made simple with these educational hands-on activities. These learning activities are easy to plan and deliver. Hands-on activities are key when teaching early years children letter recognition. Allowing for a child to learn at his or her own pace through guided activities is a positive learning model for young learners.
When teaching E, make sure to only teach the short sound of this vowel letter. But discuss with the students that letters often have other sounds and this letter has two sounds.
Here are some activities to teach the letter Ee.
Letter Ee Items From Home
From Letter D article: Ask children to bring in items to stay in the classroom for the week. Teachers can use these items throughout the week as examples or as in centre based activities.
Some items from home can be an elephant, Easter basket, egg, a foam letter E, envelope, eagle, Elmo and an elf.
Letter Ee Activities
Elephant Letter Activity: Using an elephant cut out, print an uppercase E on the paper. Have student cover the E with squares, beans or seeds.
Egg Letter Activity: Cut out a shape of a sunny side up egg. Print a lowercase E on the paper egg. Have student cover the e with seeds, squares or beads. Ask student for an example of an E word on the paper or print the word egg on the board for all the students to print.
Letter E Songs: Learning the song “Do you know the Eggplant Man” from the site DLTK-Teach.com will be enjoyed by all students. There are more songs at this site about the letter E for the class to learn.
Egg Activities: If there are no egg allergies in the classroom, then eggs can be brought into the room for art projects or other activities. This site about eggs gives teachers may sites to visit for information regarding poems, art projects and other egg activities.
Earth Activity: Using a globe as a model, discuss where on the globe the students live. Ask students to share where they were born. Show on the globe where the country is when each student answers the question.
Envelope Activity: Discuss with the children about sending a letter and how this method was the only method of communicating before the phone and e-mail.
Send a note home with an envelope asking parents to provide an address of someone their child would like to send a letter to, print the address on the envelope and send the addressed envelope back to school.
Have the student draw a picture and place the picture in the envelope. Place postage stamps the letters and as a class walk to the nearest post office or postal box and send the letters.
Field Trip: Go on a field trip to the Post Office and see how letters are sorted. If this is not possible, ask a Postal Carrier to come to the classroom and talk about his or her job.
Sending a loved one a message through the mail, learning an egg poem or looking on a globe to see where the school is located or where each student was born makes a connection. Making these connections will provide an understanding of the letter E and how this letter makes sense in the child’s world.
Anselmo, Sandra; Rollins, Pamela; and Schuckman Rita. R is for Rainbow: Developing Young Children's Thinking Skills Through the Alphabet,USA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. 1986.
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