Easter

We had a lot of Easter fun this week, including a fun Easter party on Wednesday! We started the week by reading There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick by Lucille Colandro. After reading the book I went around and asked each student the question: “If you were the old lady what would you swallow?” We had some pretty humorous answers!

During centers we did some fun Easter egg painting! I used the same concept of “marbling” but instead of marbles we used Easter Eggs! I squirted some paint into a bucket and they rolled their eggs all around to cover their white egg shaped paper. They turned out great and the kids loved this activity!

During another center we had some Easter egg letter and number matching. They had to match upper case letters with lower case letters at one and had to match numerals to sets (pom poms) in another.

The next day we read 10 Easter Egg Hunters by Janet Schulman. After reading I passed out some numbered eggs, held up a number, and had the student with the matching number stand. I then called out a number without showing it and had the student with the matching number stand. They are getting great a number recognition! During centers we did some Easter egg stamping! I took the tops of some Easter eggs and let the students dip them in paint them stamp them onto their yellow egg shaped paper.

Wednesday was our Easter party! We set up stations outside and thankfully it turned out to be a beautiful day! It turned out to be more of a free for all carnival but the kids seemed to have fun! One station was an Easter bean bag toss and ring toss.

Anther stations was an egg race. The kids each got a spoon and a plastic egg to balance on it. It was funny to watch them try to walk quickly without dropping their egg!

We also made a large birds nest/Easter basket for the kids to play in! We wrapped the kiddy pool with brown paper and filled it with colorful eggs (balloons, that popped pretty quickly) and nest fluff (shredded paper). It was a mess to clean up but the kids enjoyed it! :)

All of the kids also got a chance to have their faces painted to look like a little Easter bunny!

After they had been to all of the stations we had an Easter egg hunt! It was so fun!

I was excited to finally get a class picture with everyone in it!

The kids went home with a basket full of eggs, candy, and other goodies!

On Thursday we started the day by making some Easter bunny ears! I had some precious little Easter bunnies!

During our lesson we read the book Easter Mice! by Bethany Roberts. We then discussed the terms large, medium, and small. I have each student different sized eggs and we sorted them into three piles of either large, medium, or small. During centers we played an Easter egg memory game! The students had to pick up two eggs and see if what was underneath them matched. If it did match they got to keep them. This was so fun and a great way for the students to exercise their memory skills.

During another center we did an Easter egg dig! These kids love playing in the sand and rice!

Friday one of the students brought some Easter cupcakes for our class. They had a special surprise in the middle, and egg! The kids LOVED finding the egg hidden in there!

During lesson we read the book Minerva Louis and the Colorful Eggs by Janet Stoeke. After reading, it I let the kids loose to find some colorful eggs I had hidden around the classroom!