April 3rd Week Part B

April 17 - Easter

We started our morning with a story "The Chocolate Easter Egg," a story from "Paper Stories" by Jean Stangl. Then we watched a video 43 Funny Little Bunnies. It is a 1934 Silly Symphony and I wasn't sure the students would enjoy it, but they were really into it and had lots of giggles.

After sitting for about 10 minutes, the story and the video, they needed some gross motor activity. We got up and had a egg tossing activity. The students tried underhand toss and overhand throw to try and get their egg into the basket.

Just as I was explaining to the students that our snack had been put into plastic eggs and hidden in the living room, when we looked out the glass door and there was a little bunny looking in the window. The students were sure that this was the bunny who hid our snacks.

There was a lot of enthusiasm as the students searched high and low for the hidden eggs. Fortunately I had counted the eggs when I filled them, so we knew exactly how many eggs we needed to find. After all the eggs had been found we put them on the table and each student got to choose four eggs for their snack. There were gold fish, Fruit Loops, baby carrots, and gummy worms. Not every one got a variety of things to eat but it was fun to not know exactly what was in the eggs. We added milk to help wash it all down.

After snack we went outside and colored eggs. We used one inch sections of toilet paper rolls as a stand for our eggs to dry in. The girls were very particular about the color of their eggs; whereas, my boy was all about getting the eggs colored. He multi-tasked and had an egg in every color that the girls were not using. The girls were rather disappointed when they realized that they only colored two eggs each.

After all the hard work of searching for their snack and coloring eggs, the students needed some free play time. After a couple of minutes of playing, they all started to pick up sticks to be of service. They worked together to get some of the large limbs out of the garden and onto the stick pile.

Homework was a coloring sheet titled "Help Easter Bunny", Easter Measuring, How I Celebrate Easter, and a Book Buddy Bag.