Easter Fun

Hi there, I wanted to pop in and share some fun ideas for celebrating Easter and Spring in your classroom.  

Every year I have my kinders and their families make a hat for them to wear in our spring hat parade. The cool thing about this project is that there are no rules. Well, maybe one rule... be creative and most of all have fun! 

I love to collect books to read for the holidays, but I must admit sometimes it gets out of hand. I have absolutely no room to store anymore books, and yet, I still buy them.  The books pictured above are some of my favorite Easter books.

We estimated how many marshmallows are in the jar and recorded their guesses on the chart below.

I decided to use some of the MILLIONS of plastic eggs that I have acquired to make a game to practice sight words. First, I wrote out each sight word and cut it into a puzzle then placed it into an egg. One way to play this amazingly FUN game is to have the class sit in a circle on the floor with their interactive journals or some type of recording sheet.  I gave each child an egg and had them pass the eggs while I played the song Here Comes Peter Cottontail.  When the song stopped they opened their egg and put together their sight word and recorded in their journal.  The second way to play this game is to put an egg on each of their desks and have them walk around until you stop the music.  When the music stops they sit down and put the sight word together and record it.  My class had a ball playing this game!

I read this cute book to my class and had them design their own egg for the Easter Bunny. 

Once their egg was finished they wrote about what it looked like.  The picture above shows their first draft (I forgot to take a pic of the final draft). 

The Easter Bunny was a popular topic for journal entries.  

I inherited quite a few strawberry baskets, and I thought it might be fun for my kinders to turn them in to Easter baskets.  They turned out pretty darn cute!  They also dyed eggs to put into their baskets along with candy treats that the parents donated.

These are the baskets that I had my kinders weave last year.  These are my favorite!

I thought this bunny craft turned out adorable.  The bunny is made out of their handprint... so cute!

Look at the face on this bunny... so sweet!

We read many books about spring and used our new knowledge to make this chart.

With the help of the chart above they wrote two sentences about spring.  The first sentence we wrote together and the second they did independently.

Here is a close up picture of one of my kinders writing.

I had my class watercolor spring flowers and glue butterflies and ants on their picture. 

Then they filled out their math word problem based on their picture.

The Easter Bunny hopped thru our classroom and left his footprints.  My class got a kick out of this!

I'll leave you with a cute video.

Happy Easter!

Spring & Easter Fun

Spring is here! Here are some highlights of what we have been up to...

We read many non fiction books about spring.  Here are some of my favorites.  

We reviewed the 5 senses by thinking about what we could hear, taste, touch and see in the spring. I recorded their thoughts on the chart above.  They used this anchor chart to write about spring.

"Spring is here! In the spring I see flowers."

"Spring is here! In the spring I touch ladybugs."

This art project always makes me smile! I love how it turns out, and the best thing is it is so simple!

We celebrated the arrival of spring with a hat parade.  My kinders and their families made a hat for them to wear in the parade.  

The kids weaved their own basket.  Here is what the finished product looks like. 

My class finger painted chocolate bunnies. 

My kinders each dyed an egg to put in their basket.  

Hope you have a great day!  Thanks for stopping by my little blog!

Miss H.

It's Easter in Miss Hood's Class

Hello Friends!  My four and a half day week seemed to last forever!  The kinders, on the other hand would politely disagree.  According to them it was the "best week ever!"   Here are a couple of highlights of our week.

                                             

The kinders loved these Easter books!  Although we read many books this week these in particular received two thumbs up and some jazz hands.  Come on...  who doesn't love Splat the Cat and his buddy Seymore?  

We added a new poem to our poetry journals called Peter Cottontail.  

Chocolate bunnies anyone?  Kinders love to get messy and what could be more fun than getting messy with chocolate pudding?  This is one of my favorite art projects that I have the kids do.  The finished product is adorable... don't ya think?  

The kinders documented their thoughts about spring in their journals.  

Estimating can be a difficult concept for the kinders to grasp.  While patrolling some of my favorite teaching blogs I came across this great idea from the KinderGals.  Put a number line at the bottom of your estimation chart that way the kinders can visually see the numbers.  I'm not kidding when I say that this is a beyond brilliant idea!  The kinders estimated bunny marshmallows that I put in a jar.  They recorded their educated guess on an egg and glued it to the chart. 

The kinders weaved their own Easter baskets and Miss Hood filled them with goodies.

Here they are all wrapped up and ready to go home!  

To top off the "best week ever" we had a Spring Hat Parade!  The kinders and their families created a hat for them to wear in the parade.  The hats were amazing this year!  

Thank God spring break starts today!  I am tired and ready for a vacation!  I hope you enjoyed this peek into my crazy week.   Don't forget to leave me a comment.  I would love to hear from you.