Collect Those Egg Casings

 

This is the time of year when eggs are starting to hatch. If you keep your eyes peeled, you'll be able to find several varieties to show in your classroom. 

Did You Know Fun Facts

 

Weekly Graphing Idea - Letter E

1. How do you like to eat your eggs? Fried, boiled, or scrambled?
2. Name an animal that lays eggs, and birds don't count!

1. What do you like most about elephants?

2. If you had a pet elephant, what would you do with it?

1. Do you know what an envelope is for?

2. Do you know how to address an envelope?

3. What can you put in an envelope?

An Easter Egg Template

With this week being a short week, our letter for the week is E, and we're going to be doing a lot of Easter Egg activities.

To begin with, I needed to make some egg templates.
I started with simple thick cardboard, like the side of a cracker or cereal box.

 

 

I found these egg templates on a wonderful site called firstpalette dot com.

 

Cutting them apart, I taped two on a side. (Three would fit, but two were more manageable.)

 

Then I poked a hole in the egg, and cut out the center.

Voila! Two palm-sized egg templates!

 

 

For our first activity, I pulled out the old wallpaper books, and tore out some sheets.

 

Laying the template on the back, I traced them, then cut them out.

 

I now have two eggs I can use for decorating!

 

Stay tuned to see what we did with our eggs!

Summarizing Our Short Week of Easter Activities

 

 

 

 This was a short week, as Good Friday is a school holiday. Throughout the week we did a variety of activities to celebrate Easter.

* Taking an egg pattern and old wallpaper books, the children got to cut and paste pieces of wallpaper to create egg mosaics.

* Using a rabbit pattern another teacher gave me (she used it on paper plates), the students colored, cut, then pasted it onto a paper bag to create puppets. The back view shows how I let them glue cotton balls on the tail.

* Of course, we also graphed our jelly beans.

* And Thursday culminated with our egg hunt.

   Here's Wishing Everyone a Wonderful Easter!