Easter is only one week away!
Each year, I put sight words and sentences in plastic eggs and have the kids go on an Easter egg hunt on the playground. When we come back in, kids have to read the words/sentences to an adult.
Children also read them to a partner, write them and use the words/sentences in journals. Kids get an Easter treat for all their hard work. This way, it's not all about the sugar. They have a blast and still work on academics!
Easter Chicks
We also have lots of fun making Easter projects.
Last week, kids made a cute Easter chick project. For this, we used paper plates, markers, construction paper, glue, brads and feathers.
I gave each child a paper plate and told them that these are pretend eggs that they can color however they choose to. They did such a nice job coloring them and creating pretty patterns and designs!
We talked about Easter chicks hatching and cracking the eggs. We cut the paper plates and added brads.
They cut out chicks out of construction paper and added feathers.
They turned out very cute!
Easter Eggs
Another project was making mozaic Easter eggs out of construction paper. We made similar projects for Valentine's, Halloween, and Christmas. Ripping the paper into small pieces is great for small motor development.
I traced eggs on white construction paper then gave children lots of colorful construction paper pieces to choose from.
I hope you like these. Check out my other Easter project post for a very cute Easter bunny headband.
Here is a great Easter decodable focused on sight words and pronouns. Kids will LOVE reading it! It provides excellent reading practice and the opportunity to understand the correct use of pronouns in context.
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Here is an Easter product with lots of engaging, interactive and fun activities focused on writing and patterning. Students have many opportunities to write, learn sight words, correctly use punctuation and also learn patterning, all with a cute Easter theme.
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This CCS aligned product (144 pages) includes engaging, interactive and differentiated Spring Math and Literacy activities:
Literacy Activities:
• Capital / lower case letters and beginning letter sounds. Students use puzzles to match upper / lower case letters and pictures based on the beginning letter sounds.
• Beginning / medial / ending letter sounds. Picture task cards.
• Digraphs: “sh”, “th”, “ch”, "ph", “wh”. Posters for each digraph. Interactive activities for each digraph. Students use picture cards, name the picture and use the correct digraph to finish writing words.
• ABC order. Students use picture/words puzzles and place words in ABC order. Students also use differentiated interactive activities where they place pictures and words in ABC order.
• Sorting nouns.
• Sorting picture cards by number of syllables.
• Number words 1 – 20.
• Graphic organizers for: “Plants”, “Bees”, “Leaves”, “Stems”, “Roots”.
• KWL graphic organizer for plants.
• 5 Senses graphic organizer for edible plants.
• Venn Diagrams, compare and contrast Spring vs. all other seasons.
• Punctuation: cutting and pasting sentences based on correct end marks: period, question mark, exclamation mark/point.
Math Activities:
• Telling Time to the hour and half hour.
• Tally marks for numbers 1 – 20.
• Patterns.
• Number puzzles 1 – 10: matching number of objects with the correct number word, equations and ten frame.
• Missing Numbers.
• Addition. Students solve addition equations using single digit numbers and adding by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
• Counting and using “fewer” and “more” as criteria for sorting.
• Comparing Numbers: less than, equal to, greater than.
