April

Mrs. Beggs'

Kindergarten

Easter & Spring Activities

Here students are doing the above activity. These look like Tie-dye Easter Eggs. This is another activity I use from Sue Kerr's - Learning Centers - Science Through The Alphabet. If you would like to order her great Learning Center books just click on the underlined link.

Here students are using their seven tangram pieces to make a rabbit.

Students are making a pop-up book. Besides writing each sentence, students must illustrate, cut-out & glue on the picture. Students here practice forming their letters, copying from the chart and then reading it back to each other. The book goes as follows :

See the egg.

See the egg crack.

See the egg hatch.

See the chick.

Here is a close-up example of my writing center.

Reading/Listening Center

This is how we decorated our windows for Spring. These are butterflies and flowers with tissue paper under the frames. You can't hardly see the tissue paper in this picture but it looks really cute!

These are flowers using the kids handprints as the petals, forearm as the stem and their feet are the leaves. I put their pictures in the middle. These are adorable!.

These are our forsythia bushes. We made a vase out of wallpaper, glued on brown strips and added 1" square yellow tissue paper. You take the yellow tissue paper & wrap it around the top of your pencil. Then you dip that in glue and dab it on your brown stip and viola, it sticks.

This is Mrs. Fox's Class' Flowers. They are a little different from our class. See those above if you want to compare.

This is Mrs. Stone's Class' flowers that they made. They made theirs out of paper plates and construction paper.

Our Easter Quilt

Here are the Easter baskets we made. They are made from one gallon milk jugs. We glued on cotton, stapled on ears, added whiskers & a pink nose. They are so cute. See one below up close.

"April Showers Bring May Flowers." We traced umbrellas from wallpaper books & added feet. Students then added tissue paper dipped in glue with pencil eraser to give the flowers a 3D effect.

We made giant Easter Eggs to hang. On one side we used condensed milk mixed with food coloring & students painted it on. You have to let them dry overnight. Then we turned it over and colored it with either crayons or markers then added glitter.

Students colored these boy/girl Easter Bunnies.

This is Miss Range's 2nd Grade Spring Bulletin Board. They used 1 inch square tissue paper and smoothed it down over the top of the eraser. They dipped it in glue with their pencil eraser and put in on their flower to give it a 3D texture.

Graphing & Estimation - I put jelly beans in a jar for students to guesstimate how many are in the jar. We then sampled jelly beans & students graphed their favorite flavor of jelly bean.

We used our hands to make the bunnies. The girls were white & the boys were brown. For the squares we used triangles. This was a fraction lesson on halves. As you can see this was difficult for Kindergarten students. Some of them did a good job. We always raffle our quilts at the end of the month. The kids love winning these.

Learning Center Ideas

My Easter page is in the process of being updated! This holiday was too close to St. Patrick's Day this year. Please be patient as my pictures load on this page. More activities are to come soon.

ART PROJECTS & BULLETIN BOARDS

Easter Poems & Fingerplays

I'm An Easter Bunny

(Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm an Easter Bunny,

watch me hop, (hop around)

Here are my two ears,

see how they flop. (hold hands at sides of head & flop them)

Here is my cotton tail, (wiggle hips)

Here is my nose, (point to nose)

I'm all furry from my head to my toes. (Point to head, ten point to toes).

I'm the Easter Bunny soft and white ,(point to self)

Here are my ears (wiggle two fingers up behind head)

And my tail so light. (hold fisht behind back)

I hide Easter eggs all over town (pretend to hide eggs)

Just watch me hop and hop around (hop)

Easter Rabbit Fingerplay

I saw a rabbit (wiggle two fingers up behind head)

I said hello (wave hand)

He didn't stop (shake head)

He went down a hole (poke finger into opposite fist)

Now don't fret, (shake pointer finger)

You might see one, too (nod head)

An Easter rabbit (wiggle two fingers behind head)

With some eggs for you! (hold out cupped hands)

B-U-N-N-Y

(Tune: Bingo)

He hops to your house on Easter morn

And bunny is his name-O

B-U-N-N-Y

And bunny is his name-O

Three Easter Bunnies

(Tune: Three Blind Mice)

* We do the bunny hop with this song. All the kids are in a line holding on to the hips of the child in front of him.

Three Easter Bunnies (Right leg in & out)

Three Easter Bunnies (Left leg in& out)

Hip, hip, hop (hop 2 forwards & once backwards)

hip, hip, hop (repeat prior motion)

With baskets full they hop around, (drop arms)

They hide their eggs all over town (bend down & pretend to hide eggs)

They do it all without a sound (stand back up & get back in line for bunny hop)

Hip, hip, hop (hop 2 forward & once backwards)

Hip, hip, hop! (Repeat prior motion)

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Here comes Peter Cottontail,

Hoppin' down the bunny trail,

Hippity hoppity,

Easter's on its way.

Bringin' every girl and boy,

A basketful of Easter joy,

Things to make your Easter bright and gay!

Easter Literature

The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - Beatrix Potter

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present - Maurice Sendack

Chicken's Aren't the Only Ones - Ruth Heller

The Runaway Bunny - Margarite Wise Brown

An Extraordinary Egg - Leo Lionni

Bunny Trouble - Hans Wilhelm

Easter - Gail Gibbons

The Bunny Who Found Easter - Charlotte Zolotow

The Chickens and the Eggs - Lela Mari

Green Eggs & Ham - Dr. Seuss

Jelly Beans For Sale - Bruce McMillan

Good Morning, Chick - Mrra Ginsburg

Hopper's Easter Surprise - Siegenthaler & Pfister

Seven Eggs - Meridith Hooper

Peter Cottontail - Amanda Stephens

Kelly Beggs

Site Owner & Web Master

Kindergarten Teacher

Smithton Consolidated Community School District #130

316 S. Hickory

Smithton, IL 62285

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