Hopping Down the Bunny Trail

It was great to have the kids for an Easter celebration at my house! plus I had extra help with my niece being in town.

We started with our circle time, singing lots of songs - we did "if you're happy and you know it" and each child got to pick an action to do with the song. (mixing it up a little bit)

We did - wiggle our toes, stretch up high, shake your booty, hug your friends, peek-a-boo...

We then read a cute Easter Egg story that Lilia brought for us.

After our story - we talked about Jesus Christ, Easter and the Resurrection.

It was wonderful to hear the children tell me the story as well. Annie had a lot of information

about Christ - and why we celebrate Easter.

I LOVED this idea of the Resurrection Eggs. I found this great link where you could print of cards

to put in each egg - each child should have had a dozen eggs in a zip lock bag and the card - with instructions and the meaning of each picture, to make their own Resurrection Eggs.

The Loved looking at each picture, and explained what they thought was the meaning behind each picture.

How to make Resurrection Eggs

After the lesson - we headed over to the craft table/snack table to decorate some foam eggs. They all had so much fun visiting and sharing stickers.
And - as always, they love snack time. We had gold fish and apples.

While the kids were busy with craft and snack time - the Easter Bunny paid a little visit to our back yard and hid eggs ALL over outside! The kids were THRILLED when we announced what had happened. They did stop long enough for me to get a group shot on the steps before running through the back yard to get eggs.
I couldn't just pick a few pictures to make a college - so I just added all of them to the blog. Enjoy! And I hope you and your family had a lovely Easter!

Flying, Feelings, and Frogs

I should have taught about amnesia because I have a bad memory and misplaced all my notes about what we did the week I hosted. Forgive me for posting late. Here is what I remember...

Theme: FLYING

We made paper airplanes, butterfly cookies, and sang songs about things that fly. We also read the book, Ted and Fred Like to Fly by Peter Eastman.











Theme: FEELINGS

I didn't go into too many details, so this idea can definitely be used again. We talked about emotions and how we can react to the feelings we have.

I showed them pictures of kids with different expressions and then they had to describe how they think the child is feeling. Then we talked about how we can react when we have those feelings.

I told a story about a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch who wasn't picked and he felt lonely. Other animals came and tried to cheer him up. In the end a little boy noticed he had been forgotten and took him home. This made the pumpkin happy.

I made up a game called pass the pig. Here are some cute pictures!





Theme: Frogs, Frogs, and More Frogs

We learned all about frogs. We read a lot of books by Nic Bishop (Who by the way, will be a guest at the library in the month of April).




We also made these tree frogs. They turned out a little scary...I need some of Rebekeh's talent.





We played a dice game and whatever number they rolled, they had to hop that many times. Also, we played a tossing game where they tried to throw a frog into bowls for points.

For a snack we had fish eggs (aka: grapes) and swamp juice (aka: water colored green)

My favorite was reading and singing the CROKEY POKEY! I loved watching all the kids getting into it. I definitely recommend this book.



Theme: President's Day

We learned about George Washington. I loved hearing Annie say his name. We also learned there are pictures of presidents on money.

We learned the sound of the letter P (For President. Then we made these P's with pennies glued on them.