This week we had to fit in some Easter fun. I will admit I focused on the fun aspects of Easter, instead of the religious one, quite simply because I didn't really know the religious affiliations of the kids that would be joining us today. A handful of the kids that join us are actually from our church and we go to the same playgroup on Fridays, where we have religious lessons. Most of the children are from a meetup group though. This week's letters were G and H, so I fit those in with our fun. Oddly, we only had two other little girls join us this week! I believe it is spring break, which would account for some not making it.
We started with circle time, everyone stood up, twirled around and introduced themselves. We then all responded "Hello (name)!"
We did our opening song and then I went over the weeks' letters with them.
I then explained we were going to go hunting - Easter egg hunting! But first, we needed to practice our hunting skills. I then put on the WeeSing CD and put on the Lion Hunt song. You can hear part of it here. This video is also similar. We walked around acting out what the man was saying, all as part of our "lion hunt." When we finished with that I read a little poem about finding eggs in nests on the ground and then we went outside to see if we could find any! Each little girl carried around a plastic bag to carry their haul. I told them to just find the eggs and we would worry about opening them up when we got inside.
It went very smoothly and they quickly found all the eggs - but not too quickly. There weren't any problems with fighting over eggs either.
When we came back in, everyone opened their eggs to see what was inside. It was an assortment of letters. Big H and little h, and Big G and little g. Each little girl identified each letter and we matched them together.
A quick little break for a snack and then we moved onto our craft.
I read this book, Little Bunny's Easter Surprise, before our craft but then I realized this book may have been a better choice. The above one was fine, but the "I need and Easter egg!" book goes over many different types of eggs and the creatures that lay them - so it would be a more educational selection. We have it, I just didn't think of it until the girls were doing their craft and talking about a chick hatching out of their egg (which happens in the book I read).
We ended with everyone decorating an egg. Just gluing paper pieces I cut out the night before onto egg shapes. They could also color on them - whatever their hearts desired!
So, a pretty simple but fun "class" today!
