We hope that you had a wonderful Easter with your family! The children had a lot of fun with our Easter theme this week! We talked about Easter, what we know about Easter, and how we celebrate. The children said that the Easter Bunny brings Easter eggs, hides them so the they have to find the eggs, and they get candy! We talked about dyeing Easter eggs and why we like to dye Easter eggs. One of the children said that we do egg dyeing because it’s something they do every year with their family and they love it when they get messy. Their favorite things to get on Easter are candy, money, and toy!
The children did a dictation about what they know about Easter. I wrote down what they said and they drew pictures. We did an Easter Egg letter sound game and they had to say what letter it was, what sound it makes, and what word starts with the letter. They did an egg letter match where they had to match the lowercase letters to the uppercase letters. They practiced writing Easter words. We read a few books about Easter, I asked the children questions about the books, and they recalled details in the stories. One of the children noticed that some of the books had rhyming words so we talked about that and why the author purposely did that.
They did a jelly bean graphing activity where they had to placed the jelly beans on the graph according to its color and they had to figure out which color had the most/least. We did a jelly bean patterning activity and the children made different patterns with the jelly beans. We did a Peep number recognition activity and the children picked a number to say out loud. I had some jelly beans left over and the children asked if they could count how many jelly beans were in the bag. We counted the jelly beans and discovered that there were 65 jelly beans in one bag! The children noticed that there was only 2 red jelly beans in the bag and asked why that was. I explained that when they put the jelly bean sin the bag, it’s random meaning that they don’t count how many each color to place in the bag. I opened up another bag of jelly beans to show them. We also counted that one and we noticed that there were more white jelly beans than the other colors but we had 10 red jelly beans. We talked about why this happens and what they would do to make it even. The children agreed that they would make sure there were equal amount of each color.
We did a fun art project where they painted with Peeps candy. They told me how weird it was to paint with marshmallow candy! We couldn’t get any real eggs but Ms. Michelle had fake eggs and the children used markers to color the eggs. I told them that they can keep the eggs forever because it wasn’t a real egg.
We did a jelly bean and peep experiment. We had 2 cups of water, 2 cups of vinegar, 2 cups of water and vinegar, and one cup had little vinegar with lots of water. We placed a jelly bean in 1 cup of water, 1 cup of vinegar, and both cups of water in vinegar. We did the same with the peeps. We watched to see how they reacted to the water, vinegar, and the cups with water and vinegar. The children noticed that only 1 peep dissolved and the jelly beans lost it’s color but the jelly bean didn’t completely dissolved; it turned white instead. The peeps remained but the bottom part got soggy while the top part of the peep remained. One child said, “Maybe we needed to stir the peeps so that it melts.” We tried that again on another day and it did not completely dissolve. The children concluded that marshmallows don’t dissolve because it’s really think and it’s better to melt the marshmallow.
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