easter

g is for grow!

look at our wheat…photo taken exactly one week from planting. since it comes from organic wheat seed, we nibble on it. some kids ate quite a bit, tearing it off or actually getting scissors. it is surprisngly sweet after you chew it a bit. and wow, look at this: no mystery left here.

g is for grass

we did this to fill our brown bag and ribbon easter baskets, but this could be used for any spring project. i told the class i didn’t have any of the plastic easter grass so what would we do? cut our own? oops, raining (that was handy). and oops, this was the same day weContinue reading “g is for grass”

b is for BIG collage carrot

i decided to use a piece of cardboard and left over orange paper to make a BIG version of our collage carrots (in case that maybe real-maybe not real easter bunny is really hungry). again, we pretended there were no scissors. again, we used up all the glue we had (for real). and i shouldContinue reading “b is for BIG collage carrot”

e is for easter bunny food

i was inspired and changed plans. we pretended our school didn’t have scissors and we needed the paper to be small enough to cover the cardboard carrot shapes. hmmmm, shall we tear it with hands? rip it with teeth? both techniques were tested. tearing by hand won out. show and tell this week is “easterContinue reading “e is for easter bunny food”

e is for easter egg

simply bringing easter eggs in the classroom enhances play…which enhances learning. we are collecting them for a project to be done the week after easter, so thanks to families we have LOTS of eggs to play with now! for our project we need the tops and bottom separated. cutting them apart turned into a spontaneousContinue reading “e is for easter egg”