Easter Excitement!

Happy Belated Easter! :)

I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Easter weekend and remembered the reason for the season <3.  I truly had a great weekend, spending it with my entire family...getting together with the Nederhoff side on Saturday night and the Manlick side on Sunday afternoon.  It was a much needed weekend with friends and family and a weekend back at home.

Not only did I get to celebrate Easter with my friends and family, but I had the privilege of celebrating Easter with 29 smiling faces...aka...my preschoolers :)!  We had a great week in preschool leading up to the Easter holiday.  The students got to do many fun things (all thanks to Miss Brittane & Miss Ana...woot woot!)  Our "Easter" themed-week consisted of doing many different activities such as Jelly Bean Graphing (picture to follow), Bunny Bags (picture to follow), Easter Egg Hunt (picture to follow) and many more activities!  The students loved celebrating Easter and couldn't wait for the "Easter Bunny" to come!  They were so excited!

One of the fun activities we did during the week was Jelly Bean Graphing.  The students have been working on sorting things and then graphing them according to the way they sorted them.  Seems crazy that 4 & 5 year old's can do this right?!   Funny thing is... THEY LOVE DOING IT!  The students are very bright and can do this skill quite easily for only being exposed to it a couple times in the past few weeks...which means...it's time for me to challenge them.   Since we were graphing jelly beans, the students were instructed to first sort the jelly beans by color, and then color and graph them.  If they got done early, I asked them to circle the group that had the most jelly beans and put a square around the group that had the least jelly beans.  They did awesome with it.  Here are a few pictures to show the student's work...

First they sorted....

And then...they graphed!  Awesome work done by a 4 year old!!!

Another activity we did during the week was preparing Bunny Bags for the student's Easter Egg Hunt!  I explained to them that if they were good....the Easter Bunny would come and bring them special treats...but that they needed something to collect their special treats in...so we decided to make Bunny Bags.  This activity turned out SO CUTE and I was so proud of it, as were the students.  There were a few different steps to this activity but the students did very well with it as they were able to follow directions and listen to know what they had to do in order to make a Bunny Bag just like Miss Brittane's! :)  Here are a few pictures to show the student's work...

Painting the bunny ears...

Making the bunny face....

FINAL PRODUCT!  SO CUTE :)!

And last, but not least...EASTER EGG HUNT TIME! Oh boy....were the students ever excited?! I really wanted to do the Easter Egg Hunt outside, but because of staff switching and scheduling issues, I had to settle with doing the Easter Egg Hunt inside, which worked out okay.  The students were excited and enjoyed it either way.  Here are a few pictures showing the students on their Easter Egg Hunt...!

Go, Go, Go!!! :)

Still hunting....

Time to see what's inside!! :)

The students loved celebrating Easter and couldn't wait to come back from the weekend and tell me what the Easter Bunny was going to give them!  :)

Again, I hope you all had a great Easter.  Until next time, stay safe and thanks for listening <3!