Eggs, Bunnies and Spring!

The week before spring break we talked about eggs and animals that come out of eggs.   We were getting very excited about our Easter Egg Hunt only to find out that we had to cancel school on Thursday due to an electricity outage at the church!  We tried to notify all the families before arriving at school, but weren't able to catch everyone so we waited at the school.  When we told one of the kids that the electricity was out and school was cancelled, his response was, "Make sure to email the Easter Bunny and let him know!!"  We did!!

We had fun marble painting to decorate our construction paper eggs. 

When we returned to school after spring break, the bunny had left a note telling us that he'd be back on Thursday to leave us some eggs.  We heard a lot of stories about rabbits and eggs this week during circle time.  We also talked about signs of spring and robins.  We watched a video of a baby robin hatching out of her egg.

We went for a spring walk on Wednesday.  We were looking for robins and other signs of spring.  We saw, heard, and felt a lot of spring signs...including raindrops!

One of the signs of spring we saw were worms on the black top.  We talked about how worms help make holes in the dirt so things can grow.  The kids had fun picking up the live worms and putting them back in the grass.  

During activity time we set out several new activities for the kids.  One of their favorites was using shapes and hammers to nail to a cork board.

   Making a picture of a bird.

Making herself going on a walk.  The blue rectangle is the worm she picked up!

Another favorite activity was using blocks to create bird houses for our bird figurines.

I think the highlight of the week was The Egg Hunt on Thursday.  It was cold outside so we went upstairs to the church narthex to find the eggs.  Everyone needed to find 6 colored eggs and a sparkle egg.  So much fun!!