The Night Before Easter

Does the Easter Bunny visit your house the night before Easter?

This wonderful story by Natasha Wing is so much fun.  Your class will love it and enjoy comparing their celebrations to that of the family in the story.

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The packet is filled with educational activities that use the theme Easter as a springboard.

Word Work, Writing, Comprehension, Crafts and two math games for your class to enjoy with a partner.

Below you will see pages from the packet.

The Night Before Easter...Book Companion

Natasha Wang shares a delightful story...The Night Before Easter.

Your class will love listening to this delightful rhyme with a twist from Santa and his reindeer to The Easter Bunny!

I adore the bunny craft!  They will make a perfect page topper or to hang for decoration.

Imagine the bunny topping this writing page.

Comprehension strategies include...sequencing, summary, cause and effect, and story elements.

Students can choose a strategy to practice or you an assign.

There is a graphic organizer and sensory, sequencing and differentiated writing pages.

There are 18 colorful vocabulary cards for posting and word work.

ABC Order, Parts of Speech, Word Search, Syllables

Other items include vocabulary match, label me, and making a list.

There are three math games for partners of differentiated levels.

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Happy Easter All!!

Here is a little Happy Easter from me to you FREEBIE!!

This has a story, comprehension activities, word work, writing, math game, and a craft.

Perfect for a full day of activities all from one story!!

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And while you are picking it up check out some other "Easter" goodies.

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In peeking for some cute ideas I found these adorable ideas for classroom treats.  

For those who do not celebrate Easter you can put Happy Spring!! 

Both cute and inexpensive. 

There are free patterns on the site.

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And I am so going to do this!!

Find the video here.

In the video they suggest double sided tape.  Glue sticks worked perfect for me!

I also did not put the rubber band on...I just tied the bow.

I had the ears traced for the kids ahead of time to cut and had the pink ear run on paper for them to just cut.  It was really simple.  I demonstrated and they followed along.

I had parents sent in WRAPPED  candy and we added our treats to the bags.

Thank you KidPep for the great idea!!

Spring needs to SPRING!!

I know those of you in warmer areas are not as anxious as me but I am ready for SPRING!!
So to put me in the spirit I updated and revised a couple of my favorite Spring items.

Jelly Beans and More has over 100 pages of Springtime activities related to reading, writing, word work and mathematics.  It will enhance your curriculum through March and April.  The activities are also perfect for you Literacy and Math Centers as well as ones that will decorate your room for the season!

Here are four examples of activities taken from the story Last On In is a Rotten Egg  by Diane deGroat. The other stories include other comprehension strategies such as Cause and Effect,  Authors Purpose, Predicting, Sensory and more!!

Word Work covers phonics as well as grammar.  The activities are perfect for your Literacy Centers.

Writing relates to Opinion, Narrative, and Informative.  There are prewriting and final writing pages.

To enhance reading for detail and encourage ideas for writing there is informational text on Spring.

And for your math there are several Springtime games promoting addition and subtraction as well as counting.

And we can't forget our Jellybean Data Collection Section!!

These are just a few of the many activities available for you to use in this packet.

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Next I want to share this adorable story.

The activities are related to the curriculum and can be used in centers after reading or as a day with Duck which is what I like to do.  Here are a few samples.

We spent a Friday with this packet and ended with some "Peeps"!!

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And all of these fit perfect with this informational text packet.

Read all about it here.

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Here are two final Spring stories I just love!!

I especially love the craft!!

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And an Old Lady Favorite!!

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