EASTER🐰

Dear wonderful students, Easter is just around the corner, can you believe it? Happy Easter!!! 🐰🐰

Easter/ Pascua/ Semana Santa is celebrated in many countries, but traditions are different. Examples:

• 🇪🇸 Spain→ people celebrate Semana Santa (Holly Week) with religious processions and eating "torrijas" (French-toast)

   

• 🇬🇧 UK→ Easter egg hunts

      

• 🇺🇸 USA→ Easter Bunny  (que no Bad Bunny 😆) and chocolate eggs

   

   

• 🇩🇪 Germany → Trees decorated with eggs.

   

    

Esto permite trabajar y desarrollar la competencia intercultural 🌍 desde edades tempranas

 ACTIVITY 1. EASTER WARM UP: Say all the words you are able related to EASTER 

  

STUDENTS 25-26

Happy Easter de Mercedes Suárez

 

VOCABULARY EASTER 

 

ACTIVITY 2. What is this?

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ACTIVITY 3.

Easter Wordsearch - Starter, an interactive worksheet by Luana de Almeida Costa
liveworksheets.com

 

 

 

So, You have to take into account symbols and traditions. Take a look to this Planning: 

 

IDEAS/Activities for Easter in Nursery School

Introduction. Introduce EASTER to your kids:

1. Gather the children in a circle.

2. (Introducing Easter and vocabulary) Show pictures of Easter eggs and bunnies/  💡💡mystery box💡 with Easter objects (bunny, eggs, chick)

    

3. Ask simple questions, you can use it to review colours, numbers...

   Example: “What colours do you see?” “How many eggs there are?”

   Story Time

    You can read a short Easter story with pictures. Example: Easter is a happy spring celebration. People decorate eggs and sometimes go on egg hunts. Families spend time together and share treat.

   You can put a video:

   video with vocabulary and games: Unscramble the word/ what makes this sound/ Pick an egg....

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ACTIVITY 4. Which video do you like the most? why? 

 

Creative Activity – Decorating Easter Eggs or colouring Easter Bunny

 link

 

Steps:

1. Give each child a paper egg template.

2. Let them colour and decorate using crayons/ stickers/ clay....

3. Encourage creativity: dots, stripes, rainbow colours

Teacher walks around helping and praising their work (Good job, excellent....)

Easter Egg Hunt Game 

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1. Hide plastic eggs around the classroom /playground...

2. Give each child a small basket.

3. Let them search for eggs.

4. Count eggs together after the hunt. ( TIP: share the same number to each of them) 

This activity improves: teamwork, values,...

💡💡IDEA:  TREASURE HUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💡 💡Eggs with hints/clues

 

Easter Songs 

Sing a simple rhyme:

“Hop, hop, hop like a bunny
Hop, hop, hop it's funny
Find the eggs, one two three
Happy Easter for you and me!”

Children can jump like bunnies while singing.  🐰

 

 

 

 

Get inspired with this teacher, you can sing it before the egg hunting 

 

Like "B-I-N-G-O" version: 

 

These are hits!!!!

 

 

I'm sore after listening to it ! Con este  salen agujetas!!!

 

   

More ideas:

 

 

 

Interesting links:

 https://www.messylittlemonster.com/2020/04/easter-crafts-for-preschoolers.html :

 

 

 Remember to display their Easter egg artwork in the classroom.

 

How would you teach Easter to children?

¿Qué actividad haríais vosotros para trabajar Easter en un aula de Infantil?

🐣 Task: Teaching Easter in a Nursery School Classroom

The aim is to practice planning activities in English, using songs, games, and crafts appropriate for young learners.

Your task is to design a lesson about Easter for your children.

Your lesson must include five parts:

1. Introduction Activity (Warm-up). Explain how you are going to introduce "Easter"

Include:

• A short game, object, picture, or question

• Basic Easter vocabulary

2. Explanation Activity.

Explain how you will tell children what Easter is in a simple way.

Include:

• A short explanation appropriate for young learners

• Visual support (pictures, puppets, story cards)

3. Listening and Singing Activity.

Choose a song or rhyme about Easter.

Explain:

• The name of the song/link

• The actions children will do (Hop like a bunny/ Find eggs/ Hide eggs/ look for (buscar)..)

4. Creativity Activity (Craft).

Describe a simple Easter craft children will make.

Include:

• Materials

• Steps

• Final product

  
  

5. Explain what children will learn through your activities.

You must include at least three of these elements:

• Colours (red, yellow, blue, green)

• Numbers (counting eggs)

• Verbs (hop, hide, find)

• Letters (bunny, basket)

• Fine motor skills (cutting, colouring, gluing)

ORAL Presentation (after Easter )

• Present your activity in 5 minutes

• Explain each part of their lesson

• Show the materials or visual aids they would use.

  Short reflection on your lesson (pros/ cons) 

  ( Practice makes the master, what would you change from your lesson next year/ what was the best part of your lesson?/ What will you change next time?)

Let's practice:

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