Eggs-citing Day of Learning

Jelly Bean Prayer waits at each child's table as a wee Easter gift

The day after Easter weekend (Easter Tuesday?) is one where I've traditionally (for about 5 years) followed a theme of sorts to get the kids back in the swing of learning after having been off for 4 days.  Bring on the eggs-plosion of   

             eggs-tremely   

                       eggs-citing   

                             eggs-periences!

Enjoying an egg hunt in gym class

GYM:

Students were divided into teams of 4.  Plastic eggs had been hidden under the pylons that were scattered around the gym.  Time for a little eggs-ercize during this Easter egg hunt in gym. 

For each round, the students had to find the right coloured eggs in the right order.  We did Yellow, Blue, Green for the first round.  The first students for each team set out to find the yellow eggs.  They were only allowed to check under one pylon.  If it had yellow, they took the egg.  If it didn't, they left the egg under the pylon and headed back to their team so the next person could go.  

We played a few rounds, broke a couple plastic eggs but definitely got up and moving first thing!

My favourite tradition is Resurrection Rolls

RELIGION:

When food is involved, especially after gym, the kids will buy in EVERY SINGLE TIME!  This lesson is simply delicious.

Materials Needed:

• Large Marshmallows (White represents Jesus' purity and His body)
• Butter (melted in microwave represents oil placed on bodies during burial)
• white sugar mixed with some cinnamon (represents spices used in burial)
• Crescent Rolls or Grands Biscuits (represent the linen wrapped around the body)

Preheat oven to 350 F

Students took a marshmallow, dunked it into the butter until covered and then dropped it into a baggie containing the cinnamon/sugar mix.  They then took a roll and worked to get it wrapped around their marshmallow, taking care to cover completely by pinching the dough shut.  We placed ours into muffin papers so that the kids could write their name on the roll that they actually made, ensuring that they were eating their own germs!

10-12 minutes later... 

MATH:

After licking the sticky goodness from their hands (and then washing them), I had the kids grab a pencil for some Easter Math.  

NRich Maths had some interesting information about the largest Chocolate Easter Egg so I created a worksheet which allowed the kids some practice at estimating and calculations.

After lunch, we tried eggs-perimenting with Egg Drop Engineering.  No, we are not talking Chinese food here.  We're talking about honest to goodness, raw eggs and designing, building and testing a contraption that allows the egg to survive without eggs-ploding.  FUN!  Here are some of the designs...

Each group was given the same materials (brown bag, Solo cup, smaller plastic cup, 1 pipe cleaner, 2 large paper clips, 3 popsicle sticks, 1m of tape, 1 sandwich size Ziploc, 1 paper towel, 4 bendy straws) and 25 minutes to design, build and test.

We then headed back to the gym so that we could set up a drop of 2m.

There were seven teams.  

1 egg survived.

You do the math!

~MissBrooks