Keri Parties with the Preschool Crowd

Keri always enjoys teaching preschool when it is her turn, even when she had the letter Q. This week was a lot easier to prepare for because it was our Easter party week. The co-op preschool started with 6 kids and we are down to 4 but this week we only had 3 because one was on vacation with his family. So Keri's job was even easier although the more the merrier still rings true.

Day One:
We sorted plastic Easter eggs by color and then matched upper to lower case letters.Then we lined up the letters in alphabetical order. Following that we played a game to see how many eggs we could toss into the not-too-distant Easter baskets. Everyone got at least one egg in.

For snack we had bunny and carrot shaped pretzels.

After snack the kids cut and glued bunny ears out of construction paper and wadded up white tissue paper to make their own bunny tails. Once properly trimmed in bunny garb we enjoyed a playful rendition of the hokey pokey and put our paws, ears, and tail in...

Here are James, Ben, and Sophie cute as can be.Still donning the ears and tail, the little bunnies toured our backyard garden and sampled foods rabbits would eat like cabbage, lettuce, kale, and arugula.

Day Two:
We started with making hand print Easter bunnies with paint and later embellished them with googly eyes, pom pom nose, and bow. We talked about the different items we see around Easter regarding the secular side: chicks, bunnies, baskets, flowers and the like. We decided before Easter week that the parents would address the religious significance of the holiday in our own homes as a family.

We practiced number recognition and 1:1 counting up to the teens with jellybeans. They got to eat several for work well done.

Following that we played a guessing game and tried to figure out what was in each of three plastic eggs. We compared weights, shook them and listened, and held them up to light to see the shape.

Near the end of class we decorated cupcakes to look like Easter baskets. We colored shredded coconut green by shaking it in a bag with a couple drops of green food coloring. They loved that! They topped their frosted cupcakes with the coconut grass, added several jellybean eggs, and a chenille/pipe cleaner for an mock handle. They made one for themselves and one for their sibling to eat later. Then they got to sugar-up on a plain one before their parents came to pick them up. We filled in the last few minutes with more games of egg tossing and egg balancing (on a spoon).

The kids had a good time and Keri had a blast as well! The fact that these kids rock and are well behaved is icing on the cake.