Spring Books and Activities

For the teacher that cannot teach about Easter, myself included, this post is for you. The preschool I work at is private, however, the school is not affiliated with a religion so we do not teach about Easter. Many of my students are Christian or Catholic, so instead I focus on spring and egg activities. 

Below is a window that I created from activities from the students. The theme of the window is based around the book, "Whose Egg?" written by Lynette Evans and illustrated by Guy Troughton.  Each student created one of the animals that hatches from an egg in the book and wrote a journal about a fact about that animal. The students also measured the "animals" (plastic animals and Beanie Babies) from the story using small paper eggs. 

The animals from "Whose Egg?" that are in the below image are the following:

• A butterfly
• A platypus 
• An emu
• A plover
• A turtle 
• A snake 
• An alligator 
• A penguin 

The images above and below are a closer image of the either side of the window to see the eggs, animals and journals more closely. 

 Another book that I use around the spring/Easter season is "Whose Nest?" by the same author and illustrator that was described above. "Whose Nest" focuses on animals that build nests in different habitats. We discuss the habitats that the animals live in and the students work in partners for this board. One student creates the nest and the other students creates the animal that lives in the nest. Both students write a journal describing the nest or animals that they created.

Below is an image of the board that I created using the students' work.

The animals that are featured in the book, "Whose Nest" are as following: 

• A bumblebee
• A clownfish
• A rabbit
• A dormouse
• A humming bird
• A tree frog
• A gecko 
• An eagle 

The bird in the below image was created in our Technology class using the website Tagxedo.com. Tagxedo.com allows you to turn words into a world cloud. The technology teacher had the students think of any words that they know that are related to nests and eggs and she created a word cloud of a bird with all of the words that they thought. 

What Spring book(s) or activities do you use with your students?