Elem: easter egg/poetry lesson

[Marcia Kochel <mkochel@MONON.MCCSC.EDU>]

Hi,

I love hearing your great ideas, and I thought I'd share one of my own.

We've been studying poetry all month, and I just did a fun activity with
third graders using Easter eggs and poems.
I bought 24 plastic eggs (with 4 eggs of each color). I took 6 short
4-line poems and copied them and cut them apart. I used eggs of the same
color and put 1 line of each poem in an egg. Before the class came I hid
the eggs in very easy places. The third graders came and each found 1 egg.
Then I told them to find the other kids with the same color egg and open
their eggs and try to put their poem in order. I had color-coded paper on
tables with poem titles so they could put their poem in the right order
and tape it down. At the end, each group presented their poem to the
class. In most groups, each student read the line from the poem that they
had found.

For the kindergartners we're reading Jesse Bear. I put rhyming words from
the story in the eggs. I'm going to let each child pick an egg out of my
basket and then try to think of a word to rhyme with the word in their
egg.

Marcia Kochel
Media Specialist
Broadview Elementary School
Bloomington, IN

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