Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Easter Egg Hunt

I have certainly gotten my money's worth when it comes to the packages of plastic Easter eggs I bought from the dollar store. They can be used in almost any lesson and are fun and motivating for my students. One of my favorite lessons involved following directions, responding to "where" questions and using attributes to describe an object. Each egg was filled with a small picture of a Springtime object (i.e. birds, flowers, sun, kite, Easter bunny, butterfly). The students would follow my directions when hiding the eggs around my room. I chose to use single step directions involving spatial concepts because of the students involved in this lesson. After all the eggs are hidden, my students would then take turns finding the eggs. Each student would answer "Where was your egg?" which allowed for expressive use of the spatial concepts, as well. They would open their egg, share with the group the name of the object inside the egg and give 1-2 attributes about the object (in complete sentences of course ).

This final part of the lesson can be altered to meet a variety of needs. For example, with another student, he only had to identify the object and use a scripted sentence such as, "The bird is in the egg" to talk about the picture. This lesson can also be done with articulation students- just place words with their sound inside the eggs.

Happy Hunting!

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