The Barefoot Teacher: Easter

Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your kids this spring. They're perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop their reading abilities while learning about rabbits. The last page incorporates writing as students recall facts they learned. Try one out for FREE! #easter #easteractivities #nocturnalanimals #freedownload #kindergarten #firstgrade #writing #emergentreaders
With Easter around the corner, I'd like to show you some 'I Am a Rabbit' differentiated emergent readers. And then I'm going to give you a FREE DOWNLOAD to try out! 

While you really can use these readers at any time of year, I tend to do them around our Easter and spring units. I have many animal readers in this series, but I'm only going to highlight two of them today! 
These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go right along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this spring. They are perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about rabbits at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader. Try one out for FREE!
So this is what the cover looks like. It's the same for all three levels of the reader. 
Here's what it looks like full size. My daughter turned the title into a cloud in the sky. Each page of the book comes two-to-a-page so that you can easily print the books using the collate and staple options on your copy machine. Then use a paper cutter to quickly slice between the books and voila, they're already assembled for you!  
Three different levels allow you to better meet the needs of your students. I'll show you a picture of each of the pages included in this rabbit reader. Your students can highlight any sight words, chunks, or blends that you are currently working on. 

Learn about rabbit ears...
The next page has the same text for both the middle and harder leveled pages. Students draw in the rabbit's whiskers on the coloring portion of the page!
Learn what rabbits like to eat...
This page also has the same text for the middle and harder leveled pages.
Did you know a rabbit could be a pet?
The last page is one of my favorites. It's included in all of the readers of this series. Students write down a list of the favorite things they learned while reading the book! It's a great way to incorporate writing practice! 
Let me show you two ways you can get this rabbit reader set, and then I'll give you a FREE DOWNLOAD!

You can get this differentiated reader by itself here:
These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go right along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this spring. They are perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about rabbits at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader. Try one out for FREE!
 Or you can get it in a bundle with other readers:
These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your kids this spring. They're perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop their reading abilities while learning about rabbits. The last page incorporates writing as students recall facts they learned. Try one out for FREE! #easter #easteractivities #nocturnalanimals #freedownload #kindergarten #firstgrade #writing #emergentreaders
 Six readers, all about nocturnal animals, are included in this bundle.

Now, let me show you a FREE DOWNLOAD you can get today that will give you an opportunity to try these readers out!
This is the I Am an Alligator set. 
These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your kids this spring. They're perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop their reading abilities while learning about rabbits. The last page incorporates writing as students recall facts they learned. Try one out for FREE! #easter #easteractivities #nocturnalanimals #freedownload #kindergarten #firstgrade #writing #emergentreaders
It's set up exactly like the rabbit reader, only your students will be learning about alligators instead! Oh my! 
Get it FREE to try this series here:

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-Til next time
       
These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your kids this spring. They're perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop their reading abilities while learning about rabbits. The last page incorporates writing as students recall facts they learned. Try one out for FREE! #easter #easteractivities #nocturnalanimals #freedownload #kindergarten #firstgrade #writing #emergentreaders

This FREE non-fiction, differentiated readers download will go along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your kids this season. Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop their reading abilities while learning about aliigators. The last page incorporates writing as students recall facts they learned. Try one out for FREE! #alligator #emergentreaders #freedownload #kindergarten #firstgrade #writing #emergentreaders

Today I'm going to show you some of the best faith-based Easter activities that you can use with your littles during your Easter lessons. And one of them, you'll be able to download absolutely FREE! 

This past Christmas, my brother and his girlfriend (now fiancé...whoop, whoop!) gave our four kids the book The Tale of the Three Trees. It's what I'd like to kick off my Easter lesson plans with this year. The book is a traditional folktale retold by Angela Elwell Hunt and illustrated by Tim Jonke. 
The book tells the story about three trees that dreamed about what they wished they would become someday. One dreamed to hold treasure, one dreamed to be a strong sailing ship that carried powerful kings, and one dreamed to grow so tall that when people looked at it they would think of God. I won't spoil the story for you, you'll have to get the book and read it for yourself to see what happens! But it's a great segue into Easter that I highly recommend.

Then I'm going to have my students make their own Easter Emergent Reader to have, to hold, & to practice their reading skills with.

Here are what some of the pages of the reader look like:

There are 12 pages total that you can choose from to use.

When I use this book, we highlight and work on recognizing the word "Jesus" so you'll see that word on almost every page of the book.

I found some adorable story retelling pieces for the kids to use.


Another retelling option is to use an Easter Story Wheel.

Some of the other math and ELA activities that I'll use for some of my centers throughout our Easter unit come from my Easters Activities for Kids Pack. There are 65 pages total to print!

I'm not going to show you all of the 65 pages you can print, but I will highlight a few. The first ones I'll show you practice beginning, middle, (with short vowels) and end sounds. There are 6 total of these.

The next ones I'm going to show you practice skip counting by twos, fives, and tens.

Grab a ruler (or just let students eyeball it) and practice measuring to determine which disciple of Jesus is taller than the other in its group! Groups of three spears are also available to make it a slight bit more challenging!

Color words recognition practice is available with two different sheets. This Colorful Coins one (can someone tell my why on earth my daughter is holding her crayon like that?!)...

...and there is also another that is called Colorful Tombs.

Practice filling in missing numbers with this next one.
And the best part is that it goes up to 21 so that you can assess if your littles know what comes after twenty!

That's all that I'm going to show you here, but there is so much more that comes with it!
There are two more emergent readers (one based on counting and one on color word recognition), practice in counting syllables, ten frames and tally marks, Easter Story Flip Book, 3-piece puzzles for younger learners, and more!

You can get the entire pack here: Easters Activities for Kids Pack.

I found a few really cute ideas on Pinterest that I'd like to try this year. The first one uses very simple supplies that I already have (Yay for not having to buy anything!).


I like this next one too. Again...I have the supplies already!


One last thing I found and then I'll give you your FREE DOWNLOAD! I saw this pin and thought it would be very fun to break the kids up into teams and see if they can form the cross with their fingers! I'm even willing to get down on the ground to take that picture from below looking up if they can do it! I figure, I'll show them this picture and let them study it while they try!

Ok...are you ready?! (Of course you are!)
It's FREEBIE time!
You'll want to download this FREE Easter printable! It will go right along with the other activities you have planned for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First Grade kids! It reflects on the moments Jesus had in the Garden of Gethsemane, while also reinforcing color word and number recognition at the same time.

Here is what it looks like in its entirety. I do want to point out that the next picture was taken before I realized that there were two 'brown' options...whoops! Don't worry, I promise it has been corrected for your download! I also added some more numbers to the resource (like in the guards legs and shirt sleeves). 
You'll want to download this FREE Easter printable! It will go right along with the other activities you have planned for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First Grade kids! It reflects on the moments Jesus had in the Garden of Gethsemane, while also reinforcing color word and number recognition at the same time.
Click here to get it:
FREE Faith Based Religious Easter Color-By-Number

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Happy Easter!
He is risen indeed!

-Til next time
         
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