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Macmillan Polska 2010

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Teacher’s Notes

Easter Egg

by Agnieszka Szeżyńska

Type of activity: colouring, answering

questions
Focus: Easter words (egg, bunny, lamb, chick),

numbers 1-3, colours, there is/are
Level/age group: pre-school
Time: 25 min
Preparation:

One copy of the Student’s Worksheet per child +

one for yourself, crayons.

Procedure:

1. Show your copy of the picture to the children.

If you have already introduced some basic

Easter vocabulary, elicit the items in the

picture from the children by asking ‘What is

this?’ and pointing to the elements of the

picture. If this is children’s first encounter

with Easter words, pre-teach the vocabulary,

pointing to the elements of the picture, saying

‘This is an egg / a bunny / a lamb / a chick.’

and encouraging the children to repeat.

2. Next, point to the bunny and ask ‘How many

bunnies are there?’. Elicit ‘one’. Point to

each lamb in turn and ask ‘How many lambs

are there?’. Elicit ‘two’. Proceed in the same

way with the other elements. With ‘eggs’,

remember to make children count the big one

as well.

3. Combine the two previous stages. Point to

the relevant elements of the picture and ask

the questions from stage 2 again (for example

‘How many lambs are there?’). Encourage

children to asnwer with a full sentence –

‘There are two lambs.’ Proceed in the same

way with the rest of the elements until you

are sure children are pretty comfortable

creating the sentences and they remember

the names of the Easter items.

4. Distribute the worskeets and crayons. Point

to the elements of the picture and tell children

how they should colour the picture by saying,

for example, ‘Colour this chick yellow.’ Pick

up the appropriate crayon and demostrate

the colouring with the first few sentences.

5. With a few of the last items (for example the

eggs), ask children what colours they would

like to colour the elements. Ask, ‘What colours

do you want the egg to be? Red...? Blue...?

Green...?’. Elicit some suggestions and agree

on the colours the majority wants. Say ‘OK,

let’s colour the egg red and blue.’

6. When all the drawings are finished, ask

individual children to come up to you and

present their picture to the rest of the group.

Ask questions about the items and colours in

the picture and encourage the children to

answer, for example ‘What’s this?’, ‘What

colour is the bunny?’, ‘What colours is this

egg?’. Proceed in the same way with a few of

the children’s pictures.