I’m a fall girl. Fall is my favorite season. I find the other seasons to be a bit meh. I try to do fun activities to teach my students about seasons and to get myself into the season. Spring is tomorrow. I’m having a hard time trying to get my students to grasp this when there’s still now on the ground where I live.
One thing I like doing in spring is decorating eggs. It’s a
fun thing to do before spring break. Depending on your students, you have so
many options. You can use boil eggs and dyes. If you want something more permanent,
you can use wooden eggs and water color paint. I like to do paper mache eggs.
You really have to know what your students are capable of and it will be mess.
You have to have all the supplies. I go into more detail in this product: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Russia-Lesson-Plans
One thing I wanted to touch on is I like these projects,
because it shows we’re all different and have different abilities. This is an
egg that the students didn’t want because they felt it came out bad.
They
covered the balloon knot. So, it came out wrinkly and wouldn’t stand. It was
still pretty oval. I’ve adapted it as the class egg. When doing paper mache
projects, I always make one in case the students don’t like how their project came
out. I think we should keep that in mind. We can’t place our students in molds.
They usually rise to the occasions, but it’s ok if they raise up our standards
and ok if they sometimes don’t met our standards.
Being a Russophile, I was able to make this less about
Easter and more about Russia and Faberge eggs. There’s always a way to do a fun
activity if you think it through.
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