Spring and Easter Time Bunny Themed Videos and Academic Activities

This bunny and egg-themed set features 4 music videos + 110 pages of additional materials...Please click on the "Video Preview" AND the "Supporting Document Preview" to get a good idea of what you'll be getting. Note that all materials are appropriate for public schools with the exception of the "Hoppy Easter" signs, which you may substitute with "Hoppy Spring."

Your new Easter set includes:

1. "Hoppy Easter" and "Hoppy Spring" signs and coloring pages

2. Four original videos: "5 Little Eggs," "5 Little Bunnies: Addition," "5 Little Bunnies: Subtraction," and "It's an Oval."

The chants are written in full-color projectable versions, and as black-and-white student versions. Children read the predictable songs as they learn to add or subtract Bunnies and eggs. They also learn important terms like "right," "left," "up," and "down." Use them during shared reading time, guided reading time, independent reading time, and math time.

These are also great starters for creating student-generated bunny/egg chant books using higher numbers.

3. A mini-book entitled "Where Is the Bunny?"

Children learn the terms "in front of," "behind," "to the right of," "to the left of," and "beside" in this predictable printable.

4. A nonfiction passage: "Real Facts About Real Bunnies"

Comprehension questions are also included. Use this as an oral activity, or as a written activity for more advanced students.

5. A song called "Once-Upon-a-Time-Land," along with fiction writing instructions and examples

Children in my classroom use this song/poem as a starting point to write fictional stories. I've also included an example and instructions for writing creative stories with your students.

6. Bunnies and eggs full-color printables and coloring pages

7. Two "I Have-Who Has" addition games (0-10)

8. Two "I Have-Who Has" subtraction games (0-10)

9. Two "I Have-Who Has" games with addition and subtraction (Mixed; 0-10)

10. Easter-themed ten frames (for showing numbers 0-20; full-color and black and white)

11. Playing cards and number cards

12. LOTS of Ideas for games and centers using ten frames and cards

13. Two interactive sight word books (in which children cut out letters and create the words "see" and "have"): "I See Bunnies," "I Have Eggs"

14. Two word family strips: "_op," "_unny"

In these activities, children cut out a letter strip and pass it through slits to read word families.

15. Bunny craft ideas

Many of the crafts connect Easter Bunnies to geometric shapes.

16. Bunny ears and nose

Children can place the ears onto a sentence strip to make an Easter bunny visor.

17. Jelly bean graphing activity

18. Lined and unlined stationery

Your new Easter-themed set supports the following Common Core Standards:

All of the stories can be used to teach the following standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1a Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1b Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1c Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.4 Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

The nonfiction passage and the comprehension questions provide the level of rigor recommended in the Common Core Standards. The also can connect to these specific standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

Use Easter-Themed Ten Frames and Games to Teach:

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4a When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4b Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4c Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.NBT.A.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

Use the "5 Little Easter Eggs," "10 Little Easter Eggs," and "Bunny Hop" stories, along with all six "I Have-Who Has" games, to teach:

CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.

Use the "Where Is the Bunny" mini-book to teach:

CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.A.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.A.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.

Use phonogram strips to teach:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a Recognize and produce rhyming words.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3a Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3b Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3d Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

Teach children to point to words as they read:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1a Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1b Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1c Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

Thanks so much for your interest in my materials!

-Jenny Fixman-Kramer

"Miss Jenny"