Story Time

Below you will find a link to the book "The Best Easter Egg Hunt Ever" (6:17 min)

After reading the story together you might ask your child the following questions:

• When did this story happen? (in the day time / spring time / Easter time)

• What was Rabbit trying to find? (an egg)

• What was inside the egg that Rabbit found? (a duckling)

• Why do you think Rabbit said that her egg was the most wonderful Easter Egg of all? ( Answers will vary. If your child says, "I don't know" you can model an answer. For example you could say, "I think Rabbit said that because her egg had a duckling inside.")

Cooking Activity

The video below (1:50 min) shows how to make scrambled eggs. There are a number of vocabulary words in this video that you can emphasize with your child (e.g., crack, beat, whisk, skillet, firm, flip). After you watch the video you might try making scrambled eggs together. While doing so, use these same vocabulary words. It is helpful to use the words multiple times in different sentences to help your child internalize the words. For example, you might say, "Next we have to whisk the eggs. This utensil that I'm holding is called a whisk. When you whisk the eggs you mix the egg white and egg yolk together."

Singing is another great way to use new words many times to help children remember them. Here are some songs you might sing while making eggs.

Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Whisk, whisk, whisk the eggs, whisk them in a cup. Cook them in a frying pan, then we'll eat them up!

Tune: Baby Shark

Crack the egg, doo doo doo doo doo doo. Crack the egg, doo doo doo doo doo doo. Crack the egg, doo doo doo doo doo doo. Crack the egg!

Beat the egg, doo doo doo doo doo doo...

Cook the egg, doo doo doo doo doo doo...

Eat the egg, doo doo doo doo doo doo...

Reading Game

If you have a printer at home, you might wish to print out the following reading game. Have your child start reading at the word “bat”. Have your child say each sound slowly (not the name of the letter). E.g., b---a--t . Then say the sounds faster and faster until the sounds are “blended” to make a word. Perhaps you can have a prize/treat for your child once he/she reaches the end.

Other Options

You can also play this game using a regular board game like Candyland or Chutes and Ladders or as a memory game. Here's how:

Board Games: Print the Game Words on a sheet of paper and cut them out in squares/rectangles. Put them in a pile face down. When it's your child's turn in the game, ask him/her to take a word from the stack and sound it out before he/she gets to move the piece.

Memory: Print each Game Word 2 times on a sheet of paper. Cut them out into squares, rectangles, or even egg shapes. Put them into groups of 4-5 pairs. Take one group of words and turn them face down. Take turns turning over each word and sounding it out. If the words match, the reader gets to keep them. Whoever has the most pairs wins.

Game Words: bat, fox, mom, up, van, wind, zip, up, mop, man, pot, hop, not, in, pig, rat, map, jam, egg, pox, dad, can, stop

Animals that Lay Eggs

Check out any or all of these videos to learn about animals that lay eggs.

• Chickens Aren't the Only Ones (5:47 min)

• What Comes From an Egg? (1:39 min)

• What Animals Lay Eggs? (2:37 min)

After watching the videos, see if your child can recall some of the animals that lay eggs. Also discuss animals that do not lay eggs (e.g., dog, fox, bear, whale, etc.). You might wish to make a list of animals that lay eggs and animals that do not lay eggs. A good way to do this is to draw a line down half of a page, then at the top of one side print "Animals that Lay Eggs" and on the other side print "Animals that do not Lay Eggs". If your child enjoys drawing, he/she can draw pictures of the animals that do and do not lay eggs or you can print the names of the animals as your child recalls them.

Sorting

Here's an activity you can print out and do together. Cut out the pictures and glue them into the correct column. Which animals come from eggs? Which are born alive? (If you do not have a printer, you can draw a T-chart on a piece of paper with the same headings. Then ask your child what animals go under each section.)