Friday Before Spring Break

Since the school district I am in currently has Spring break, I'll discuss the festivities that my students got to partake in on Friday. When I first arrived to the classroom, I helped the teacher aide hide little plastic eggs full of candy all around the gym. At first I thought it was a pointless idea because the gym is too empty to be hiding eggs in, but then the classroom aide and I moved the basketballs, kickballs, pinnies, and other gym supplies all around the gym floor and started hiding the eggs underneath those objects. It seemed like it would be way more fun to go on an "egg hunt" with this approach. When all the eggs were successfully hidden, I went back into the classroom to find that my cooperating teacher had drawn little noses and whiskers on every student so that they looked more like a bunny. They wore bunny ears that they made the previous day as well (in a headband form); it was the cutest thing. When we took the students to the gym, my cooperating teacher told the students that the "Easter Bunny" made a mess when he was hiding the eggs. Then, each student went on the "egg hunt" and had to find 3 eggs each. It was really fun to see how excited they were about this experience. I definitely thought it was a nice break from the week's work. Afterward, the entire school had community members come in and read to different classrooms. I thought this was really awesome that the school incorporated other people from the community right into the classrooms to positively portray reading. I happened to leave right before our assigned reader got to my classroom, but I would have loved to see how the children responded to whomever was reading to them.