Materials/Supplies

plastic eggs: 6 of each color. Cut paragraph into lines and put one into each egg. (Strips should have "clues" for sequencing: capitals, punctuation, and story lines ...).

Basket with Easter "realia" (grass, bunnies, chicks, eggs, candy etc. Blank computer paper and glue sticks: Styrofoam packing peanuts, toothpicks

Contributors & Organizations

Objective

Student will be able to: Identify things associated with Easter, understand logical sequential order of a paragraph, and write short descriptions.

Vocabulary

hunt, fill, find, put in order, use/used, make/made, tell/told, write/wrote, happy Easter, Easter Bunny, eggs, bunny, chick, lamb, candy, pastel colors, cheep, chirp, basket, hop

Text Books

Any U.S.A holiday information book or reading materials.

Activity/Procedures

1. Write on board Easter at the Mall - what color is the Easter Bunny? (teacher elicits information on what students know about Easter.)
2. Discuss / drill students on vocabulary related to Easter.
3. Talk about Easter egg hunt show picture of children hunting eggs
4. Divide class into teams and assign color to each team. Write directions on board: find eggs, open egg, put strips in order, glue to page. (one page/ glue stick per team) Let them hunt for and find eggs of their assigned color.
5. When everyone is satisfied, discuss actual order of story and answer questions.

Part II.

1. Allow students to work alone or in pairs.
2. On the board write:
   Use your imagination.
   Make something.
   Tell me about it.
   Write about it.
3. Teacher circulates asking questions: "What are you doing?" "What did you make?" etc.

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Sequential story paper, one from each team.
2. "Tell me" answers when teacher circulates.
3. Collect individual descriptions from each student and check grammar items.

Grammatical Focus

Subject pronouns and nouns

Common verbs: present continuous and simple past tenses