The Great Easter Egg Hunt

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              Happy Easter! As we arrived in school, we excitedly told our teachers what happened yesterday.

          “I looked for eggs yesterday!” S announced as he went up the stairs and into the classroom. Our other friends told more stories about “eggs” during circle time.

“We had an egg hunt at home!” R excitedly said. He mentioned that he looked for colorful eggs inside their house.

“I also have colorful eggs,” A said. “Chocolate eggs,” he replied when the teachers asked him what kind of eggs they were.

“I eat chocolate eggs,” Z said. “I also have a toy car,” she added.

“Papa give me eggs. Papa give me and E eggs,” D said.

Pauline asked us why we had to look for eggs yesterday.

“Was it…. ‘Egg Day’ yesterday?” she asked. We were quiet as we didn’t know the answer. Our teachers told us that yesterday was Easter, and Pauline read a book called “The Story of Easter” by Aileen Fisher. It all began long, long ago, when there was a man whose name was Jesus, who was very nice and helped everybody, especially sick people. One day, he died, and everyone was so sad. But an angel appeared and said that they shouldn’t worry as he will be alive and back again! It was on a Sunday when he came back, and everyone was happy. This old story spread to different places, and so did the celebration of Easter Sunday. Eggs have become important during Easter as they mean “life”, much like the life that grows inside the egg in the life cycle of a chicken (like what Sayaka taught us).

In some countries, like Ukraine—

“Who visited our class from Ukraine?” Pauline asked.

“Maryna!” S remembered.

— they decorate the eggs by painting it with flowers, deer, roosters, and the sun. In Russia, a country close to Ukraine, they make beautiful sparkly eggs of gold and crystals. In Germany, they made their Easter– egg tree, which we thought looked like a Christmas tree.

On Easter, there are often egg hunts. The Easter bunny brings the Easter eggs and hides them at night. He’s just like Santa Claus, who also comes at night to hide the presents and makes sure no one else sees him.

“Hmm… maybe the Easter bunny also came in here to hide the eggs, so now we need to find them,” Pauline said. Actually, we have been seeing some eggs during free play time– they were colorful and had numbers on it! We even went around the classroom, pointing it out to our teachers, who just smiled mysteriously at us.

“Are you ready to look for eggs?” Pauline asked.

“I want to look for eggs!” Z replied excitedly.

“But.. There will be only one egg for one friend… okay?” Pauline said. “If you have an egg, come back here and sit down.” Our teachers asked if we remember the rule, and R replied, “One egg for one friend.”

“Okay. So now… ready… get set… GO!” Pauline said, and we all scrambled to look for them. We found them on the mirror, on our map, on the side of our shelf, near the garbage bin, on the toy box… we waited until the last friend has found an egg. We were really good at telling what numbers we saw: each egg had a number from 0– 12. We helped out some of our friends with the numbers, too.

It was raining, so we couldn’t go to the park.

“Let’s go play!” Pauline announced.

“Here Comes the Boulder!” A requested.

“Hiding!” A suggested. We played both games, and our hide– and— seek was extra thrilling as the lights were turned off and it was dark because of the gloomy weather. We dissolved into fits of giggles as hid under the tables! We had lunch after we played.

In the morning, as we were finishing our snacks, we heard an alarm.

“Fire! Fire!” Z announced to everybody, and everyone lined up to the teacher. We all went downstairs together– we did great! Now, we can tell which is the fire alarm and the earthquake alarm.

That concludes the first day of this week– how about you? How was your day? We hope that the weather will be better tomorrow!

Love,

All the happy bunnies in Petals Class

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