Holiday: Easter

Well, another holiday has rolled around and this time it’s Easter.  I love Easter because it’s spring time and the promise of new life is all around us.  That was actually the message of the book that I read to First Grade this week.  In Looking for Easter by Dori Chaconas, Little Bunny keeps trying to find Easter by getting a basket and filling it with grass and berries. He ends up giving his beloved basket to Robin for a nest and is delighted when he finds out that his basket is the home for Robin’s new hatchlings.

For Kindergarten, I read Here Comes the Easter Cat by Deborah Underwood.  The illustrations in this book are wonderful.  You can really get a sense of what Cat is thinking just by his facial expressions and body language. The students really seemed to enjoy this funny book.

Finally, for Second Grade, I read Betty Bunny Loves Easter by Michael Kaplan. In this story, Betty Bunny realizes that her brothers and sister have been helping her throughout the years to find all of the eggs during the Easter egg hunt.  Now that she’s older, she wants to find them on her own.  Even though she only finds three eggs, those three eggs are more meaningful to Betty Bunny because she found them on her own. This is a sign that Betty Bunny is maturing and becoming more responsible and that doing your own work has its own rewards.

With STAAR testing this week, these were the perfect, light-hearted books to read!