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Our America's Choice Book for March |
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CHICKEN SUNDAYby Patricia Polacco
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| Summary: Sensing that Miss Eula has been admiring a beautiful Easter hat in Mr. Kodinski's shop window, the children sell decorated eggs to earn money so they can purchase the hat as a thank-you gift for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners. | |||||
Lesson Plans for Chicken Sunday
Making Multicultural Connections Through Children's Books
Funny Money: Learn Finance Through Stories
Teacher View: Chicken Sunday
RIF Story Samplers: Chicken Sunday Story Ideas set 1
M-DCPS Internet Toolkit for Teachers Ideas and Activities for Chicken Sunday
Integrated Unit: Chicken Sunday
Patricia Polacco Webquest TeacherWeb Chicken Sunday
Extension Activities for Classroom
Puzzles and GamesFlash is needed
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Author Study
Character Education
Strategies for Teaching the Value of Diversity
Chicken Sunday Artwork
Miscellaneous IdeasChicken Sunday Book Activities
Decorate some hard-boiled eggs and give them to someone else or make fried chicken.
For more information about Russia check out the web. How would your life be different if you lived there? Do you have any Russian background?
Discuss where some of the people in your neighborhood or town come from.
Using a dictionary look up some unfamiliar words you have read. Can you find: babushka, chutzpah, or Pysanky eggs? |
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Pysanky or Ukrainian EggsHow to Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs (pysanky)
Excellent resource with patterns
Pictures of Ukrainian Easter Eggs
How to Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs
All About the Ukrainian Pysanky
Pysanky Symbolism on Pysanky Eggs
What do the Pysanky Eggs mean?
Pysanky Legends and Traditions
Pysanky: Not Just a Pretty Egg
Use KID PIX STUDIO (Broderbund) in the computer lab to create Pysanky (Ukrainian eggs) as shown on page 56 of the KID PIX AROUND THE WORLD ACTIVITY BOOK) by Barbara Chan (Addison Wesley, 1994). See Mrs. Meyer in advance if you are interested in having your students do this.
Eggs--Multicultural Lesson Plans
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Easter Bonnet
Grades Prek-3
EasterPossible Literature Tie-ins and Easter Tie-ins
The Easter bonnet and new clothes on Easter symbolizes the end of the dreary winter and the beginning of the fresh, new spring.
Annie's Easter Just for Kids Page
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