CUXX-20

Goal: Students will compare natural signs with symbols from the Seder plate. Materials: Seder plate, egg, and parsley, multi-color tissue paper, pipe cleaners, scissors
1. ** Gain attention of the learner ** Show your class an egg. Ask them to describe what they know about an egg. 2. ** Review relevant past learning ** What signs of spring can your students name that are beginning outside? 3. ** Present new material ** Show the children a Seder plate. The plate holds symbols that retell the legend of Jews Exodus from Egypt. 4. ** Provide guided practice ** Two symbols from the Seder plate remind us that Passover is a holiday that is also called the Festival of Spring. 5. ** Provide independent practice ** Write the names of an animal baby and its animal mother an separate 5 x 8 inch cards. Mix the cards up and hand them out to the children. Make sure there is one card for each child. Ask the children to try and find their mates. When they do ask them to draw pictures of their animal families. Each pair should draw a picture for him/herself. 6. ** Close the lesson ** Have pairs share their drawings. A big sign of spring is the beginning of growing flowers. Unfold several sheets of tissue paper in different colors. Each child should measure and cut a bunch of 8" squares or circles of the tissue paper. When all the paper is cut, each child should choose three or four squares or circles to use for each flower. They can be all one color or all different colors. Pile them tissue paper sheets up, but not neatly—you don't want the edges to be squared. Pinch two opposite sides toward the middle. (It will look sort of like a piece of bow-tie pasta.) Now, wrap the end of one of the pipe cleaners around the "pinch" to make a stem. Fan out the tissue paper from the center to make the flower.