Easter Resources: Mrs. McGowan's First Grade

Chocolate, Eggs, & Jelly Beans

~ Chocolate ~

Chocolate Stories Internet Project

A Dozen Candy-Coated Classroom Activities

35 Chocolate Activities from Becky Settlemoir and Friends!

Hershey's Factory Tour

Chocolate: Educators Resources
Here's a comprehensive unit on chocolate
that you can download and print.

~ Eggs ~
How Long Does It Take To Lay An Egg?

Egg Facts for Kids' Cooking

Eggs-perimenting Fun!

Have fun with words!
How many can you think of?

eggs-agerate
eggs-cite
eggs-traordinary
eggs-asperate
eggs-plain
eggs-hale
eggs-pensive
eggs-plode

~ Jelly Beans ~

Our Jelly Bean Project 2002 We participated in Debbie Thompson's Jelly Beans 2002 Internet Project with over 100 other classes (her site is no longer available). Our task was to find out which color is found the most in a bag of jelly beans. Here are some pictures, graphs, and a few questions for you to answer about graph data.

Graphing Theme and Jellybean Graph
This is from teach-nology.com

Mrs. Hogue's Jelly Bean Math

Book: The Jelly Bean Fun Book by Karen Capucilli

Favorite Easter Books
This list was compiled from my book shelf and suggestions from other teachers. Thanks!

Home for a Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Just Plain Fancy by Patricia Polacco
Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco
Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
The Big Bunny and the Easter Eggs
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Dubose Heyward
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
The Jelly Bean Fun Book by Karen Capucilli
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

"Egg-cellent" Books!

Bear's Eggs by Ingrid Schubert
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones by Ruth Heller
Clifford's First Easter by Norman Bridwell
Daisy and the Egg by Jane Simmons
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel
Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett
Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco
The Adventures of Pelican Pete: A Bird is Born by Frances Keiser
The Bird's Gift : A Ukrainian Easter Story by Eric A. Kimmel
The Egg by M. P. Robertson
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
The Legend of the Easter Egg by Lori Walburg
The Talking Eggs : A Folktale from the American South
by Robert D. San Souci

"Chocolate" Book Treats!
(Updated July 2005)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator : The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, Chocolate-Maker Extraordinary by Roald Dahl
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Literature Units) by Concetta D. Ryan
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
The Chocolate Cow by Lilian Obligado
Chocolatina by Erik Kraft
Cocoa Ice by Diana Appelbaum
A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne
April Bubbles Chocolate : An ABC of Poetry by Lee Bennett Hopkins
The Big Block of Chocolate by Janet Slater Redhead
Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery by David A. Adler
Hot Fudge (Bunnicula and Friends) by James Howe
The Chocolate Sundae Mystery (Boxcar Mystery ) by Gertrude Warner
The Ghost Who Ate Chocolate by Susan Saunders
Chocolate Island (Usborne Young Puzzle Adventures) by Karen Dolby
The Chocolate Kingdom Caper by Swanee Ballman
The Chocolate Train by Joanne Kornfeld
The Case of the Chocolate Fingerprints by Parker C. Hinter
Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory by Margret Rey
Wellington's Chocolatey Day by Mick Inkpen
Mary Marony and the Chocolate Surprise by Suzy Kline
Max's Chocolate Chicken by Rosemary Wells
Chocolate : Riches from the Rainforest by Robert Burleigh
Beans to Chocolate (Welcome Books: How Things Are Made)
      by Inez Snyder
All About Chocolate: The Ultimate Resource to the World's Favorite
     Food by Carole Bloom
Chocolate by Hershey (About Milton Hershey) by Betty Burford
Milton Hershey : Chocolate King, Town Builder by Charman Simon
Chocolate (What's for Lunch) by Claire Llewellyn
Chocolate : From Start to Finish (Made in the U.S.A) by Samuel G. Woods
A Guide for Using The Chocolate Touch in the Classroom
      by Teacher Created Materials Inc
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy That Dropped from the Sky by Margot Theis Raven
1001 Chocolate Treats by Gregg R. Gillespie
The Official M&M's Brand History of Chocolate by Karen Pellaton
How Monkeys Make Chocolate: Foods and Medicines from the Rainforests
     by Adrian Forsyth
I Like Chocolate by Robin Pickering
The Hershey's Kisses Addition Book by Jerry Pallotta
The Hershey's Kisses Subtraction Book by Jerry Pallotta
The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book by Jerry Pallotta
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book by Jerry Pallotta
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Weights & Measures by Jerry Pallotta
The M&M's Brand Chocolate Candies Counting Board Book
     by Barbara B. McGrath

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