Bebop l1 festival lessons

EASTER

Color the Easter eggs. Make an Easter crown. Point and say.
Key Language: crown, Easter egg
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MOTHER’S DAY

Color the flower pot and flowers. Make the plant. Say: Happy Mother’s Day, Mommy.
Key Language: mommy, Happy Mother’s Day.
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FATHER’S DAY

Color the greeting card. Draw yourself. Say: Happy Father’s Day, Daddy.
Key Language: daddy, Happy Father’s Day.
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EASTER

TEACHER’S NOTES

Lesson Objectives
·· learn Easter vocabulary
·· make an Easter crown
·· strengthen fine motor skills

Key Language

·· crown, Easter egg
Further Language
·· circle, triangle

Materials
construction paper band for each child, Easter eggs or pictures of Easter eggs, stapler

Preparation
Before the lesson, prepare appropriately sized construction paper bands to go around
each child’s head to form a crown (about 56 cm. long by 7 cm. wide). Print the Easter egg
template for each child, and cut out the eggs.

Lesson Notes
Allow the children to handle a selection of Easter eggs and taste some (check for allergies
first). Alternatively, show the children a selection of Easter egg pictures. Say Easter egg,
and ask the children to repeat.
Give each child three paper Easter eggs to color and glue onto a construction paper band.
Use staples to fasten each finished band around the child’s head. Say crown, and ask the
children to repeat. Have an Easter parade so that the children can show off their creations.
At the end of the lesson, check the children’s comprehension by pointing to the eggs
and eliciting the words Easter egg and crown.

Further Language Practice
Ask the children to identify the shapes on their crowns. Say Show me a (circle), and
encourage the children to point to the correct shape.

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MOTHER’S DAY

TEACHER’S NOTES

Lesson Objectives
·· learn about Mother’s Day
·· learn Mother’s Day vocabulary
·· make a Mother’s Day gift
·· strengthen fine and gross motor skills
Key Language
·· mommy, Happy Mother’s Day.
Further Language
·· colors, crayon

Materials
card stock paper, Mother’s Day greeting cards (or pictures of greeting cards) from the
children’s country and the USA, picture of a family (mother, father, and children), sticky
tape, green popsicle sticks, role-play costumes (optional)

Preparation
Before the lesson, print one Mother’s Day template for each child, glue each template onto
the card stock paper, and cut it out. Display the Mother’s Day greeting cards from the
children’s own country or the pictures of Mother’s Day greeting cards found online. Also
display the pictures of US Mother’s Day greeting cards.

Lesson Notes
Show the children the picture of a family, point to the mother, and say mommy. Ask the
children to repeat. Explain that on Mother’s Day children say thank you to their mommies
for taking care of them. Show the children the Mother’s Day greeting cards from their
country. Then show them the US Mother’s Day greeting cards and say Happy Mother’s Day.
Say Happy Mother’s Day again and clap your hands on each syllable. Ask the children to

say it with you, and encourage them to clap their hands, too.
Give each child a flower pot and three flowers to color. Help them to tape the back of
the flowers to one end of the popsicle sticks to make the flower stems. Then help them to
tape the other end of the popsicle sticks to the flower pot.
At the end of the lesson, ask the children to give their flower pots to their mothers
and say Happy Mother’s Day, Mommy, or have the children role-play this activity using
costumes.
Note: if you have a child in your class who doesn’t have a mother, teach the children to
thank the person who looks after them instead, by learning to say Thank you! as they hand
over their gift.
Further Language Practice
Practice color names. Say Show me a (red) crayon, and have the children hold one up.

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FATHER’S DAY

TEACHER’S NOTES

Lesson Objectives
·· learn about Father’s Day
·· learn Father’s Day vocabulary
·· make a Father’s Day gift
·· strengthen fine and gross motor skills
Key Language
·· daddy, Happy Father’s Day.
Further Language

·· bucket, sandcastle, ocean, shovel

Materials
card stock paper; Father’s Day greeting cards (or pictures of greeting cards) from the
children’s own country and the USA; picture of a family (mother, father, and children);
role-play costumes (optional); pictures of the ocean, a sandcastle, a bucket, and a shovel
(optional)
Preparation
Before the lesson, print one Father’s Day template for each child, glue the template onto
the card stock paper, and cut it out. Display the Father’s Day greeting cards from the
children’s own country or pictures of greeting cards found online. Also display the pictures
of US Father’s Day greeting cards.

Lesson Notes
Show the children the picture of a family, point to the father, and say daddy. Ask the
children to repeat. Explain that on Father’s Day children say thank you to their daddies
for taking care of them. Show the children Father’s Day greeting cards from their country.
Then show them the US Father’s Day greeting cards and say Happy Father’s Day. Say
Happy Father’s Day again and stomp your feet on each syllable. Ask the children to say it
with you, and encourage them to stomp their feet, too.
Give each child a greeting card template to color. Ask them to turn it upside down and
draw themselves on the back. Show them how to fold it to make the greeting card.
At the end of the lesson, ask the children to give their cards to their fathers and say
Happy Father’s Day, Daddy, or have the children role-play this activity using costumes.
Note: if you have a child in your class who doesn’t have a father, teach the children to
thank the person who looks after them instead, by learning to say Thank you! as they hand
over their card.
Further Language Practice
Show the children the picture of the ocean. Say ocean, and ask them to repeat. Continue
with the other pictures of the sandcastle, bucket, and shovel. Then put one picture in each
corner of the classroom. Call out ocean, and ask the children to hop to the correct picture.
Continue calling out the other words and asking the children to run, walk, or skip to the

correct picture.
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