A World of Easter Eggs A Reading A Z Shared Reading Book Word Count: 327 Home Connection: Initial consonant r-blends Your reader is learning to identify words with the r-blends fr, br, gr, and dr, such as frog, bring, gray, and drip. As you read the book together, have him or her look for words with these blends and make a list of them to share with the class. Then help your reader think of one or more new words that contain one of these blends. Have your reader add the words to the list. All Fonts FPO Visit www.readinga-z.com for thousands of books and materials. Written by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff www.readinga-z.com
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Contents Easter and Eggs...4 The Easter Bunny...6 Colorful Eggs from Ukraine...7 Chocolate Eggs from Italy...8 Fancy Eggs from Russia...9 One Huge Chocolate Egg...10 Easter and Eggs People celebrate Easter all around the world. Easter always comes in spring. It s hard to think about Easter without thinking about eggs. Like springtime, eggs can make people think of things that are fresh and new. Easter eggs are a tradition in many places. Color Your Own Easter Eggs...11 Glossary...12 3 4
The Easter Bunny Some people say the Easter Bunny hides eggs for children to find. Some say he brings baskets filled with chocolate eggs and rainbow-colored jellybean eggs. Long ago, children in the country of Germany knew about the Easter Bunny. When German settlers came to America, the children made nests for the Easter Bunny to use. Today children have Easter baskets with nests of Easter grass. Some Easter eggs are painted bright, pretty colors. Some are made of candy. Some are made of metal and jewels. They are all beautiful eggs. 5 6
Chocolate Eggs from Italy Colorful Eggs from Ukraine In Italy, people give fancy chocolate eggs for Easter. The eggs have colorful decorations. Many of the eggs have a toy or a gift hidden inside. Some are huge, some are small, but all of them are beautiful eggs. In a country called Ukraine, people give colorful eggs for Easter. These eggs are called pysanky [pih-sahn-kih]. People draw designs on the eggs with wax. Then they color the eggs. They do these steps many times. The wax keeps the designs from changing color. The designs and colors have special meanings. What Some Pysanky Colors Mean red sun, joy yellow light green spring, new life 7 8
One Huge Chocolate Egg Some eggs are good to look at. Others are good to eat and eat. Fancy Eggs from Russia Long ago, Russian rulers gave beautiful eggs for Easter. It took a year or more to make each egg from gold, colored metal, and jewels. Each egg held a surprise. In April 2012, chefs made a giant chocolate egg in Argentina. The egg was almost 28 feet (8.5 m) tall and more than four tons that s lighter than an elephant but twice the weight of a rhino! On Easter Sunday, the egg s surface began to melt in the sun. Chefs cut up the egg and shared it with the crowd. 9 10
Color Your Own Easter Eggs G newspaper G hard-boiled eggs What you need: G 20 drops of food coloring for each color G 1 teaspoon white vinegar for each color 1. Spread out newspaper. 2. Add vinegar, water, and one color to each bowl. 3. Dip an egg until you like the color. 4. Let eggs dry on paper. What you do: G ½ cup hot water for each color G one cup or bowl for each color G a big spoon G a grown-up to help you 11 baskets (n.) chocolate (n.) decorations (n.) designs (n.) Easter (n.) painted (n.) surface (n.) tradition (n.) wax (n.) 12 Glossary woven or plastic containers for holding or carrying things a food made from cacao seeds that is a popular treat objects used to beautify something patterns of lines, shapes, images, or colors a Christian holiday held on a Sunday in spring covered a surface with color, either for decoration or to make a picture the outside or top part of a thing; the part of the ocean or land that touches the air above it a belief or custom that is passed down from year to year and generation to generation a sticky, moldable substance produced by honeybees or a similar substance