Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking
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BUNNY TALES
I spent 12 years in Kindergarten and Preschool
at Independence Christian School,
and Timothy Lutheran Early Childhood Center.
I was a teacher...but I had as much fun as the children.
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| I made portfolios for each child in my class. I saved at least one project they made each month and added it to their portfolio. I also taught classes for teachers on how to create portfolios for their students. Copyright 2009 Marcia Norwood |
The Easter theme in my class was "The FUN Easter and
the REAL Easter."
The REAL Easter is of course -- the true story of the suffering,
crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our Bible story
time each day was always a special, holy time. Many of the
children (four and five years old) put their head in their hands and cried when
they learned the suffering that Jesus endured. I have been a Christian
for 42 years, and I still can not tell the story without crying. I hope I never "get over" power and passion of
Jesus' sacrifice for my sin....for all of our sins.
My Preschool and Kindergarten students memorized
scripture each month. During the Easter season, the children memorized John 3:16 and 17, and they learned a song to go with the
scripture. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son; that whosoever believes on Him should not perish...but have
everlasting life. For God sent NOT His Son into the world to condemn the
world: but that the world through Him might be saved."
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| Marcia's Monthly Newsletter for Parents. Copyright 2009 Marcia Norwood |
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| Marcia's Monthly Newsletter for Parents. Copyright 2009 Marcia Norwood |
The FUN Easter includes the Easter Bunny, eggs, and Easter baskets.
It was absolutely hilarious to interview my students (boys and girls) and get their descriptions of the Easter Bunny.
I called each child up individually, and made sure the children couldn't hear each other. I typed up their responses; printed them off; and the children added the paper with their story to a bunny craft they created in class.
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| Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Look at their precious faces!
They were so certain of their descriptions.
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Their "Bunny Tales" crack me up.
I think their stories would make hilarious animated cartoons with the child's voice as a narrator.
Bunny Tales
Easter 2007
By Mrs.
Norwood’s Kids
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| Pink and White Construction Paper Craft with Cotton Ball Tail. Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
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| Pink and White Construction Paper Craft with Cotton Ball Tail. Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Alyssa
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is a boy.
He weighs about
50 pounds and
he’s way taller
than me.
He is a little
blue and a little white.
He lives up
where Jesus lives.
He flies to get
to all the children.
He knocks on
our door and
we have to get
out of there.
We have a key
to our lock.
I don’t know
how he gets our key.
He brings
Easter Bunny eggs.
Londyn
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter Bunny
is a girl.
She is white
and weighs 35 pounds.
She wears a
Easter Bunny costume.
She has black
and white eyes.
She lives in
the grass in a hole
by the lily pad
in Blue Springs.
One night she
grabbed a car,
and she didn’t
know which way to go.
She looked on
“The List” for my house.
She has a key
to my house.
We always have
keys,
but the Easter
Bunny bought a key to my house.
She comes in
the door: “Hop! Hop!
Hop!”
Conner
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny wears a bunny suit.
He’s a boy.
He is white
with pink ears.
Maybe he’s like
12 feet tall,
and 50 pounds.
What does he
eat?
Hmmmm…. I don’t
really know.
They hop around
with eggs.
Maybe he lives
in a deep hole or
nest in Oak
Grove by my Old Papa.
He uses the
chimney (like Santa)
to get into my
house.
He gives eggs
to us.
That’s all.
Jordan
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is a girl.
Her name is
Ella.
She wears a
pink dress and
delivers Easter
eggs.
She gets in
from the front door
that is
unlocked.
She has a Daddy
and Momma.
She is five.
She leaves
Easter eggs.
Sometimes I
wish the Easter Bunny
lives at my
house.
She eats
lettuce.
I used to have
a real bunny.
Sydney
(Age: 4 years)
The Easter
Bunny is a boy.
He gives Easter
toys and a fake egg.
He lives at his
house in a big tree in the country.
He wears just
fur and a red and blue bow.
He eats carrots
because bunnies like them.
The Easter
Bunny comes down the chimney.
He brings me a
kite.
I give him
cookie letters.
Riley
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is a girl
with white fur
and a little black fur.
She lives in a
hole in America.
She eats
carrots.
Auggie (my
doggy) hunts the Easter Bunny.
He thinks
things like that are good to eat.
He (Auggie) is
asleep when
the Easter
Bunny hops to my house.
My Dad doesn’t
set the alarm,
so she can come
in our front door.
She brings
candy and an Easy Bake Oven.
You know-- it’s
not a real bunny.
It’s a person
dressed in a costume.
The Easter
Bunny could be one bunny
that never runs
out of energy…
or maybe one
bunny goes to one house and then
another bunny
goes to another house.
It’s like they
have territories.
Carson
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is 3 feet tall.
He weighs 60
hundred pounds.
He’s a boy and
he is purple and white.
He wears Easter
Bunny clothes.
He stays at my
house all year and sleeps with me.
He snores like
this: “zzzssszzz.”
He goes through
my chimney to get in.
He brings lots
. . . lots . . .
lots of candy .
. .
160 thousand
candies!
Ivan
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is big . . . about 12 inches tall.
He is white and
he wears a red, blue and green hat.
He lives in a
hole in New York City.
I think he gets
to our houses by airplane.
He brings one
toy and some candy.
He comes in the
door.
I don’t know
how he gets in . . .
maybe the
chimney:
‘cause
everything’s locked.
Tatum
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is a girl.
She is gray.
She wears
silver pants and a pink shirt.
She lives
outside in Kansas.
She bunny hops
to my house . . . it’s not far.
She hops in the
downstairs window.
We leave the
window open.
She does the
bunny hop every single day!
Brittany
(Age: 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is a girl.
She wears green
pants and a pink shirt.
She hops.
She comes in
the open door at my house.
I don’t know where
she lives.
She gives me
candy.
Conrad
(Age 5 years)
The Easter
Bunny is a boy.
He is pink and
he doesn’t wear clothes.
I think he is
about 40 pounds and like 60 tall.
He lives in a cave.
He snaps his
fingers to get to people’s houses.
Then he snaps
fingers again to get inside.
Only the Easter
Bunny and Santa can do it.
He gives me a
chocolate bunny from last year.
He lays out
jelly beans from each room
and on the
kitchen table.
I know about
the REAL Easter.
It’s when Jesus
died on the cross.
The people
banged and banged on him.
He rose again.
That’s the REAL
Easter.
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| Pink and White Construction Paper Craft with Cotton Ball Tail. Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
2008 Edition
FANTASTIC
BUNNY TALES.
This is
a tradition in my class each Easter.
I hope
you have as much fun reading these...
as I
had interviewing the boys and girls!
I'm an Art Linkletter want-to-be!
The children are
SO CREATIVE!
These
are absolutely HILARIOUS!
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| Pink and White Construction Paper Craft with Cotton Ball Tail. Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Land! Ears! Land!
By Anna
The
Easter Bunny is a boy.
He is
white, and he wears a blue bow tie.
He
lives in Easter Land and
that's
far, far, away...
close
to Dorothy's house in Oz.
He has
a house by himself.
He had
a bed.
He's
BIG - taller than me...
taller
than my Dad.
He has
"flying ears" that
spin
around to go up in the air.
He
says: "Land! Ears! Land!"
He
brings a map.
He goes
down the chimney -
and out
of my furnace...
because
I don't have a fireplace.
I like
it when he gives us eggs and treats.
He
brings movies, toys and money.
We love
him and we love his goodies.
I know
this...
well I
just made most of it up --
but I
have a book about him.
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| Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Home On the Driving Range
By Tre
The
Easter Bunny is a boy.
He has
white fur and NO clothes.
He is
tall - about 50 feet up,
And he
has red eyes, and
he
lives at the Country Club.
I live
by there, too.
He hops
and jumps real fast
to get
to all the kids.
He
climbs on the roof and
comes
down the chimney.
The
Easter Bunny brings me
an
Easter Basket and
money
from his bag.
Santa
and the Easter Bunny
have
bags with money.
When I
go to the driving range...
I see
his house.
He hops
around
at the
driving range.
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| Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Easter Egg Town
By Ellissa
The
Easter Bunny is a boy.
He
wears a scarf
with
yellow stripes.
He has
white fur.
I think
he lives where
there
are lots of
Easter
eggs...
up
North:
in Easter Egg
Town,
Maybe
he's just magic.
He
tricks himself.
He walks
to everyone's house.
He has
a key to get inside.
I have
two doors.
He
comes in the front door.
The
best thing is he hides eggs.
I heard
the Easter Bunny's BIG feet.
When I
come down –
he hops
out...
but I
saw his
little
black
bunny
tail!
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| Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Easter Bunny World
By Sydney
The
Easter Bunny is a girl.
She has
white fur and black eyes.
She
wears a blue and white dress
with
pink buttons; a red skirt;
and
blue panty hose.
She has
two teeth out
and the
rest are inside.
She is
big and pretty,
and she
has pink inside her ears.
She
lives where all the rest
of the
Big Easter Bunnies live...
in
Easter Bunny Land...
in
Easter Bunny World.
She
hops to my house
and
opens the
back porch
window.
She has
a key to get in.
The
Easter Bunny
leaves
candy in my bucket.
She
brings candy
and she
shares
stuff.
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| Pink and White Construction Paper Craft with Cotton Ball Tail. Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
We Don't Own the Woods
By Jonathan
The
Easter Bunny is a boy.
He is
white with Easter bunny stuff like ears.
His
eyes are black and green and white...
like
yours and mine.
He
lives underground in the woods.
Especially
I saw him one time
in our
neighborhood.
He was
hopping.
He
lives in our woods –
or
somebody's woods.
We
don't own the woods.
I think
not.
Our
cousin, Brenan and Moriah:
their
parents own the woods.
The
Easter Bunny hops.
He
takes his suit off and drives...
and he
also rides on an airplane
to get
to all the kids' houses.
He goes
down the chimney
and
hops out:
"Boink!"
He hops
high!
He
unlocks the door to get out.
I don't
know if he left me stuff -
or if
my friends
and Mom
and Dad hide it.
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| Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Hopper
By Selia
The Easter
Bunny is a boy.
I know
because when I went to church...
I asked
him, and he said he was a boy.
He
wears a vest with eggs on it
that
are red, blue, pink, and green.
His
pants are blue.
Oh!
Yeah!
My Dad
hugged the Easter Bunny this year.
He is
bigger than me
and
smaller than my Dad.
I
kissed him!
He
hugged me back at church.
Hmmmm.
Once I
saw a rabbit hop in a hole.
I was
watching from the
first
window by the kitchen area.
I was
being super quiet
so not
to scare him away.
He gets
on my porch,
and I
flip up my window,
and let
him in.
My Mom
and Dad don't know
I let a
bunny in.
He hops
really high to get to my window.
He
snuggles up to me
in bed
to my neck.
He gets
food from the table.
I named
him:
"Hopper!"
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| Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
The Easter Guy
By Payton
The
Easter Bunny is a boy.
He has
brown eyes
and
white fur.
He is
as tall
as my
sister, Sydney.
He
lives in the
Easter
Place,
and
you get
there
by
going to Paradise
Park.
He
wears a blue shirt and jeans.
He
likes hopping.
The
Easter Bunny
opens
the door
with a
key.
He gets
the key
from
The Easter Guy...
who’s in charge of keys.
He
leaves candy.
I got
my picture
taken
with him.
Easter Bunny Town
By Sawyer
The
Easter Bunny is a boy.
I guess
he lives
at his
bunny house
in Bunny Town.
It's
close to Earth.
He is
white
and
he
wears bunny rabbit clothes.
He
comes in the door
of my
house.
He
unlocks it
with
his bunny key.
He
gives me candy
and hides
every single egg
at a
place where
people
can't find them.
Then he
goes back
to Easter Bunny Town.
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Never Seen Him
By Darian
The
Easter Bunny is a boy.
Maybe
he's kinda white.
His
ears are
strawberry
color.
He is
BIG!
This big...about six inches!
Probably
he lives
at the
cemetery.
He gots
a tunnel.
It's
his house.
He hops
and
keeps
on jumpin'
through
the door.
He
gives me all kinds of candy
on the
table.
I never
seen him.
Not me!
The Painting Bunny
By Shayla
The
Easter Bunny is a girl.
She is
pink with white fur.
She has
brown eyes.
She wears
a pretty outfit with a butterfly
and ice
cream on the shirt...like mine.
She
wears girl shoes.
She
lives in a Secret Place...called
California.
She
kinda lives in the tomb where Jesus was.
You
know the stone was rolled away.
The
Painting Bunny - he works all the time....
painting
walls and eggs.
He has
a sleigh...like Santa....but with no reindeer.
The
Easter Bunny has some little bunnies:
girl
bunnies and boy bunnies.
The
girl bunnies are on one side of the sleigh,
and the
boy bunnies are on the other.
They
fly all around and go down chimneys.
They
give kids Easter stuff...
like
name tags and special things...
like
toy kitty cats and bears and colors.
After
Easter...
she
goes back to the tomb...
until
next Easter.
Ready to have some fun?
Interview your students, children, grandchildren, or favorite boy or girl, with the same importance and passion as if you were interviewing someone for radio or television. Take notes. Type up their responses.
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| First Chapter of SHOW & TELL U. Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Ask...
1. Is the Easter Bunny a boy or girl?
2. What does the Easter Bunny look like?
3. Is the Easter Bunny short or tall? How tall?
4. How much does the Easter Bunny weigh?
5. What color is the Easter Bunny?
6. What clothes does the Easter Bunny wear?
7. Where does the Easter Bunny live?
8. What does the Easter Bunny eat?
9. How does the Easter Bunny get to your house?
10. How does the Easter Bunny get inside your house?
11. What does the Easter Bunny leave for you?
12. Where does the Easter Bunny go after Easter?
13. How do you know all this?
14. What else do you want to tell me about the Easter Bunny?
Have FUN!
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| First Chapter of Show & Tell U. Marcia and Students. Copyright 2008 Marcia Norwood |
Easter Sunday is April 20, 2014.
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Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking
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| From Left: Daughter Faith (hates costumed animals), Granddaughter Megan, Easter Bunny, Daughter Sarah. COpyright 2007 Marcia Norwood |
