Easter Rap Lesson Literacy Booster

Posted by Jo Murphy Mar 16, 2008

This simple humerous animation of an Easter Bunny rapping can be the focus of fun and laughter in the classroom. The rabbit parodies "Rapper's Delight"!? while clearly spelling out the word Easter to the hip hop beat.

Integrate Dance, Music, Literacy and Art into your lessons by using the resource in a variety of ways.

• Draw student attention to the clever play on words and sounds
• Play with the catchyness of the music. Encourage the students to hum, strum or drum along
• Invite the students to make up their own spelling rap. They could take their rap to a lower aged classroom and be the teacher for a while. This approach could become a great way to start a spelling tradition
• While the rap is playing have the children draw chickens and rabbits. Have them design a card from the cartoons they create. Have the students send a card with the eCard function.
• In the Modern Dance Research Assignment, student groups are encouraged to choreograph a small skit. This animation might enthuse the students with an injection of fun.
• As part of the same research assignment, students are expected to write their own lyrics. Easter Bunny Rap can act as an example.

This animated resource is easily available and free online. This means that teachers throughout the school can teach the same dance steps across the board. Easy access means that a whole school could be practiced for an Easter Presentation with out fuss or bother. Or,the rap could become the basis for a dance the entire school population could have fun with together at the Easter Hip Hop.

If you can suggest other ways this animation could be used as a class resource, please post to the discussion.