This week we celebrate Easter! There will be no KDI we concentrate on but we will still learn and have fun!
Table Activities- This week our table activities include decorating Easter eggs, decorating crosses, watercolor paint paper eggs, plastic egg play, Easter coloring pages, practicing our cutting with paper eggs, jelly bean sorting and Easter dot painting.
Small Group Activities- This week we will make a cross suncatcher, our own set of Resurrection Eggs, add a Jesus is Risen page to our journal and make a "hand" Easter lily.
Large Group Activities- Large group activities this week include an egg toss, a basket relay race, an Easter egg hunt and drawing with sidewalk chalk.
Books of the Week- "Sad News, Glad News" by Mary Joslin and "The Parable of the Lily" by Liz Curtis Higgs.
Bible Story- Our Bible Story this week is Jesus Resurrection and his appearance to Mary. Jesus was taken down from the cross on Friday afternoon and quickly put in a tomb of a man named Joseph of Arimathea. They did a hurried job of preparing his body because the Sabbath was quickly coming, at sundown on Friday. The women who watched planned to return early Sunday morning to wash his body and anoint it with spices and wrap it properly. They wanted to give Jesus the burial he deserved. The religious leaders were still suspicious of Jesus, even in death and they demanded that a guard be placed at the tomb and the tomb be sealed so if it was tampered with, there would be evidence. They were afraid that Jesus' followers would steal and hide his body and say that he was raised from the dead. Pilate gave in and had two soldiers stationed at the tomb. Sometime early Sunday morning, the soldiers were confronted with an angel who appeared at Jesus tomb, the stone rolled away and the tomb was empty. When the soldiers saw the angel, they fainted like dead men! When they woke up and saw the tomb empty, they ran away. The women got their spices and linen together and walked sadly to the tomb. As they walked, they remembered that they would need to find someone to roll the stone away so they could work on Jesus body. When they arrived, they saw the tomb was already open. It seems like some women stayed and were met by an angel who told them that Jesus was risen!! They should go and tell the disciples that Jesus was alive. Mary Magdalene may have not stayed to see the angel, just saw that the tomb was open and empty. She seemed to have run into the garden, distraught. There she saw someone she thought was the gardener, she asked him, in tears, if he knew where Jesus' body was. The man simply said, "Mary" and she knew it was Jesus. He told her to go and tell his disciples that he was alive. The disciples didn't believe the women, they thought they were talking nonsense. The disciples would soon see Jesus for themselves! What a triumph over sin, death and the devil! Jesus died and rose again and so will we!
Some pictures from the week- books from the bookmobile (we actually got to go in on Thursday!), great kite flying- girls with their stink bug classroom pet and other wind fun!
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