No KDI this week!
Table Activities- This week we will decorate eggs and crosses, play with Easter slime, play in an Easter sensory bin, color Easter coloring pages, paint Easter dot paintings, sort some jelly beans and paint egg shaped paper.
Small Group- Our small group activities this week include a cross suncatcher, a cross necklace, adding "Jesus is Risen" coloring to our journal and making a hand Easter Lily.
Large Group- We will have an outside Easter egg hunt this week and play with sidewalk chalk to write some Easter messages in picture.
Books of the Week- "Sad News, Glad News" by Lois Rock and "The Easter Lily Parable" by Liz Curtis Higgs.
Bible Story- This week we hear the account of Jesus' Crucifixion. Even though it's hard to hear or understand for young children, we begin their understanding here. Jesus did nothing wrong, no sins he had to pay for. Jesus suffered and died for our sins and the sins of the entire world. It was hard and horrible, painful and humiliating. Jesus did all this because he loves us!
After Palm Sunday, Jesus remained in Jerusalem with his disciples, preaching at the temple, answering questions. On Thursday evening, Jesus and his disciples celebrated the Passover meal in a rented upper room. It was at this meal that Jesus revealed that someone would betray him and Judas Iscariot went to do what he had planned. Jesus washed his disciples feet before the meal and gave them a new commandment- Love one another. He also instituted the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. After this meal, Jesus and his disciples went into the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus prayed desperate for another way, but he submitted himself to God's will. In the garden, Judas came with guards and kissed Jesus on the cheek, which showed that that was the man who should be arrested. The guards arrested Jesus and the disciples fought back a bit, but ended up running away.
Jesus was taken to the high priest, Pilate and Herod over the night. He was beaten, whipped, mocked and eventually sentenced to death by crucifixion.
On Friday morning, Jesus was to carry a portion of his cross to a hill outside the city of Jerusalem. He was too weak to do it. A man visiting Jerusalem named Simon of Cyrene, was forced to carry his cross for him. Once they reached the hill, Jesus was nailed by his hands and feet to the cross. He spent hours there, speaking only seven phrases. His first was "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing." This was spoken about the soldiers who nailed him to the cross. "This day you will be with me in paradise." This was spoken to the thief on the cross next to him. As they were being crucified, the thieves were mocking Jesus, but one repented and confessed his faith. "Woman, behold your son. Son, behold your mother!" Even as Jesus was dying on the cross, he made sure his mother. Mary, would be taken care of by his disciple John. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" In the darkness that covered the earth, Jesus was abandoned by his Father as he paid for all of our sins on the cross. "I thirst." To fulfill Scripture, Jesus asks for a drink of wine vinegar. "It is finished." He did it, He paid in full the punishment for all sins of all time! "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." Back into the Father's hands to be taken care of and mark paid in full. Jesus died in the peace of knowing he had made peace between God and man.
What wondrous love is this, Oh my soul!
That's as far as we will be going, make sure to tell your child the rest of the story and celebrate it!!
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