This week we talked about Easter! The students got to hear the Easter story several times: in class from a few different books and also in Chapel when Mrs. Keevers class acted it out. We talked about how Jesus died for our sins and the students saw a glass of water and how it was clear and white, just like our hearts were when we were born...but then we talked about times when we do things that are not right; not listening to our parents, hitting friends, etc...and our heart turns a little darker (we added food color to the water). Then we talked about how Jesus forgives us when we mess up! He still loves us! And we added some bleach to the water and it turned back to white!
We also had a cross in the room and everytime Mrs. Ray caught someone doing something good, they got to go put a heart on the cross. By the end of the week our cross was filled up! In art, we made three crosses on a hill, a fingerpainted cross, some eggs in a basket, painted Easter eggs, and made little chicks.
We learned about syllables this week and sorted objects based on how many syllables they had, we also matched up eggs by upper and lowercase letters. We worked on writing our letters and writing our last names. We also reached into an Easter basket and tried to guess what was inside, we had to describe it to the rest of the class as we felt it. We also got to hunt for the eggs in the room, and then graphed what everyone had inside theirs.
This week we are talking about Earth day and how we need to take care of the Earth. We are also going to start doing nursery rhymes. We will be doing two nursery rhymes a week probably until the last week of school!
Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!