Blog for April 18 and 20

Happy Easter! I hope everyone had a wonderful day!

This week we are focusing on Easter on Tuesday. On Thursday, we will meet at 10am at Domino Farms for a petting zoo field trip. If you are not going on the field trip, there is no school.

Today in table activities we had an Easter sensory bin and baskets and printing with plastic eggs.

Our small group activity was making a chick with lots of gluing!

Our KDIs for this week are-

Diversity: Children understand that people have diverse characteristics, interests, and abilities.- We don't all do the same things or have the same traditions surrounding Easter, but we do all celebrate it!

Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world. - As we pet animals on Thursday, watch our caterpillars, frog, guinea pig and plants grow and change and react to the world around them.

Jesus Time- He is risen! He is risen, indeed! We learn about Jesus' resurrection from the dead this week. Jesus was placed into a tomb provided by Joseph of Arimathea. The women who had followed Jesus to the cross made plans to further prepare his body for burial on Sunday morning, after the Sabbath. Jesus' enemies were still concerned that his disciples would try to steal the body and claim that he rose, so they pestered Pilate to place guards in front of the tomb and seal the stone. During the night, the ground shook, angels appeared and the stone rolled away. The guards fainted only to gain consciousness  later to see the tomb empty. When the women came, they worried about how they were going to roll away the stone, only to see angels who gave them the message that Jesus had risen and to go tell the disciples.
The disciples doubted the women's words, but Peter and John rushed to see what had happened. They saw the empty tomb.
Later, Mary Magdalene returned. She was weeping, trying to find her Lord's body, when he appeared to her and told her he was alive, just as he said!
We sang the song "Alive, alive, alive forevermore! My Jesus is alive, Alive forevermore! Alive, alive, alive forevermore, My Jesus is alive!!

Books of the Week- " The Happy Easter Book" by Josie Jones and "Today is Easter" by P. K. Hallinan.

See you Thursday at Domino Farms! 3001 Earhart Rd. Ann Arbor, MI

Have a great week!
Mrs. Schneck