Blog for April 19 and 21

Happy Easter! Jesus is risen! We are celebrating Easter this week at Peace Lutheran Preschool.

Table activities are an Easter sensory box filled with grass and baskets and other Easter goodies, Easter egg play, stack them, fill them, match them. We will have some scissors cutting practice to cut eggs and create an egg collage.

Our KDIs this week include-

 Diversity: Children understand that people have diverse characteristics, interests, and abilities.- We all celebrate Easter, but maybe not with the same traditions. What does your family do to make Easter special? What do other families do?

 Fine-motor skills: Children demonstrate dexterity and handeye coordination in using their small muscles.- From snapping together eggs to cutting with scissors, painting with Q-tips and stringing beads on pipe cleaners, we are using our fingers this week.

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- "Sad News, Glad News" by Lois Rock and Louise Rawlings, "The Easter Story" retold by Allia Zobel-Nolan, and "What is Easter?" by Lillie James.

See you at Domino Farms Thursday! Dressed for the weather! God bless your week!
Mrs. Schneck