Easter - Celebrating Jesus!

One of the things that I love about working for a Christian school, is getting to teach with my faith. I love that not only am I free to but I'm almost expected to pray during class, participate in Bible classes, or talk about my faith openly with students. I like to embrace this characteristic by celebrating the religious meaning behind holidays when appropriate. For Easter this year, I had my kids work on the Easter story for Reading class: I would read different parts of the Easter story, according to the Bible, and then we created our own books. Each days we wrote the story in our words and drew pictures to match. We freely talked about the days leading up to Jesus' death on the cross and the days following that monumental event. Since I am the 3rd grade teacher, we did not get too in depth philosophically speaking, but I did utilize some pretty cool arts and crafts projects to enhance the text. Here are some of the stand-out creations my little ones made!

"When Jesus came into the city of Jerusalem the people waved palm leaves. They shouted, "Hosanna!" which means "save us." They were welcoming their king.

"Sometimes Jesus is called 'The Lamb of God' because he was God's sacrifice to the world."

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his only so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

"Jesus was nailed to the cross by his hands and feet. When he died everyone was sad, but Jesus died to save us."

"After Jesus died some men put his body in a cave. They put a big rock in front of the cave and there were 2 guards in front so no one could go in. An angel came down from Heaven and moved the rock away from the cave. When Mary and Mary Magdelene went inside the cave, Jesus' body was gone! The angel told them that Jesus is alive!"

"Jesus visited the disciples. He showed them his hands and feet so they would believe that he died but is alive again."

I hope you enjoyed seeing their wonderful craft creations, and had an even more blessed Easter celebrating the death and resurrection of our beloved Christ! Happy Easter from La Union!