On Monday, we had a visit from Lucky the Leprechaun. We found our classroom a mess that morning and a note that he lost his shoes. As we cleaned up the mess, we found his shoes. When we got back from morning prayer and flag ceremony, his shoes were gone and he left us a hat full of treats.
As Easter approaches, we have been talking about Lent and Easter. Our journey started by receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday. Throughout the past few weeks, we have colored each of the Stations of the Cross. The Stations of the Cross help us remember what happened to Jesus right before he died. This week we read several stories about the First Easter and created a flip book about the events of Holy Week. We also decorated Easter eggs. We found out that the Easter eggs looked just like the rock that was in front of Jesus’s tomb. It is also a symbol of new life. After coloring and dying our eggs, we ate them for a snack. After reading about how Skunk was the Easter Bunny’s assistant, we applied for the job. We had to write about why we would be a good assistant. We also created a yellow chick Easter basket. On Friday, we were surprised to find our Easter baskets filled with treats! Finally, we made a “stain glass” cross out of melted crayon shaving.
Monday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Introduced to our new words, not, then, & some
Read through our emergent reader, The Easter Story
Listened to the story, The Easter Bunny’s Assistant
Introduced to exclamation sentences
Reviewed word bubbles
Filled out an application to be the Easter Bunny’s Assistant
Completed an -un Secret Word worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Introduced to addition on the number line
Completed an number line addition worksheet
Religion:
Colored the final page for our Stations of the Cross book: Jesus Rises from the Dead!
Listened to the story, The Easter Story
Colored a little picture of Palm Sunday & The Last Supper
Tuesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Listened to the story, The Easter Bunny’s Assistant
Reviewed the different kinds of sentences
Listened to the story, The Legend of the Easter Egg
Drew with crayons and dyed two eggs
Decorated an easter egg picture by drawing and coloring
Completed an -ug Secret Word worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Developed a survey, collected data from classmates, and created a graph
Completed a number line addition worksheet
Religion:
Prayed the Stations of the Cross (using the books we made)
Colored a little picture of Jesus is Arrested & Jesus Takes His Cross
Watched a video of St Joseph and colored his picture
Wednesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Reviewed our sight words
Completed an -it Graph it worksheet
Colored, cut out, and created an Easter basket that looks like a chick
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Reviewed Number Stories with Number Sentences
Religion:
Listened to the story, The Miracle of Easter
Colored a little picture of Jesus is Crucified & Jesus Takes is Taken from the Cross
Thursday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed an -ub Secret Word worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Introduced to Number Bonds
Completed a number bond worksheet
Religion:
Listened to the story, God Gave Us Easter
Watched a video on Palm Sunday
Gospel Weekly - Palm Sunday & Holy Week
Colored a little picture of Jesus Takes is Buried & He is Risen
Retold the story of Holy Week
Put together our flip book with all of the pages we colored
Created a “stained glass” cross using crayon shavings
Friday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Listened to the story, The Very First Easter
Worked in our Easter packet
Matched CVC words
Unscrambled CVC words
Color by short vowel CVC word
Identified the difference between short and long a words
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Worked in our Easter packet
Matching Tens Blocks to numbers
Addition Problems
Religion:
Mass