Thank you from our Charity

In March we collected Tim Hortons gift cards and a chocolate bar or granola bar to give to our charity. See link here. 

Today I received a thank-you card in the mail! Thank you again to all the parents who donated gift cards, food items and toiletries!

Take a look below:

Resurrection Buns

Today we made Resurrection Buns. 

We started our lesson by watching the video below: 

Then, we talked about the Easter Story and what Jesus did for us. Jesus died for us so we can go to heaven. 

We talked about how in Jesus’ time and when somebody died, people would put spices or ointments on their body and wrap their dead body in a cloth. This was to finalize the embalming process.

Next, we followed these steps to make our Resurrection Buns:

a.      Dip the marshmallow in the butter using a toothpick. 
Explain that this is Jesus’ body and we are putting an ointment on it.

b.     Dip the marshmallow in the spices (sugar, cinnamon and brown sugar). 
Explain that we are now putting Jesus’ body in the spices.

c.     Now wrap the crescent roll around the marshmallow and explain that this is Jesus’ body being wrapped in cloth.

d.     We talked about what to do with the body now that we have Jesus' body prepared for burial. 
What do we do with Jesus’ body now? (Put it in the tomb! The oven).

We made Resurrection Buns with marshmallows inside. After we cooked them, we opened up our buns and found the marshmallow was nowhere to be seen! This is what happened with Jesus when he died and was in the tomb for 3 days. The women went to check on Jesus' body and noticed that his body was gone and up in heaven! 

Take a look at our ingredients we used: 

These are what our buns looked like before we baked them:

These are what the buns looked like before we ate them and after we baked them:

Hosanna, Hosanna

Yesterday was Palm Sunday. Today we talked about what Palm Sunday is all about. We watched this short video: 

Then we talked about how everybody was cheering for Jesus and waved palms for him. They also took their coats off (cloaks) and put them on the ground for Jesus and his donkey to walk on.

We tried this in our classroom so each student could understand how Jesus felt walking through the town! We cheered for them, shouted "Hosanna" and even high-fived them!

(We all made sure that there was nothing in our pockets before we put them on the ground to walk on)

This is the AM class:

I had to post this photo of the morning students' shoes. I asked them to take their shoes off and put them at the red table. I turned around to see this!! Look how nice and organized they look! Well done!

This is the PM class:

Then, the students had three different worksheets to choose from. The rest of the worksheets will be sent home to finish at home! 

1. 

Jesus riding a donkey craft

2. 

Paper palm to colour/cut out

3. 

Colouring picture of Palm Sunday