Easter, Spring Musical, and Making Clocks!

One of the joys of working at a Christian school is that we can dive into the true meaning of the holidays. It is so meaningful to teach about Jesus’ death and resurrection. To help teach the class, I used resurrection eggs. Many of the students were familiar with these and were able to review the story of Jesus dying on the cross and the events that lead up to that with me. I think it is important to teach children that the reason for Easter is Jesus choosing to die on the cross for our sins and coming back to life to fulfill God’s Word. The class enjoyed painting beautiful crosses and a yummy snack.

Every year the first through eighth-grade students take part in the Spring Musical. This year the first and second graders were Oompa Loompas. All of them agreed that the music was fun to learn, they were all nervous but had fun, and none of them liked the wigs! It was a big production and the students knocked it out of the park!! The spring musical not only allows the student's musical talents to shine but also how responsible and hardworking they are. They needed to wear shields to be safe, but the shields didn’t take anything away from the musical. I can’t wait to see what next year's musical will be! 

Time is winding down this school year. To help learn about telling time the class made their own clock! It helped reinforce which hand is the minute hand and hour hand, that we can count by fives to know how many minutes have passed, and that when the minute hand is on the six you can say half-past or thirty. This group of students has always been interested in telling time and they enjoyed making their clocks and using them for several lessons.

Mrs. Gordon