March 28, 2013

 Happy Holy Thursday!

For No Excuse Words today we did Spelling Staircases.

For Word Work we started to learn about blends.  These are when you join 2 consonants together to make a new sound.  Today we did the bl and the br blends:

In Religion today we talked about Good Friday and how Jesus died for our sins on the cross.  We also talked about how on Easter Sunday Jesus rose from the dead.  We then made a chick hatching out of an Easter egg as a symbol of Jesus coming out of the tomb.  If you would like to talk more about the Easter Story with your child at home here is a link to a great youtube site with lots of videos about the New Testament.

 In the afternoon, we had a liturgy about the Stations of the Cross done by the grade 3s.   Here is an example of a Stations of the Cross as a shadow play:

Have a great Easter break!!!