Dear Parents,
Your child has their Holy Week Book to complete at home. It does not need to be returned to school. They created it as a gift for you. I would encourage you to keep it though and go through it with your child. This past week has been so enjoyable teaching you children about this most important time in our church. We started the week out by having a community circle about what the children thought Easter was about. Well of course I heard " The Easter Bunny, candy, hunting for eggs, going to grandmas, etc." All wonderful descriptions of Easter fun. We read the book What is Easter?, watched a movie about Holy week, read stories about Holy Week everyday, went to Mass on Wed. where Father talked about Holy Week, did Lenten symbols over the last six weeks, and watched plays put on by our second graders and eighth graders about the Last Supper and Good Friday. Today as our writing the children answered the question again with drawings and I was blown away by their pictures of Jesus dying on the cross. They will be coming home in next week's Friday folders. Rice bowls can be brought back next Tuesday. Thank you for the folders. Huge thank you to Mrs. Land and Mrs. Moyars for helping out today during our writing activity. Thank you Mrs. Mudukuti for helping out last week. An EXTRA BIG THANKYOU to Mrs. Smith for helping out at literacy centers every Wednesday this year.
Happy Easter,
Mrs. Catton
