Easter, He is Risen!

We made it through Lent and Easter was wonderful!  One of the most wonderful things about home schooling is the ability to tailor our school day and lessons around what is going on in our lives.  We finished our famine/water unit right before Holy Week so it was a perfect time to take a break from our normal curriculum and concentrate on our faith.  We still did Math, Spelling, Grammar and Reading but in place of Social Studies and Science we concentrated on Holy Week.  We made a large poster with each day of the week written on it starting with Palm Sunday and each day we filled in the importance of that day and scripture references and drew pictures.  We also did a huge Stations of the Cross project where we talked about each station and printed them out and made books out of them.  Landon needed to hand his in for his First Communion class so he also wrote what each station meant to him and how each made him feel.  Somehow I don't have pictures of any of that......

Speaking of projects though, we undertook a large project in honor of Easter that was a lot of fun but also a lot of work!  We have talked a lot with the kids about how one of our callings from the Lord is to show others our love of God.  What better time to do that then at Easter?  We made an Easter craft with our friends who home school as well.  Then we went to the local nursing home and hand delivered them to each resident.  It was fun to make the craft but it took awhile as there are 60 residents!  The kids loved handing them out though and the residents loved having them bring the craft to them.  We have decided we will definitely do that again, possibly even for Mother's Day next month.

While we place a large emphasis on Easter as a holy day, we also enjoy letting the kids do other Easter activities so we went to an Easter Egg hunt at the nursing home the week before Easter and they had so much fun.  They also dyed eggs here at home.  That was actually a big thing, as with Daniel's allergies to eggs we have never allowed him to dye eggs.  We were very careful though and he had no reaction and he had so much fun!  They enjoyed their Easter baskets on Easter morning and they looked so handsome for Mass that day.

Last but not least, we made Resurrection Rolls for Easter.  They were fun.  You just use crescent rolls and Peep Chicks and the kids wrap the rolls around the chicks but when you bake them the chicks disappear like the empty tomb.  They were yummy and fun to make.