Why we celebrate Easter

This week Rainbows have been learning why we celebrate Easter and have been completing lots of different Easter activities.

We began by learning about the First Easter story and know that Christians celebrate Easter. We listened carefully to the story and could tell our friends that Jesus was a good man who helped others. We know that Jesus invited his friends to the Last Supper and shared bread and wine with them. After Jesus died, an angel came to say he had risen and Jesus spoke to his friends before rising to heaven.

The children asked lots of interesting questions and wondered why the thief Barabbas was set free instead of Jesus who helped people.

We practised learning Easter Makaton signs as the post below shows. We hope you enjoy watching us!

We also learnt a brand new poem which we have added to a separate post. We are getting really confident learning the words and actions and we only practised a few times!

We took part in different physical activities for Feel Good Friday including active maths songs and Just Dance.

Our Easter activities have had lots of physical development and creative development focuses. We made Easter baskets and connected each piece together after we decorated them. Some of us made Easter cards decorated with an egg. We made a hinge for the egg using a split pin so it opened to reveal a chick inside. Our art focus of the week was "Pointillism." We decorated egg pictures using paint and a cotton bud to create dots and patterns. Some of us wrote a letter to the Easter Bunny and we all voted for our favourite book to read. We chose one about Springtime. A member of Team CW created an Easter Bonnet at home and brought it into school to show the Rainbows. We were very impressed!

We also made Easter nests after weighing out the chocolate carefully, adding the cornflakes and stirring them together. We decorated them too!

We also had a visit from the Easter Bunny who left some footprints, a lovely letter and an Easter egg for each of us!

We wish you all a very Happy Easter and hope you enjoy the holidays!