Snow. Love it or hate it. In which camp are you and yours? My sister lives in Alaska and informed me that they got 20 inches of snow over the past week or so. Please be careful as you drive around today and the next few days (well, you should be careful always, but take extra time and such....I don't want to see any of your cars in wrecks on the news).
STATION SPOTLIGHT: Games - …..and we’re back to eggs! J We’re doing activities in the game station this unit that have to do with eggs (plastic ones), so here is some more information on the Faberge eggs that were mentioned earlier: Peter Carl Faberge made beautiful jewelry from gold and jewels. About 1880, the czar of Russia asked Faberge to make an Easter gift for the czar’s wife, Maria. Faberge created a gorgeous white enameled egg. Opening the egg revealed a yolk of pure gold. Inside the yolk was a golden hen with ruby eyes. In the hen’s beak was a tiny diamond crown and a ruby pendant. The czar was delighted! Through the following years, the czar ordered more eggs from Faberge. The kiddos will be doing an activity with plastic eggs that is designed to help them remember the memory verse for the unit.
Your child(ren) will also take part in a Decathlon. Don’t worry, we are not taking them off the premises. This Decathlon has various activities for the kiddos to do…all in the same room. Marissa and Jenna Early made the butterflies that hold the instructions for this activity! Thank you, girls!!
NEWS
- Clean-up day: We are having a clean-up day as a church on April 27th. I would love to see your families there! What an awesome opportunity to serve those around us. For more info, just ask.
- School bags: Christie Brown and Jane Baker have asked the families of 1st UMC to collaborate to put together school kits for UMCOR. I have the list of materials and such needed, you can find it HERE as well (just click "School Kits" at the bottom of the list on the right side of the page). We need materials listed there, as well as people who sew to make bags to contain the materials. Let me know if you can help!
May you find joy in the new snow this day, a sight that billions of people on the planet will never see in their entire lives.
Verse to ponder: "When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls." 1 Peter 2:23-25
Fact about Easter/Bible: The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, to whom the egg was a symbol of life.
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