Sister Combs: Cookies with frosting on top.
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All children (in classroom): When are we having snacks? What kind of food did you bring? Cupcakes? Muffins?
Reed: It's cookies with frosting.
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Reed (eating his second cookie): What are the little orange things?
Sister Combs: Carrots!
All children: Yum.
100% of the children liked the frosted carrot cookies. One can only guess how the results would have been different if they had known about the secret ingredient in advance!
It was Easter, so the lesson was about. . .Easter. The children were all very excited and tired from a busy weekend of egg-hunting, candy-eating, and other festive activities, plus they had all talked about the Easter story at home, so they all had a lot to say, and they all wanted to say it at the same time! They were very interested in how Jesus' friends had taken care of him and prepared him for burial, and understood how happy the disciples must have felt when they heard that he was alive again. We were supposed to learn the word
resurrection
but they already knew how to say it and what it meant! We discussed that all people will eventually be resurrected, which they agreed was a good thing.
We concluded that egg hunts and candy and toys are lots of fun, but we celebrate Easter because Jesus Christ was resurrected, which is far more important.
We colored pictures of the empty tomb and of the resurrected Savior. Gia did some pretty wild rainbow coloring, which a couple of the other children thought was fun to emulate.