I hope you all have a fantastic long weekend. Schools will reopen on Tuesday, April 18th.

This week we spent some time talking about Easter – its origin (Christianity) and the ancient Anglo Saxon tradition of Eastre (a spring celebration) which brought us the Easter Bunny.  We read, The Velveteen Rabbit, (my Reading group) and Rechenka’s Eggs, by Patricia Polacco, (the whole class) which looked at the tradition of Russian / Ukranian eggs.

The students decorated their own eggs.  Some challenged themselves by doing the design as well as the colouring.