An Expectant Easter
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Recommended for: Primary Years (K-3rd), Intermediate Years (4th-8th)
An Expectant Easter is a Bible-based, Charlotte Mason-inspired curriculum designed with your whole family in mind. It’s an invitation to gather your family to center your hearts on what Easter is all about. Through Bible stories, hymns, poetry, art studies, picture books, projects, baking, tea time, and nature studies, your family will spend three weeks connecting together and focusing on the newness of Spring, the sacrifice that Jesus made, and the power of His resurrection. This curriculum is designed for the three weeks leading up to Easter with lessons for Monday through Friday, but you can easily adapt to more or less time.
What is included?
- Teacher's Guide with weekly grids, daily lesson plans, recipes, and handcraft instructions, 66 pages
- Set of Student Sheets with scripture, artwork, poetry, and hymn display sheets with copywork pages, 25 pages
- Narration Notebook, 12 pages
We suggest you print or purchase additional Narration Notebooks for each child in your family.
Description
The foundation of your lesson time will include reading a passage of scripture to your children. These passages will be studied in chronological order to complete the crucifixion and resurrection story by the end of the curriculum. Children will love opening a Bible Story Easter Egg each day that a new story is read, which holds a clue to the day’s story. Children will orally narrate each Bible story and complete a written narration in their "Easter Story Narration Notebook." They will then illustrate the day's passage, completing a 12-page keepsake by the end of the season.
Each week your family will also memorize a passage of scripture, worship together with a hymn, enjoy a poem, and study a biblically-themed piece of artwork. Along with that, each day you will snuggle together and read an Easter-themed picture book and then enjoy a coordinating handcraft or baking project that reiterates a theme in the story. On Fridays, you will have a sweet time together over tea and a treat and reflect on all you have learned. You will also complete a gentle and engaging Spring-themed nature study.
Digital Download Details
This file is a digital download and will be sent to the email address you use to checkout. The study is a compressed .zip file that contains folders with the Teacher Guide, Student Sheets, and Narration Notebook.
Hard Copy Details
This hard copy curriculum will be professionally printed on a commercial-grade printing press on sturdy 70 lb. weight matte paper. All hard copies ship in 3-5 business days. The hard copy includes:
- 1 Teacher Guide, 66 pages, spiral-bound with a glossy cardstock cover.
- 1 set of Student Sheets, 25 pages, printed single-sided on heavy-weight paper.
- 1 Narration Notebook, 13 pages, spiral-bound with a glossy cardstock cover.
This will guarantee your artwork and display pieces are of the highest quality and can be used for many years. All hard copy purchases also include the digital files sent to the email address you use to check out.
printing guide
For best quality print results, I recommend you print the file using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free tool. You may print or purchase additional Student Sheets & Narration Notebooks for each child in your home.
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Features
Perfect for the whole family
Christ-centered connection
Hands-on and interactive
Simple and ready-to-use
This curriculum is designed to be used with the whole family at the same time. It was created for children in Kindergarten-5th grade, but it can easily be adapted for preschoolers and middle schoolers as well.
The foundation of your lesson time will include reading a passage of scripture to your children taking them through the story of Christ's death and resurrection.
This festive celebration reinforces the scriptures with simple handcrafts, delicious recipes, poetry and individual keepsake narration notebooks.
The weekly grid and daily lesson plans make it easy to open and go each day. Designed to require very little prep, the handcrafts and activities use supplies from around your house and the focus is on simple, beautiful connection.
"Easter is a time to celebrate the greatest story ever told! My desire is to mark my children’s hearts with truth and traditions during the season leading up to Easter. I want those weeks to be memorable, fun, and most of all, draw them to their Savior. I designed An Expectant Easter for my family first, and now I’m so excited to share it with you."
– LYNDSEY, FOUNDER AND AUTHOR OF AN EXPECTANT EASTER
Each hard copy comes with one Narration Notebook. You may also purchase additional notebooks for each child in your family.
An Expectant Easter Narration Notebook
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Such a beautiful unit!
I am so glad I decided to give An Expectant Easter a try this year. I have 5 boys, ages 12,9,7,3 and an infant. I started a little bit late, but went into the week after Easter, and it worked out very well. All the boys really enjoyed the Easter egg hunt each day. It was an easy way to get them excited about starting school. Generally, I am not great about incorporating hands on activities, but I was actually able to do some of these suggestions because they were simple enough and used common items. We loved doing salt dough eggs, the egg pizza, birds nest macaroons, and the sock bunnies. The sock bunnies especially have brought us much laughter as we put them on our windowsill and chuckle over their unique personalities. The hymns, Scripture verses, artwork and poetry all fit together beautifully. I am saving their Easter notebooks as a keepsake. It has been a treat for the boys to have something to show their dad and grandparents. I loved the resources for extra study. We loved the book about Louisa May Alcott, and are still finishing up the Da Vinci book. Thank you for all your hard work in putting together this wonderful curriculum! I have recommended it to many friends and family!
It was great I would recommend it. The kids and I had such a great Easter with all the pre work. Looking forward to using other of her unit studies.
My friend recommended this resource and I watched the 1 minute video - and was totally in love! I went for the printed version and put it all beautifully into folders for my kids to delve into the following day. The kids have been totally engaged (7, 6 and 5 years old) and especially loved the bible story Easter egg hunt!
Beautifully laid out and gorgeous to sit down as a family with a few candles and soft music and slowly learn and process the Easter story of Jesus. This is a must for any home schooling mama wanting to truly connect their family with the true meaning of Easter!
This is such an incredible study. My children and I are absolutley loving it.