Christ the King

Hail, Jesus, You're My King

Before we could prepare for the new beginning of Advent, we had to say goodbye to the passing of another church year as we celebrated Christ the King Sunday.  What a great opportunity to get out the liturgical calendar in our classroom Atrium and discuss the church year.  It was a great reminder of all the liturgical colors (especially as we discussed what color Father's vestment was on this particular Sunday...Many argued it was orange!!) and a great way to predict what we will begin to see next Sunday as we enter the season of Advent.

Our activities included a coloring page of Our King, which we bedecked and bejeweled.  The munchkins loved it!

The finished products were lovely!

This particular activity led to a great language exercise, discussing the special sound of "ing"...as in "king".

The munchkins got the chance to practice using this new combination of letters in a quick writing activity.  Boy, do we have some great kindergarten writers!

Be sure to click on each one to get a closer look at the exceptional handwriting, conventional spelling and artwork of our munchkins.  They do a great job.  Who would expect this was done independently by 5 year olds??

Well...I guess we should know that things wouldn't be complete (not in this classroom anyway) unless there was a recipe!

We made crowns for The King.

But many of the munchkins tried them on...
Oh my!  Are those cupcake sprinkles in your hair?

Some even stayed...

Hail, Jesus, You're my King!

Your life frees me to sing!

I will praise You all my days!

You are perfect in every way!

Hail, Hail, Lion of Judah!

How wonderful You are!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

Christ the King

Christ the King!

It's hard to believe that we are about to enter the season of Advent, but yes, it's here!

With the celebration of Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday of the liturgical year, we took this great opportunity in our kindergarten class to learn a bit about the church calendar.  The munchkins are already very good at watching to see what liturgical color Father will be wearing at our weekday and Sunday Masses.  With our lesson on the church calendar, now they will be able to even better predict what he might have on before they get to church!

We used the calendar puzzle from our Atrium,placing all the pieces on the floor before putting it back together again.  We discussed the liturgical colors on the calendar and what those colors mean for us ~

Green for Growing

Purple for Waiting

White for Celebrating

Red of the Holy Spirit and Martyrs

The munchkins were so excited to learn that this Sunday was the last green block on the calendar.  It was so neat to watch their faces as they realized that meant we would soon be in "waiting" for something special to happen in our Church.  But what?

Oh, the smiles and excitement as they put the pieces together and understood that we will be preparing and waiting for the Baby Jesus to be born on Christmas!

But we didn't want to jump ahead too quickly, without giving the proper time to this Sunday and the beautiful celebration of Christ the King!

We colored some wonderful coloring pages and then predicted...

What color will Father have on this Sunday?

Hmmm...that's a tricky one now, isn't it. 

The munchkins had no trouble figuring it out though!  Even though the block on the calendar was green, they knew very well that it was no ordinary day!

Christ the King, Thy Kingdom Come!

Until next time,

Giggles,

Mrs. D