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An Expectant Easter

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Recommended for: Primary Years (K-3rd), Intermediate Years (4th-8th)

A 3-week Easter study designed for the whole family. 

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?

  • Full curriculum with weekly grids, daily lesson plans, recipes, and handcraft instructions, scripture, artwork, poetry, and hymn display sheets, 80 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 full curriculum, 80 pages, spiral-bound with a glossy cardstock cover.

- 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.s

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.

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    Sharleen de Raedt
    Such a delight!

    We absolutely loved this Easter curriculum and had the most wonderful and intentional Easter as a result. It filled each of us and we thoroughly enjoyed the hands on projects and baking.

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    Lacy Real
    We love!

    This Easter study is so beautiful. I love how each day is planned out from the scripture, to the art, hymns, poetry and craft as well as feedback on how the kids can narrate back to you.(something we’ve really been working on!) Thank you for creating such a beautiful outline for us this Easter, the kids and I are loving it!

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    Rebekah Yamada

    We’re enjoying this so much this year; thank you!

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    Bethany Hancock
    Wonderful Resource!

    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!

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    Bethany Morin
    Beautiful visuals

    The artwork and layout are beautiful, the content is good. However, not totally aligned with our theology, we revised some of the story telling for our kids and omitted a few books.

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    Jessica Knight
    Wonderful!

    We loved this Easter study! Some of my favorite memories made reading the books from the booklist with my 2 boys snuggled next to me.

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    Holly Layer
    Great study!

    The artwork, verse selection and activities are wonderful. I love all their holiday studies!

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    B Lopez
    Everything In One Place

    This curriculum was so easy to use for so many reasons, the biggest for me was that all the activities, Bible verses, recipes, etc for the whole week/s leading up to Easter are all in one place. It's beautiful, easy to modify or pick and choose what fits your kiddo/s or season, and still be doing plenty.

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    Chandra Cullen
    Lovely & Affective Learning.

    We loved the way all three kids, even with age differences were able to connect together and not only learn but grow closer to Thr Lord and each other through this lovely study.

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    Josie Sanders
    Meaning to your Easter Celebration

    This gave us guidance and adding meaning back to celebrating Easter (which is more important than Christmas!). We absolutely LOVED the books. I selected a few and integrated some of the preschool style from story school to teach to the younger children. For lent this year, my focus was to complete this for myself to reflect, learn and grow my faith. The kids loved the numbered egg hunt, crafts and acting out certain scripture.

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    Lisa Shoemaker
    What I didn’t know I needed

    I love this curriculum. My daughter (4) is so engaged and interested and asking questions. She loves finding the egg! The activities are perfect. She doesn’t complete the writing portions but am saving them for when she’s older.y cup feels filled after our lesson each day. Very happy!

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    Zoë Röttig
    Excellent adaptable material

    My 9 year old and 5 year old are really enjoying this curriculum. We are in Germany (unable to homeschool) and don't have lots of time to complete everything in one go, but it's really easy to pick and choose activities and go back to some later. We are also really enjoying all the biblical content and Friday lesson ideas! The curriculum is excellent and I love how versatile it is. Looking forward to doing more with my children.

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    LM
    Biblical and Easy

    Great first year homeschooling Easter program. Easy open and go. Great list of supplies needed!

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    Candace Bell
    Wonderful!

    My whole family has LOVED this study!

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    Anonymous

    This has been a great curriculum to focus on why we celebrate Easter while also providing fun, engaging lessons.

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    Lauren Ashley Lewis
    Beautiful

    This has been and amazing start to the Easter season. Even my 16 year-old can’t wait to participate! Thank you!

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    Dariel Francois
    Interactive Easter Curriculum

    This is our second family curriculum that we have purchased and we are so excited to dive more into the Easter story! Love how interactive it is for our whole family! Learning made fun and easy. This Easter curriculum has brought up so many great conversations.

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    Melanie M
    Expectant Easter

    I’m so excited to do this with my girls this Easter! There is so much in here for connection and teaching our littles about Easter. This is going to be such a mblessing. I can’t wait to do it the next few weeks!

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    Ashley Hanna
    I can’t wait to use this!

    I just received my An Expectant Easter download and can’t wait to go through it with my kiddos!

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    Abby
    Excited!

    I can’t wait to go through Easter School with my 6 kids! I love treehouse schoolhouse materials!

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    Steph Fullerton
    Sweet Experiences

    This Easter I used An Expectant Easter with my kindergartener, and we had the best time. The Bible stories, memory verses and read-alouds with coordinating hand-crafts were our favorite parts. I loved taking more time to discuss this important event in our faith than just a week or a few days. This upcoming Easter, we will work in even more of the features of this beautiful curriculum.

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    Alexis Foreman
    Love!

    Fun and learning for children and parents!

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    Laura
    Sweet and gentle approach to celebrating Easter

    I was so grateful to find a unit study leading up to Easter. We always make a big deal about Christmas and this is such an important and sometimes breezed over part of our faith. The activities, stories and art were fantastic.

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    Samantha

    The kids and I loved this unit. It was exactly what I was looking for.

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    Tia Smith
    Exceptionally Enjoyable

    My girls and I always look forward to a new holiday curriculum. With how quickly time passes these days I’ll do anything to savor these early years! We’ve done a Treasure Thanksgiving, a Connected Christmas, and recently An Expectant Easter. When the girls wake up in the morning and see the THSH art and poems displayed around the holidays they couldn’t be more excited. It’s a wonderful and welcomed change in our school day and helps us to slow down and enjoy our time together.

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    Sage Reiley
    Just what I wanted and more

    I purchased this hoping it would help me direct morning time with my 6, 4, and 18 month old. It was such a great addition. We love the recommended story books. My kids loved the 12 eggs and looking for them. They generated great discussions. We didn't use all the material but it is something that will grow with us as my kids grow. It's a new family tradition and I'm already looking forward to next year. All in all a great purchase and I would buy it again.

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    Alexis
    Love it!

    We have absolutely loved going through this curriculum as a family. It is such a special way to come together as a family to celebrate Easter and focus on Christ. I will look back with many fond memories over the years.

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    Marquel Alexander
    An Absolute Joy!

    I love being able to do "Easter School" with my kids each morning. We have done the Christmas program from Treehouse Schoolhouse for a few years, and it's always a hit. An Expectant Easter is no different. It gives both my kids AND myself a better connection and understanding of the Easter story. I love it! Thank you so much for creating these programs. :)