The Mystery of Life and Death

Last week, students in Miss Elsa’s class discussed the Mystery of Life and Death. 
Direct Aim: To listen to the words in John 12:24 and explore the mystery of life and death.
Indirect Aims: Educating the child to hope; to delve deeper into the Paschal mystery of death; to come to the realization that in Jesus, death is followed by renewed and eternal life; to participate more fully in the celebration of Easter.

Key points of our lesson: New life comes from death. In Christ, life is stronger than death. This new life is greater, fuller, more complete, life giving, and eternal. The mystery of death is the transformation to the fullness of life.

We took a close-up look at wheat seeds and also observed live caterpillars in the very first stage of becoming a butterfly. We can’t wait to watch as the complete metamorphosis occurs in a few weeks!