Easter/Spring Vocabulary

3. laid by a chicken, usually will hatch into a baby chick
4. Friday This is the name for the Friday before Easter. It commemorates the day that Jesus was killed.
6. A person is hung on a cross and left to die a very slow, painful death.
8. a container made of straw or other materials.
9. the name for the period starting approximately 40 days before Easter. During Lent, many Christians do special activities to prepare for Easter.
11. it’s a cross with Jesus on it. Many Christians wear crucifixes on necklaces or have them hanging on a wall to remind them of their faith.
12. a place where you put a dead body. Another word for that place is “grave,” but usually graves are in the ground, and tombs are above the ground.
13. one of the four seasons (the others are summer, fall/autumn, and winter). In the northern hemisphere (the northern half of the earth), spring starts in March, around the same time as Easter.
14. In the context of Easter, it refers to the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. It comes from the old Latin word for “suffering.”

1. “re-birth.”
2. to do something difficult or give up something so that you can help someone else.
5. a baby chicken or any other baby bird
7. commemorates (celebrates and honors) the resurrection (re-birth) of Jesus Christ
10. the day you were born. “Birth” is a noun that describes when an animal starts living.
11. that meal is now called “the Last Supper,”Christians eat a piece of bread and drink a bit of wine. The bread and wine represent the body and blood of Jesus.