Holy Week!

Holy Week

Holy Week is the week when Catholics commemorate the death and the resurrection of Jesus. The Holy Week includes, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. On these days Catholics attend mass and say special prayers. The Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday which follows the last week of Lent.

Setting

What can I hear?

• I can hear people cheering for Jesus.

What can I see?

• I can see a road filled with people who are making way for the king.
• I can also see people holding palms and laying it down for Jesus to walk over on his donkey.

Mood

How do people feel?

• Holy- They are praising Jesus.
• Excited- They are smiling and Singing.
• Passionate- Everyone is happy to be there.
• Homage/Honoured- Everyone was honoured and showed signs of homage by laying palms on the road for Jesus to walk.  

• Palm Sunday commemorates the arrival of Christ before his crucifixion.
• Jesus arrived on donkey to show humility and humbleness.
• The colors for Palm Sunday is Red and White symbolising the blood that Jesus sacrificed for us.
• The Scribes watched Jesus and envy him while he walks across the road on his donkey.

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WALT: identify how Christians celebrate Holy Week.

Holy Week is a sacred and solemn week for christians. Through their liturgical celebrations - people walk with Jesus in each of the events that he suffered during his final week of earth. These liturgies draw us together as followers of Christ. We are drawn as Te Whanau a Te Karaiti into these events (Stations of the Cross) as if each one of us was actually there with all this happening. By being part of activities such as the Station of the Cross we are sharing part of the life and love that Jesus himself gives us at this time.

Holy Thursday

Jesus and his friends gathered together, what we now know was the Last Supper. Jesus gives himself to all those who are gathered at the Supper including his friends. Jesus gives them the Eucharist and tells them, "Do this in memory of me" and blessed the bread. He gives his love in service by the washing of the feet. He tells them to follow the example of loving service and to serve others.

Good Friday

Jesus gives his life in love on the cross. He gives Mother Mary to John as his mother. He reconciled them with God. (Jesus is asking God to forgive them for what he has done). He gives the gift of passing through death to life to God.

Water Worries!

Who causes the water pollution and how does it connect with the water we drink?

• When people pollute at water sites especially where the water supply is being held such as the Waitakere ranges and more.

What I found out:  

• Along Tamaki, a charity decided to clean up all the rubbish around the area.
• They picked up about 25 cubic metres of rubbish that was hidden under mangroves.
• One of the people who were picking up said that he couldn't believe how much rubbish was hiding under everything.
• Other people's comments explained how unpleasant and sickening the smell and the sight was disgusting.

WALHT: plan our ideas to help us identify and report about the main ideas in text.

Rainbow Fish!

WALHT: analyse the differences that occurred in the Rainbow Fish' virtues.

About Glasses!

What is a pair of glasses?

Glasses come in different shapes and sizes. They are used for many different reasons. There are sunglasses, prescription eyeglasses, accessory glasses or even safety glasses.

The sunglass is used to protect your eyes or prevent yourself from looking at the sun. Sunglasses can be worn as accessories on summer days. People like taking them to the beach or the swimming pool.

Reading glasses or prescription glasses are used for people who can't see very well. They are also used by people who have trouble seeing tiny and small pictures, words and small objects from afar.

Finally we have the safety glasses, something that builders, electricians or plumbers need to use when doing something that might hurt or go into someone's eyes. For example if a builder was sanding or cutting wood with a machine, wood shavings would fly everywhere and it would hurt someone's eyes painfully and it could cause a splinter to go through an eye.

Glasses have been around for a long, long time and it's still being used by people today for the exact same reason it was built for that is because it can keep us safe and keep us fashionable.

WALHT: write an explanation.