What can we learn from Sister Aroha's life?

 Hello! In RE we have been learning about Sister Aroha, she is a catholic nun who left New Zealand to go to Sri Lanka so that she could take care of sick children in an orphanage. 

For our task we had to make a DLO answering the question - what can we learn from Sister Aroha's life? I made a google drawing showing what we can learn from her life. 

I enjoyed learning about her and the good things she did to help other people! 

Here is my DLO!

Diary Entry

 For this week, we have been learning more about Saint Bernadette since it's almost her feast day which is on April 16, but in Canada and in France her feast day is celebrated on February 18. Saint Bernadette was the girl who Mary appeared to in the grotto near Lourdes when she was only fourteen, Mary appeared to her eighteen times in total. If you wanna more then you should read my diary entry. 

We have watched many videos about Mary appearing to Bernadette and we've also read some texts as well, so for our task we had to make either a diary/journal entry about any important event that happened to Bernadette, or either make a newspaper article about pretending you've interviewed Bernadette, and you've asked her what she had seen in the grotto. I decided to make a diary entry about Bernadette meeting Mary for the first time, but no one believed her. 

This is my diary entry!

Easter Triduum

 For R.E we have been learning about the Easter Triduum, the Easter Triduum is different events leading up to Jesus' death. There are many events like the last supper and more! For the create part we had to choose two images to draw relating to one of the Easter Triduum events. I decided to draw the bread and the wine from the last supper and the temple, we had to make a concertina, if you don't know what a concertina is, strips of folded paper so when you look at it in a certain angle or way then it will show one image but if you look the opposite way then it will show a different image.

This is my one!

Christmas in Spain

Kia Ora! We have been learning about Christmas all around the world, since Christmas is nearly coming up. There are a lot of different countries that have different types of things that they do for Christmas since we aren't all the same.

So for our task we had to read through information that our teacher has given us about different things that different countries do for Christmas. Then we had to choose one of our own to research more about, I decided to research about Spain, because it seemed really interesting and all the different traditions they do. Then we had to make a DLO about all the information i've learnt. I did mine on canva!

Here is my DLO!

 

"Do to others as you would have them do to you."

For RE, our teacher read us a very long verse on loving your enemies - (insteading of getting revenge or  being mean to them back we should forgive them instead.) After she had read that we had to focus on one sentence/word which was "Do others as you would have them do to you." Which is the same thing as treating others the way you want to be treated. Then we had to make a DLO about the one sentence and explain how it would would relate to real life situations, I did mine on canva!

This is my DLO!

 

Encylical

For RE we have been doing key ideas which helps us to know more about Jesus, popes, bishops and more! This is our second to last key idea and for this key idea we are learning about the Pope of our times which is Pope Francis. So first we had to watch a video about it and then we had to do a summary sheet which was like sumarising what was in the video, then we had to do a pope inquiry which was basically like asking questions about the topic we were doing I choose to do an Encylical that was Written By The Pope and from this I learnt a lot of information from this and found out what was a Encylical but I still can't pronouce it! But for this task we had to put in five pieces of information from our own research and then put it three questions including either; when or what, how or why, is, could or should. And then we had to answer the question again researching about it. 

I kinda of found this task difficult finding all the information and asking questions about it and answering them but overall it worked out as fine! I enjoyed learning new things and finding out what a Encylical is!

This is my inquiry!

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An Encyclical Written By The Pope

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1. An Encyclical is a letter that includes issues, ideas and important things about the Church. 
2. The Pope writes the letter including all those different information and sends it out to the Bishop and the Priests. 
3. The issues that the pope writes about are like either human rights or peace for people. Some issues aren’t just about around the Church, it’s about general stuff as well. 
4. Our Pope wrote about Social Justice issues - about the poor. 
5. There are a lot of Encyclicals now that were written by the pope. 
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Questions: 
1. How many Encyclicals were written by the pope?
2. What Pope wrote about Social Justice?
3. Should the Pope be writing about these issues?
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Answers:
1. There are more than 200 Encyclicals that were written by the pope.
2. Pope Francis was the one who wrote about the Social Justice issues that were about the poor. 
3. Yes the popes should be writing about these issues because that’s how they communicate with each other and it teaches other popes. 

Jesus' Life

For this week's RE task, we had to do key idea 4 (Which is our RE activity, we've already done key idea 1, 2, and 3). Which was still about the Holy Spirit but it was about Jesus being prepared for his mission by the Holy Spirit. 

We had to watch three videos about Jesus' life after Baptism. The first video was about Jesus getting baptised by John, the second video was about Jesus going into the desert and staying there for forty days without having any food and was tempted by the devil/satan. The last video was about Jesus visting the synagogue and reading the scripture. Then after that we had to create either a timeline, comic strip or a storyboard. There was also a link to all 3 of them. I decided to do a timeline, since it was easier and fun to use. 

I didn't really find anything difficult and I enjoyed doing the task and seeing those different videos about Jesus!

Here is my timeline!

(The information is on the second picture)

News Report - Jesus Gets Baptized By John

For the past weeks we have been learning about Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit. We had to complete two tasks. For the first task we had to watch a video about Gabriel accouncing to Mary that she's going to have a baby then we had to answer these questions of how the Holy Spirit was involved with that. The we had to read/watch differents texts/videos about Jesus's Baptism, and then we had to make a newspaper report about Jesus's Baptism. I used a newspaper generator for my one! I couldn't screenshot the whole thing because it was very hard to read!

What I found difficult was answering some of the questions because I got confused and sometimes even when I re-watched the video there was still no information about the question that I was stuck on! I really enjoyed doing the news report and watching the videos because one of them was really funny!

Here are some questions!

- What have you learnt? 

- Did you already know about this?

- Would you like to do this activity? 

This is my newspaper report!

Holy Spirit

For the past few days we have been learning about the Holy Spirit in the scripture. And for our task we had to choose a title or an image of the Holy Spirit, or we could either use the one we've already created from our last task which was to, read a scripture (that we were assigned to) and make a poster/drawing to describe God. We also had to do it with a buddy, me and my buddy got Psalm 103:13 which was about a father showing compassion to his children. We also had to explain how we can show others that I can be the Holy Spirit!

Here is our drawing!

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I can be the Holy Spirit because I help others when they need it and I show the school's CERR vaules, I also try to be more like Jesus! And I try to make people more happy whenever they're sad. 

Maori Titles

WALT: Identify how Jesus is Matamua and Tuakana and explain the significance of this.

For this week's task for RE, we had to search up these six Maori titles which were: Kuia, Tupuna, Kaumatua, Matua, Whaea, Te Karaiti, Tuakana and Te Whanau. The after we have researched that we had to make a DLO explaining the meaning of all of them. I did mine on Voki (Which is a site where you can design your own characters and put whatever you want and it can talk!) because I didn't want to screencastify mine (we had to think of SISOMO which was sight, sound and motion because we have a blind person in our class but he can hear really well.) Since voki could only do six hundread characters I didn't write much and also because I couldn't really explain it but I hope it explains a lot. 

I enjoyed learning those different words because I was really curious to know what they meant and what I found difficult was explaing in big sentences because the definitaion of it was simple and I didn't really know how to make it into big words. 

Anyways here is my Voki!

Saint Maximilian Kolbe

WALT: Recognise how Jesus's work of bringing God's saving love caused him to suffer and die. 

Last week we were learning about two different people who were: Saint Maximilian Kolbe and Father Francis Vernon Douglas. We were learning about that because there work of love brought them to pass just like Jesus. So our task was to create a slideshow showing who was he, what was his cause, who did he upset and why and how did his work of love lead him to death?

We also had to do this thing which was called "sismo." which was sound, motion and sight. We needed to do that because there is a boy in our class who is blind, but he is very good at hearing. So we decided to go onto voki. You can make your character and then just write what you want and it will repeat it, but you can only do 600 letters. I had to restart this a couple times because it couldn't save and I also had a bit of problems with it. Then after we had finished that we had to screencastify it because it wasn't saving properly.

I enjoyed making the voki because it was fun trying out new things even though I had to restart a couple times but that was okay. What I found difficult was fitting my writing in because I could only do 600 letters. But overall I enjoyed it!

This is my voki!

My Resloution For Christmas

WALT: Recall how Mary heard the word of God and acted it.

For our RE lesson we have been learning about Mary and for lesson three we had to write a resolution for Christmas, which was to think about something good that we can do for Christmas, and be like the Disciple of Christ. 

Then we had to design a poster putting what we're going to do for Christmas. 

I enjoyed doing the whole thing because it was fun decorating and mostly just thinking about being grateful, and I didn't really find anything diffcult because I enjoyed it!

This is my poster.

3 Famous People in the early Christian Community

WALT: Identify significant people in the early Church and explain their roles in the community. 

Some weeks ago, for RE we were learning something new. It was about the Church, and we were up to lesson two, which was about famous people who were in the early Christian Community. And we had to read about six people who are called; Peter, Lydia, Aquila and Priscilla, Stephen, Phoebe and Paul. Then after we had read all of them we had to choose three people to write about. I choose Stephen, Aquila and Priscilla and Paul. Because there stories were intresting!

Then we had to use animaker telling all the facts about them. 

Like what was there role in the Church, and how did they help the Church and also how they were in important in the Church.

This is my video! (We had to screencastify it!) 

The Three Sacraments of Initiation!

WALT: Name the three Sacraments of Initiation and their purpose. 

In class we are learning about the 7 Sacraments, and for our task we had to learn about the three sacraments of initiation and they are; baptism, confirmation and Eucharist. We had to also watch a video and read about the three sacraments initiation. After that we had a task and it was to make a dlo and to explain what the three sacraments initiation are, and their purpose. 

This is my dlo! 

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- Baptism

 Baptism is when the Priest dips the person who is going to get baptised into holy water, and they become apart of the church and be cleaned from original sin with just through holy water and word. The person who is going to get baptised has to wear white and usually when your a baby you get baptised but you can do it at any age.

 - Confirmation

 Confirmation is when the Bishop places his hand on your forehead and says words so you can continue your journey with God, and to also grow your relationship with him. You will also receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 - Eucharist

 Eucharist is another word for thanksgiving. And Eucharist is when is when the bread and wine is given to you, which is also the Christ’s body and blood. When you are a kid and receive your holy communion you are only allowed to eat the bread not the wine you can drink the wine when you get older. The priest also says sacred words before you eat the bread and wine.

Praying with the Psalms

In room 5, when we do morning prayers the teacher puts up Psalms on the screen and for two weeks we had to choose a psalm that stood out to us and write it in a doc, and some of us shared what we wrote! and on friday we put all our psalms that we wrote in our doc and we had make it into a poster! We had two choices it was to do it on a google drawing or do it directly on to the slideshow I did mines directly on the slideshow, it was really fun doing it. This is unfinished but it will be updated! And it will have ten psalms on it!