Ash Wednesday

Today we went to the hall to have a special liturgy for Ash Wednesday.

We thought about ways we can "let our light shine" during Lent. We received ashes in a cross on our foreheads to remind us to make good choices instead of bad choices.

We took our lantern back to our room and set our special table with a purple cloth because purple is the "sorry" colour for Lent.

We put forty purple beans on the table so we can count the 40 days (not counting Sundays) until Easter. Bea made a cross for our table to remind us of Jesus.

We made special promises for Lent too.

This week we are trying to be helpful to others, just like Jesus taught us in the Gospel.

We heard the story of the Good Samaritan and also read about how Jesus helped to make a sick girl better.

Our Super Second Week!

This week has been just as much fun as our first week. I think the year will just keep getting better and better!

Our Sound Muncher was eating the /s/ sound this week and we were busy making things that start with 's' too.

We made snakes, submarines, starfish and seahorses and talked about sun safety too.

SLIP, SLOP, SLAP is very important at school!

We also went swimming for the first time this week which was great because not only does it start with 's' but it kept us nice and cool too.

What a fun first week!

We had a great time getting to know eachother this week. We worked so hard each day and were very tired by 3 o'clock!

Some of our favourite activities were:

• searching for the gingerbread men


• learning to read our special book about our school


• feeding the sound muncher


• measuring our heights


• bubble painting


• writing in our house books

We can't wait to see what we do next week!