If We Had Lived In Jesus' Time

This term in Room Two we have been learning about Jesus. We have talked about how some of the things in his life would have been similar to ours - and how others would have been different. When we learnt that Jesus didn't have electricity we were amazed that Jesus wouldn't have had a TV or a microwave or anything like that.

We have talked about food that Jesus might have eaten. We know he wouldn't have had lollies and fizzy drinks like we can have for treats. We also talked about how he didn't have a freezer so he couldn't have had ice-cream either.

Today, Miss McKenna brought in some food that would have been similar, or the same, as what Jesus could have eaten. When Miss McKenna uncovered the food we turned to our neighbour and told them what we could see.

We weren't sure of the names of the food so Miss McKenna told us what everything was. There were dates, grapes, olives, cheese, bread, honey, hummus and figs. The bread was a bit different to bread Jesus would have had because Miss McKenna had brought along rewana bread (which is a type of Maori bread made from potatoes). Miss McKenna explained this to us. 

We picked one thing we wanted to try first and put our hand up when we had decided. Most of us wanted to have rewana bread with honey and some of us wanted some grapes. They were yummy! We enjoyed eating them and then tried some other things.

Miss McKenna asked if anyone was going to be brave enough to try the figs and dates. So about half of us did. We didn't really like the figs but some of us, like Deevon below, enjoyed the dates.

Have you tried a new food lately? It can be fun to try new things! 

Hosanna! Jesus is our King!

This week is Holy Week and on Sunday it was Palm Sunday. Today during prayer time we read the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem. We learnt that the crowd was happy to see Jesus but the leaders were angry and jealous. We talked about how we are jealous sometimes and we thought about prayers we could say for Jesus to help us to not be jealous but to show peace and joy (two of our school values). At writing time we wrote stories to retell Jesus' ride to Jerusalem: 

'First Jesus told his friends to get himself a donkey', Ashleigh began.

'Next, Jesus ride with a donkey to Jerusalem', wrote Aden.

'Jesus had everybody staring', wrote Rosina. 

'The people are waving the palms', wrote Cyprus.

In the afternoon we made our own palms to welcome Jesus. We talked about how palms were special where Jesus was because they showed where water could be found in the desert. By waving palms and placing them down in front of Jesus the people were honouring him like a King.

The day allowed us to make lots of connections to work we did in the first week of term when we began our inquiry topic 'Identity' by talking about the identity and name of our school - 'Christ the King Catholic School'. We remembered how Christ is another name for Jesus and that he is our King. In the first week of term we made crowns to help us make this connection. 

"Jesus is our King!"

This afternoon your children all came home with a worksheet to share with you. Read it together, talk about the picture and the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem on the donkey. Maybe you have a Bible at home you can find the story in together. If you went to church on Palm Sunday remember together what happened.

Then, please finish the drawing of Jesus being welcomed and bring it back to school tomorrow. Thank you for supporting our learning at home!