Today The Village explored the provocation of Palm Sunday.
We first read “The Beginners Bible” together, then shared the video of God’s Story, Palm Sunday.
The Village reflected on what they thought Palm Sunday was about.
Arjan: you can clap the branches like they did in the book, a bad person was coming so they cut it down.
Dimi: Jesus had a big crowd around him, but some people didn’t wave because they were jealous
Declan: The bad people were jealous of Jesus so they didn’t wave.
Nhial: Jealous means selfish.
Olly: Jealous means you are serious.
Viraj: Jesus likes everyone so they wave the palms
Ishpreet: Jesus was helping someone
Nhial: Jesus likes people and likes to help them
Jacob: They were waving the Palms because they loved Jesus.
Declan: When they were waving branches because they grateful for Jesus.
Zac: They cut the palms trees so they could make a road and they welcomed him by fanning him and treating him like a king.
Charlee: They help people be kind and show especially respect.
Ishpreet: Jesus helps the people when they are hurt.
Alexander: When you put the palms on the road that means they are thanking Jesus for everything from the children and animals. They are saving Jesus and Thanking him.
Yasha: He went into a maze.
Adum: The people that were getting the leaf, they got the leaf from a tree, they were cooling down Jesus.
Elnathan: They blessed the plants to Jesus because he is the king of Israel.
Annabelle: They are important because of the cross on the head.
Nahom: They created a path to make him the king.
Alexia: Jesus was making him sad and he was giving some love to people.
“donkey” – Kiet
“I saw the people” – Alexa
“I saw people were rude to Jesus” Ravleen
“Jesus riding a donkey”- Yasha
“people mad”- Annabella
“Jesus was good and people were following him ” Alexia
“Jesus the king” – Annabel
“King of creating people” – Alexia
“God looks after everyone” – Yasha
“God made everybody and loved everyone” – Leo
“people around Jesus”- Zahra
“They are waving types of leaves”- Eva
“palm trees”- Enquire
“ashes come from palm trees”- Max
“because how we got the crosses on our heads people burnt the palms trees”- Alexa
The students then used their literacy skills of oral language, writing, comprehension and re-telling to reflect and share their understanding of the story.
From here the students went into play where they used their 100 languages to explore Palm Sunday
It was great to see all the students engaged take a look at the students and their great work.
After Lunch
Today we introduced the learning power “Sense Making” we used our puppet animal Dingo to help us.
Sense making or Miss Dingo is all about making connections between everything we know – ideas, memories, knowledge, skills, facts and experience. It is about us making sense of them in relation to each new context of learning and performance. We want the students to create a ‘knowledge map’ of what they are learning and making connections to how it all fits with their own learning.
As educators it is really important that we use our own knowledge of sense making to support our students and help them make connections to their own lives and learning experiences at school.
The children shared their ideas about what Sense Making means:
Adum: It means to be listening.
Declan: It means to have respect and be nice and be kind and be thankful for everybody and have a nice day and make sure you help God.
Nahom: It means to listen to the teacher so you can learn.
Bodhi: It means to be nice, no hurting people and respect others of the kids and be nice.
Nhial: It means respect your elders.
Felipe: Respect your elders.
Arjan: You can keep thinking in your brain.
Elnathan: When your brain might not be feeling good, then when you have another rest and a long rest, your brain gets stronger and you learn lots.
Nahom: When people are thinking about things, then after they try to make it in their brain and then they will make a train for their brain.
Declan: When you have breakfast, your brain gets super, supper strong. You are good at maths when your brain works. It will make you think better.
Nhial: Songs can help us learn numbers and letters and shapes, different colours. Counting from 1 to 100 and the ABC’s.
Arjan: You think when you learn and we do actions in songs.