Today we are going to begin with our morning prayer,
God our Father, as we prepare to begin our work, we ask you to help us use properly, the many gifts you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together.
Good morning everyone, I am wondering how tired you all were after a great virtual sports day! Thank you to those who emailed videos and put up twitter pictures. It was great to see you all looking so well and dare I say it, out of breath!!!
Let’s start with our morning prayer and a Hail Mary.
Literacy
For the rest of this week, I want you to revise your phoneme from last week.
P3 – ough
P4 – ow
Choose some from your list and use them in a sentence, you can write these down if you want. I was very impressed with some of your phoneme stories last week, thank you for those.
Quizzes are very popular just now and I have set you one below all about St Barbara’s parish and community. You may have to do a bit of research to answer these and that is fine. After you have completed this, create your own quiz on any topic of your choice, e.g Disney films, Children’s novels, The Spanish language etc Send it to me and I will put it up on our Shining stars wall for all to see and have a go!
Again, well done to everyone who took part in the Sumdog challenge. Today let’s practising counting out loud. Let’s start counting in 1’s to 100, 2’s to 100, 5’s to 100 and 10’s to 100.
I also want you to say your times tables like we do in class – chanting. Do this to the 6x. You like to play BINGO in class, choose your 6 answers between the 2-6x and ask an adult to shout out times tables questions for you. It would be good to play against someone else, a sibling or another adult.
Recap on Time from last week:
Write these times in digital format using the 12 hour clock.
Half past 12
5 o’clock
Half past 3
Quarter past 1
10 o’clock
Quarter to 7
9 o’clock
Quarter past 2
RE
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at (gw09grahamannemarie@glow) or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS
Health & Wellbeing
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
Have a lovely day everyone. I have checked ahead and the weather has to be lovely for the next week so maybe you should take your work outside when you can. Remember to drink from your water bottle!
I hope that you are all quite recovered after yesterday’s sports day exertions.
It’s Wednesday,
This week we are working on some word problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Calculate the answers to these questions in your jotter.
a) Hayden plays 6 Xbox games. He scores 3.2 points in each game. How many points does he score altogether?
b) Olivia runs 5.4 miles every day. If she runs for 8 days, how far does she run?
c) Riley does a sponsored silence. For every hour, he must be silent he raises £8.50. How much will he raise if he stays silent for 9 hours?
d) Miss Huntley walks 3.6 miles to school. How many miles does she walk over 5 days?
e) Miss Huntley decides to walk home as well, so she walks 7.2 miles a day. How many miles does she walk over 15 days?
f) Caitlyn draws a square. Each side is 15.8cm. What is the perimeter of the square?
g) Brandon’s car drives 6.3 miles on one litre of petrol. How many miles will he cover on 4 litres of petrol?
h) Reece’s hair grows 0.8 cm per month. How many cm will his hair grow in 9 months?
i) Alexander measures rainfall over 7 months. The rain fall is 0.6 cm each month. How much rain has fallen over the 7 months?
j) Elvin buys a new pair of shoes with four shoe laces. Each shoe lace is 32.3cm long. How long are all four shoe laces put together?
Remember, decimals make no difference to how you add, subtract, multiply or divide you only have to remember to keep the decimal points above one another, in a straight line.
This is not how we would write out sums to find the answer so don’t write them this way in your jotter. Use place value, carrying and decomposition (borrowing) to find your answers.
I’ll post the answers to these tomorrow or you can send me your answers at:
gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk
This week for spelling it’s time for a roundup.
Here are some of the spelling words and patterns that we have looked at over the last few weeks. Copy them into your jotter and begin to practise them ahead of a spelling test on Friday.
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw09mcintoshdavid3@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
Remember you can still choose another task from your updated learning grid and there are other tasks on Sumdog, StudyLadder, FirstNews and Scholastic Books.
I hope that you enjoyed the Virtual Sports’ Day yesterday. Please send your pictures!
It’s Wednesday already so we had better get moving!
We’ll begin with the morning prayer:
God our Father
As we prepare to begin our work
We ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us
So that we may fully benefit from out day together. Amen.
Health and Wellbeing
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
Primary 5, I have had a look at the activities tackled so far:
Well done to Junior, Rachael, Hollie, Aila, Charlie W, Natasha and Ethan Y. You’ve made a great start and collected a few gems along the way!
I have assigned some more tasks including comprehension, word definition and a crossword for you to enjoy.
If you have not already done so, please login to First News and make a start.
Scholastic Shout-outs!
Apologies for the confusion with the login details. All families should have a working link now. Meantime, well done to those who managed to login so far:
Lochlan, Keiran, Sofia, Aila, Rachael, Luke and Dubem. A few more of you logged in – but only for a couple of seconds!
I have assigned two more books to join those already there. Please login and enjoy some quiet reading time.
Literacy Tasks
First News: please login and complete at least one assigned task
Scholastic: please login and spend 20-30 minutes reading a book from the assigned selection
Spelling
This week we are going to look at words which end in vowels: a, e, i, o, u
anaconda armadillo buffalo corgi cuckoo dingo emu
gecko gnu kangaroo koala kiwi puma tarantula
You might have heard of some of the above animals, insects and birds.
Task 1
Last week you were looking at dictionary words and finding definitions. Today I would like you to do the opposite. I have given you the definitions. Please write them into your jotter and match them to the keywords (you can use a dictionary to help):
a) a wild ox from North America b) a large spider with a deadly bite
c) an Australian animal with a powerful kick d) an American wildcat
e) an African antelope f) a wild dog from Australia g) a bird named after its call
Answers will be posted at 3.00pm today.
Task 2
Select three of the animals, insects or birds from the above list, apart from the kangaroo. Do some research and create information pictures like the one below.
Kangaroo
Please send some examples to: gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk and I’ll upload them onto the blog.
Numeracy
Mental Maths: Speed Revision
Please use the Topmarks Daily 10 to keep partitioning in your mind!
Click on the link, select Speed Challenge, select Level 3 and/or Level Four. Then select Partitioning and see if you can beat the clock with correct answers.
Timing: aim for 3 seconds but feel free to change it if you need more thinking time.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Money
Last week we were looking at the four operations in relation to money. We are going to continue the focus on money this week.
When completing any addition or subtraction task in money, remember to line up the decimal points.
Click on the link below to find money challenges for today. There are two challenges and you can do one or both.
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw09mckinneysheelah@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
Finally, Please select one task from your Second Level Home-Learning grid….and then you’re finished for today!
I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend and enjoyed spending time with your families. I enjoyed going for a long cycle on Sunday and a lovely long walk on Monday. The sunny weather has been beautiful.☀️
It was your first ever Sports’ Day yesterday. It was a little different to the normal Sports’ Day we usually have at St. Barbara’s but I hope you still managed to have a fun-filled day! I was so glad that the sun was shining all day yesterday for Virtual Sports’ Day. I loved seeing all of the fantastic pictures and videos you shared, it was great to see your happy faces!😀
Well done everyone for your excellent efforts!👏 I hope you all had lots of fun!
Let’s get started on today activities.
We will begin our day as always, with our morning prayer.🙏🏻
God our Father, as we prepare to begin our work, we ask you to help us use properly, the many gifts you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together in school. St. Barbara, pray for us.
This week the children cannot sound out their common words.
The o in old and going sounds like the letter name, it doesn’t make the o sound.
The o in do, sounds like oo.
They need to think of a different strategy.
Ask your child to think of a strategy to help them spell each new common word correctly.
Can they spot a word within a word? go is in the word going or they might spot in.
Writing
Once your child has written their sentences ask them to check that they have included their core writing targets.
Maths🔢
Time ⏰
Let’s begin with the days of the week.
Tell an adult what day it is today. What day is it tomorrow?What day was it yesterday?
Can you say the days of the week?How many days are in one week?
Now let’s think about the months of the year.
Can you say the months of the year?How many months are in one year?
Jack Hartmann is here to help!
Clocks and calendars
Why do we need calendars and clocks?
Listen carefully to this video to find out:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zj6bjhv
Calendars 📅
A calendar is very useful, it helps us learn about the passing of time along with the months of the year and their order.
A calendar is a series of pages that shows the days, weeks, and months of a particular year. It is a tool we use to help us keep track of each day, and it allows us to visually see when different events will happen.
Learning to read a calendar is an important maths skill.
I have included a page from a calendar below:
This is the first page of the calendar because January is the first month of the year.
Look carefully at the calendar. Along the top we have the days of the week and then below, it shows you how many days are in that specific month. There are 31 days in January.
Can you see that on the 8th of January I went to visit puppies.
What day of the week was this? Look at the days of the week at the top, it was a Wednesday.
Now let’s see if you can practise reading the calendar. Here are some questions for you:
1. What did I do on the 26th of January?
2. What date did I go and visit my Grandma?
3. What day of the week did I visit the dentist?
Challenge-Have you got a calendar in your house? Practise reading the calendar at home.
Clocks 🕰
Why do we need a clock? Clocks are very very very useful!
A clock is a device that tells the time.
This is an analogue clock face.
How many numbers are there? Which number is always at the top? What comes next?
You will be learning more about the analogue clock tomorrow.
Clocks are everywhere!
There are different types of clocks:
Watch
Wall Clock
Alarm Clock
Grandfather Clock
and lots more!
Today I would like you to go on a Clock Hunt around your house. 🕵🏻♀️
What different types of clocks can you find around your house?
You could take photographs of these and send me pictures of some of the clocks that you found on your clock hunt. 🕐
HWB🧘♂️🤸♀️🏊♂️⛹️♀️
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
I know this one is your favourite dance boys and girls! I miss dancing around the classroom with you all! 💃🏼 🕺
R.E.🙏🏻
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw13mceleneylauren@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
There are lots of suggested activities for today boys and girls. Please remember to do what you can and take plenty of breaks. Just try your best and I will be very impressed!😊
Remember to send me pictures of any work you are proud of to gw13mceleneylauren@glow.sch.uk Your amazing work could be displayed on the wall of fame on our class blog page.
Good morning boys and girls! How are you all? Did you have fun yesterday taking part in your very first St Barbara’s sports day? It was a bit different than usual but I hope that you enjoyed it and had lots of fun!
Let’s begin with our morning prayer:
God Our Father, as we prepare to begin our work, we ask you to help us to use properly the many gifts you have given us, so that we may fully benefit from our day together. St Barbara pray for us.🙏
Literacy
Can you song along to all of your Jolly Phonics songs and remember the actions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HYM9VXz9k
I have set you some new tasks on Studyladder to practise your common words and phonemes that we have already learned. If you are unable to access these please contact me.
Today we are going to learn three new common words, they are – old, do, going
These three words are tricky words, we can’t sound them out so we have to think of strategies to remember them.
old – the o in this word is not the letter sound but the letter name ‘o’ then we can sound out l,d.
do – the o in this word makes the ‘oo’ sound – d-oo.
going – you can already read and write the word go and you add i n g to make going.
I would like you to write these words three times each into your jotter and make up your own sentence for each word.
Reading – I have assigned you a new book on Scholastic to read aloud to someone at home. I was so happy to hear Eryn reading her books aloud last week, it was amazing! Perhaps some more of you could record yourselves this week to let me hear you.
Maths – Time ⏰
Let’s begin with the days of the week.
Tell an adult what day it is today. What day is it tomorrow?What day was it yesterday?
Can you say the days of the week? How many days are in one week?
Now let’s think about the months of the year.
Can you say the months of the year? How many months are in one year?
Jack Hartmann is here to help!
Clocks and Calandars
Why do we need calendars and clocks?
Listen carefully to this video to find out:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zj6bjhv
Calendars 📅
A calendar is very useful, it helps us learn about the passing of time along with the months of the year and their order.
A calendar is a series of pages that shows the days, weeks, and months of a particular year. It is a tool we use to help us keep track of each day, and it allows us to visually see when different events will happen.
Learning to read a calendar is an important maths skill.
I have included a page from a calendar below:
This is the first page of the calendar because January is the first month of the year.
Look carefully at the calendar. Along the top we have the days of the week and then below, it shows you how many days are in that specific month. There are 31 days in January.
Can you see that on the 8th of January I went to visit puppies.
What day of the week was this? Look at the days of the week at the top, it was a Wednesday.
Now let’s see if you can practise reading the calendar. Here are some questions for you:
1. What did I do on the 26th of January?
2. What date did I go and visit my Grandma?
3. What day of the week did I visit the dentist?
Challenge-Have you got a calendar in your house? Practise reading the calendar at home.
🕰
Why do we need a clock? Clocks are very very very useful!
A clock is a device that tells the time.
This is an analogue clock face.
How many numbers are there? Which number is always at the top? What comes next?
You will be learning more about the analogue clock tomorrow.
Clocks are everywhere!
There are different types of clocks:
Watch
Wall Clock
Alarm Clock
Grandfather Clock
and lots more!
Today I would like you to go on a Clock Hunt around your house. 🕵🏻♀️
What different types of clocks can you find around your house?
You could take photographs of these and send me pictures of some of the clocks that you found on your clock hunt. 🕐
HWB
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
RE – When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw09wallacemarie2@gkow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
Have fun today and remember to contact me if you need any help.
How did you get on with your virtual sports day yesterday? I would love to see some pictures.
I am so glad to see some sunshine again!
Please read below for today’s tasks.
Numeracy
Warm up:
Please choose a times table and practice it out loud.
Today we are going to continue with our revision on subtraction.
Please have a look at our subtraction strategy posters below. This will remind you of the different strategies we have learned to complete our subtraction work.
Please log on to the Scholastic website and access your book for this week. When you have finished reading you can try the quiz.If you have been assigned ‘Drum Beats’ it may take you a few days to read the whole book.
Spelling:
Last week we learned a new phoneme sound. This week we are going to be looking at some new common words. Please click the link to find the words for your group. If you are not sure which group of words you should be using please get in touch.
Rainbow spell your common words 3 times and write a sentence for each.
HWB
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw17mcmullenkenedi@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
I hope you all enjoyed a break over the weekend and took part in the sports day yesterday. My little girl and I had a parent & toddler race and always she won!
Here are today’s activities. Try to complete what you can.
How are you all? I hope you all had great fun yesterday, I loved seeing the photographs that were shared on Twitter of our Virtual Sports’ Day. If you have pictures and have not yet tweeted them or sent them over, feel free to do so today. I hope you had fun and enjoyed doing something a little bit different.
Today I would like you to start the day with our morning prayer and then say a Hail Mary to continue honouring Our Lady during the month of May. Can you say the Hail Mary in Spanish?
Here is the link for today’s learning activities and some resources to help you complete today’s tasks-
Here are today’s Health and Wellbeing and This Is Our Faith tasks-
Wednesday 27th May- Health and Wellbeing
I hope you enjoyed sport’s day yesterday and had plenty of fun! I would like you to keep having fun whilst exercising. Research shows that regular exercise has lots of benefits including:
improving fitness
increasing concentration
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
encouraging healthy growth and development
improving posture and balance
lowering stress
Encouraging a better night’s sleep
Today we are going to have a Wild Workout with Andy. Andy is off to the Arctic to see what he can find. Let’s join him and exercise on the way!
When Jesus needed to feel very close to his Father, what did he do? – He would pray. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he was betrayed by Judas. He prayed before he raised Lazarus from the dead and Jesus prayed during the Last Supper, before he broke the bread. Like us Jesus needed to share his worries and problems with his heavenly Father; he knew that he was never alone. Just as we are never alone. God is always with us.
When we pray we are having a conversation with God. When we talk to God, he listens. We don’t have to have special times for saying prayers. Often we say them at bedtime but we can talk to God at any time. Do you ever feel unsure about what to say to God? Don’t worry as God our Father likes to hear about everything we have to tell him and he is always ready to listen.
The apostles knew how important it was to pray to God but like us they often felt uncertain about how to pray. One day they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. What was the prayer that Jesus taught them? – The Our Father.
Watch this short video about how Jesus taught his disciples the Our Father:
Let’s say the Our Father now. I have copied the words to help you if you need it.
I would like you to download the picture below if you can and colour it in. If you can’t download it why not draw a picture like this one.
Please send us a copy of your picture at gw13reidsiobhan@glow.sch.uk or Tweet us @St_BarbarasPS.
Remember to send me over any work that you would like to show off on our Primary 7 blog, I really enjoy seeing how you are all getting on with the tasks that I set you.
Have a wonderful Wednesday and I look forward to hearing from you all.
Can you say the Hail Mary in Spanish?
