Wormbins

Congratulations all students involved it was a wonderful performance enjoyed by all the residents and staff at the nursing home.
Hope your family enjoys watching.

Miss Merk is a teacher from the USA who has a blog designed to keep her in touch with her students. She has on her blog taken her students on her trip to Japan with her. Click on this link to look at this blog and navigate around to see some happy snaps of the her adventure, some students in Japan and some lovely pictures of Tokyo.

In Miss Mack’s blog there is a  link to Kids Japan site. It is so cute you will have fun doing some of the activities. Be sure to find the experiment that shows that sound can make a liquid hard.

Write a comment and let me know what you found interesting or not.

Homework Week 5

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In two or three sentences make a comparison between two of the main religions. Try to find a major difference or similarity but you can also look at less important features, but keep strictly to the two or three sentence limit.

You can use the BBC Religion and Ethics site to find out more.

HOMEWORK  WEEK 4

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What is a ceremony?  Why do you think religions use customs and ceremonies as part of their beliefs?  Explain.

You can use this festivals calendar to find out more.

Elyse was one of eight students to compete for the title of best in the district. Competition was fierce, the standard was extremely high and all the students put their heart and soul into their performance. Elyse’s speech ‘To Right Your Wrongs’  was among the best of the best, we are proud of her achievement. Listen to her speech and take some time to think about the messages in it. 

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Do all religions have places to worship in?  Why do you think churches and other places of worship are important in religion?

You can have a look at some places of worship by visiting these online tours.

Add your response to this week’s homework as a comment.

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What is a symbol? Do you think symbols are important in religion?

Can you link each symbol to the religion it represents?

You can use Wikipedia to have a look at some of the symbols used.

The students from Yarrilee have developed a series of Surveys that they would like students from all over the world to take so that they can complete the study and draw some conclusions on how we use ICT in our lives.

Click here to go to survey page.

People and their Beliefs

Resources

 Some great links for learning about world religions.  Do you have others to add to the list?

• Virtual Tours of the worlds major religions
• Beautiful images marking the end of Ramadan
• BBC School Resource – What is Islam?
• RE Online for juniors
• Animated Buddist stories
• Bible Map
• Religion Facts
• BBC - Religion and Ethics

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for most of these links.

If you have found an interesting fact you would like to write about please add a comment to this post.

Take a look at the National Geographic magazine online this month and see some fabulous, colourful action photos.