Holding Crosses

Holding Crosses

We worked with the wonderful members of the Friendship Group from SJB Parish. They taught us the process of making wooden Holding Crosses. They are made especially for sick or lonely people or anyone who is facing difficult struggles in their lives. We even got to take some home for our sick family members.

Thank you to Mrs Delio, and all the kind, patient helpers. We loved spending time with these generous parishioners and we learned how to sand and oil the crosses. We also learned that there are many volunteers who give up their time to help others and that they do this to be followers of Jesus.

Equipment needed for sanding and oiling

Lorna demonstrating sanding

Varnishing the crosses carefully

Twinkling Synonym Poems

Twinkling Synonym Poems

We have been learning to use synonyms to improve our writing. Synonyms are words that have a similar meaning.

We started with the well-known children's poem, 

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

In case anyone has forgotten the original words, here they are:

Twinkle twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are

We used dictionaries, thesauruses and thesausus.com on the ipad to find synonyms.

Here are some of the excellent poems that students came up with:

Sparkle,sparkle tiny spark 
How I imagine what you are 
Higher up than the sphere 
So far up like clear glass in space
Sparkle,sparkle tiny spark
How I imagine what you are.
(Written by Scutty and Jacko)

 

GLISTEN, GLISTEN, TEENY STAR,

HOW I ADMIRE WHAT YOU OBTAIN,
ABOVE THE EARTH JUST SO UP-RAISED,

 LIKE A JEWEL, UP IN THE BLUE.

GLISTEN, GLISTEN, TEENY STAR,

HOW I ADMIRE WHAT YOU OBTAIN!

                                                    (Written by Hunter and Roger)