Beginning of Lent

The Liturgical Year of Lent has been a major focus for the week-we celebrated Shrove Tuesday by making pancakes with Room 5. We made pancakes because we remember when people used to give up eating sweet things like cakes-so they cleaned out their cupboards by making pancakes. We also watched as last year’s palms be burned- this is how ashes are made. Wednesday was the first day of Lent. We began our day by attending Mass and receiving the Ashes from the palms on our forehead. We were thinking of promises all week that we will keep for the forty days of Lent. We wrote about these during writing and put them on our promise feet so that we can remember every day what we promised to Jesus. We have also started learning the song ‘L-O-V-E’ by Jill Kemp in lead up to Easter.