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☪️☪️Islam celebration 🎉of Ramadan 23.4.2020 - 23.5.2020, followed by 🎊Eid (Eid ul - Fitr) 24.5.2020

In the religion ☪️Islam, most Muslims ( people who follow Islam )across the world are fasting (🚫no food or 🚱drink) between 🌞sunrise and ☀️sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. They eat when its dark🌚🌜. This makes Muslims think about poorer people who have no food and makes them appreciate ( value) what they have. As well as 🤲🏾🤲🏻🤲🏿praying, reflecting and 🧕🏽🧕🏻🧕🏿👳🏽‍♀️👳🏾‍♀️👳🏿‍♀️community. At the end of the whole holy month - the celebration🎊 of Eid happens - huge party 🎉to see everyone and celebrate with food 🧁🍰🍪🍩, drink🥤🧃,being together. However due to lock down this year people 🚫hopefully will be doing this celebration🎉 inside and over the internet.💻💻📱🖥

4-7-8 meditation technique 🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏽☸️☸️

Activity✏️: have a go yourself at meditation 🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏽🧘🏻‍♀️and see how it makes you feel - remember it could take more than one go to get it right ✔️

The true meaning of Easter for Christians ✝️✝️ ( 16.2.2020-31.5.2020)

This is what Christian's believe happened and how they celebrate at Easter time:
Shrove Tuesday – pancake day, use up all ingredients 🥞
Ash Wednesday – ⛪️ church services ash on head, marks beginning of Lent - 40 days - Jesus in the dessert 🏝🌞being tempted to turn on God - giving something up
Palm Sunday- Jesus out of dessert – welcome Jesus back waving palm leaves 🌴
Last supper – Maundy Thursday - Jesus & friends/ disciples , Jesus washes their feet 💦picks out Judas, 🍞bread – his body, 🍷wine – his blood – Jesus says goodbye 👋
Arrest of JESUS - Jesus is caught ⛓
Jesus was crucified – Good Friday - Jesus was nailed to the cross ✝️and died.
Easter Saturday - His friends put him in a tomb and covered it with a large rock. 🌑
Jesus rose from the dead – Easter Sunday – Jesus rose from the dead! He had come back to visit his friends. He told them to teach others about God’s love. “Tell the people to believe in me, even if they can’t see me.”
Ascension – ⬆️ And then Jesus rises up to Heaven to live with his Father.
Pentecost – ⬇️🌍 holy spirit sent down in Jesus place on Earth – Like an invisible friend, in different forms – doves 🕊🕊🕊🕊


Today, Christians go to ⛪️Church to pray 🙏and because England 🇬🇧 Is a Christian ✝️country we all celebrate 🎊and have time off at Easter as well as eating Chocolate eggs, hot cross buns, egg hunts and sending Easter cards etc. New beginnings ✝️✝️


Activity✏️ design a timeline of Jesus’ final weeks on earth 🌍
This could be done with mini drawings, words, numbers. Remember no one is to draw God as no one knows what he looks like

I hope whatever you are doing you are doing it at home :)
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE !!🐣🐰💐🍫

In Judaism✡️ (Jewish), Moses was a very very important man, as he was in the Christian Bible ✝️too - however Jews celebrate him a lot more - At this time of year Jews celebrate a festival🎉 called Feast of Passover or Pesach in Hebrew (Jewish ✡️language).

It is said that the idea that "God passed over " (Pesach) the houses of the Jews during the 10th plague on the Egyptians, the slaying of the 1st born child.
This festival🎊 lasts for 7 days and starts on Good Friday. The plates above are the Passover meal Jews will be having to celebrate 🎉as well as praying🙏

Passover ✡️and Easter ✝️are tried together because its the time when Jesus holds his last supper and Jews believe the meal was the Passover meal.🍞🍷

This story will tell you all about who Moses was and what he did-
enjoy :)

Activity✏️: make a booklet of the 10 plagues and / or Moses life in order.

Hanuman Jayanti celebration🎉 8.4.2020 - 🦧Monkey God in Hinduism🕉🕉

In Hinduism 🕉they have 33,000+ different Deities (gods). They all have their own special powers, abilities, stories and Hindus can chose anyone they want to and change them at any time in their lives.

The Monkey 🦧King is the most famous of the deities as it can fly, rules over the monkey army, protector of Rama and Sita, strong and can control the weather🌦❄️💨

Hindu’s around the world 🌍 will be celebrating 🎉

Activity ✏️ Have a go at sketching ✏️the monkey 🦧God -Hanuman

Sikhism 🔱holy celebration of Vaisakhi (Baisakhi) 🎉 (13.4.20)

Sikhism🔱 celebrating 🥳the 5K'S - These are the 5 main important Sikh artefacts:
Kesh -uncut hair, Kangha - small wooden comb, Kara - an sliver bracelet,
Kachera - undergarements, Kirpan - an iron dagger to defend only.

In 1699 Anandpur Sahib - the 10th Guru - formed warriors👳🏾👳🏽‍♀️👳🏼‍♂️👳🏼‍♂️👳🏽‍♀️ - Khalsa -5 Sikh men (PANJPIARE - means 5 beloved ones) came forward to protect the Sikh religion🔱 - and they were rewarded and took Amrit (sugared water) and get to keep the 5K'S for themselves. Anyone wearing these special 5K’s this means you belong to the Khalsa.

Now-a-days, Sikhs 👳🏼‍♂️👳🏽‍♀️👳🏾 When they get given the 5K’s they have dedicated themselves to a life of being a Sikh and to The Guru.

Sikh's 🔱get together, praying together, raising of the Nishan Sahib - orange 🟧 triangle flag.

Activity:✏️ have ago at drawing and labeling the 5k's 🎉

Jewish Holy celebration - Hanukkah song ✡️✡️🎉🎁

The children loved this song - Helps them remember why Jews celebrate Hanukkah in December 🎉✡️