Last week was All Souls Day (as well as black out day for the All Blacks!). We talked about how All Souls day was all about praying for our family members who have passed away and asking Jesus to take them into Heaven to be with them. I love how young children think. Our conversation quickly went from this to Halloween, and one of the children asked if it was All Souls day because it's so scary and people are dressing up as ghosts. We went and visited the crosses of loved ones children throughout the school had decorated. Some of the children went really quiet while we looked at them, and I could see they were really taking it all in. Bless their little hearts! 
We wrote a little prayer and made a class page with the people we wanted to pray for. The children decorated these and put them in their RE books. One of the boys in my class recently lost an Uncle to cancer and I think he enjoyed having the opportunity to remember him and talk about him with the class again.
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