New Year’s Wishing
Happy New year Everyone !
To celebrate the New Year and make sure we have a great start to 2024 we visited the local shrine together to give thanks and pray for what want this year.
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‘I want to say thank you for my family and friends.’
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‘I want to pray to be healthy’.
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Before hand we practiced what to do at the shrine. The kids each practiced throwing a coin into a box, bowing twice, clapping twice, praying and then ending with a bow.
We then walked to the shrine and each of the kids had their turn to pray.
Everyone did a great job and it was a great way to start the school year.
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Melanie