MJR

MJR Lesson 2 - Build a Bridge

Read and discuss page 19 with the class. Talk about their reactions to parents asking them to do something they didn’t want to do. Explain the challenge to them. They have 20 minutes to build a bridge between two tables. They are allowed to use one newspaper and 2 metres of tape. Each member of the group writes their small challenges on a piece of paper and for each challenge they add a pencil to the bridge. The bridge needs to be strong enough to hold all the pencils.

MJR Lesson 3 - Winners and Griners

Read page 20, 22 and 23 of the MJR booklet. Discuss with the class.

Go to [|this website] and choose a magazine cover. Write your positive messages on the cover and upload a picture (from home) that you have taken yourself.

MJR Lesson 4 - Be Determined

Watch this amazing video about persistence.

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In a group come up with some key words relating to the man and the animal in the video.

Read the passage about being determined in the MJR book and answer the following questions in your religion book.

1. Have I picked myself up from disappointments or do I sulk and blame others when events don't turn out the way I want them to?

2. I had no shoes and I complained until I met a man with no feet. What does this mean?

MJR Lesson 5 - Be Determined (part 2 - persistence)

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Write some things that you learned about persistence from the two videos in your Religion book.

Let's put this into practise in...


 * Let's Juggle!!!**

Make a one minute movie about persistence while you are learning to juggle. Film the process of learning to juggle, including commentary along the way. When you are confident juggling you can edit your movie down to one minute using iMovie.

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MJR Lesson 5 - Being Thankful

Everyday people do things for us, whether they are big or small. What are some of the big things that people do for you? What are some of the small things they do? Big things might be taking you on holiday, buying you a present, taking you out for dinner. What are the small things though, those everyday things that people do for you, cooking you dinner, making your bed, being nice to you in the morning, do you need to thank people for that too? It is really nice if you do! Write a list of things that people do for you, big and small and writhe their names beside what they did. Open ComicLife and make an e-card for someone that has done something for you. Make it a surprise, you are going to email the card to the recipient so it would be nice to surprise them. When you have made your card, outlining what you are thankful for and why, you export it as a PDF and email it to the recipient.

MJR Lesson 6 - Sharing the Good News (Finding Humour In Things) Are you a Gospel Person? Gospel means good news. Are we good news people? Do we present Jesus to all we meet by the way we treat others? Are we positive people who can give hope and encouragement to others? By doing this we can make people feel good about themselves and so we become gospel people - Good News People. People like to be with good news people.

Your teacher will write everyone's name and number on the whiteboard. You choose at least three of those people to send an email to. The first email you send is simply to say hello to someone and tell them something good you did on the weekend. The second email is to share a joke with someone. The third email is to say thanks or well done to someone that you have seen do something in school.

The **BIG** challenge is to try to do this for someone you do not regularly play or sit with. It is easy to send these email to your friends, but the real challenge comes when we have to do this for people that we don't speak to a lot.

Your parents and teachers are encouraging you to learn different skills. Maths, English, Music, Art, Sport are all wonderful skills to learn but sometimes we can fail to overlook or fail to recognise people skills. All our life we will deal with different people from our family and school, our sporting clubs and extra curricular activities. It is important that we become aware of people skills. We are not all blessed with wonderful personalities but there are definitely people skills that we can acquire. Good people skills: 1. 2. 3. 4. Poor People Skills: 1. 2. 3. 4. Get into a group and make a movie displaying good or poor people skills to show to the class.
 * MJR Lesson 7 - People Skills**

One of the many aspects of life that we encounter, both in ourselves and in others is anger management. We need to know...
 * MJR Lesson 8 - Anger Management**
 * How to cope with your own anger
 * How to cope with other peoples' anger
 * Understanding that it is normal to get angry
 * There are ways to express anger properly

Very often we can feel anger building up inside us when...
 * We are offended by comments
 * We don't get our own way
 * We are let down by people
 * We get beaten in games

List some examples that make you angry.

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What are five coping methods that you use to manage your anger? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What are five poor coping skills you have seen people use? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

[|God Moments] Jesus uses us as his special agents to get his message across to people. Jesus is constantly talking to us through people in our lives each day, but we are constantly missing messages as we aren't switched on. Look around you, there are constant acts of goodness going unnoticed in your:
 * MJR - Lesson 9 - God Moments**
 * Home
 * Classroom
 * Playground
 * Activities on the weekend

You must know someone who is constantly cheerful, generous and welcoming. What qualities do these people have? Name a person in your life that shows a lot of...
 * Kindness
 * Cheerfulness
 * helpfulness
 * Friendliness
 * Encouragement

When we switch on to God Moments we start seeing them everywhere. Imagine that you are carrying this remote around with you everywhere you go and when you point it and press play you get God Moments. Draw the remote in your book and write what some of the God Moments might be.

Read page 72 to the students. Discuss resilience and the question at the bottom of the page.
 * MJR Lesson 10 - Resilience**

Make an acrostic poem for resilience in your RE book.