Today Year 3 explored Christianity. They read and discussed some of the parables that Jesus told, including The Prodigal Son and The Good Samaritan. They enjoyed determining the meaning of each parable and cleverly drew parallels between these stories and the other stories and topics we have been studying recently. Younes commented, "the Good Samaritan is like the story Welcome! In that story the other animals were mean to the polar bears and wouldn't let them live on their land when they lost their homes. Lots of people ignored the injured man in the Good Samaritan, but someone stopped to help, just like the polar bears were kind to the monkeys in Welcome."

In the afternoon we had a discussion about Christianity and religion in general, as everyone had burning questions that they wanted to ask. The children sensitively thought about each question and many interesting discussions were had. They thoughtfully concluded that even if we all have different beliefs, we have a lot to learn from one another and the most important thing of all, as Lyla said, is "to be kind to everyone."