Km.

7, Phelan Drive, Pacol,

4400 Pilgrim City of Naga, Philippines
Phone (6354) 8814 174
Email nsiriosiii@gbox.adnu.edu.ph
www.adnu.edu.ph

GRADE 6 RETREAT MODULE

THEME: SELF-DISCOVERY
Title: Who?

OBJECTIVES:
1. To be able to gradually recognize their unique identity and special mission in the future.
2. To be able to identify the importance of their friends in their lives as they discover
themselves.
3. To be able to offer themselves into the God.

TIME
ACTIVITY MATERIALS
Frame
8:30 am Introduction POWERPOINT
1. Opening prayer PRESENTATION
(Gen 1:26-31)
· Facilitator asks the students to be silent and assume meditative position.

· Facilitator leads the prayer prepared and reads the Gospel reading (Gen 1:26-31).
·
· Schedule will be flashed
9:00 am Orientation on the White Screen.
1. Short explanation of the meaning of Retreat and the theme/title.
· White board/board
2. Schedule and House Rules marker

3. Drawing expectations from both sides

· Short bond paper
9:20 am Session 1: Who Am I?/ Name Your Name
· drawing (crayon) and
writing materials
Activity I: The meaning of your name
· Masking tape

a) The facilitator introduces himself by explaining the meanings/history behind his name.
b) The facilitator asks the students to reflect on why their parents gave that kind of name.
Preferably, the students are guided by some written questions and given several
minutes to reflect/write down their answer.

c) The students are asked to draw and decorate with colors their names (first name, nick
name or last name) on a bond paper.

d) The students are also asked to write down the meaning and the history of their name on
the same bond paper.

Activity II: Sharing (Group or Plenary)

· Some students are to share the meaning of their names and drawings.

Processing:
a) Name is the first gift of from our parents. It’s the first sign of love since they wanted us
to be born. It’s our first identity that we are loved. We don’t earn our name, but
someone gives to us this identity.
b)
c)
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d) It might be also a curse. Names become our prison as our identity is determined by the
‘stigma’ of the names. We are free to surrender to those stigmas or to live up to your
original identity.
e)
a) God commanded us to name the creations (Gen 2:18). It is thus our destiny to name the
creation and become the co-creator of God. Naming is very powerful act since it brings
things under our domination. We are free to use this power to destroy others or to love
and give life to others.

10:30 am Snacks
Bible Passages Copy
11:00 am Session 2: Who Are You? (Gen 2:7-8, 18-25)
- Reading of the Bible passages (Gen 2:7-8, 18-25)
Bond Paper
Activity I: Your Friend’s Face
a) The students are to prepare a bond paper and coloring materials.
b) The students are group by two, preferably close friends.
c) The students are asked to draw the face of their friend and narrate the story of their
friend.

Activity II: Sharing

· Some students are to share their experiences on the first activity.

Processing
a) We are created in the image and likeness of God who is trinity. Thus, we are created as
communal/social being. We cannot live without other people.
b)
c) We are incomplete and God created an equal helpmate to discover who we really are. It
is in relation with other persons that we discover who we are deeper.
d)
c) True friendship is not relation of domination and control, but of freedom and hope. We
don’t impose our own image/ideas to our friends but rather let them grow in their own
identity.

12:00 pm Lunch
Bible Passages Copy
(Gen 2:7-8, 18-25) or (Mat
1:00 pm Session 3: I Am who Am 16:13-18)

- Reading of the Bible passages (Gen 2:7-8, 18-25) or (Mat 16:13-18)

VIGIL CANDLES

Activity I: Our Story in God (Guided Sharing).

a) The facilitator shares his vocation story to set the mood and offer inspiration.
b) The facilitator gives questions to ponder on:
I. Who do people say about me?
II. Who I am actually?
III. What experience that changes my life and greatly shapes my identity?
IV. How do I see God working in this experience?

c) The students are to be given enough time to reflect on the questions.

d) The students are asked to share their answers in group sharing.
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Phone (6354) 8814 174
Email nsiriosiii@gbox.adnu.edu.ph
www.adnu.edu.ph

Activity II: Candle (3 Pupils per batch after another 3 and so on and so forth)
a) The facilitator introduces the 4 magic words
(I love you; thank you; I am sorry; Help me)
b) The students are to be given candle
c) The student is to give the candle to the person that is ‘special’ to him/her as they
say the magic words to his/her special friend.

Processing
a) In God, that we find our true identity (in his image and likeness) and destiny (“You
are mine”).
b) Our stories are caught in the story of God. We find the meanings and fulfillment of
our stories in Him.

2:10 pm Recapitulation and Conclusion

· The facilitators are to remind the students of the whole activities and the values they
could instill.
· The facilitators are to close the retreat with the word of thanksgiving and prayer.

2:30 pm Sacrament of Reconcilliation

MASS KIT
3:30 pm Holy Eucharist

PREPARED BY:

NICOMEDES L. SIRIOS, III

AGrS Campus Minister