Today in Primary things got to go back to normal routine! Thank goodness! We had music t calm them down before class again, we had them being little keen beans for saying prayers, and they had their beloved folders back again. But the best thing about today was the lesson on FAMILIES!
I find it easier and more effective to pick a principal out of the lesson and focus on that, having such a large class I want to ensure that all the class understand what I'm saying and I want to make it fun for them as well so we usually have a little colouring-in or drawing activity to go with it. This week, we had lots of pieces of paper to make into chains. whilst they were colouring-in I spent time with each child individually and we talked about who was in their family and wrote the names of each family member on a seperate piece of paper. We then looped the pieces of paper into a chain around thier wrists. Once I got around to each child we moved onto our next stage in our chains. WE ARE ALL FAMILY!
I was lucky in taht I had a convienent segway at my disposal; I have 3 cousins in my class. So we linked up thier family chains using aunties and uncles as the explanation, we then went on to link all the kids together explaining about how Adam and Eve's family flows all the way down to us so we are all family. The kids loved the chains and understood the bigger picture as they could see it.
Take a look!
I had to be careful pulling the chains apart as they wanted to keep them :)
Let me guess... I was a link?? Cool idea and I bet the kids had heaps of fun. Glad it was back to normal too.
ReplyDeletehaha, what would give you that idea? Because I have 3 of your nieces and nephews in my class?? haha
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'm glad it's normal again too!