Here's how we used it:
I told the children I didn't know what the story was going to be today :-)
Then I spread out the cards (face up) and let a child choose one.
She picked Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (whom I'd never heard of), and I looked her up in the book and read the story.
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| Nice illustrations! Child-friendly, modern, not twee, pretty good likenesses. |
I then tried to do a quiz where they ran to either side of the room depending on the answer. It didn't work very well because it was impossible to ask multiple choice questions that were not blindingly obvious :-). But they enjoyed running about anyway.
Then I got a child to look up the reference of the Bible verse below the picture in their own Bible, and read it out.
We then repeated the whole thing with a second card - I got them to choose a boy this time (we got Eric Liddel). And Kerenna, who read this story, omitted the 'quiz' - instead she asked open ended questions, which worked better.
Finally, we did a craft, using things I already had - cardboard boy/girl shapes I got from Poundland, and scrap paper/pens.
On one side they wrote the person's name and dates, and some words to describe them - I tried to encourage them all to include something about Jesus.
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| btw 'nis' means 'nice'. 'circhn' means 'christian'. No idea about 'lusrns' |
The other side they decorated to look like the person. We only had time to do one person each.
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| Hope you like Eric's tattoos :-) |
This is also ideal to keep in the cupboard, for days when you need an emergency lesson due to a teacher being unwell (like today).
Here's a worksheet I made that could also be used.
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| The box is for a picture. |
*Note: I'm not sure what age this book is aimed at. I'd say the language is sometimes a little young for our 6-8 year olds and sometimes more specific details would be better for our age. But the amount of content and focus on one or two main points was ideal.
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