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What kind
of monkey can fly? A hot air baboon!
What is a
cat’s favourite colour? Purr-ple!
Yes,
we’ve been in school again! For the fifth year in succession, we took the story
of Noah to each of the Year 4 classes continuing the tradition begun when
Calverley Methodist Church shared money they had been given with the rest of
the Circuit and Sharon Fell devised a day’s work based on the story.
What
we do has developed and Sharon would no longer recognise most of how we spend
the day. We begin by telling the story using the excellent props made for
Shipley’s Open the Book assemblies. Then the story and its message are
reinforced as the children do Maths, doubling and halving as they convert
cubits into metres and realise just how large the Ark was! They do not realise
how much work they are doing as they complete a book of English based puzzles
and improvise the retelling of the story with their own dramatic scenes. Small
jigsaws of some of the animals and sorting out anagrams of their names occupies
another half hour and a craft activity produces a book mark for each child
which is souvenir of the day.
These
two days are an opportunity to forge links beyond the children whom we see
regularly on alternate Thursdays when we take the faith assembly for the
Christians in school.
Ann W, Saltaire
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