Moral Tales, Week 11: Winter Solstice

[edenfalling]

Today in RE our lesson was about the winter solstice, which basically involved a picture book about various ways people around the world have celebrated solstice over the years (and why they thought it was a significant day), plus a brief scientific explanation of seasons and orbits and stuff. I just put the book down when I hit that page and gave the explanation off the top of my head, with two pieces of chalk to stand in for the sun and the earth. It's not like the exact wording of the text is going to be more accurate than I am, and I needed my hands free instead of trying to hold up the book.

Then we made sun ornaments out of coffee filters and little foil candy cups, to hang on the tree in the sanctuary in a couple weeks. It was a small class today -- just five kids, and one left early on to spend the morning with his mother instead -- and we asked them to make two ornaments each so their classmates wouldn't be left empty-handed. Two kids agreed; the other two weren't interested. So my co-teacher, our assistant, and I also made some ornaments, just in case.

We had to use glue sticks rather than liquid glue, so I'm not entirely confident the glitter is securely stuck to the coffee filters, but oh well, they look pretty for now!



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[cherokee1.livejournal.com]

Hey!
We also did ornaments this Sunday.
Jill, the director discovered a craft lesson where the puffy fabric paint is squeezed onto wax paper in forms. Once dry, it can be peeled off and used as sun catchers. They stick directly to a window and stay.
We made leaves and acorns for fall.
C

[edenfalling]

That sounds like a really neat idea!