Since Easter this year I have had the pleasure of being a RE teacher for grade two at my local school. I pack up my ipod (which has way too many Colin Buchanan songs on to be cool), a challenge (very happy with the minute-to-win-it game site for RE ideas - thanks Channel 7) and my Connect program and teach four classes a week. It is an amazing opportunity to talk about God in our classrooms.
After a quick student poll this morning the year's favourite RE activities have been:
- digging around in cold cooked spaghetti to find 'treasure' to illustrate King Josiah finding the book of law in the temple
- playing 'Gatekeeper' - a great game I made up where I get to be a grumpy gatekeeper who only lets in certain types of animals
- making sheep craft (really? really??? are cotton wool sheep that good? I thought I was being cheap..)
- playing the pedometer game where you shake your head to see how many clicks you can get with a pedometer strapped to a headband - I am sure I linked it into the lesson somehow
I will have to organise my Re ideas into some sort of categorising system. That's what an organised person would do who wanted to remember them for another year. Maybe.....
You might want to clarify what RE stands for. Religious Education, right. We call it scripture in NSW.
ReplyDeleteThe podometer on the head is hilarious. I would like to see that.
KT
I'm going to use the spaghetti idea. Also going to use the pedometer one. I wonder how I can relate it to tomorrow's lesson?
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