Thursday, March 23, 2017

Pen pals: based on Flat Stanley

A couple of years ago my daughter and I helped a friend with her Flat Stanley project. We created a blog for her flat Stanley adventures here... http://flatsheanz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/04/flat-shea-has-arrived-in-new-zealand.html?m=1 
I would love to do this with my activity day kids. Such a fun way to have a pen pal.

Article of Faith revision game - CUPS

As part of Activity days we will be trying to include an Article of Faith revision component each time we meet together.  This weeks revision activity was a Cup stacking game using key words of the 13 AOF.
NEED:

  • 13 Plastic Cups
  • One key word from each of the 13 AOF
  • Sharpie.
  • F.I.G books if the kids need extra help
Simply write one key word on each cup, mix up the order of the cups and instruct the children to try and put the cups in order of the A.O.F they represent. Our kids tried doing as many as they could without help first and then when allowed them to use their books to fill in the blanks. This first time was quite challenging for the kids, but we will use it again in future weeks and test how much easier it becomes as they become more familier with the A.O.F.    We allowed them to work in teams this time but in the future we may try having individuals compete against each other or do timed races.






Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Faith in God book covers

To protect our Faith in God books we have used DVD covers to use as a case for all our FIG related items.  We are using a "treasure Seekers" theme as a motivator for our children so thats refelcted in the cover. (Each child will colour their own covers to personalize).   Inside the kids can keep their FIG books, handouts, and challenges and our Treasure seeker motivator map. (Reward system for learing AOF, attending FIG activities, completing challenges)

 

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Developing talents- Enviro Art Challenge

Last week I had the opportunity to go on a school trip with my daughter where we spent the day in the bush and at the beach Creating art with Nature as our Pallette and our Canvas.  We took inspiration from the beautiful artworks of Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy - Nature artist.    The children were all challenged to look at the shapes, colours and textures found in nature and think of ways that they could add to, take away from, change, or enhance what they could see to create something new in that environment.  They were shown Andy Goldworthy example peices to show them that his designs could be very simple or very ellaborate, but all created interest to the viewer.
The children all loved the challenge and came up with some wonderful examples.   Part of this challenge was to photograph their designs, and to think about how light, shadow, composition etc would create interest in recording their artworks  (the photograph being particularly important because thier artworks in nature would eventually dissapear)  

Ive been thinking about how this could be a great activity for Activity Days  to accomplish the challenge in Developing Talents to make an item and display it for others to see.   Im adding it to my calendar for this year for sure.

Here are some examples of the Enviro art the children created.