Harvest

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Harvest

• Autumn Term

• A time for thinking about our place in Creation

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Read Genesis 1

• Using pastels create a mosaic or tile frieze that
  depicts the wonder, beauty and variety of
  Creation in the chronological order described in
  the Bible

3
Look at other examples of the story in different
Bibles

• How are they different?
• Do the illustrations vary?
• Are they trying to get across a different message?

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Lesson 2

• We will read these Psalms from the Old Testament
• Psalm 8 verses 3 and 4
• Psalm 19 verse 1
• Psalm 104
• Psalm 136 verses 1 to 9
• Psalm 147 verses 1 and 4 to 9 and 15 to 18

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Create some music/drama/mime oror song

• Choose a psalm we have just read and either on
  your own or with a partner be creative with it,
  use one of the above to express thanksgiving and
  celebration
• Take 10 minutes to discuss this and try it out
• Prepare to share your expression with others

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Lesson 3

• Explore the Christian idea that the whole of
  Creation celebrates and expresses thankfulness to
  God especially at Harvest Festival time.
• Look again at some of the Psalms we read last
  week about God as Creator.

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Over to You

• Write a poem or song about Creation
• Focus on the multitude of colours, sounds,
  smells, tastes of Creation
• Try to write about a page in your best
  handwriting
• Decorate it beautifully

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Creation stories

• Read the story of Creation again in different
  versions
• Talk to the person next to you about
• What is the Creator like? Male or female?
• How does the Creator appear? Why do they
• make the world? How do they do it? What
• is in the beginning? What happens to the
• Creator after making the world? In what order are
• things made? How is the world described? Why
• are man and woman made? Who came first? What are
  they
• expected to do? What are their responsibilities?
  Why do
• you think this story is important to many people?
  Why is it in the Bible?

9
The Story of Manu and Shatarupa from the Hindu
faith

• List the Similarities and Differences between
  this Creation story and the one in the Bible
• Why are these stories important to believers?

10
Creation

• Look at these pieces of Art which show the stages
  of Creation
• Could you, in the style of the Artist, draw the
  missing picture?
• Look at the colours, style, textures, meaning of
  the Art work and try to do something similar