Workshop Rotation Model FunDay School

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Workshop Rotation ModelFunDay School

• Reinventing Sunday School

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Why Change from Traditional Sunday School?

• Traditional Sunday School has remained pretty
  much unchanged for generations. Learn a bible
  story, talk about it, do an activity, go home and
  soon forget what you learned that day. The next
  week you go back and hear a totally different
  story and so on.
• FunDay School is following a movement in
  education that stresses that all children learn
  differently and we cant just teach something one
  way.
• Retention is the key to learning.
• We remember10 of what we READ20 of what we
  HEAR30 of what we SEE50 of what we SEE and
  HEAR70 of what we SAY90 of what we SAY an
  DO100 of what we EXPERIENCE

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FunDay School in a Nutshell

• Teach major Bible stories and concepts through
  kid-friendly multimedia workshops
• Music -Opening
• Art - How Great Thou ART
• Drama - ACTS of Faith
• Games - Gospel Games
• Audio Visual - Prince of Peace Productions
  Puppets
• The same Bible story is used in all of the
  workshops for four weeks--rotating the kids to a
  different workshop each week.

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Benefits of FunDay School

• Not a fixed curriculum-lessons are chosen by
  the church. Twelve concepts and stories will be
  taught for the year.
• Teachers only have to commit for a 4 week period
  and they get to teach to their talent by choosing
  the workshop that fits them best.
• Shepherds, while committed for the full year, do
  not have to prep lessons. Instead, they are the
  go-to adult for the kids and get to form
  relationships with them on their spiritual
  journey.
• Rooms are decorated in themes that reflect the
  workshops using that space and give the WOW
  effect for those spatial children adults and
  make it a fun place to visit.

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Rotation ScheduleDaniel the Lions Den
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• Weekly Format
• Music 945 1000
• Gathering music praise
• Opening--memory verse for the lesson short intro
  to the months lesson prayer would like to add
  in offering
• Workshops 1000 1045
• Introduction/memory verse/Opening Prayer
• Scripture/Bible Story Bible story is told
  appropriately for each age group.
• Application -- The students will be given an
  opportunity to explore the Bible story in a
  different way each week of the rotation. This
  may be an art project, a game, drama or a movie.
  
• Wrap-up/Prayer connections between the completed
  activity and the Bible story are made. Students
  recite the Bible memory verse. Opportunity for
  questions.
• Tidy and Dismissalif there is extra time we use
  Journals for reflection

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References

• http//www.kirkofkildaire.org/quest/contents.html
• http//www.rotation.org/