Workshop Rotation Model FunDay School Reinventing Sunday School

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 can’t just teach something one way. Retention is the key to learning. We remember: 10% of what we READ 20% of what we HEAR 30% of what we SEE 50% of what we SEE and HEAR 70% of what we SAY 90% of what we SAY an DO 100% of what we EXPERIENCE

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.

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.

Grades 1-2Grades 3-4Grades 5-6 November 2 ACTS of Faith Heather Gardener Gospel Games Tim Church How Great Thou ART Rita Roberts November 9 Gospel Games Tim Church How Great Thou ART Rita Roberts ACTS of Faith Heather Gardener November 16 How Great Thou ART Rita Roberts ACTS of Faith Heather Gardener Gospel Games Tim Church November 23 Prince of Peace Productions ALL Prince of Peace Productions ALL Prince of Peace Productions ALL Rotation Schedule Daniel & the Lion’s Den

Weekly Format Music 9:45 – 10:00 Gathering music & praise Opening--memory verse for the lesson; short intro to the months lesson; prayer *would like to add in offering Workshops 10:00 – 10:45 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 Dismissal *if there is extra time we use Journals for reflection

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