Joshua
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Joshua Purple Beard!
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Emilia
cutting her fish out

Ryan Red Beard
Ryan joined us all the way from Chicargo! Joshua and his whale

1st fish up!
Emilia tucking her fish between the waves

Fish 2 and 3
Poppy and Joshua putting their fish up

Making sure its not going to fall down!
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Fish 4!
Ryan finding the right place for his fish

Hard at work
Emilia making a sun fish

When I grow up.....
Joshua doing an impression of Bampy. Its good to know the clergy is in safe hands!

All done!
From the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea!

Our fish
Some of them also stared in our Noah's Ark display last year!

The sun and moon
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Poppy's sun
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The sun
shining over the leaves

Joshua's moon
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Our Good Shepheard Display
Here he is counting his sheep, in the Sunday School room

Noah's Ark
Here are all the animals arriving 2 by 2, on the Church display board

Noah's Ark
The animals starting to board the Ark

Noah's Ark
All the animals are on board and the rain clouds are starting to appear

Noah's Ark
40 days and nights it rained, flooding the whole earth

Noah's Ark
The rainbow after all the rain

In the Sunday School room
Jenny put our display up, in 3 parts for everyone who uses the room to see

Jesus and his Disciples
Here you can see all the fish the disciples caught, on the Church display board

In the Beginning...
there was nothing. On the 1st day God made light. In the Sunday School room

On the 2st day...
God made the sky. We made stars to show the sky

On the 3rd day...
God made the sea and the land and the plants that grow on the land

All set
the bottles of paint lined up on the window still and the Church in the background

Botanical Gardens IV
Jenny showed us lots of pictures by the painter Michael Adams including this one

Poppy and Joshua
Painting their leaves and choosing their paint colours

Emilia, Poppy and Joshua
and Jenny's rubber plant she brough for us to look at

Artist at work
Joshua busy painting his leaf

Close detail is the key
Emilia adding details to her leaf

And here it is!
She used wax crayons for this one

Adding details
We stuck wool, cotton and silk yarn on some of our leaves as well

Here's one I made earlier!


Emilia
Looking at some of our finished leaves

Poppy and Joshua
running through the long grass to Church

At the door
Emilia, Joshua and Poppy waiting to go in to Church after Sunday School

The sea and the land
Jenny put the sea and the land up for us

The first few leaves
You can see how sparkly they are

Nearly there
Just a little bit of sky to go....

All our leaves
Jenny put them going round the edge of the board as well.

All done!
The stars, the sea, and land and the plants.

We've gone righ back
to the Beginning

In the Beginning
There was nothing. But God had a plan

Getting ready to paint
Poppy and Emilia

Artist at work
Joshua painting a purple star

Poppy
being very careful not to get paint on her clothes

Our class


Emilia
making sure the glitter hadn't sunk to the bottom of the paint

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A cowboy going to Church
We always go back to Church for the end of the service. Joshua remembered his cowboy hat!

Our stars
Jenny made sure the paint had dried before she put the up on our display

A close up
You can see the glitter sparkling in this photo on the silver star

On the First Day
God made the sky. We made stars to show the sky for the First Day

All the stars in the sky
Here are all the stars we made twinkling in the sky

The new Bible
Jenny bought a new Bible for us to use. Its got lots of lovely pictures in it

Our lesson in April
We read this story and then did some painting. Jenny forgot her camera... uh oh!

Our display
Jenny put it up so it looked like the disciples had caught all the fish we'd made in their net

Joshua's BIG fish
had a very important job holding the title of our display in his fin

Mary Window
With flowers made by the Sunday School

The book we read


Action colouring


Emilia, Barbie and Poppy
Colouring in our finger puppets

Joshua concentrating

Artists at work
Under the watchful eyes of the soft toys!

Making the flower pot
Poppy drawing flowers to make the pot for the flowers

Concentrating
Joshua making his daffodills

Poppy
remembering not to cover the bend in the straw so her flower can bend

Look how many I made!
Poppy arranging her daffodills

Joshua arranging
I've made lots too!

Joseph and his coat
We started by reading the story

Painting
Joshua did a fantastic job

Joshua and Emilia
No bit left unpainted

Emilia
Did a fantastic job painting Joseph's hands

Working on his feet
Joshua and Poppy painting Joseph's feet

What colour to do his legs?
Was Joseph wearing socks or not?

Poppy lends a helping hand


mixing the paint
Josuha do a great job of mixing the paint to just the right colour

The story
At then end of the lesson we read the story again in a diffrent book

We started with the story
We liked all the animal pictures. We want lots of animals on our ark!

Before we started
it was just a boring boat shape cut from carboard

Making our planks to build our Ark
We made wood rubbings to get the wood grain pattern.

Jenny put the roof on the Ark for us
We decided our Ark should have a red roof.

Our display
Jenny put our Ark up in Church for everyone to see. Next time we're doing the animals to go in it

We started with the story
This one had wonderful pictures to inspire us

All the paints ready to go
This week we did painting as our craft activity

Painting the animals
Poppy and Emilis chose the animals they wanted in their ark

Painting the animals
Poppy is painting her girraffs and Emilia is painting an elephant

Our display in Church
Jenny put the animals up for us

Poppy's Giraffs
and two bears too

The monkeys
already monkeying around!

The animals came in two by two
We had donkeys, flamingos, snakes, elephants and crocodiles

Emilia s lizards
They've already climbed on

Mr and Mrs Elephant
Emilia painted them

The animals came in 2 by 2
You can see the animals starting to walk up the gang plank

We read the story first
This week we had this version of the story of Noah and the Ark

The first brush strokes
We painted paper grey to make the storm clouds

Painting fish
with paint everywhere!

Painty hands!
Emilia painty hands

Poppy cutting out her shark
She drew it too!

The animals came in 2 by 2
You can see the animals starting to walk up the gang plank

Poppy painting her shark
with orange paint on her forehead

The storm clouds gathering
After all the animals were safely on the Ark it started to rain

God sent lots of rain for 40 day
and 40 nights, which covered the earth in water

Poppy's seal
swimming in the flood water with a whale

Emilia's shark
swimming in the flood waters with all the fish

Lots of yellow!
Poppy painting the yellow on our rainbow, wearing her yellow dress

Moving on to yellow and green
Team work gets it done!

Emilia busy
making sure its all done right

Emilia and Poppy painting
not too much on them this time!

Our rainbow
reminding us of God's promise

Drawing
Emilia did a snake!

Drawing
Poppy drew her new brother

Our Rainbow!
Up in Church for everyone to see

A blank canvas
All ready to go!

Blue skys
Stage one done...

Yummy green grass
for our sheep to nibble on

Almost finished
our shepherd just needs hands and feet now

Only 97 sheep still to go!
Poppy did beautiful smily faces on her sheep

Break time
Cath and Poppy enjoying squash and gingerbread men half way through

All done!
The good shepherd counting his sheep as the sun set

Our finished display
With lots of sheep!

Busy planting
Poppy filling her pot with soil to plant her seed

Planting
Emilia putting the soil in her pot

Joshua feeling the soil
ready to go in his pot

Busy making
Emilia and Poppy sticking petals on their sunflowers

Making sunflowers
Rachel helping Joshua with his sunflower while Emma colours her's in

Poppy's sunflower
Poppy holding up her finished sunflower

Emilia and Poppy
They were writing a list of animals we can make when we learn about Noah's ark

Poppy and her sunflower
Showing how it grows

All our sunflowers
When they start to grow they will be the same height as us

We think our sunflowers will grow
And grow until they are taller than us

We made plates of food
We made 2 fish each and 5 loaves

Emilia's plate
She made beautiful rainbow fish to eat with the 5 loaves

Lots of sticky fun
We covered the inside of our jars with glue

Glitter everywhere
Then we tripped glitter in to the jars, put the lid back on and shook them to spread the glitter

More glitter!
We had great fun doing this but all ended up just a little bit sparkley!

Starting colouring
After we put the glue and glitter away

Sharing pens
The girls also discussed which colour they thought was best for each bit they coloured

Poppy pointing to her name


Showing their Advent Calenders
They both had a little bit more colouring to do when they got home, but enjoyed making them

Look at all the things we made!
Proudly showing the things they had made

Ponys arriving for the service with the Church in the background