This is probably my FAVOURITE lesson! I have used this to teach about Pentecost and also the Ascension  This lesson uses candles to show how Jesus came down to the world, lit the hearts of his disciples and so many others, and then returned to Heaven.  By blowing out the original candle and the children seeing that the other candles are still alight and can go and light more candles or hearts, the children can see how although Jesus is no longer on Earth with us, his light is still in our hearts. I have done this with Year 1s, 2s, 4s and 6s. They all love it. It was used here to demonstrate the light of the Holy Spirit.

All Souls day

Last week was All Souls Day (as well as black out day for the All Blacks!). We talked about how All Souls day was all about praying for our family members who have passed away and asking Jesus to take them into Heaven to be with them. I love how young children think. Our conversation quickly went from this to Halloween, and one of the children asked if it was All Souls day because it's so scary and people are dressing up as ghosts. We went and visited the crosses of loved ones children throughout the school had decorated. Some of the children went really quiet while we looked at them, and I could see they were really taking it all in. Bless their little hearts! 

We wrote a little prayer and made a class page with the people we wanted to pray for. The children decorated these and put them in their RE books. One of the boys in my class recently lost an Uncle to cancer and I think he enjoyed having the opportunity to remember him and talk about him with the class again.