Looking Inside
AGE: Primary |
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THEME: Looking Inside |
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| To provide opportunities for thinking about the ways in which a person's outward behaviour can provide clues about what s/he is like on the inside. | ||||
PREPARATION: |
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INTRODUCTION: |
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Ask the assembled group if they notice anything 'odd' about the children wearing jumpers or other clothes inside out. What kind of information might be discovered on the inside of clothing that could not be seen from the outside? Explore size, type of material, shop where purchased, etc.. Take the parcel, box and book and ask the assembled group how they could find out what is inside each of these. Invite children to open each in turn and look inside. |
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DEVELOPMENT: |
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Invite two or three children and one or two teachers to come to the front. Explore how it might be possible to find out what is inside each of these people. Suggestions might include using X-rays, scanners and other medical-type equipment. Explore that although all these are very helpful for looking inside a person to detect, for example, a broken bone or something that can't be seen from outside, they do not give any clues as to what each person is really like on the inside - what they feel, how they think, etc.. Ask the volunteers to return to their place. Read the quotation from Luke 6:43-45 or paraphrase as follows: 'No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognised by its own fruit... Just like trees, good people are recognised by the good things they do from the goodness inside their hearts and bad people do bad things because they think bad thoughts inside their hearts.' Explain to the children that although we can't see inside people, we can tell what they are like inside by what they say and do. People who do good deeds such as helping others or saying kind things do so because on the inside they have kind hearts. Sing the hymn 'He made me'. |
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PRAYER AND REFLECTION: |
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Ask the children to listen to the words of a well-known Christian prayer which asks God to help us thing about how we are inside in order to behave better on the outside: God be in my head, and in my understanding God be in my eyes, and in my looking God be in my mouth, and in my speaking God be in my heart, and in my thinking. Amen. After a few moments of silence ask the children to lead out to some quiet music. |
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HYMN / SONG: |
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| 'He Made Me' No.18 in Come and Praise 1, BBC. | ||||
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